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JAPAN / LIGHTING THE OLYMPIC FLAME
Sep 25, 2013

Tokyo, nation see chance to rebuild pride

Like the 1964 Olympics, the 2020 Summer Games are expected to have a positive impact not only economically but psychologically as well. They will also offer Japan the chance to set an example for the industrialized world, to demonstrate that despite its troubles — deflation, a rapidly aging population...
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WORLD / Politics
Sep 25, 2013

Cruz, party tangle over U.S. shutdown

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz escalated his conflict with fellow Republicans Tuesday when he stepped up his attacks on President Barack Obama's signature health care law, complicating House GOP efforts to pass a funding bill that would avert a government shutdown next week.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 24, 2013

Overcoming regrets before they overcome you

Research is converging on the notion that what you regret, how often you do so and with what intensity have a big impact on our mental and physical well-being.
LIFE / Digital
Sep 24, 2013

Is China after our inventions?

Some things never change. For as long as I can remember, people in the west have been paranoid about the Orient — and about China in particular. I grew up in an ultra-devout Catholic household in rural Ireland and I remember my mother being terrified by what people then called "the yellow peril," by...
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JAPAN
Sep 24, 2013

Japan losing competitive edge due to poor practical training, expert warns

There may be many unemployed young people in Japan, but there are also a lot of companies that can't fill their vacancies due to a shortage of talented applicants, Darryl Green, president of major staffing and workforce solution service company ManpowerGroup, said in a recent interview.
EDITORIALS
Sep 23, 2013

Monetary easing lifts land prices

It appears that the monetary easing pushed by the Abe administration through Bank of Japan's purchasing operations is gradually raising land prices in some urban areas.
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JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Sep 23, 2013

Tokyo hopes to recover its luster with special zones for foreign businesses

To bolster Tokyo's dwindling profile in Asia, the metropolitan government has launched the Special Zone for Asian Headquarters project to persuade more than 500 foreign companies to set up shop here by 2016.
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WORLD
Sep 22, 2013

Vetting firms 'rush' through security clearances

When Ileana Privetera started working for the contractor USIS, the firm that vetted National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden and Washington Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis, it sounded like the perfect job. A mother, she would have flexible hours for her family, and she would be helping the country...
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Sep 21, 2013

Rokkasho: nuclear white elephant or yen sucking black hole?

As one approaches Rokkasho, a small town of 11,000 on the remote, windswept coast of Aomori Prefecture at the very north of Japan's main island, Honshu, one sees dozens of power-generating windmills spinning away. Aside from this ambitious renewable energy project, Rokkasho also is the site for a national...
EDITORIALS
Sep 19, 2013

Five years after the crisis

Five years after the Lehman implosion, stability has returned to the global financial system. But it remains fragile.
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CULTURE / Film
Sep 19, 2013

'Elysium'

On the one hand "Elysium" is the last of this year's summer blockbusters, the new Matt Damon star vehicle and the Hollywood debut by South African director Neill Blomkamp, acclaimed for his debut aliens-among-us feature "District 9." On the other, this is a political propaganda film so stark and simplistic...
Reader Mail
Sep 18, 2013

Japanese men hard to change

Regarding the article titled "Seeking to change men's mind-sets to spur on prosperity for all Japanese" in the Sept. 11 "Summer Davos" Special supplement: Changing men's mind-sets, in Japan? What sort of quixotic nonsense is this? If it ain't broke, don't fix it and most Japanese men are very happy with...
JAPAN
Sep 18, 2013

Hiring more women seen as answer to economic malaise

Imagine our current discussions about women and the workplace — Can women have it all? How do women lean in? — taking place in a country with one of the worst gender-equality ratios in the world.
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BUSINESS
Sep 17, 2013

How Wal-Mart's Waltons maintain their billionaire fortune

Visitors to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, leave appreciative notes on a glass wall near the entrance.
LIFE / Digital / JAPAN WEB WATCH
Sep 17, 2013

Accidental leak IDs over 30,000 'anonymous' 2channel users

Japan's most popular online bulletin-board service, 2channel (pronounced ni-chaneru), recently experienced what is probably the biggest problem in its 14-year history when its promise to keep users' anonymity was severely broken by an information breach.
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BUSINESS / INNOVATIVE CITY FORUM
Sep 17, 2013

Creating healthier ecosystems in future cities by rethinking urban areas from scratch

The mass production of affordable automobiles is perhaps one of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century.
COMMUNITY / Voices / HOTLINE TO NAGATACHO
Sep 16, 2013

Tokyo: the city that wants clubbers to sleep after midnight

Honorable Members of the National Diet,
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 16, 2013

Manmohan Singh's losing battle with the markets

A welter of problems confound Indian Prime MInister Manmohan Singh's promises to wipe the tears of poverty from the eyes of Indians.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Sep 15, 2013

Japan must avoid using 2020 Olympics as excuse to put off fiscal rehab

The G-20 summit in St. Petersburg, Russia, ended Sept. 6 with the conclusion that it is premature to declare that the global economic crisis has ended, despite signs of improvement.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 15, 2013

Conservative Club for Growth targets 'Obamacare'

The first sign that Republican leaders could not control their new majority came on a vote to help Americans who lose their jobs to foreign workers. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor considered the measure routine and in February 2011 put it on a list of bills that were expected to pass without objection....
JAPAN
Sep 14, 2013

Idling of Oi No. 4 unit to again halt all atomic power

With Sunday's shutdown of Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi No. 4 reactor for regular safety inspections, Japan will be without nuclear power for the first time since July 2012.
EDITORIALS
Sep 13, 2013

Housing help for evacuees

The central and local governments must be ready to help both evacuees who want to return home and those who want to settle in new places.
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BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Sep 12, 2013

Long-term imports still rare in ever-changing league

With each passing season, perpetual change on team rosters means dozens of foreign players come and go. And it's become quite rare for foreign players to spend a large chunk of their careers in the bj-league.
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BUSINESS / Economy / 'SUMMER DAVOS' SPECIAL 2013
Sep 10, 2013

Seeking to change men's mind-sets to spur on prosperity for all Japanese

When Upper House lawmaker Masako Mori became a state minister for measures for declining birthrate, gender equality and consumer affairs and food safety last December, one of the first things she did was to announce that she would promote male staff within her ministries if they take child-care leave....
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LIFE / Lifestyle
Sep 9, 2013

Renovating business and hope in Onomichi

The city of Onomichi in the southeastern part of Hiroshima Prefecture, which looks out to the Seto Inland Sea, has a rich and long tradition as a hub of trade. During the Edo Period (1603-1867), it prospered as a key docking point for domestic ships peddling goods, and from the early 20th century it...
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COMMUNITY
Sep 9, 2013

A friend to kanji learners worldwide

Mary Sisk Noguchi helped readers unravel the complexities of Chinese characters, adding an element of fun to a process often fraught with frustration for many learners of Japanese.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 9, 2013

Post-Gates Microsoft's woes laid to Ballmer

"Do you have an iPod?"
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives
Sep 7, 2013

Ballet prodigy gets a big lift from mom

Sixteen-year old ballerina Miko Fogarty may be an American teen prodigy, but despite hailing from that land steeped in stardom culture, she seems to have none of the usual celebrity trappings — or to be particularly interested in them.

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