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JAPAN
Sep 9, 2008

Chongryon chief says Japan must compensate North Korea

Japan needs to compensate North Korea for its wartime aggression before ties with Pyongyang can be normalized, Ho Jong Man, head of the Chongryon group of North Korean residents in Japan, said Monday.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Sep 6, 2008

Meddling from management left Keegan, Curbishley with no choice

LONDON — Kevin Keegan and Alan Curbishley resigned this week as managers of Newcastle and West Ham because the new breed of Premier League owners wouldn't let them manage.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 6, 2008

Make-my-day T-shirt craze gives unsung Fukuda belated celebrity

Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's public support was pretty weak for most of his roughly one year in office. But since announcing his resignation Monday, his popularity seems to be recovering — at least for T-shirts bearing his likeness.
BUSINESS
Sep 4, 2008

Top hedge fund manager Mukai joins Epic Partners

Tadashi Mukai, who outperformed all his hedge fund rivals in Japan last year, joined Tokyo-based Epic Partners Investments Co. and will start a new fund that won't bet on stocks rising or falling.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Sep 3, 2008

Nikon offers first consumer DSLR with video capability

DSLR with video: Change is rarely as dramatic as it appears. In the world of camera makers, the digital onslaught has seen the rise of electronics firms such as Sony, Panasonic and Samsung, while that venerable creator of cameras Minolta has disappeared, sold to Sony.
JAPAN
Sep 2, 2008

Rare birds put paid to Toyota site

Even Toyota Motor Corp., Japan's largest automaker, can't win when it comes to preserving endangered wildlife.
COMMENTARY
Sep 2, 2008

Unconventional American and Asian women

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — There are nonreductionist ways of looking at modern women. One is to view them as Warrior Queens. These women do not deny their biology or ignore its potentials but equip themselves to play ball with the big boys on a playing field that has grown more level by the decade.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Sep 2, 2008

Urawaza — quirky, everyday Japanese tips — head West

Two years ago, a mysterious 20-second video clip triggered some unexpected buzz on the Web site YouTube. In the segment, an ordinary-looking housewife draws an invisible line across the chest of a shirt with her finger. Then she pinches the shirt under the armpit and at the shoulder, does a quick flipping...
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Sep 2, 2008

Against high odds, masses chase luck

What would you do if you won ¥400 million? Would you buy a convertible, a new house, start a business? All of the above?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Aug 30, 2008

A Welshman's 10,000-km tale of Japan

What on earth would induce anyone to cycle around a country for six months?
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2008

G8 legislative leaders to gather in Hiroshima

OSAKA — Lower house speakers from the Group of Eight nations are gathering in Hiroshima next week, where the original plan was to discuss long-term peace and disarmament issues and the role of legislatures in strengthening nuclear nonproliferation.
BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2008

Bankruptcies to rise: Daiwa chief

The list of real estate companies filing for bankruptcy will grow this year as banks cut lending, said Takeo Higuchi, chairman of Daiwa House Industry Co., Japan's second-biggest home builder by market value.
EDITORIALS
Aug 28, 2008

Kids caught in the Web

The National Police Agency has reported that the number of youths who fell victim to sex and other crimes after accessing Web dating (deai-kei) sites has drastically decreased in the first half of this year. This is welcome news, but since minors are still being lured into child prostitution and other...
Japan Times
LIFE
Aug 24, 2008

Biomimicry: Natural by design

I magine being able to maintain a perfect temperature and humidity in your home year round, without spending a single yen in electricity or gas bills. That's exactly what Professor Emile Ishida of Tohoku University in northern Japan is striving to achieve — and he got the idea from termites.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Aug 24, 2008

'Nation of copycats' maligns Japan's fine science and technology

One of the most commonly discussed issues of national character in Japan revolves around the question of personal creativity. Put simply, it is this: Are the Japanese lacking in the DNA of originality?
EDITORIALS
Aug 24, 2008

Epidemic of anxiety

Japanese are more worried than ever, according to a Cabinet Office survey released recently. More than 70 percent of Japanese — the highest percentage ever — say they are worried about their everyday lives and the future. Nearly two-thirds of people said their standard of living went unchanged in...
JAPAN
Aug 20, 2008

S. Korea envoy pushes North to meet pledge

It is in North Korea's interests to carry out its pledge to complete a probe into the abduction of Japanese nationals, South Korea's chief delegate to the six-party talks on the North's denuclearization said Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Aug 19, 2008

Russian lesson for the 21st century

Russia and Georgia have signed a ceasefire agreement that calls for the withdrawal of Russian troops to their positions before the outbreak of hostilities in South Ossetia began. Russia at first refused to begin the pullout until "extra security measures" ordered by Russian President Dmitri Medvedev...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 16, 2008

Geeks I have known

The meeting itself is not unusual. I have had students seek my consul before — on all kinds of topics.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 16, 2008

Traditional nuptials revived to up tourism

Some 2,500 tourists were on hand to watch as 22-year-old bride Noriko Kageyama and groom Takanori Nakazawa paraded through the streets of Inawashiro town in Fukushima Prefecture one Saturday in June.
EDITORIALS
Aug 16, 2008

Another chance for North Korea

North Korea has agreed to set up a committee to reinvestigate its abduction of Japanese nationals with the goal of completing the probe by this fall. Japan, for its part, has agreed to lift some of its sanctions against the North simultaneously with the start of the reinvestigation. North Korea should...
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.

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