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Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Feb 22, 2008

Takagi taps the color of sound

Is Masakatsu Takagi a musician that makes video art or a video artist that makes music?
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Feb 20, 2008

Toshiba unveils its new Gigabeat MP3 player; and 'Phoenix' hits the DS

Striking a chord: Toshiba has upgraded its Gigabeat T401 MP3 player, giving it wireless network connectivity and rebadging it as the T802. It also has 8 gigabytes of flash memory, up from the 4 gigabytes of the T401, and its battery is good for 16 hours of music playback or five hours of video. The new...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Feb 8, 2008

Aussie tucker, real ale and Michelin favorite Don Alfonso comes to Tokyo

Australian buffet The Sheraton Grande Tokyo Bay Hotel in Urayashi City, Chiba, near Tokyo Disney Resort, is holding an Australian buffet fair at its Grand Cafe restaurant throughout February.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2008

JAL to pay ¥48 million in employee-data suit

Japan Airlines Corp. agreed Thursday to pay ¥48 million in compensation to 194 former and current flight attendants who alleged that JAL, its largest labor union and five of the union's executives illegally collected and managed private information on them.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 7, 2008

The individuals come together

As is befitting of an exhibition of a corporate art collection at Tokyo's premier corporate gallery space, the Mori Art Museum has decked itself out in office chic: cool, understated spaces that feature the height of contemporary art to tickle the tired mind. Like the most privileged of office workers...
COMMENTARY
Feb 4, 2008

Geopolitical risks on the rise

DAVOS, Switzerland — At the recent World Economic Forum meeting of top political, business, intellectual and civil-society leaders, the discussions centered on a range of major international challenges — from new threats to the growing strain on water and other resources.
JAPAN
Feb 2, 2008

Condemned trio sent to the gallows

Three condemned convicts were hanged Friday and the government released their names and other details in line with the disclosure policy introduced by Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama with his Dec. 7 approval of three other executions.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Feb 1, 2008

Bruno Oger at the Royal Park, a cocoa curriculum at the Nikko Tokyo and a gourmet chocolate dinner in Osaka

Royal Park anniversary courses
EDITORIALS
Jan 26, 2008

Guidelines to prevent news bias

The Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association has publicized guidelines aimed at stamping out bias in newspaper reports on criminal trials to be presided over by lay judges together with professional judges. The lay judge system will be introduced by May 2009. As the guidelines declare, it is...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jan 25, 2008

Cherry blossom lunch, wagyu burgers, yuzu spas and a kangaroo for dinner

Spring comes early to the 130-year-old Chinzan-so garden of the Four Seasons Hotel in Tokyo this year, with the expected blossoming around the end of the month of a special variety of cherry trees (kanhizakura and kawazuzakura) that the hotel planted in the venerable garden early in the new year.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Jan 16, 2008

Japan toughens up on Internet regulation

In a country with one of the world's most vibrant Internet cultures, rumblings of change in the way that online information is managed, controlled and regulated is causing concern for many.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jan 11, 2008

Oriental therapy, Glenlivet dinners and Michelin-starred lunches

Treat yourself in Kyoto The Hyatt Regency Kyoto is offering an accommodation and Oriental therapy package to help you relax and unwind.
JAPAN
Dec 19, 2007

Speedier nuke damage info planned

Central government involvement in disclosing information about accidents or damage at nuclear power plants is to be increased by the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, agency officials said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Dec 19, 2007

UFOs 'definitely exist,' Machimura asserts

definitely exist," Machimura stressed. "How else do you explain those various unexplainable things like Nazca," he said, referring to the series of mysterious giant drawings of animals and other figures on an arid plateau in southern Peru. Earlier Tuesday, the government made an official statement that...
BUSINESS / THE VIEW FROM EUROPE
Dec 17, 2007

'Green IT' trend set to heat up, but will it cool the world down?

There are few pieces of office equipment as ubiquitous or as necessary as the personal computer. While the number of PCs in use worldwide is nearly impossible to estimate, their prevalence as a basic tool may be obscuring their role as energy consuming devices.
JAPAN
Dec 8, 2007

Three hanged and named in ministry first

The Justice Ministry executed three death-row inmates Friday and, in a break with its secrecy policy, released their names and details directly to the public.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Dec 4, 2007

Digital terrestrial TV coming but work remains

More than half a century has passed since commercial television debuted in Japan, and now TVs are a main component of the mass culture.
Crashed Jeju jet’s black box failure shows decadeslong gap in power rules
The flight data recorder retrieved from Jeju Air flight 2216, which crashed killing 179 people in December. Black boxes holding the flight data and cockpit voice recorders for the flight stopped recording four minutes before the disaster, South Korea's transport ministry said Saturday.
Kyoto to raise accommodation tax to a maximum ¥10,000 per night
Tourists visit Fushimi Inari Shrine in the city of Kyoto on Monday.
Bird flu cases surge as new year begins
Agriculture minister Taku Eto speaks during a meeting on measures against bird flu at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japanese space startup launches second bid for historic moon landing
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying Ispace's Resilience lunar lander lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Wednesday.
Trump’s immigration crackdown will be swift and ugly. Here’s how.
Migrants wait to be processed on U.S. soil after crossing from Mexico in El Paso, Texas, in May 2023.
With new regional party, Shinji Ishimaru touts rebirth
Shinji Ishimaru announces details of his new regional party at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Nippon Steel’s case against Biden probably unwinnable, attorneys argue
U.S. Steel’s Edgar Thomson Steel Works in Braddock, Pennsylvannia, in 2019. Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel face significant legal challenges in their case against the United States.
Japanese companies rush to up English-language disclosures in 2025
The Tokyo Stock Exchange will soon require some companies to publish their financials in English in addition to Japanese.
Tokyo plans to subsidize epidurals, but are hospitals ready?
Epidurals during childbirth have long been uncommon in Japan, though they have been growing more popular in recent years.
Due north: Foreign-born guides introduce Hokkaido’s unique charms
Lantoko, a company operated by Taiwan native Ping-Fang Lan, offers drift ice walking tours and other exhilarating experiences in and around Shiretoko National Park.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

It's back to the classroom for some residents as municipal governments across the country conduct lessons to learn how to use new technologies.
Can aging Japan go digital without leaving anyone behind?
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