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COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2007

Heading for a French Sixth Republic?

PARIS — Nearly 50 years after the creation of the Fifth Republic by Gen. Charles de Gaulle, French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to change France's fundamental institutions. An expert council will send him its proposals by Nov. 1.
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2007

'Otaku' fantasy businesses raising social worries

With her frilly green dress and white lace gloves and about to serve tea under a chandelier in a small Tokyo store, Naru Naruse looks the perfect French maid.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2007

Wealth related to the culture of nations

DAVIS, Calif. — Modern economists have turned Adam Smith into a prophet, just as communist regimes once deified Karl Marx. The central tenet they attribute to Smith — that good incentives, regardless of culture, produce good results — has become the great commandment of economics. Yet that view...
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Oct 3, 2007

Wild orangutans 'facing extinction within 15 years'

PANGKALAN BUN, Borneo — Homeless, semiparalyzed and blind in one eye, Montana faces an uncertain future. Even if his human friends find somewhere for him to live, the 15-year-old has been weakened by years in assisted care. The lethal dangers of readjustment to life in his natural habitat include not...
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Oct 3, 2007

'Stoopid ninja' keeps on learning

T he first time I ever heard cicadas was in 1963, during my very first summer in Japan. I was wandering through a small mixed woodland where some small boys were flitting from tree to tree, playing ninja. I, as a strange young foreigner passing through, became their target for assassination. Being just...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2007

In need of legal help? Just dial the center

From marital woes to financial crises, people often require legal assistance for the problems they face in life.
BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2007

Sony, Qimonda agree on joint venture to develop high-performance DRAM

Sony Corp. and Germany's Qimonda AG said Tuesday they have agreed to form a joint venture to design high-performance DRAM memory chips for consumer and graphic applications.
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2007

Tokyo to Yangon: Hand over Nagai's camera

Gambari is also making diplomatic efforts there. We would like to decide on further actions after seeing the Myanmar government's response." Komura added it was "extremely regrettable" that many casualties, including Nagai, have resulted from the clashes despite Japan's requests for the Myanmar government...
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Oct 2, 2007

Kanji, kana trip search engines

Like the rest of the world, people in Japan rely on search engines every day to tap the ocean of information that is the World Wide Web.
Reader Mail
Oct 2, 2007

Real cost of self-sufficiency

Regarding the Sept. 18 editorial, "Self-sufficiency amid diversity": Perhaps I am missing something, but in every article about Japan's food self-sufficiency that I have read so far, the word "oil" is never mentioned. Where I live, out in the countryside, besides bird songs and distant ambulance sirens,...
Reader Mail
Oct 2, 2007

Hurdles to teaching English

Regarding the article "Is it all over for Nova?" on the Sept. 25 Community page: I used to work at Nova as an assistant trainer until about two years ago. I quit because I was worried about the company's future at that time.
BUSINESS
Oct 2, 2007

'Tankan' shows producers upbeat

Business confidence among the nation's largest manufacturers remained upbeat in September despite the global financial turmoil triggered by U.S. housing woes, the Bank of Japan's quarterly survey of business confidence, or "tankan," showed Monday.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 2, 2007

China can change Myanmar

HONG KONG — Buddhist monks, the most pacific of dedicated religious people, marched through the streets of Myanmar's main cities Yangon and Mandalay last week in protest against years of hardship, gross mismanagement and corruption inflicted on their long-suffering people.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 2, 2007

Sony hopes organic EL TVs put it back on tech offensive

Sony Corp. will debut the world's first organic electroluminescent televisions on the domestic market Dec. 1, hoping to take the lead in development of the next-generation flat-panel TVs, the electronics giant said Monday.
Reader Mail
Oct 2, 2007

Japanese politics baffles

To me, the results of the July 29 Upper House elections were a clear signal that the Japanese people were fed up not only with Shinzo Abe as prime minister but also with the governing Liberal Democratic Party and its policies as a whole.
EDITORIALS
Oct 2, 2007

New experiences for Japan Post

A difficult path lies ahead the Japan Post group companies' 10-year privatization process, which started Oct. 1. They have to make profits to survive but not at the expense of services. This is especially critical for the postal service, which has earned the people's trust over the past 130 years through...
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2007

Early alert system for quakes launched

predict (the size of the quake) because only limited areas suffered major tremors," a Meteorological Agency official explained. The quake posted an intensity of lower 5 in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, where a 60-year-old woman fell and dislocated her shoulder. A 60-year-old man was taken to a hospital...
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Oct 2, 2007

When women wield the DS

Imagine your typical video gamer. Male, aged 18-35, right?
Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy
Cloudflare has been ordered to pay ¥500 million after four major publishing firms accused the firm of copyright infringement for its role in hosting sites that distribute pirated copies of manga titles.
The reality of human trafficking in Japan
A view of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at night. Last year in Japan, 66 people were put in protective custody as victims of human trafficking. Among them, 58 — including all 41 minors — were Japanese nationals. International pressure to act on human trafficking led Japan to make efforts to crack down on the crime, such as a tightening of conditions in 2005 for entertainer visas.
Beware of China’s strategic distortion of reality
China holds a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, in Beijing on Sept. 3. 
Yen rout brings talk of ¥160 to the dollar and possible intervention
The yen has been weak against the U.S. dollar in recent weeks, with some analysts expecting the retreat to continue.
China to reimpose ban on Japanese seafood imports amid row over Taiwan, reports say
A sign reading, "Suspend the sales of all fish products imported from Japan" is displayed in an area home to Japanese restaurants in Beijing in August 2023. China will reimpose a ban on imports of Japanese seafood, media reports in Tokyo said Wednesday, as a diplomatic spat between the two countries deepens.
First foreign president of Hosei University looks abroad for change
Hosei University President Diana Khor, who herself was an international student, aims to encourage students to look outward and cultivate a global mindset.
Japanese companies advised to change mindset about investment in Africa
Bernard Laurendeau, chief of Enkopa Lab Japan, in Tokyo last month
Munetaka Murakami headlines quartet looking to move to MLB via posting system
The Swallows' Munetaka Murakami has 246 career home runs in eight NPB seasons.
The reality of human trafficking in Japan
A view of Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward at night. Last year in Japan, 66 people were put in protective custody as victims of human trafficking. Among them, 58 — including all 41 minors — were Japanese nationals. International pressure to act on human trafficking led Japan to make efforts to crack down on the crime, such as a tightening of conditions in 2005 for entertainer visas.
Why we can’t get enough of the sham of the rental family
“Rental Family,” directed and co-written by the single-named Hikari, follows out-of-work actor Phillip (Brendan Fraser), who is hired as the “token white guy” at a Tokyo agency called Rental Family.

Podcast

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

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An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo
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