Search - list

 
Menu
Search
 
November 26, 2024
 

Today's print edition

Home Delivery
Subscribe for more access
16,843 results
Sort by: Relevance Newest Oldest
After adjusting your search parameters, press Enter on your keyboard or click on the red magnifying glass to run your query again.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Mar 17, 2009

Found in 'Area 51,' he goes by one name

Pitching greats Daisuke Matsuzaka and Yu Darvish are leading Japan's star-studded squad as national teams battle it out in the United States in the World Baseball Classic.
COMMENTARY
Mar 15, 2009

Planets like Earth appear to be out there

LONDON — The real wonder of our age is this. You can go on the Web, type in PlanetQuest New Worlds Atlas, or Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia, or NASA Star and Exoplanet Database, and directly access the data on 340 new planets that have been discovered in the past five years.
CULTURE / Books
Mar 15, 2009

From Japan's heart of darkness

A hundred years ago, a young scholar named Kunio Yanagita traveled to remote Iwate Prefecture in search of stories that reflected people's lives. Yanagita was born at an epochal time when Japan was flinging off its feudal past and embracing modernity. He wanted to capture the vanishing ways in which...
LIFE / Food & Drink
Mar 13, 2009

A daily revolution at Marugo

The wine-lover's equivalent to conveyer-belt sushi, Marugo II offers a revolving selection of wines for the curious wine buff.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Mar 12, 2009

ASCIS sprints stylishly, Van Noten opens in Aoyama, British gems sparkle and Galliano diffuses

MISHA JANETTE and PAUL McINNES A Beast on the run in Harajuku If you thought the pace of Tokyo's Harajuku was already dizzying, just see what happens now that ASICS has opened its megastore for runners in the area's heart.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 11, 2009

Woodson doing good job of handling Smith

NEW YORK — Before Saturday night's come-from-behind victory over the Pistons, I wasn't sensing much love in Dixie, where Josh Smith and Hawks coach Mike Woodson dropped the verbal gloves at halftime of Friday night's seven-point loss to the Bobcats. It was shades of two seasons ago when the coach banished...
COMMENTARY
Mar 11, 2009

Gauging Obama's Asia policy

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's recent trip to Asia underscored elements of continuity and change in the Obama administration's Asia policy. Generally speaking, her visits to Japan, South Korea and China represented continuity; her trip to Indonesia signaled change.
BUSINESS
Mar 10, 2009

Use public entity proceeds to prop up stocks: Keidanren

The role of a public entity should be expanded to sell government-guaranteed bonds and funnel the proceeds into the flagging stock market, the Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) said Monday.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / INSIDE LOOK
Mar 8, 2009

Matsui aims to finish career on a high note

NEW YORK — Team update: Entering the final week of the regular season, the Columbia Lions, were 11-15 overall and 6-6 in the Ivy League, and had a chance to finish above .500 in conference play for the first time since the 1992-93 season. Matsui scored a career-high 19 points, including 5-for-8 on...
Japan Times
LIFE
Mar 8, 2009

When scandal strikes a firm

Japanese culture and its scapegoat-seeking media often make bad times far worse for companies compromised by events. But for foreign firms less familiar with the country's societal norms, such problems can easily spiral completely out of control.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Mar 6, 2009

J. League also-rans looking to change gear

The following is the first of a two-part J. League preview for the upcoming season. Team-by-team previews of the nine bottom-ranked teams competing in the first division are listed.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 6, 2009

Mono "Hymn to the Immortal Wind"

Celebrating their 10th anniversary this year, Mono have improved with age. While the Tokyo instrumental quartet's early work mimicked peers such as Mogwai, more recently they've forged their own sonic path toward top-tier status in the realm of postrock.
BUSINESS
Mar 4, 2009

Ailing Citi scratches branch expansion

Citigroup Inc., the recipient of three U.S. government bailouts, has abandoned plans to open new branches in Japan as it seeks to trim costs, two knowledgeable sources said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2009

Shangri-La opens in Tokyo, vows to weather recession

The Shangri-La Hotel group launched its first hotel in Japan on Monday, joining a list of foreign luxury inns that have set up in central Tokyo in recent years.
EDITORIALS
Mar 1, 2009

Dressing for the recession

As the global economic crisis hits more and more people, even the richest of the rich are feeling the pinch. Forbes Magazine's annual list of the wealthiest people in the world, released last month, noted losses even at the highest incomes. In Japan, the top 40 richest Japanese saw their combined wealth...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Mar 1, 2009

Japanese fans geared up for World Baseball Classic

It is the World Baseball Classic, but WBC here could stand for "Whopping Big Crowds" or "Wildly Boisterous Cheering." The Japanese fans are going bonkers over Team Samurai Japan, with the No. 1 attraction being Seattle Mariners star Ichiro Suzuki.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Feb 28, 2009

Man United poised to add to trophy case

LONDON — Manchester United goes in search of the second leg of its bid to win the Quintuple on Sunday when it plays Tottenham Hotspur in the League Cup final.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 25, 2009

Many reasons why Hughes is on move again

NEW YORK — Considering the squall of trade winds that relayed the names of Amare Stoudemire, Vince Carter, Shaq, Richard Jefferson and Gerald Wallace throughout the NBA it's safe to say none of the deals blew us away or remotely provoked anyone to exclaim, "Like, whoa!"
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2009

JLPT to be conducted twice a year

The nonprofit Japan Foundation has announced it will hold the Japanese Language Proficiency Test twice a year in Japan, China, Taiwan and South Korea to cope with sharply rising demand.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 23, 2009

Tiger's return may not be enough to cure golf

Welcome back, Tiger Woods. It's been way too long. Just eight months have passed since that Monday on the edge of the Pacific Ocean when neither Rocco Mediate nor a bum leg could deny you another U.S. Open trophy. Across the country on that magical day, productivity in offices dropped as workers tuned...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 20, 2009

Snow yaks and yetis — an ice man cometh

Fans of Pop Surrealism were no doubt tickled pink to hear of their messiah, painter Mark Ryden, making an appearance in Tokyo for the opening of "The Snow Yak Show" at the Tomio Koyama Gallery. The solo exhibition features eight new works from the masterful painter, each exquisitely detailed in his characteristic...
BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2009

Nissan to tap European markets for cash

Nissan Motor Co., facing its first loss in nine years, plans to tap European capital markets, win government loans and sell real estate to maintain the cash it has on hand.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Feb 19, 2009

Time for bj-league to take stock, make necessary changes

Baseball and soccer are well-established professional sports in Japan. And now it's time for the bj-league, Japan's first professional basketball league, to take necessary steps to earn its place as an established, respected league.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 18, 2009

Japan, U.S. sign accord on forces

Japan and the United States formally signed an agreement Tuesday to relocate about 8,000 U.S. Marines from Okinawa to Guam by 2014 and reinforce security ties.
Taiwan stuns Samurai Japan to capture Premier12 title
Japan starter Shosei Togo reacts after allowing a three-run home run against Taiwan in the fifth inning of the Premier12 final on Sunday.
Japan and U.S. to form missile plan in case of Taiwan emergency
A U.S. Marine Corps M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) and a Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force Type 12 Surface-to-Ship Missile (12SSM) system are put on display at a symposium at a base in Kisarazu, Japan, in June 2022.
Preparations for Osaka Expo well underway amid lack of excitement
The Grand Ring, a symbol of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka
Ishiba shelves proposal for liaison offices with North Korea amid rising tensions
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks on Saturday in Tokyo at a rally that was held by a group of families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago to demand the immediate return of all abductees.
'Kohaku' still matters for J-pop bragging rights
Emerging Gen Z J-pop group ME:I will perform on this year's "Kohaku Uta Gassen," national broadcaster NHK’s New Year's Eve spectacle.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.
An iconic 32-foot doughnut might give Randy’s an edge in Japan
Randy's Donuts in Inglewood, California. Replicas of the giant doughnut sculpture will be installed, where possible, at shops in Japan.
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Totopa in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward was picked by consultants TTNE as the best sauna of the year.
Japan’s sauna movement: Relax, refresh, repeat
By Greg Dvorak

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

Azabudai Hills, Tokyo’s green new downtown ‘village’
Azabudai Hills, Tokyo’s green new downtown ‘village’

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS note

Read more

SUPPLEMENTS BINDER