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BUSINESS
Oct 16, 2009

Rich turn to solar power for latest status symbols

Forget the 58-inch flat-panel TV, the new domestic status symbol for Japan's rich is a cooker.
BUSINESS
Oct 15, 2009

BOJ keeps key interest rate at 0.1%

The Bank of Japan on Wednesday kept its key interest rate at 0.1 percent as expected but refrained from ending corporate support measures because of the high downside risks to the economy.
COMMENTARY
Oct 12, 2009

CO2 emission cuts doable

On Sept. 7 — shortly before taking over the premiership — Yukio Hatoyama met strong resistance from business circles and from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry when he said at the Asahi Global Environment Forum (sponsored by Asahi Shimbun) that his government would aim for a 25 percent...
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JAPAN / Q&A
Oct 10, 2009

Custody laws force parents to extremes

The high-profile case of Christopher Savoie, a Tennessee man who was arrested in Fukuoka Prefecture for snatching his two children from his Japanese former wife and now faces kidnapping charges, illustrates the extremes a partner in a broken international marriage will resort to for child custody.
JAPAN
Oct 9, 2009

Trilateral meet to test Hatoyama slogans

Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama hit the ground running in the first days of his administration, traveling to New York and announcing to the U.N. General Assembly that Japan hopes to become a "bridge" between its Asian neighbors.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Oct 9, 2009

Coach Rowsom faces tough task in rebuilding HeatDevils

From humble beginnings growing up in a town of 900 people in North Carolina, Brian Rowsom defied the odds by making it to the NBA.
EDITORIALS
Oct 9, 2009

Budget and economic reality

The government has suspended disbursement of some ¥2.5 trillion from the fiscal 2009 supplementary budget as it prepares to compile the fiscal 2010 budget. The government originally aimed to save ¥3 trillion, and use that money as part of some ¥7.1 trillion needed to implement election promises for...
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CULTURE / Stage
Oct 9, 2009

It is in the East and Juliet is a ballet dancer named Shoko

Shoko Nakamura, the 29-year-old principal dancer of the Staatsballett Berlin, is back in Japan for a well-earned vacation and to make her debut in a classic role.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 8, 2009

LDP off the policy autopilot: Ishiba

Now that they find themselves in the opposition camp, Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers will have to undertake policymaking with far greater vigor than in the days when the party was in power, the newly appointed LDP Policy Research Council chairman said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2009

Press club faithful fight change

Since its landmark victory in the Aug. 30 general election, the Democratic Party of Japan has continued efforts to shake up the power structure to make good on its promise to create an accountable administration.
CULTURE / Books
Oct 4, 2009

Positive take on Japan's supposed dark age

THE EDO INHERITANCE, by Tokugawa Tsunenari. I-House Press, 2009, 200 pp., ¥2,500 (hardcover) The Edo Period (1603-1868) is frequently regarded as a dark, repressive age, when Japan was held in an iron grip by a military government that had closed its borders to the outside world. "The Edo Inheritance"...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Oct 4, 2009

Mamoru Mohri: A spaceman speaks

When future historians document the story of Japanese space exploration, 2009 will likely figure as the year when the nation put two high-profile rocket launch failures, in 1999 and 2003, firmly behind it and, quite literally, took off.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Oct 4, 2009

The 'Rocky' of Nanimwa, a boutique dairy and the drama debut of Arashi's Aiba

Now he's an actor and television personality, but 25 years ago Hidekazu Akai was known as the "Naniwa Rocky," a professional boxer from the Naniwa region of Osaka. Recently, the boxing club of Kinki University, where he made his reputation, was rocked by a scandal. Some of the members were arrested for...
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JAPAN
Oct 3, 2009

Oshima lays out LDP's comeback fundamentals

Tadamori Oshima, the newly appointed secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party, said Friday that regaining the public's trust will require concrete policies and a clear, new vision of what the party stands for.
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JAPAN / MIXED MATCHES
Oct 3, 2009

Ain't no mountain in the Andes high enough

Hirohito Ota, 39, a freelance writer, is an adventurer by nature.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 2, 2009

Asian antique sales rocket in New York

NEW YORK — Any trends in the American market for Asian antiques were eclipsed by Asia Week in New York last month when, suddenly, the appetite for Chinese art and antiques could not be sated.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 2, 2009

Fleisher to hold workshops

Suntory Hall welcomes U.S. pianist Leon Fleisher at a music workshop this month.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 2, 2009

'The Chicken, the Fish and the King Crab'

Food — once abhorred by Hollywood directors like Billy Wilder for the way it "messed up a scene," (on the other hand, iced drinks and cocktails were a favored adornment) — has become as important to cinema as romance. Or even more so, if the recent batch of self-help manual-like love stories are...
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BASKETBALL / ONE-ON-ONE WITH ...
Sep 30, 2009

Hopes of Hannaryz riding on Abdul-Rauf

The Japan Times will be featuring periodic interviews with players in the bj-league. The league's fifth season begins on Saturday. Guard Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf of the expansion Kyoto Hannaryz is the subject of this week's profile.
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LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Sep 30, 2009

Perks enhance Sony headphones; Epson pushes postcards

Sound investment: Sony may have long ago surrendered the portable music-player war to Apple, but it still wins in the battle over headphones.

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