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ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Jul 26, 2009

'Groundhog Day' man realizes why solar fans love running backward

Events this month have brought home to me once again the enduring truth of that popular slogan, "Think globally, act locally."
JAPAN / History
Jul 26, 2009

Bridge of sorrows

When Naoko Jin tells former Japanese soldiers that the Filipinos they fought against during World War II are ready to forgive them, they simply don't believe her.
Japan Times
LIFE
Jul 26, 2009

Bridge of sorrows

When Naoko Jin tells former Japanese soldiers that the Filipinos they fought against during World War II are ready to forgive them, they simply don't believe her.
Japan Times
JAPAN / MIXED MATCHES
Jul 25, 2009

Belgian no waffler on love, life in Japan

Pascal Latui, 28, first fell for Yumiko, 36, on a backpacking trip in Japan in June 2006. She was a receptionist at the Tokyo youth hostel where he was staying.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jul 24, 2009

Learn about salt this summer

Do you know how to make salt?
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 23, 2009

Crisis management lacking: experts

Japan has a reputation abroad as a country whose government, corporations and citizens are fully prepared for natural and man-made catastrophes after the bitter lessons of the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system and the Kobe earthquake, both in 1995, as well as the regular occurrence of typhoons....
BUSINESS
Jul 23, 2009

DKR Oasis former analyst to start Japan-focused equity hedge fund

Frederic Eechaute, a former senior analyst at DKR Oasis Management Co. LP, will start a Japan-focused equity hedge fund that trades stocks using its own analyst database.
BUSINESS
Jul 22, 2009

Nissan plans EVs, hybrids at U.S. plant

Nissan Motor Co., aiming to be the top seller of electric vehicles in the U.S., is hedging its bets.
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Jul 19, 2009

Yokohama port anniversary, population boom, Zen bus-drivers and Japanese longevity

100 YEARS AGO
Reader Mail
Jul 19, 2009

Japan's 'qualitative' contribution

I think Kazuo Ogoura's July 14 article, "Why is Japan introverted?," is hard to understand. The main topic is why Japanese people prefer not to study or work abroad, yet the article finishes with the statement that Japan needs to increase its international appeal. The conclusion is unrelated to the beginning...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jul 17, 2009

East German backs Japan's public theaters

Peter Goesnner was born in Leipzig, in the former communist East Germany, in 1962. His dream was to be a great football player, but 40 years later, the witty, easy-going German is in Tokyo directing "Sekishoku Elegy" ("Red Elegy") by absurdist playwright Minoru Betsuyaku. Staged in 1980 for only one...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jul 17, 2009

Feast on fine Italian opera in a Tokyo restaurant

Italy-based Japanese opera singer Hiroki Watanabe will perform at a dinner show titled "La Voce di Firenze" at an Italian restaurant in Tokyo's central Hiroo district on the evenings of Aug. 6 and 7.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 15, 2009

Diet calls shots on taxes: top finance bureaucrat

The Finance Ministry's top bureaucrat, Yasutake Tango, said this week his ministry will prepare to raise the consumption tax as stipulated by law, but it is also ready to change course if the Democratic Party of Japan, which is reportedly against a consumption tax hike over the next four years, takes...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Jul 11, 2009

The rainy season — it's not just snails on hydrangeas

The rainy season can be kind of gloomy with the lack of sunshine, but the weather may be more a reflection of Japan's economic forecast. The Land of the Rising Sun is in many ways, not so sunny anymore.
JAPAN
Jul 11, 2009

Pulvers lauded by cultural agency

Roger Pulvers, an Australian playwright and contributor to The Japan Times, and four others were recognized Friday by the Cultural Affairs Agency for helping to promote Japanese culture overseas.
COMMENTARY
Jul 10, 2009

Wisdom of an Asia rising

SEOUL — According to conventional wisdom, the global economic crisis is accelerating the transfer of power and influence from the West to Asia. The United States has been particularly hard hit by the downturn and America's loss is China's gain.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 10, 2009

Sabu masterfully helms a floating canning factory

After debuting as a writer/director in 1996 with "D.A.N.G.A.N. Runner," a kinetic comedy of three men chasing each other around, Sabu has been a regular on international film circuits, and is especially liked by the Berlin International Film Festival where he has had six films screened in the past, of...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / GLOBAL ECONOMY AND LABOR SYMPOSIUM
Jul 9, 2009

Training key as Japan leans more heavily on its nonregular workers

The role of education and training in the labor market will become even more important as the number of nonregular workers not covered by on-the-job training increases, experts told the June 17 symposium.
JAPAN / G8 ITALY SUMMIT
Jul 8, 2009

Japanese expert team surveys earthquake damage in L'Aquila

A group of Japanese architectural and construction experts visited the city of L'Aquila shortly after a 6.3-magnitude earthquake devastated the central region of Italy on April 6 to investigate the scale of the damage.
EDITORIALS
Jul 5, 2009

Education on earthquakes

More than 7,300 public school buildings in Japan face a high risk of collapse in a serious earthquake, according to a recent report from the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology. Though the number of potentially dangerous schools is down significantly from last year, earthquakes of upper-6 seismic...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jul 5, 2009

The Shanxi trilogy: films that never made it back home

Sometimes called the most significant of the current generation of Chinese film directors, Jia Zhangke (b. 1970) enjoys the distinction of never having had some of his finest work commercially shown in his own country.

Longform

Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.