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BUSINESS
Aug 29, 2007

Toyota, Honda increase production

Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. boosted production in July as growth overseas more than offset a loss of output at home caused by an earthquake.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2007

Nationwide quake alert in offing

It's still beyond the reach of science to predict exactly when an earthquake will strike, but Japan will soon get the next-best thing — televised warnings that come before the shaking starts.
LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Aug 29, 2007

Save the planet: wind-powered toys and PC ways to catch insects

A nimal rights are as important to me as they are to the next Homo sapien. But I draw the line at in sects inflicting their unwanted presence on me, mosquitoes most especially spring to mind. Frankly, the first solution that comes to mind is finding use No. 1,001 for a newspaper. Those who prefer a less...
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 29, 2007

Japan plans research for network to replace Internet

Japan will start research on new network technology to replace the Internet to tackle growing quality and security problems, a government official said Tuesday.
Reader Mail
Aug 28, 2007

Why shield an accused authority?

I don't want The Japan Times to take this criticism as mean-spirited, but there seems to be an endemic problem in reports about authorities. For example, in the Aug. 19 article "Prosecutor faces dismissal for axing complaint," the name of the 40-year-old prosecutor (who allegedly withdrew a criminal...
MORE SPORTS
Aug 28, 2007

Worlds notebook; Day 3

OSAKA — News and notes from Day 3 of the 2007 IAAF World Athletics Championships.
MORE SPORTS
Aug 28, 2007

Murofushi fails in quest for world title

OSAKA — Koji Murofushi is the reigning Olympic champion in the men's hammer throw. When he picked up a gold medal in Athens on a hot summer day in 2004, suddenly an entire nation gained interest in the obscure sport.
Reader Mail
Aug 28, 2007

Foreign 'salarymen' do exist

I would differ from the view expressed in the July 29 letter "The blame for nonacceptance": that foreigners are effectively excluded from traditional Japanese manufacturing companies. I am a permanent staff member (seisha-in) of a mainstream Japanese electronics company in the Kansai area. I hold this...
EDITORIALS
Aug 28, 2007

Learning from a summer of disasters

With an airplane exploding, bridges collapsing, and a nuclear plant shutting down, it has been a summer of disasters. Around the globe since May, no continent has been left untouched — whether by fire, flood, tornado, airplane crash or a collapsing mine. Disasters, clearly, do not take summer vacations....
COMMENTARY
Aug 28, 2007

Thai character trumps flaws of politics

LOS ANGELES — When social scientists or journalists are in doubt, sometimes it's best to consult the artist.
Reader Mail
Aug 28, 2007

Korean roots of 'Genji'

Regarding the Aug. 12 article "Has another society of such superlatives ever existed at all?": Michael Hoffman claims that the Nara Period (710-784) "saw Japan's emergence from semi-barbarism into the full light of Chinese-style civilization." He talks at length about "feverish importation" and "how...
Reader Mail
Aug 28, 2007

Iran predates the Ayatollah

The photo caption for the Aug. 22 article "Khomeini wanted anti-U.S. mantra dropped" identifies Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini as "Iran's founder." Now I know the current Iranian government would like everyone to believe that Iran began in 1979. But most of us know that it has a rich history dating back...
MORE SPORTS
Aug 28, 2007

Pressure too much for Ikeda to handle

OSAKA — Athletes know all too well about the P-word.
COMMENTARY
Aug 28, 2007

America's dirty little victory

NEW YORK — "Just about everyone agrees that the recent conviction of Abdullah al-Muhajir, aka Jose Padilla, is a good thing," wrote rightwing pundit Neil Kressel in The New York Post.
COMMUNITY / HAVE YOUR SAY
Aug 28, 2007

Counting the cost

Although I appreciate the point that Michael Hassett is trying to make in his article "Losing custody: the odds" (Zeit Gist, Aug. 7), he asks the wrong question to try to determine a man's probability of heartbreak and turmoil and uses statistics in a way that is misleading.
Reader Mail
Aug 28, 2007

Japan's A-bomb programs

With the annual groaning over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a widely ignored fact is that Japan had started its own atomic programs before the United States: the Imperial Army's and the Navy's, both in close collaboration with Nazi Germany.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 28, 2007

Indian women who never had a chance

MADRAS, India — India may be the land where the Buddha preached nonviolence, and Mahatma Gandhi practiced it to perfection, but the country's "womb murders" are a horrible reality.
LIFE / Language
Aug 28, 2007

To maintain your honor, keep your pecking up

First of two parts
BUSINESS
Aug 28, 2007

Goodwill set to hold talks with Nichii on Comsn sale

Goodwill Group Inc., the temporary staffing company that lost 75 percent of its market value this year, said Monday it will hold talks aimed at selling subsidiary Comsn Inc.'s nursing-home segment to Nichii Gakkan Co.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Aug 28, 2007

Shori and Kazumi Tanaka

Shori and Kazumi Tanaka might be the most well-known couple on the nightclub scene in Tokyo's famed Ginza district. Each night for the last 51 years, 73-year-old Shori rushed from club to club to entertain as a bilingual singer while Kazumi, 54, was sitting pretty as one of Ginza's top hostesses. Since...
BUSINESS
Aug 28, 2007

Sekisui House punished with 15-day suspension

Home builder Sekisui House Ltd. said Monday it was ordered to suspend business for 15 days in some areas for violating construction laws.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2007

Aso moves over to take LDP's No. 2 post

Seeking a fresh start following his party's disastrous defeat in last month's Upper House election, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who also serves as Liberal Democratic Party president, reshuffled the party's top posts Monday.
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Aug 28, 2007

Picking faction bosses Abe's bid to show tactful maturity?

In a desperate effort to mend his and his Cabinet's damaged credibility, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took the safe course Monday by picking a new team of mainly veteran lawmakers, including Liberal Democratic Party faction leaders.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Descendants in Philippines denied Japanese citizenship
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Government and bad actors are at the root of the foreign national issue
A maiko walks down a street crowded with tourists in Kyoto. Challenges that come with a massive influx of overseas visitors and foreign nationals buying up real estate are just some of the immigration problems that have become hot-button political issues in Japan.
Japan lawmakers eye firm response to Chinese envoy's threat to behead PM
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks at a Lower House Budget Committee meeting on Friday.
Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon
Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.
China delivers warning to U.S. and Japan with third aircraft carrier
The Fujian, China's third aircraft carrier, carries out sea trials at an unknown location in May last year.

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Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
By Yukana Inoue

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 6th annual Sustainable Japan Award.
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 6th annual Sustainable Japan Award.

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