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BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Aug 8, 2013

New tax-free investment scheme not likely to increase investment

New individual saving system creates a battleground for competing bureaucratic organs.
BASKETBALL
Aug 7, 2013

Japan fails to advance at FIBA Asia Championship

Jordan controlled the tempo and kept Japan in catch-up mode en route to a 65-56 win in the teams' Final Group E game at the FIBA Asia Championship on Wednesday in Manila.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / HOME TRUTHS
Aug 5, 2013

The aging issue of Chiba New Town

The Chiba New Town development project was begun in the late 1960s by the Chiba prefectural government, and a decade later, joined by the Land Development Corporation, the government housing organ that would morph into the Urban Renaissance (UR) Agency in 2004. It is located in the northern part of the...
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 4, 2013

Female Democratic contenders emerge in '16 nominee battle

When Hillary Rodham Clinton dropped out of the 2008 presidential race, she famously said that she had put "18 million cracks" in the "highest, hardest glass ceiling" and that her candidacy ensured that "the path will be a little easier next time" for a woman to run.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Aug 4, 2013

China may relax one-child policy to let more couples have second child

China is studying whether to relax its one-child policy to allow more couples to have two children, the official Xinhua News Agency has reported, citing the National Health and Family Planning Commission.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Aug 3, 2013

Toyohiro Akiyama: Cautionary tales from one not afraid to risk all

In December 1990, journalist Toyohiro Akiyama made headlines the world over when he blasted off aboard a Soviet rocket to become the very first "space correspondent" in history.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 2, 2013

Tax delay and Fed paring called threat to JGB bubble

Takeshi Fujimaki, a former adviser to billionaire investor George Soros who won a seat in the Upper House election last month, said a delay in increasing the sales tax and a reduction in the U.S. Federal Reserve's stimulus could cause the Japanese government bond "bubble" to burst.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 1, 2013

'All-weather' friendship has its own rainmaker

When the Pak-China relationship is described as 'higher than the mountains, deeper than the oceans, and sweeter than honey,' get ready to raise the umbrella.
Japan Times
Reference / Q&A
Jul 31, 2013

Tepco trying to keep radioactive water from reaching sea, but can it?

Although Tepco assures that it is taking and planning steps to prevent more tainted groundwater from reaching the sea, it's unclear how effective those efforts are.
BUSINESS / NOTEBOOK
Jul 30, 2013

Seibu's Prince Hotels ventures into China ski resort; new Haneda special souvenir

ANNOUNCEMENTS
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 28, 2013

World watches trans-Atlantic free trade talks

The world watches as negotiations commence between the U.S. and the European Union on potentially the largest regional free trade accord in history.
BASKETBALL
Jul 26, 2013

Fukuoka hires Tuck

Former Chinese Basketball Association star Mack Tuck has been hired as the Rizing Fukuoka's new head coach, a source close to the situation confirmed Friday morning.
BUSINESS / BALANCING INTERESTS
Jul 22, 2013

Japan may be latecomer but TPP trade party has just begun

Japan only has three days in Malaysia for the TPP negotiations, but experts say it has a solid chance to lead the revamp of trade in the Asia-Pacific region.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jul 21, 2013

U.S. state officials balk at defending 'unconstitutional' laws

Once state legislation is passed, it's usually up to the governor and attorney general to see that the law is implemented. But in a number of high-profile cases around the U.S., top state officials are balking at defending laws on gay marriage, immigration and other socially divisive issues, saying the...
BUSINESS
Jul 21, 2013

Confidence in monetary easing growing among G-20, Kuroda says

Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda says confidence in the central bank's radical monetary easing experiment is spreading among the Group of 20 finance chiefs.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Pope Francis, radical leader who broke the papal mold, dies at 88
Pope Francis blesses the faithful during the weekly general audience at the Vatican in August 2023.
Japan mulls reviewing car safety rules to strike deal with Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's Economic Revitalization Minister and top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to the press upon his arrival at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Friday.
Japan tariff negotiator rules out quick U.S. deal despite push by Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to reporters upon his arrival at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Friday, a day after talks in Washington.
Shohei Ohtani announces birth of daughter
Shohei Ohtani and his wife Mamiko Tanaka attend a Lakers game in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 2024.
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
The floor is art: Takuro Tamayama transforms mundanity
Takuro Tamayama’s sculpture “Models (Pair, 6 sets, 12 rings)” comes with a mathematical formation that scales it for different spaces.
Nothing sells like Shohei Ohtani, MLB’s marketing megastar
People walk past an advertisement featuring Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani outside Tokyo Dome on March 18.
Calling all Potterheads: ‘The Goblet of Fire’ comes to Tokyo
The Tokyo version of the globe-trotting exhibition features a Ministry of Magic set, which includes an imposing replica of the Magic Is Might monument representing magical fascism.
Tokyo stock picker advises Trump-proofing portfolios with Godzilla creator Toho
The head of Godzilla, a Japanese monster movie character, is seen on a building of Toho Cinema in Tokyo. Toho is one tariff-defensive stock being recommended by brokers.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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.
By Tomoko Otake

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