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BUSINESS
Jan 14, 2011

China turns top seller of Japan debt, awaits yen retreat

China went from scooping up the most Japanese debt in a year to selling the most, exiting the world's lowest yields as forecasters expect the yen to retreat further from the 15-year high seen in November.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Japan Pulse
Jan 13, 2011

A winter touchscreen solution that fits hand in glove

We don't need no stinkin' meat styluses. We've got conductive fingertips.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Jan 13, 2011

Ground control, we have a fashionable lift-off

Jean-Paul Gaultier's space
BUSINESS
Jan 12, 2011

American, JAL tie up to boost revenues

Japan Airlines International Co. and American Airlines Inc. announced Tuesday a joint business scheme from April to expand their partnership and improve efficiency.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jan 11, 2011

Nintendo World 2011: What did you think of the 3DS?

Nintendo allowed the public to tryits new 3DS handheld game console at the Makuhari Messe center in Chiba over the weekend. The device renders games in 3-D without the need for special glasses.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jan 11, 2011

Taking stock of a generation of changes

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changesTurn and face the strangeCh-ch-changesPretty soon now, you're gonna get older
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Jan 9, 2011

Are Japan's fish lovers eating tuna to extinction?

Pick up a newspaper in Japan these days and you'll almost always find a story in it about the state of bluefin tuna somewhere in the world.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jan 7, 2011

Dommune live-streams DJ sets to a growing fan base

The crowd bristles with excitement as the first DJ of the night winds down his set. An air of anticipation sets in around the room. As the next DJ enters the booth with his CD booklet in hand, the throng begins to swarm the tiny floor, no larger than your grandmother's basement. Four Tet is about to...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jan 7, 2011

Crystal Castles

Experimental electro was never a genre that was intended to go mainstream, so it's no surprise that Crystal Castles are not the most media- friendly band. That hasn't stopped Ethan Kath and Alice Glass from drawing an huge fan base; when they visited Japan back in 2008, despite jitters from their record...
BUSINESS
Jan 6, 2011

Big business comes out strong for TPP

Business leaders urged the government Wednesday to open up the nation's market by joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact by June so industries can benefit from the strong consumption power in the United States and emerging economies.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Jan 5, 2011

Will fortune shine on a campaign for new year's udon?

Can udon replace soba as the new year noodle of choice?
JAPAN / AT JAPAN'S EXPENSE
Jan 4, 2011

Emerging carmakers put mainstays in panic

Third in a series
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 31, 2010

2010 top movies: 2-D vs. 3-D, actors vs. avatars

Even though it was released at the tail end of 2009, it was clearly "Avatar" that defined cinema in 2010. While this critic was lukewarm about it — "Dances With Wolves" in space, basically — plenty of nongeeky people I know truly loved it, so I've begun to reconsider my stance. One convincing argument...
BUSINESS
Dec 31, 2010

Spending big question for 2011

The economy's tepid recovery will have trouble staying on track in 2011 as the effects of government stimulus gradually fade.
BUSINESS
Dec 31, 2010

Sony sues to ban LG from U.S.

Sony Corp. filed patent-infringement claims seeking to block LG Electronics Inc. from shipping mobile phones to the U.S.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 31, 2010

2010 top movies: Japan feels a crazy little thing called love

This was the year of love in Japan. Not that there was a sudden rise in the marriage rate (ain't happening), but you could sense a certain savviness about love-related issues that wasn't present before.
EDITORIALS
Dec 29, 2010

Japan's 'hot' year

The kanji "sho" for "hot" has been chosen by the Japanese people as best representing 2010 in a poll organized by the Kyoto-based Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation. No doubt the memory of last summer's record-breaking heat is still fresh in people's minds, but ironically the summer also brought...
MULTIMEDIA
Dec 29, 2010

Optimism up as production posts first rise in half a year

Industrial production increased for the first time in six months in November, signaling that the export-led recovery will regain traction.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Dec 29, 2010

Living in Japan: There's an app for that

As 2010 draws to a close, smartphone use in Japan has risen to an all-time high, accounting for around 50 percent of all handset sales here. Yet it shames this columnist to admit that I'm still rockin' an old Windows 6.1 phone — insofar as a Windows 6.1 phone can be rocked at all — because as someone...
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Dec 28, 2010

Tokyo: What's your idea of the perfect Christmas?

Mayumi Kaneko, 34Business controller (Japanese)Hanging out with good people here in Tokyo makes for the best time for me. I don't feel Christmas is so important but I would still like to get a present from Santa.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Dec 25, 2010

Nagoya's 'recycled veggies'

It has been three years since a project to grow vegetables using compost made of untreated garbage from local supermarkets, school lunches and restaurants was started in Nagoya.

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