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PRESS / Publications
Dec 20, 2013

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Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Dec 17, 2013

Some of the year's best music was free

Variety wasn't something the Oricon Charts delivered much over the course of 2013. With few exceptions, the biggest sellers were the same as they ever were — Johnny's boy bands such as Arashi, Kanjani 8 and Kis-My-FT2; AKB48 and their affiliated projects; and a variety of rock 'n' roll fossils. Not...
WORLD
Dec 2, 2013

Weak hurricane season puzzles researchers

It was a hurricane season almost without hurricanes. There were just two, Humberto and Ingrid, and both were relatively wimpy, Category 1 storms. That made the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, which ended Saturday, the least active in more than 30 years — for reasons that remain puzzling.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 28, 2013

This Thanksgiving let's pardon these turkeys

This Thanksgiving, give thanks for 2013, a year the future might study more for amusement than for edification.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 18, 2013

Politics explain Russia's stagnation

For Russia's political elite, a big piece of a shrinking economic pie is preferable to no piece of a growing one.
Reader Mail
Nov 13, 2013

Sri Lanka's political leadership

I wish to state that much of the information in The Observer article published in The Japan Times on Oct. 27, titled "Rajapaksa: Sri Lanka's affable authoritarian?," is based on hearsay and unfounded information. It is baseless propaganda provided by supporters of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam...
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Nov 2, 2013

Japan and Korea slide down gender-index ranking

The Swiss-based nonprofit World Economic Forum recently released its Gender Gap Report for 2013, in which Japan ranked 105 out of 136 countries — a plunge of 25 places from its ranking when the report was inaugurated in 2006. South Korea rates even worse, coming in at 111 in 2013, down from 92nd place...
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 28, 2013

Toyota sales top GM's during third quarter

Toyota Motor Corp. outsold General Motors Co. and all other carmakers for the second time in three quarters, in the latest example of how Japan's largest manufacturers are benefiting from "Abenomics."
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 22, 2013

ACA website to New Yorker: drop dead for now

The not-typically-quotable U.S. House Speaker John Boehner does have a point when he asks how we can we tax people for not buying Obamacare from a website that doesn't work.
Japan Times
PRESS / Corporate Trends
Oct 1, 2013

「The Japan Times」執行役員 編集担当に大門小百合が就任 ジャパンタイムズ116年の歴史で初の女性編集責任者誕生

株式会社ジャパンタイムズ(本社:東京都港区、代表取締役:堤丈晴)は、日刊英字新聞「The Japan Times」の執行役員 編集担当に大門小百合が就任したことをお知らせいたします。大門はジャパンタイムズの116年間の歴史の中で初の女性編集責任者として、同紙のさらなる発展を目指します。...
Japan Times
PRESS / Publications
Sep 27, 2013

『英語リスニングのお医者さん[初診編]』発売中

【ジャパンタイムズ最新刊】シリーズ累計15万部突破のリスニング教材
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 26, 2013

Mandatory organ donation

It is estimated that 18 people die in the U.S. every day due to a national shortage of organ donations. This crisis could be solved if organ donation were mandatory.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 25, 2013

Deleveraging results garner incomplete grade

Almost everyone agrees that too much borrowing was at the core of the financial crisis and Great Recession. Where do we stand five years after Lehman Brothers
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Sep 7, 2013

Don't worry: Team Abe is tackling the nuclear crisis at Fukushima

Even if the public remains overwhelmingly skeptical about nuclear safety in general, and anxious in particular about the impact of the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on the environment, there is reassuring news that we can now rest easy.
Japan Times
PRESS / Publications
Sep 4, 2013

「The Japan Times for WOMEN Vol.3」 発売中!

株式会社ジャパンタイムズ(本社:東京都港区、代表取締役:堤丈晴)はグローバルな活躍を目指す、新世代大和撫子向けキャリアマガジン「The Japan Times for WOMEN Vol.3」を発売しました。
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Aug 29, 2013

Weekday organic lunch at ANA Tokyo; Mount Fuji desserts in Hakone; try champion bartender's cocktails

Weekday organic lunch at ANA Tokyo
EDITORIALS
Aug 19, 2013

Inadequate financial plan

The Abe Cabinet-endorsed medium-term financial reconstruction program does not present adequate concrete measures for restoring health to Japan's finances.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 12, 2013

Toyokazu Nagano: Dad's pictures of the kids that others do want to see

In 2008, Toyokazu Nagano, like proud parents do, started taking pictures of his daughters: eating breakfast, playing outdoors — slices of everyday life. However, for each candid image he took, he was vexed by missing another perfect moment.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Aug 8, 2013

Shinshu signs former MVP Parmer; Aomori adds three

The Shinshu Brave Warriors endured back-to-back losing seasons in 2011-12 and 2012-13 as the franchise got established.
PRESS / Corporate Trends
Aug 7, 2013

New pricing plans for The Japan Times / International New York Times; details of renewed product lineup

In March this year, The Japan Times announced a publishing agreement with the New York Times Company that will see its daily newspaper, "The Japan Times" packaged with the "International New York Times" in the Japan market commencing with the Oct. 16 issue. The new combined newspaper will be called "The...
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Aug 3, 2013

Where's the love? Japanese feel unhappy, unloved and pessimistic

The results of a Pew Opinion survey released in July 2013 found that the public mood in Japan is improving but remains "mostly one of dissatisfaction." However, that dissatisfaction is 10 percent lower than the level registered in 2007 during Shinzo Abe's first spell as premier.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Jul 10, 2013

Kimo-kawaii: a chronology in 13 steps

If it's hard to look at but harder to look away, it's kimo-kawaii.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2013

Deepening, revising ties with Southeast Asia

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Japan mark the 40th anniversary of their cooperative relations this year. ASEAN and Japan's partnership, which began with the establishment of the ASEAN-Japan forum on synthetic rubber, has evolved over the 40 years. The two parties have formed close cooperation...
BASKETBALL
Jun 22, 2013

Kyoto acquires forward Komoda

Forward Takuya Komoda was selected as an Eastern Conference reserve for the 2012-13 bj-league All-Star Game in Tokyo, and averaged a career-best 10.4 points per game for the Sendai 89ers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy / ANALYSIS
Jun 15, 2013

Yen's slump fails to stem corporate exodus overseas

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe promises that his growth policies will revive the nation's industrial might. For Takumi Tanaka at auto parts maker Uchida Co., times are worse than after the 2011 quake-tsunami catastrophe.
BUSINESS / Companies
May 28, 2013

Record nickel exports add to glut: Sumitomo

Nickel exports may climb to a record this year because Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's stimulus hasn't spurred demand in the world's third-biggest user of the metal, adding to a global glut, the country's top producer said.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
May 19, 2013

Carp looking to turn things around after disappointing start

There were high hopes for the Hiroshima Carp heading into the 2013 NPB season but, almost a third of the way into the schedule, the results so far might well be described as a still wait-and-see situation.

Longform

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