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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Apr 21, 2013

Local media must play a bigger role in alerting public on product recalls

Last week, four Japanese carmakers announced a worldwide recall for vehicles with faulty airbags. According to USA Today, "Toyota, Honda and Nissan need to track down 3 million vehicles around the globe," and with Mazda later added to the roster, the number rises to almost 3.4 million. The defect has...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / NOTEBOOK
Apr 10, 2013

Shibuya Ward picks mascot; take a cruise around Japan

ANNOUNCEMENTS
BUSINESS / NOTEBOOK
Mar 13, 2013

Online Japanese policy discussion magazine; EU fashion trade show

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 27, 2013

Peninsula Tokyo scholarship; charity film screening; new tourist guidebook

ANNOUNCEMENTS
BUSINESS / THE VIEW FROM EUROPE
Feb 25, 2013

Debate over weak yen, currency war misses point: demand is slack

Since mid-November, the yen has weakened substantially against the dollar, the euro and other currencies.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Feb 22, 2013

Tokyo literary festival writes its opening chapter

Every time David Karashima took a Japanese author to New York or London to do a reading, the local audiences would ask two questions: "Who's the next Haruki Murakami?" and "Why isn't there an international literary festival in Tokyo?"
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Feb 8, 2013

The Hitler home movies: how Eva Braun documented the Nazi dictator's private life

Lutz Becker was born in Berlin, he says, "during the anno diabolo, 1941. Mine was the generation that was sent into a dark pit." Meeting this survivor of the Third Reich, now in his 70s and living in Bayswater, London, it's hard to suppress the thought that Becker, a distinguished artist and film historian,...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / NOTEBOOK
Jan 30, 2013

Daiwa House starts Singapore venture; EU showcases environment technology

Announcements
EDITORIALS
Jan 25, 2013

Targeting the use of mercury

More than 140 countries in Geneva agree on a treaty that marks the first step in global efforts to prevent health-environmental damage from mercury.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Jan 20, 2013

Veteran athletes, coaches adamant that corporal punishment has no place in sports

The tragic death of a 17-year-old Osaka high school student and basketball captain in December sheds light on a disturbing aspect of Japanese culture that has existed for decades: corporal punishment.
LIFE / Travel
Jan 13, 2013

Sapporo's wonders of winter

It seemed to me on a recent winter's visit to Sapporo that everyone was a performer: from the flamboyant gestures and bullhorn announcements of the tour guides, to the showy dismembering of crabs by vendors, to the owners of the cubbyhole restaurants in Ramen Yokocho, the alley of mostly one-man operations...
Reader Mail
Dec 16, 2012

The criminally noisy politicians

Michael Hoffman's Dec. 2 Timeout column, "Silent majority blasted by political noise," lent me yet another moment to think about Japanese politics and election campaigns.
Reader Mail
Dec 9, 2012

Burden on an ambulance crew

The Nov. 20 Alice Gordenker column, "So, what the heck is that?" — about emergency announcements — reminded me of the strenuous efforts that a Tokyo Fire Department crew made when my mother died about four years ago, as well as the painstaking job of the TFD and some troubles it faces in doing its...
EDITORIALS
Nov 10, 2012

Bolstering the global economy

Finance ministers and central bankers from the Group of 20 ended their Mexico City meeting Nov. 5 with a communique stressing that "We will do everything necessary to strengthen the overall health and growth of the global economy."
EDITORIALS
Oct 18, 2012

Improve policing of cyber crimes

The Osaka prefectural police arrested a man from Suita, Osaka Prefecture, on Aug. 26 and the Mie prefectural police arrested a man from Tsu, Mie Prefecture, on Sept. 14, both on suspicion of posting threatening announcements on the Internet that heinous crimes would take place. Subsequently the Osaka...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Oct 2, 2012

JBL looking to go out with a bang

With its 2012-13 campaign getting under way this weekend, the Japan Basketball League, which will be rebranded as the National Basketball League next fall, promises to entertain the fans as much as possible in its final season under the old name.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Sep 27, 2012

Bicqlo – Bic Camera meets Uniqlo – is here!

Uniqlo and Bic Camera cross-pollinate and make a baby.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Sep 14, 2012

Ex-referee says bj-league made wrong call with Yuzuki

Kunio Kurata, the bj-league's director of officials since its establishment in 2005, has quietly retired. That shouldn't come as a big surprise; after all, the Shizuoka Prefecture native will turn 61 on Nov. 27, so he reached the mandatory retirement age early in the 2011-12 season.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / NOTEBOOK
Sep 12, 2012

Japanese language research fellowship; buy lip balm for charity

ANNOUNCEMENTS
Japan Times
BUSINESS / NOTEBOOK
Aug 29, 2012

Risk management, sustainability solutions; fashionable activewear for women

ANNOUNCEMENTS
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jul 24, 2012

How I learned to stop worrying and embrace the atom

Like millions of other people in Japan, I watched the events of March 2011 unfurl with shock and trepidation. The massive earthquake, the terrible tsunami and then what seemed to be a dreadful nuclear disaster.
Japan Times
Reference / SO WHAT THE HECK IS THAT
Jul 17, 2012

Chindonya

Dear Alice,
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Jul 6, 2012

Today's J-blip: MUJI to GO game

MUJI to GO will take you on a social media adventure.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Jul 4, 2012

Aoki returns to Tokyo; Aomori, Nara get expansion teams

The bj-league will add a pair of new franchises for the 2013-14 season, and Cohey Aoki, the only six-time All-Star in league history, is returning to the capital city.
BUSINESS
Jun 20, 2012

Nikko Asset to put IPO plan on hold until 2013

Nikko Asset Management Co. may wait until next year before pursuing an initial public offering that it shelved in December, avoiding markets roiled by Europe's debt crisis, two sources said.

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?