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Reader Mail
Feb 24, 2011

Bond between pets and people

Regarding Grant Piper's Feb. 20 letter, "Unrequited love for pet owners": The strong bond that develops between people and certain animals is real, regardless of the words people use to describe it. The animal may not be experiencing "love" as most people define the word, but the bond exists nevertheless....
CULTURE / Music
Feb 18, 2011

EeL pumps out electric pop for common people

The title track from EeL's new album "For Common People" is likely to make you feel like you've just overdosed on candy.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jan 16, 2011

Japan's tribe of lonely people continues to grow

Results from Japan's national census last year are dribbling in and the reaction in the media often focuses on one pair of statistics: The number of households is increasing while population is declining, which means that there are a lot more single-person households than there were 10 years ago and...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHO'S WHO
Nov 30, 2010

Frenchwoman's passions realized with Japanese help

Florence Roca, 45, is a French mother of three married to a fellow countryman who has lived on and off in Japan for 10 years. Aside from family, she has a passion for painting porcelain and making jewelry.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CABINET INTERVIEW
Sep 29, 2010

Hosokawa pledges more jobs for young people

New Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Ritsuo Hosokawa is known for his knowledge of labor issues. Now that he's in the Cabinet, he plans to focus on increasing the employment rate for young workers.
Japan Times
LIFE
Aug 8, 2010

Lost worlds of Japan

The sound of bells echoes through the monastery at Gion Shoja, telling all who hear it that nothing is permanent. The flowers of the sala trees show that all that flourishes must fade. Proud men, powerful men will fall, like dreams on a spring night, like dust before the wind.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Apr 22, 2010

Meiji delivery people Masayoshi and Haruko Yoshikawa

Masayoshi and Haruko Yoshikawa (79 and 73) deliver milk and yogurt to homes in Tokyo's shitamachi (downtown). Every morning, except Sundays, the two make their rounds carrying dozens of old-fashioned, small glass bottles of Meiji milk to their faithful customers, many of whom have been drinking it daily...
Japan Times
LIFE
Mar 14, 2010

In the land of the kami

"In some rural areas even today, elderly villagers face the rising sun each morning, clap their hands together, and hail the appearance of the sun over the peaks of the nearby mountains as 'the coming of the kami,' " — so wrote historian Takeshi Matsumae in "The Cambridge History of Japan," published...
BUSINESS
Mar 2, 2010

Desperate for jobs, U.S. town awaits Toyota plant

BLUE SPRINGS, Miss. — Terry McShan isn't thinking about car sales analyses or excess capacity when he drives by the idle Toyota plant in northeast Mississippi. He's thinking about his little girl.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHO'S WHO
Feb 2, 2010

Japan remains magnet for Kobe-born Swiss hotelier

Martin Fluck has lived a cosmopolitan life childhood and his professional career has taken him to several different countries.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Nov 1, 2009

Japanese food-safety label protects business foremost, and not people

It's wise to take any advertisement claim with a grain of salt, and some products invite not just skepticism but downright disbelief. Commercials for hair restoration aids may not actually state they will return your bald pate to a state of hirsute lushness, but they nevertheless get your hopes up toward...
COMMENTARY
Sep 10, 2009

Politics and people colliding

The Japanese people have just voted decisively for change. For what kind of change should they now be asking?
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Aug 19, 2009

Offhand but on record

Facebook recently made changes to its service agreement in order to make members' data more accessible to other computer users. Amuse, Inc. announced last week that hackers stole credit-card information from about 150,000 clients. Hackers broke into the social network Twitter's system and stole documents....
Reader Mail
May 31, 2009

Motivations that drive people

In his May 20 article, "France's economy shines," William Pfaff argues for the "centralized, interventionist" French model of the capitalist economy. The neo-Gaullist Nicolas Sarkozy's France has produced better results than the so-called Anglo-Saxon model, he says.
CULTURE / Music
May 1, 2009

The SunPaulo "People Get Ready"

SHAWN DESPRES The SunPaulo are Taiji Sato, leader of the rock band Theatre Brook, and veteran keyboardist and producer Toshiyuki Mori. The Tokyo duo have enthralled lovers of dance and rock alike at nightclub parties and outdoor events such as Asagiri Jam and the Rising Sun Rock Festival in Hokkaido....
Reader Mail
Apr 23, 2009

Right way to treat people

With reference to Ian McClumpha's April 12 letter "Wrong way to treat people," concerning Japan's paying redundant South American workers to return home, may I say I think this is an excellent idea, as this will nip possible future social problems in the bud: It is far better for such people to be unemployed...
LIFE / Lifestyle / WEEK 3
Apr 19, 2009

A rose by any other name is still an alien species for Ark Hills gardener

"Don't be fooled by the crowds milling around the rose beds." That's gardener Akemi Sugii's perplexing heads-up for anyone planning a visit to next week's open days of the Ark Hills rooftop garden she manages in Tokyo's upmarket Akasaka district.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Apr 19, 2009

A rose by any other name is still an alien species

"Don't be fooled by the crowds milling around the rose beds." That's gardener Akemi Sugii's perplexing heads-up for anyone planning a visit to next week's open days of the Ark Hills rooftop garden she manages in Tokyo's upmarket Akasaka district.
Reader Mail
Apr 12, 2009

Wrong way to treat people

Regarding the April 2 article "Axed Brazilians, Peruvians to be paid to leave Japan," I find it amazing that the Japanese government is doing this . . . it sounds like voluntary deportation to me. In the United Kingdom we have around 65 million people. Unemployment is running at around 2 million, which...
Reader Mail
Feb 19, 2009

People who can revitalize Japan

Many foreign residents, including myself, are angered at the Japanese government's insular, isolationist worldview, most recently reflected in the Justice Ministry's decision to deport a Filipino family, the Calderons, who have lived here since the early 1990s ("Filipino parents told to leave").
Reader Mail
Jan 11, 2009

Wrong people were sued

Regarding the Jan. 6 article, "Otaru ruling beats 'mob rule' ": This article misrepresents much of what the author set out to respond to, and it labels as racist those people who are not. Were the owners of the onsen hotel trying to discriminate on the basis of race? The arguments offered at court by...
Reader Mail
Dec 21, 2008

Getting people to treasure life

I sometimes hear foreigners wonder why so many Japanese commit suicide. Japan is a top-10 country when it comes to suicide rates. Japan is wealthy and lacks for nothing, so the large number of suicides is surprising. Financial problems could be a reason, but can we simply put the blame on economic recession...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2008

Are young people ready, willing to be adults at 18?

Kids just don't wanna grow up.
Japan Times
JAPAN / G8 SUMMIT 2008
Jul 9, 2008

At People's Summit, NGOs plug the voices of 'ordinary' people

SAPPORO — Domestic and international nongovernmental organizations ended their three-day People's Summit on Tuesday vowing to keep pushing "rich" Group of Eight leaders to heed the voices of ordinary citizens.
Reader Mail
Jun 8, 2008

Young people wrongly singled out

I commend the efforts of Sokichi Sugimura (June 3 article, "Bad public manners irk Bushido proponent") to promote better manners and harmony on the streets and trains. However, I find his associating young people with irresponsibility for hogging priority seats, blocking doorways and applying makeup...
Zelenskyy to replace Ukraine ambassador to Japan
Ukrainian Ambassador to Japan Sergiy Korsunsky delivers a speech during a handover ceremony of Self-Defense Force vehicles to Ukraine, at the Defense Ministry in Tokyo, in May last year.
Bankruptcies and suicides rise as Japanese struggle with mounting debt
Lawyers estimate that personal bankruptcies in Japan are on track to reach the highest since 2012 this year.
Honda and Nissan consider mutual production of vehicles, report says
Honda CEO Toshihiro Mibe at the Japan Mobility Show 2023 at Tokyo Big Sight in October 2023.
The mighty Mekong River's growing plastic problem
A group of elephant keepers in Chiang Saen, Thailand, remove plastic waste from the Ruak River, a tributary of the Mekong River, as a pair of Asian elephants bathe behind them.
Record 78% of people in Japan feel anxious, government survey finds
The public opinion survey on people's lives, conducted by the Cabinet Office, found that 28.1% of respondents think that their standard of living is at a lower-middle level among the general public — the highest percentage to give that response in 35 years.
Casual workouts, cool living, ‘complete’ food: Japan’s health trends of 2024
In 2024, efficiency trumped effort among Japan's fitness-focused aspirants.
The mighty Mekong River's growing plastic problem
A group of elephant keepers in Chiang Saen, Thailand, remove plastic waste from the Ruak River, a tributary of the Mekong River, as a pair of Asian elephants bathe behind them.
Japanese officials inspect Yokota Air Base over PFAS concerns
The Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo in September 2019. An inspection of the base by Japanese government officials on Friday came amid public pressure to investigate suspected links between the use of PFAS-containing firefighting foam by the U.S. base and contamination of soil and groundwater in western Tokyo.
Crime numbers rise in Japan for second straight year
A police officer stands in front of the residence of a man alleged to have stabbed two junior high school students in Kitakyushu.
North Korea aiding Russia where it needs it most, Canadian general says
North Korean special forces soldiers march and shout slogans during a military parade marking the 105th birth anniversary of the country's founding father, Kim Il Sung, in Pyongyang in April 2017.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Visitors to Kyoto walk along a street near Kiyomizu Temple in April. A popular tourist spot, Kyoto has seen what locals feel to be an overwhelming amount of tourists in 2024.
Is Japan ready for 60 million tourists?
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