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COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Mar 2, 2010

What will you remember about the Vancouver Olympics?

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BUSINESS
Mar 2, 2010

Desperate for jobs, U.S. town awaits Toyota plant

BLUE SPRINGS, Miss. — Terry McShan isn't thinking about car sales analyses or excess capacity when he drives by the idle Toyota plant in northeast Mississippi. He's thinking about his little girl.
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LIFE
Feb 28, 2010

Japan's love affair with dogs and cats

Takako Toda welcomed her lively, 7-year-old English pointer into her home in the city of Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, when the puppy she named Woowo was just a month old.
EDITORIALS
Feb 27, 2010

Shifting plans for Japan Post

The government plans to modify the process of privatizing Japan Post group, meaning people must continue to wait to find out how the services they rely on will be affected.
EDITORIALS
Feb 27, 2010

Toyota promises reform

Toyota Motor Corp. President Akio Toyoda on Wednesday spoke of the massive global recalls of Toyota cars as he addressed the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Feb 26, 2010

Communication breakdown at the top

A lack of crucial information in the top ranks of Toyota Motor Corp. may have prevented the world's largest automaker from swiftly responding to many defect claims and accidents overseas before massive recalls.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 26, 2010

Free yuan without the fuss

HONOLULU, EAST-WEST WIRE — Tensions in U.S.-China relations have been rising recently. Trade spats, alleged Chinese hacking attacks, differences over Internet freedom standards, U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and the meeting between President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama are all souring the world's most...
BUSINESS
Feb 26, 2010

Osaka's Royal Hotel expects profit rebound to pre-Lehman levels

Royal Hotel Ltd., which operates inns in eight Japanese cities, expects earnings next year to recover to levels seen before the "Lehman shock" of 2008 and last year's swine flu scare. Room bookings plunged following the financial crisis fueled by Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.'s bankruptcy, while the...
EDITORIALS
Feb 22, 2010

Call for debate on smoking

Recently Japan Tobacco Inc. (JT) and the state were successful in their defense against a damages suit in which three people had sought ¥10 million each for health problems — cancer and pulmonary emphysema — allegedly caused by smoking. Still, the Jan. 20 Yokohama District Court ruling, which the...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Feb 21, 2010

Consumer safety should come before pride

It's difficult to get a balanced perspective on the public-relations crisis surrounding Toyota Motor Corporation's current global recall, which mostly involves its popular Prius hybrid.
SOCCER / World cup
Feb 20, 2010

VIP ticket sales slow for World Cup

ZURICH (AP) Only half of the VIP tickets for the World Cup have been sold four months before soccer's biggest event kicks off in South Africa.
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BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2010

BOJ to Hatoyama: rein in debt

Bank of Japan Gov. Masaaki Shirakawa escalated pressure on Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to contain the world's largest debt with a warning that investor "trust" won't be assured in the aftermath of Greece's budget woes.
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BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Feb 18, 2010

Tracking the recession with the Moyashi Index

The Moyashi Index: When bean sprout consumption goes up, it means grocery spending is down. And yes, families are eating more moyashi these days.
COMMENTARY
Feb 16, 2010

China's reaction raises doubt about its intent

HONG KONG — China's reaction to the announcement by Washington of a large arms sales package to Taiwan suggests that, 20 months after Taiwan replaced hostility with cooperation in its dealings with the mainland, Beijing still believes it will ultimately need to use force to bring about unification....
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHO'S WHO
Feb 16, 2010

Instinct key for singer-entrepreneur

For a musician and entrepreneur with many professional faces, Australian Donna Burke is surprisingly wary of constantly taking work-related calls.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Feb 14, 2010

Today's complex society in Japan spawns a new 'foreigner complex'

Among the many Japanese words and phrases that have fallen by the wayside of late and become shigo (obsolete), gaijin komupurekkusu (foreigner complex) is certainly among the least missed.
JAPAN
Feb 13, 2010

Kyoto plans kimono revival with metropolitan designs in Tokyo

Kyoto will open a casual kimono store in Tokyo in March aimed at spreading the traditional outfit among metropolitan women, the city announced Friday.

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