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BUSINESS / Economy / 'SUMMER DAVOS' SPECIAL 2013
Sep 10, 2013

Seeking to change men's mind-sets to spur on prosperity for all Japanese

When Upper House lawmaker Masako Mori became a state minister for measures for declining birthrate, gender equality and consumer affairs and food safety last December, one of the first things she did was to announce that she would promote male staff within her ministries if they take child-care leave....
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BUSINESS / Economy / 'SUMMER DAVOS' SPECIAL 2013
Sep 10, 2013

Education helps bring the taste of sake to the world

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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Sep 9, 2013

Filmmaker revisits the children of Fukushima's 'Grey Zone'

Ian Thomas Ash has won acclaim and awards at film festivals around the world for 'A2-B-C,' the second of a pair of documentaries about children living in towns a stone's throw from Fukushima No. 1.
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JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Sep 9, 2013

Games nod pressures Tokyo to act

The 2020 Olympics and Paralympics are coming to Tokyo, so Japan can expect greater global pressure to rectify the Fukushima nuclear debacle.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Sep 7, 2013

Don't worry: Team Abe is tackling the nuclear crisis at Fukushima

Even if the public remains overwhelmingly skeptical about nuclear safety in general, and anxious in particular about the impact of the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant on the environment, there is reassuring news that we can now rest easy.
WORLD
Sep 7, 2013

House plans stopgap budget vote

House Republicans have scheduled a vote this week on a bill to keep the government open beyond Sept. 30, but are still weighing whether to include instructions to de-fund President Barack Obama's signature health care initiative.
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BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Sep 6, 2013

Men start taking advantage of nursing shortage

If nursing looks more like a real career, then more men will apply.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 5, 2013

Fuel-cell market ripe due to Fukushima: Bloom Energy

Japan is primed following the 2011 Fukushima earthquake and tsunami to adopt more power supply devices that can withstand disasters and complement services provided by utilities, Bloom Energy Japan Ltd. said.
BUSINESS
Sep 5, 2013

Toshiba to sell Europe energy meters

Toshiba Corp. plans to sell 150,000 energy-tracking units to homeowners in Europe in the next three years to help them manage their power use.
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WORLD
Sep 4, 2013

Al-Qaida hopes to sabotage, destroy drones

Cells of engineers are working to exploit vulnerabilities of the weapons system, so far but they have not succeeded, a classified report finds.
LIFE / Travel / TRAVEL INSIDER
Sep 3, 2013

SAS fare sale extended; Cathay in-flight Cantonese specialties; Garuda Mount Fuji raffle

SAS fare sale extended
BUSINESS
Sep 2, 2013

Abe gets more ammo to proceed with tax hike

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe received a boost Monday for pressing ahead with a planned sales-tax increase when most members of panels advising the government backed the move even as they urged stimulus to cushion the economic blow.
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ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Aug 31, 2013

Hope blooms eternal for the Simien National Park

In 1967, Ethiopia was the last African country south of the Sahara still without any national parks — an embarrassment for a nation then entertaining ambitions to assume leadership of the continent.
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 31, 2013

Most on Abe's expert panel approve plan to hike sales tax

The government's expert panel on the planned consumption tax hike wrapped up discussions Saturday with more than 70 percent of its members supporting the plan as it now stands, saying Japan will suffer a much bigger economic blow if the tax isn't raised.
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SOCCER
Aug 29, 2013

Zaccheroni focused on improving team defense

National team manager Alberto Zaccheroni has pledged to stick by his embattled defenders, insisting on Thursday he would not swap them for anyone else in the world.
WORLD / Science & Health / FOCUS
Aug 28, 2013

Air gun noise sparks alarm in war over offshore drilling

The use of "seismic air guns" to determine how much oil and gas lies beneath a vast swath of the ocean floor off the southeast coast of the United States is provoking an early skirmish in a battle over oil drilling that is still years away.
EDITORIALS
Aug 27, 2013

Reducing food loss

More than 30 Japanese food companies, wholesalers and convenient store chains are testing a way to reduce 'food loss' caused by strict obeisance to expiration dates.
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BUSINESS
Aug 27, 2013

Can the ailing Emerald Isle roar back as the Celtic Tiger?

Much of Ireland has been riveted this summer by recordings of phone conversations from 2008 that revealed not only shocking levels of greed and bad breeding among some of the country's top bankers, but a deliberate effort to snooker the government into bailing out the country's banks by concealing the...
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Aug 26, 2013

Plugging Tepco's brain drain

One reason Tepco paid a uniform ¥100,000 special summer bonus to each of some 5,000 managerial employees is to plug a brain drain. Core workers are quitting.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 26, 2013

Fast Retailing planning Hong Kong exchange listing in 2014: sources

Fast Retailing Co. the operator of the Uniqlo clothing stores, plans to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange early next year, three people with knowledge of the matter said Monday.
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BUSINESS
Aug 25, 2013

Challenges are just beginning for central banks

The global financial crisis is for all practical purposes over, but the world's top central bankers think their problems are just beginning.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 25, 2013

NASA's mission improbable: corral an asteroid

NASA is looking for a rock. It has to be out there somewhere — a small asteroid circling the sun and passing close to Earth. It can't be too big or too small. Something 6 to 9 meters in diameter would work. It can't be spinning too rapidly, or tumbling knees over elbows. It can't be a speed demon....
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Aug 24, 2013

Gay marriage in Japan? Only over the reactionary LDP's cadaver

Tokyo Disneyland is an odd place to make a political statement, but the theme park now hosts same-sex wedding ceremonies.

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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.