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Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / TRAVEL INSIDER
Aug 8, 2012

Fly to Middle-earth with official 'Hobbit' airline Air New Zealand; Aeromexico orders 100 Boeing aircraft; Cathay launches digital magazine

New Aeromexico planes
EDITORIALS
Jul 25, 2012

Equalizing pension benefits

There has been criticism that public servants have been receiving advantageous treatment in retirement allowances and pension benefits, compared with corporate workers.
BUSINESS
Jul 24, 2012

Mitsui Fudosan to up stake in U.K. firm

Mitsui Fudosan Co., the nation's largest property developer by sales, plans to boost its investment in U.K. developer Stanhope PLC as part of its $6.4 billion global expansion plan.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 11, 2012

Mizuno confident Tokyo has what it takes to host 2020 Olympic Games

Persuasion is a powerful tool, especially when the stakes are high.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 1, 2012

Kato showed strong leadership in introducing new ball, Mizuno says

Kim Yu Na played a huge role in securing the 2018 Winter Olympics for Pyeongchang, South Korea, last year. Prior to that, David Beckham helped do the same for London, which will host this year's Summer Games.
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jun 25, 2012

Liberating Japan's resources

Japan has long been characterized as a nation with virtually no natural resources like oil, natural gas, coal, iron and copper. More than 125 million people live on land area ranking only 61st in the world in terms of size.
BUSINESS
Jun 7, 2012

Reactor restarts to clip LNG tab: Facts

Liquefied natural gas prices may fall by the end of the year as Japan, the world's biggest buyer of the fuel, reopens some of its idled nuclear plants, according to Facts Global Energy.
COMMENTARY
May 30, 2012

How the Afghan war ends

The recent NATO summit in Chicago was mostly about how to get NATO troops out of Afghanistan without causing too much embarrassment to the Western governments that sent them, and a little bit about how to ensure that the Taliban don't take over again once Western troops leave.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 5, 2012

Nissan unveils new yellow cab for NYC

New York City's next generation of yellow cabs will be minivans featuring sliding doors, antibacterial seats, air bags in the back and outlets to charge mobile phones.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Mar 13, 2012

Methane hydrate energy solution?

The launch of preparatory drilling for methane hydrate off Aichi Prefecture last month drew public attention amid hopes it will become an alternative to nuclear power at a time when Japan's self-sufficiency rate in energy is a meager 4 percent.
BUSINESS
Feb 25, 2012

Panasonic eyes big U.S., Europe solar, storage acquisitions

Panasonic Corp. is in talks over potentially its biggest acquisitions in the U.S. and Europe in a decade, hoping to speed its transition from manufacturing televisions to supplying solar energy and power storage services.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Feb 12, 2012

10,000,000,000,000,000 calculations per second

In today's ever-more digitalized world, we all have a tale or two to share about how personal computers have let us down: like how they refused to let us run different programs at the same time or how the data was so heavy that the damned device kept us on hold forever before conducting even the most...
COMMENTARY
Jan 5, 2012

U.S. turns to drones to counter China

A recent offer by the Seychelles to refuel and replenish Chinese naval ships on anti-piracy patrols in the northwest Indian Ocean was seen as the latest sign of China's expanding naval power.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 27, 2011

China sales set to dip at Hitachi Construction

Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., the nation's second-largest heavy-equipment maker, said Chinese demand for excavators will decline in the first half of next year as monetary tightening slows construction projects.
EDITORIALS
Dec 23, 2011

Risky catalog purchase of fighter

The government on Tuesday selected Lockheed Martin's F-35 as the Air-Self Defense Force's next-generation fighter over Boeing's F/A-18 and the Eurofighter Typhoon to replace aging F-4 fighters. Japan plans to purchase 42 F-35s, hoping that the first delivery will start in fiscal 2016 (April 2016-March...
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2011

Internet apps won't close jobs gap

America today is akin to the Ottoman Empire at the end of its days. Immensely important, commanding huge global influence, badly run and under mounting debt, it is not the leader of the world, but the sick man of it.
BUSINESS
Sep 29, 2011

After three-year delay, ANA's first Dreamliner in country, good to go

All Nippon Airways Co.'s first Boeing 787 landed Wednesday in Japan, ending more than three years of delays for the initial operator of the aircraft.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 7, 2011

Refusal to talk threatens Suzuki-VW tieup

A tiff that started over Volkswagen AG's description of Suzuki Motor Corp. in its annual report has escalated into a spat threatening to unravel the two automakers' planned alliance before the partnership ever gets going.
BUSINESS
Sep 3, 2011

LCD business a keeper: Panasonic

Panasonic Corp. plans to keep its liquid crystal display business even after rivals Sony Corp., Toshiba Corp. and Hitachi Ltd. agreed this week to divest their LCD units amid intensifying competition from South Korean and Taiwanese producers.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

Podcast

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

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
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