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BUSINESS
Jan 20, 2017

Global salary gaps hindering automakers' efforts to lure IT workers

Headhunter Casey Abel spent four months trying to hire a data center architect for a Japanese automaker, including five meetings with the client — one with the top executive. In the end, the IT specialist joined an e-commerce company abroad for significantly more money.
EDITORIALS
Jan 19, 2017

Varied agenda in wage talks

Overwork and pay raises are major issues in this year's union-management wage negotiations.
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JAPAN
Jan 15, 2017

Clash between Japan, U.S. casino moguls throws spotlight on gray zones in FBI bribe probe

In April 2015, a sworn statement submitted in a Nevada lawsuit between rival casino moguls Steve Wynn and Japan's Kazuo Okada contained an unusual assertion. Its author said Wynn's head of security had asked to meet him in Japan and then persuaded him to travel to the United States to talk to federal...
LIFE / Language
Dec 26, 2016

Getting into the language of virtual reality

A Tokyo arcade operator unveiled a new virtual reality facility on Wednesday, aiming to showcase high-end virtual reality in a casual setting and boost shrinking industry profits.
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LIFE / Travel / BACKSTREET STORIES
Dec 24, 2016

It's a small world after all in Komagome

On a crisp and cloudless winter morning, the streets outside Komagome Station in Tokyo's Toshima Ward scintillate with shards of sunlight cutting between sharp shadows. I bundle up against the cold, and set off to seek out an artisan that I heard tell of on a backstreet last summer. It's a luxury to...
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JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Dec 5, 2016

Police keep pressure on Nagoya nightlife district's 'freelancer' street touts

Shopping and entertainment districts in Chubu are seeing a jump in solicitation, including in Nishiki 3-chome (Kin-san), a bustling part of Nagoya's Naka Ward that is known as the liveliest downtown area in the region.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / OBITUARY
Nov 16, 2016

Stefan Lippert: remembering an educator in search of excellence

Stefan Lippert, a luminary from our community of Japan thought leaders, died recently at the age of 47.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 7, 2016

Despite opposition from overseas, China adopts controversial cybersecurity law

China on Monday adopted a controversial cybersecurity law to counter what Beijing says are growing threats such as hacking and terrorism, although the law has triggered concern from foreign business and rights groups.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 1, 2016

Japan may be too scared of failure to succeed

Unless inventive, aggressive companies are around to do something productive with the cheap cash the BOJ is generating, policymakers will never be able to jump-start the economy.
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LIFE / Travel / BACKSTREET STORIES
Oct 29, 2016

Living on prayer and paper in Otsuka

Hoping to catch the earliest blush of autumnal colors, I seek out the Important Cultural Property of Gokokuji, a prominent temple located in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward. A satellite map shows it embraced by a forest of trees. I suspect a cemetery might lurk below the leaf canopy, but in late October who would...
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 26, 2016

Can the ultimate marketing campaign sell peace?

A Peace Age is possible, if we try hard enough.
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JAPAN / KANSAI PERSPECTIVE
Oct 23, 2016

Osaka bids to rekindle magic of 1970 Expo but taxpayers doubt lofty plan's claims

Like millions of others who attended Osaka's 1970 World Exposition, Kazuhiko Masuda, who was just 10 years old at the time, can still vividly recall it today.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 20, 2016

Mizuho seeks to challenge Nomura as nation's biggest equity firm

Mizuho Financial Group Inc., the mega-bank that added dozens of stock analysts and salesmen in the past year, is seeking to loosen Nomura Holdings Inc.'s stranglehold on the nation's potentially lucrative yet elusive retail brokerage business.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 18, 2016

Americans in Philippines jittery as Duterte rails against United States

In a bar along the Philippines' Subic Bay owned by an American military veteran, the main topic of conversation is not the upcoming U.S. election despite the Donald Trump coffee mugs, photographs and caps on display.
EDITORIALS
Oct 12, 2016

The government's 'karoshi' report

The Abe administration must ensure that a new regulation on overtime work will be effective enough to protect the health of company workers.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 12, 2016

Just say no to 'hard Brexit'

If British Prime Minister Theresa May goes ahead with a 'hard Brexit' she will damage British interests.
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BUSINESS
Oct 6, 2016

Biggest robot dairy in Asia setting up Japan's milk revival

Jin Kawaguchiya gave up a career in finance to help revive Japan's ailing dairy industry, one robot at a time.
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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Oct 5, 2016

Japan's English-language print media feel the pinch

Publications struggle for relevance in a world where news is available free, to all, all the time.
EDITORIALS
Sep 14, 2016

Power retail deregulation

Reform of the nation's electricity business is far from complete.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 31, 2016

The making of a Chinese consumer society

China's transformation into a consumer society is good news for the future of the global economy.
Japan Times
JAPAN / TICAD VI SPECIAL
Aug 26, 2016

Toward a more dynamic Japan-Africa partnership

The sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD VI) under the theme "Advancing Africa's Sustainable Development Agenda — TICAD Partnership for Prosperity" will be held in Nairobi on Aug. 27 and 28. African heads of state and government, as well as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will...
EDITORIALS
Aug 19, 2016

Abe's 'work style' reforms

Shinzo Abe's newest pet policy could run into a lot of resistance from management and whether anything actually gets done will depend on just how serious he is.

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