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BUSINESS
Mar 16, 2012

Lifenet first online insurer to be listed

Lifenet Insurance Co. debuted Thursday on the Mothers startup market at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, becoming the nation's first listed life insurer that operates only online.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Japan Pulse
Mar 15, 2012

Natural Lawson takes it to the next level

Targeting health-conscious female shoppers Natural Lawson teams up with kurrku and pump up the healthy, hip organic goodness.
COMMENTARY
Mar 13, 2012

Greece could learn from Argentina's experience

To understand Greece's recent travails and how the country got there, it is useful to quote what Mikis Theodorakis, the famous Greek songwriter and composer, wrote about it recently on his homepage:
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Mar 11, 2012

The power of bad news

Weekly Playboy magazine discerns among young people a rising interest in Buddhism. This is surprising, given Japan's well-known "religion allergy" — or not, given that troubled times often inspire spiritual quests.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Mar 10, 2012

Cambodia experience facilitated aid effort in the Tohoku region

Cathy Hirano says it was "so painful to feel powerless in the face of such a huge disaster," recalling the day a year ago that the Pacific coast of Tohoku was hit by the huge earthquake and tsunami.
Japan Times
JAPAN / QUEST FOR RECOVERY
Mar 10, 2012

Summer power crunch looms large

As the closure of the nation's 54th and final reactor approaches, businesses and think tanks are starting to wonder whether Japan can survive next summer without atomic energy and a mandatory power-saving order.
EDITORIALS
Mar 8, 2012

The real 'China threat'

Considerable attention has been devoted to the threat seemingly posed by the growth of China's power and influence. It seems like every week the country is marking some new "first" in its military modernization program, all of which are said to be underwritten by a desire to become the pre-eminent power...
CULTURE / Art
Mar 8, 2012

Illustrators draw from pop culture for 3/11 exhibition

"March 11 seen through the eyes of comic artists from all over the world: Magnitude Zero" at the Kyoto International Manga Museum is a commemorative tribute to the ways the world and the Japanese dealt with the triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe last year. It puts forth positive...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 8, 2012

Illustrators draw from pop culture for 3/11 exhibition

"March 11 seen through the eyes of comic artists from all over the world: Magnitude Zero" at the Kyoto International Manga Museum is a commemorative tribute to the ways the world and the Japanese dealt with the triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear catastrophe last year. It puts forth positive...
Japan Times
JAPAN / QUEST FOR RECOVERY
Mar 7, 2012

Fisheries rebound at sporadic pace

On a late February afternoon, 66-year-old Masakazu Haga prepared mackerel at his new temporary fish processing compound, erected on elevated ground in the Akahama district facing Otsuchi Bay in Iwate Prefecture. The compound stands out because it's one of the few new structures in this town devastated...
BUSINESS
Mar 7, 2012

ANA may boost Lufthansa venture

All Nippon Airways Co. may expand a venture with Germany's Lufthansa after greater cooperation with partners helped the Japanese carrier double transfer passengers at Narita airport.
JAPAN
Mar 6, 2012

DPJ leaders propose slashing lawmaker salaries by 14%

The ruling Democratic Party of Japan's executive members decided Monday to slash legislators' salaries by about 14 percent — nearly double the 7.8 percent pay cut for civil servants approved by the Diet last week.
Reader Mail
Mar 4, 2012

End the demonization of Iran

Will the demonization ever end before another catastrophic war takes place in another Middle Eastern country? In Shai Greenberg's Feb. 23 letter urging Japan to boycott sales of Iranian oil, "Unbearable cost of Iranian oil," we are treated to the usual blather about Iran developing an "offensive nuclear...
BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2012

Aussie coal firm prices aid utilities

Xstrata PLC, the mining firm that sets prices for Australia's thermal coal exports, is poised to keep contracts within $4 of last year's all-time high as it negotiates with Japanese utilities recovering from the March 11 disasters.
BUSINESS
Mar 2, 2012

Capital spending boosts economic rebound hopes

Companies' capital spending jumped by the most in nearly five years in the fourth quarter, government data showed Thursday, adding to signs that the economy is set to return to growth.
JAPAN
Mar 1, 2012

10% wage cut for Diet ranks OK by Noda

Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda said Wednesday he would advocate cutting the salaries of lawmakers by more than 10 percent.
BUSINESS
Mar 1, 2012

Toshiba to buy hard-drive gear from Western Digital

Toshiba Corp. said Wednesday it will acquire hard-disk drive manufacturing equipment from Western Digital Corp. to expand its business supplying components for servers and digital video recorders.
COMMENTARY
Feb 29, 2012

Iran outcome critical for Asia

Can the United States and the European Union apply sanctions on Iran to curb its nuclear program without boosting oil prices and undermining economies in Asia as well as the West? The answer is particularly critical for Asia because it is has to bear the brunt of the looming sanctions.

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