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BASKETBALL
May 28, 2009

Akita awarded bj-league franchise

The Akita Pro Basketball Company, Ltd. has been awarded an expansion franchise, the bj-league announced on Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / YOKOHAMA AT 150
May 28, 2009

Chinese immigrants played vital role

Third in a series
BUSINESS
May 28, 2009

J-Power in talks to buy three U.S. plants as domestic demand slows

J-Power is in talks to acquire three plants in the United States this year to help more than double its generation capacity in the world's biggest energy market as demand slows at home, according to one of the company's senior executives.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
May 26, 2009

Expat life in Japan: the good, the bad and the meaningful

I am a 46-year-old Caucasian male. I have lived in Japan for 17 years with an attitude toward assimilation that would not be looked upon favorably in my native Australia. I would feel worse about this were it not for an undeniable fact: Compared to the average Westerner in Japan, the moderate level of...
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
May 26, 2009

'Manga': heart of pop culture

From "One Piece" and "Naruto" to "Doraemon" and "Sazae-san," comic books have been the heart of Japanese pop culture.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHO'S WHO
May 26, 2009

Waseda academic confident country's charms are to be had by the open-minded

Paul Snowden came to Japan 40 years ago — thinking that his visit here would only last for two years, after which he would go back to his native England and settle down as a grammar school teacher.
BUSINESS
May 25, 2009

Subprime crisis was unleashed by bank-shielding policymakers: expert

The global financial crisis is not the result of the failure of markets but of a series of government policy mistakes — prescriptions for which have been circulating for a long time but were largely ignored, a U.S. expert told a recent seminar in Tokyo.
EDITORIALS
May 24, 2009

Rescinded job offers

A record number of graduates had their job offers canceled this spring, a recent survey by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare reported. More than 2,000 offers in total were withdrawn, double the number of the second worst year — 1998 — when several brokerage firms collapsed.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
May 24, 2009

Was Japan's first Western screen star shameful to his homeland?

The Japanese have a term for certain types of movies made outside the country featuring Japanese actors who play Japanese characters. It is kokujoku eiga. Eiga means "movies," and kokujoku, derived from the words for "country" and "insult," means "disgrace" or "denigration." In other words, kokujoku...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
May 24, 2009

Hitching through Japanwith friends at every turn

Second in a two-part series
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 22, 2009

Nesting instinct takes hold in recession

Already a devoted online shopper, 34-year-old office worker Yumiko Tamagawa is finding even more reasons to shop from home thanks to the recession.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
May 22, 2009

Sea urchin delicacies at Grand Hyatt, budget plans at Swisshotel, and catering from Dazzle

Special kaiseki menu of uni
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 22, 2009

'Instant Numa'

Comedy is big box office in Hollywood now, with such comic odes to male immaturity as "Knocked Up" and "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" grossing north of $100 million. In Japan, on the other hand, making the locals laugh in a movie theater is still the hardest job in the industry — and the returns for comedies...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
May 22, 2009

Phoenix's Nakamura looks back on team's first season in bj-league

Despite a 36-win regular season, the best record in the Eastern Conference, and a trip to the Final Four, Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix coach Kazuo Nakamura didn't describe his team's first season in the bj-league as a resounding success.
Reader Mail
May 21, 2009

Contriving a social trend in Japan

For the most part I enjoyed Tomoko Otake's well-researched story about "herbivorous" men. Overall, though, I felt that the topics of the related Timeout stories (May 10) were quite dubious as they were trying to pound a round peg into a square hole. For example, a survey by toilet-seat makers shows that...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
May 20, 2009

Nissan racing to catch rivals in hybrid market

Hybrid vehicle laggard Nissan hopes to catch up with its rivals after launching the company's own green car technology next year, an executive said Tuesday.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
May 20, 2009

Fish kanji help you hook the perfect meal

Japan is blessed with an abundance of fish — drawn from the deep ocean to the coastal shores, lakes, rivers and streams. Making yourself familiar with the many kanji for different species of fish helps you get by when you run into all this slippery fare at a local restaurant, sushi counter or supermarket....
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
May 20, 2009

Fish kanji help you hook the perfect meal

Japan is blessed with an abundance of fish — drawn from the deep ocean to the coastal shores, lakes, rivers and streams. Making yourself familiar with the many kanji for different species of fish helps you get by when you run into all this slippery fare at a local restaurant, sushi counter or supermarket....
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 19, 2009

With election looming, Hatoyama must act fast to win over public

Newly elected Democratic Party of Japan President Yukio Hatoyama has a maximum of four months to convince voters to oust the party his grandfather founded from five decades of government rule.
Japan Times
Events / WHERE IT'S AT
May 19, 2009

Bike ride puts new spin on fund-raising

On a cloudy Friday morning late last month, 11 bicycle riders gathered on the playground of Meisei Gakuen school for the deaf in Shinagawa, Tokyo, to kick off a 1,250-km fund-raising bike ride to support the children attending the school.

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Totopa in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward was picked by consultants TTNE as the best sauna of the year.
Japan’s sauna movement: Relax, refresh, repeat