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Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 8, 2013

Stubbornly shrinking workforce dims prospects for U.S. growth

Put out an all-points bulletin: Millions of Americans have gone missing from the workforce.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 8, 2013

IMF needs to resist pressure for fiscal loosening

The International Monetary Fund must resist pressure from its managing director and its chief economist to ease fiscal policy for countries in crisis.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Apr 7, 2013

A portrait of the poet as a child

This remarkable book is an autobiography of childhood, written by the poet Mutsuo Takahashi (born 1937) when he was 32, and issued in 1970, although its separate chapters had appeared as a series of essays in a magazine the year before.
CULTURE / Books
Apr 7, 2013

Processing the bitter to a durable, beautiful form

KICKING THE BLACK MAMBA: Life, Alcohol and Death, by Robert Anthony Welch. Darton, Longman and Todd, 2012, 240 pp., ￡12.99 (paperback)
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 7, 2013

Ramirez, Ishikawa carry BayStars past Swallows

The Yokohama BayStars had their day brightened by a pair of home runs that must have looked like rays of sunshine on a gray, rainy afternoon.
JAPAN / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
Apr 7, 2013

What's with the police purge on dance clubs?

If you're ever minded to dance the night away to trance music, or even old-fashioned rock, you may have a tough time finding a venue in Japan these days. In fact, you may end up waltzing away hours inside a police station, peeing into a cup after being rounded up in a raid. Yes, indeed, a War on Dance...
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Apr 7, 2013

Men cry discrimination as women's status rises

Japan, it seems, is forever discriminating against someone. Women, ethnic minorities, sexual minorities, lifestyle minorities, the disabled, part-time workers — all have made claims against a state and a national psychology that define acceptability very narrowly relative to most other developed societies....
EDITORIALS
Apr 7, 2013

Kabuki gets a new home

Kabukiza Theater reopens in a new building, the fourth since the 1889 original, at Tokyo Ginza's landmark site. Living treasure Sakata Tojuro dances.
COMMENTARY / Japan / COUNTERPOINT
Apr 7, 2013

Abe-phoria: A national punching bag morphs into a popular leader

There is an irrational exuberance about Prime Minister Shinzo Abe evident in his 70 percent public-approval rating, a soaring Nikkei stock average and the Japanese media cheerleading the same man it hounded out of office in September 2007.
BUSINESS
Apr 6, 2013

Soaring value of bitcoins raises fears of potential financial 'cyberbubble'

A currency surging in value at a breathtaking rate and belonging to no nation is being hailed as a revolution in 'financial free speech' by its diverse group of users.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Apr 6, 2013

Giants hope Bowker, Lopez end foreign scouting drought

The last 'homegrown' foreign player to make any major impact for the Yomiuri Giants was volatile pitcher Balvino Galvez, whose reign of terror lasted from 1996-2000.
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Apr 5, 2013

Kuroda's strategy follows in footsteps of U.S., Europe

Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda has followed the lead of his U.S. and European counterparts in swinging from incremental moves to unprecedented stimulus.
BUSINESS / Economy
Apr 5, 2013

Kuroda plans huge bond binge for BOJ

Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda reveals his strategy for ending more than a decade of deflation by expanding the central bank's purchases of government bonds and allowing it to buy riskier assets.
JAPAN
Apr 5, 2013

Funds gripe snags SDF isle defense deployment

The Defense Ministry may have to abandon a plan to station a Ground Self-Defense Force coastal monitoring unit on Okinawa's Yonaguni Island because negotiations with the town over the price of land have deadlocked.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 5, 2013

'Rentaneko (Rent-a-Cat)'

Director: Naoko Ogigami
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 4, 2013

India's data of gender discrimination

Has significant change occurred in India since December's fatal gang rape of a New Delhi woman triggered a public outcry for greater protection of women?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 4, 2013

Altima tops Camry in hot U.S. midsize market

Toyota Motor Corp.'s Camry in March ceded its rank as America's best-selling midsize car for the first time in 17 months, slipping behind Nissan Motor Co.'s Altima and losing share to Honda Motor Co. and Ford Motor Co. models.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 3, 2013

Lewis relishing challenge after joining Carp

Fred Lewis' first season with the Hiroshima Carp will be mostly spent getting used to Japanese, ouendans and games that can end in ties. Luckily, the 32-year old is already used to playing baseball at a high level, and for now that's enough.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 3, 2013

Kennedys have long, storied diplomatic history with Japan

Depending on which report you read, Caroline Kennedy is either definitely going to be appointed as the next U.S. ambassador to Japan or probably going to be appointed.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Apr 3, 2013

As U.S. wallows in debt, bright ideas to save country billions go to waste

After President Barack Obama set up a national online suggestion box in 2009 asking federal workers for new ways to cut the budget, 86,000 ideas came in. Some, inevitably, were a little odd.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 3, 2013

Hopes ride on Mazda3, soft yen to keep stock up

The slide in the yen has turned Mazda Motor Corp.'s biggest weakness into its biggest strength. All Japan's most export-dependent automaker has to do now is sell more cars.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 3, 2013

America's love-hate relationship with foreign trade

While Americans cheer foreign trade as consumers, scarfing up imports at the right prices, politically they are skeptics, fretting about jobs and wages.
30 minutes with Yuzuru Hanyu
Yuzuru Hanyu smiles during an interview in his hometown of Sendai in between performances of his latest tour, Ice Story.
Eight students recovering after hammer attack at university in Tokyo
Police investigate the scene after eight people were injured by a hammer-wielding woman on Hosei University's Tama campus in Tokyo on Friday afternoon.
Stage set for action-packed New Year Basho with yokozuna promotion battle
Kotozakura is in position to fight his way to a promotion to yokozuna going into the New Year Basho.
Race circuit and resort among post-event proposals for Osaka Expo site
A portion of the Grand Ring at the site of the Osaka Expo during a media tour late last month
Japan's health ministry reports record-high flu cases
A busy street in Tokyo on Dec. 30. The number of influenza patients per clinic, on average, in the final week of December was the highest since health ministry records began in 1999.
Can an international makeover help Tokyo salons meet foreign demand?
Otono Kuboki, a Japanese Canadian hair stylist for salon chain Sozo, is a key figure in the company's mission to elevate the viability of Japan's hairdressing industry to foreign residents.
Isekai anime offers a key to understanding globalization
“The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic” centers on three teenage protagonists who are transported into a fantasy world where they must grapple with a foreign culture.
Japanese space startup readies for second lunar lander launch
Ispace CEO Takeshi Hakamada with the countdown clock for the launch of the startup's lunar lander, in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on Thursday
Emanuel leaves reform legacy amid historic shifts in U.S.-Japan alliance
Rahm Emanuel professes that the biggest thing he has brought to the U.S.-Japan relationship might be a fresh injection of vitality.
‘Unbound’ breaks NHK period drama tradition with a hero of the common folk
NHK’s latest taiga period drama, “Unbound,” centers on Tsutaya Juzaburo (Ryusei Yokohama), a commoner who becomes a successful bookseller and publisher.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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A man offers prayers at Hebikubo Shrine in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward. The shrine is one of several across the country dedicated to the snake.
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