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BUSINESS
Nov 30, 2002

State's debt-collection agencies to confer

The head of Resolution and Collection Corp. voiced willingness Friday to boost ties with the planned state-backed industrial revival body that will be tasked with buying bank loans extended to troubled firms in an effort to help rehabilitate the companies in question.
BUSINESS
May 27, 2000

Nichiei in red for fiscal 1999 after loan collection outcry

OSAKA -- Nonbank moneylender Nichiei Co. said Friday that its group net balance sank into the red in fiscal 1999 for the first time since its founding in 1970, due largely to a public outcry over its loan collection methods.
BUSINESS
May 26, 2000

Japan-U.S. talks to address pension premium collection

Japan and the United States have agreed to open formal negotiations on concluding a long-awaited social welfare pact aimed at preventing double collection of public pension premiums from their citizens, government sources said Thursday.
CULTURE / Art
Apr 23, 2000

Collection shows Warhol's scope

Andy Warhol's death, 13 years ago, was an ignominious one: A man who had access to the best medical care, Warhol died after a routine but botched gall bladder operation.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 15, 2020

'Inaugural Exhibition Emerging Artscape: The State of Our Collection'

Jan. 18-March 31
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 3, 2019

'Kawabata Yasunari & Collection'

Sept. 14-Nov. 4
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 7, 2019

'TOP Collection: Reading Images — The Stories of Four Places'

May 14-Aug. 4
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 7, 2019

'Japanese Bamboo Art From New York: The Abbey Collection'

May 18-June 30
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 30, 2019

'New Additions to the Collection'

May 8-July 8
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 19, 2019

'This is Our Collection + Yinka Shonibare CBE: Flower Power'

March 21-May 26
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS ABOUT JAPAN
Mar 2, 2019

'The Land We Saw, the Times We Knew': An eclectic collection of insightful essays on early-modern Japan

Rich history is woven into each of the essays in 'The Land We Saw, the Times We Knew,' forming a picture of a Japan not unrecognizable to that of today, but one which has not yet made the Meiji Era leap into modernity.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / DESSERT WATCH
Jan 26, 2019

Mister Donut takes a stab at classy with its decadent Chocolate Collection

In its new range, Mister Donut collaborates with pastry chef Toshihiko Yoroizuka to develop fancy takes on the chain's ring doughnuts, and a pair of decadent cake-like creations.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 4, 2018

'Molas and Nature: Textile Art From the Elisabeth Hans Collection'

Sept. 8-Oct. 21
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 14, 2018

'A Collection of Chinese and Korean Paintings in Yamato Bunkakan'

Aug. 24-Sept. 30
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 19, 2018

'The Museum of the King: French Modern Art & Surrealism from the Collection of the Yokohama Museum of Art'

June 23-Sept. 24
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 19, 2018

'The Collection of the National Museum of Ethnology: Shell Road'

June 23-Sept. 2
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 1, 2018

'A Sparkle: With the Works of Yoshio Mori'

April 27-July 22
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 10, 2018

'Diane Claeys Collection: Antique Lace'

April 13-May 13
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 27, 2018

'Adachi Museum of Art Collection: Famous Japanese Paintings by Yokoyama Taikan and Other Modern Era Artists'

April 7-May 20
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 20, 2018

'Nude: Art From the Tate Collection'

March 24-June 24
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 14, 2017

'WordPlay: The World of the Ethiopian Artist Wosene Worke Kosrof'

Nov. 23-Jan. 31
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Nov 5, 2017

Tokyo welcomes Designart

Last month saw the launch of Designart — the capital's new annual collection of exhibitions that bring together Japanese and overseas creators for collaborations on product design and objets d'art. Here are a few picks that showcase the inaugural event's embrace of color, versatility and humanitarianism.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 15, 2017

'The Mahaprajnaparamita-sutra and Japanese Zen Buddhism: From The Gotoh Museum Collection — Paintings, Calligraphy and Ceramics'

Aug. 26-Oct. 15
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jul 15, 2017

'A Tokyo Anthology: Literature from Japan's Modern Metropolis, 1850-1920': Collection sheds light on corners of the Meiji Era

"A Tokyo Anthology" is the latest in a series of books that aims to introduce Japanese literature to readers within the context of history and cultural developments. "An Edo Anthology" came out in 2013 and covers the century from 1750. "A Kamigata Anthology" is on its way, taking the story back to 1600....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jul 8, 2017

'Fall Down 7 Times Get Up 8': 'The Reason I Jump' author returns with new English collection

The accomplishments of Japanese poet, novelist and essayist Naoki Higashida are impressive. He's published more than 20 books in Japanese, pens a popular blog and is seeing the release this month of his second book in English — all before his 25th birthday in August.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
May 20, 2017

'100 Poems from the Japanese": A classic collection

Kenneth Rexroth was heavily influenced by the moods and modes of Japanese poetry, which in turn reached those who were influenced by him. Named by Time Magazine as the “father of the Beats” and a friend of that other great Japanophile poet, Gary Snyder, Rexroth famously passed off his own poems “in...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 16, 2017

Music schools to sue Japan's largest copyright collection group over plan to collect fees

The school operators said they would file a lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court as early as July, a representative told The Japan Times.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 18, 2017

'Collection from Kahitsukan: Rosanjin — Quest for Japanese Beauty'

April 15-June 11
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Apr 13, 2017

At 104, Toko Shinoda talks about a life in art

The only living Japanese on a postage stamp, 104-year-old Toko Shinoda reflects on a lifetime devoted to art.

Longform

Professional cleaner Hirofumi Sakurai takes a moment to appreciate some photographs in a Gotanda apartment whose occupant died alone.
The last cleanup: Life and death in a lonely Japan