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LIFE / Travel
Nov 23, 2008

Japan looks beyond tourism's 'Golden Route'

In 2001, soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S., a friend working at a Tokyo travel agency griped about how terrorism affected his business, saying that tourism, after all, is a "peace industry."
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Nov 23, 2008

We're just playing ball

It's an open secret that TV news shows tend to go easy on big advertisers in their reporting. In the many tributes to journalist Tetsuya Chikushi, who died two weeks ago of lung cancer, no one mentioned that he was a heavy smoker. The dangers of cigarettes were never covered on his nightly TBS show,...
BASEBALL / SPORTS SCOPE
Nov 22, 2008

Wakamatsu makes history, but faces tough job ahead

The Seattle Mariners are hoping they made a big splash with the hiring of Major League Baseball's first Asian American manager Don Wakamatsu.
BUSINESS
Nov 22, 2008

Workers urged to knock off early, make babies

The Japan Business Federation (Nippon Keidanren) is worried the nation's workers aren't having enough sex.
BUSINESS
Nov 21, 2008

Mazda to ax 1,300

Mazda Motor Corp. will cut 1,300 temporary jobs in Japan, spokesman Toyota Tanaka said Thursday.
EDITORIALS
Nov 18, 2008

The G20 rises to the challenge

In retrospect, last weekend's meeting of world leaders to deal with the global economic crisis was fated to succeed. While such gatherings usually produce stale rhetoric and mere exhortations to take substantive action, this meeting produced an 11-page document with enough content to qualify as a genuine...
BUSINESS
Nov 18, 2008

Merrill to exit Japan electricity business

U.S. securities firm Merrill Lynch & Co. said Monday it will cease to trade electricity in Japan in January after failing to meet its expansion targets for the business.
BUSINESS
Nov 18, 2008

Service demand decreases for second month

Demand for services fell for the second straight month in September as squeezed profits began to affect employment and paychecks, dimming prospects for consumer spending to support the world's second-largest economy, the government said Monday.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 16, 2008

Seven-year journey to a safer life

KABUL — We began a journey in Afghanistan seven years ago with the war that ousted the Taliban from power. Much has been accomplished along the way, for Afghanistan and for the world.
COMMENTARY
Nov 14, 2008

Hu touches base with Obama on economy

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — Guess who telephoned Barack Obama for one of the first, if not the first, substance-packed reachout to the next U.S. head of state. It was Chinese President Hu Jintao. The conversation focused on the global economic freeze, but Hu knew how to warm up the president-elect as well...
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JAPAN
Nov 14, 2008

Education woes beset Brazilian children

Securing employment for Brazilians and making sure their children receive a proper education are crucial issues the government must work out with municipalities and the private sector, according to experts involved in the Brazilian community in Japan.
EDITORIALS
Nov 12, 2008

Financial crisis hits home

The global financial crisis is hitting Japanese companies hard. Symbolic is Toyota Motor Co.'s prediction of its own business performance for the full year to March 2009. The rise of the yen's value and the slowing down of the world economy as seen in decreased auto sales in the United States and Europe...
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Nov 12, 2008

McDyess stood firm against return to Denver

NEW YORK — I assume the completion (finally) of the Pistons-Nuggets trade required the four involved players to report to their respective teams, not just those who felt like it, namely Allen Iverson, Chauncey Billups and the illustrious Cheikh Samb.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2008

Protectionist sentiment to challenge Obama

SINGAPORE — Asian economies that have benefited from trade liberalization in recent years tend to prefer U.S. Republican administrations over Democratic ones because the former are seen as having a more consistent commitment to free trade. Now that Barack Obama is president-elect with a sizable Democratic...
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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Nov 11, 2008

Nova refugees: Where are they now?

'All the schools are closed.'
COMMENTARY
Nov 8, 2008

Domestic health-care issues to test Obama

The election of Barack Hussein Obama as U.S. president represents hope for the kind of transformational politics that can lead to a better, more secure world. It also suggests an end to the politics of divisiveness and a turn toward a political system more attuned to the needs of what both candidates...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 6, 2008

Chinese directors venture to Hollywood and back

The "Red Cliff" saga, which John Woo has called his dream project, marks the iconic action director's return to his native China, if not necessarily to Hong Kong, where he made his mark.
JAPAN
Nov 1, 2008

U.S. candidates vow to 're-engage' Japan

OSAKA — Eight years ago, on the eve of the 2000 U.S. presidential election, a bipartisan group of Washington experts released the Armitage Report, named after Richard Armitage, one of the main authors and an eventual deputy secretary of state under President George W. Bush.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 31, 2008

Watanabe's gentle touch brings out Lions' claws

When thinking of what made the Seibu Lions' quick resurgence from the fifth-place finish of the previous season possible, as well as the players' growth, manager Hisanobu Watanabe's presence played a big part in it.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 29, 2008

Time to rescue Chris Patten

HONG KONG — His hair has turned white, but his voice is as mellifluous as ever and his wit just as eloquent and rapier-quick in puncturing balloons of self-importance and pomposity. It was a real delight to watch him in a BBC Hardtalk discussion on the economic crisis as he pricked pretentious statements...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Oct 28, 2008

Foreign students to fill the halls

Rie Yoshinaga had a wide range of colleges to choose from.
EDITORIALS
Oct 27, 2008

China feels the pinch

For most countries, 9 percent growth is a reason to celebrate. In China, it sets alarm bells ringing. For a government whose legitimacy rests on its ability to deliver increasing prosperity to citizens, an economic downturn can have dramatic and dangerous repercussions. Moreover, China's slowing economy...
JAPAN
Oct 27, 2008

Aso vows to cure economic woes

Self-described "manga" enthusiast Prime Minister Taro Aso returned to Tokyo's Akihabara district Sunday to deliver a speech concentrating on the economy.
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JAPAN
Oct 24, 2008

Film seeks to right Africans' image here

In Japan's "homogenous" society, foreigners who stand out tend to be vilified, easily associated with crime or other undesirable behavior, according to Nigerian film director Udyfrank.
COMMENTARY
Oct 24, 2008

There's no ignoring China

HONG KONG — Earlier this month, when Washington announced the sale of a $6.5 billion arms package to Taiwan, China reacted with anger. It has canceled a series of military and diplomatic contacts with the United States, including port calls by naval vessels, and indefinitely postponed meetings on halting...

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