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LIFE / Digital / CYBERIA
Oct 20, 1999

The comfort of strangers

"Susunu Denpa Shonen," which airs every Sunday night on NTV, has become a bona fide phenomenon partly by tweaking noses and partly by joining hands -- call it cynicism cut with altruism
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 30, 1999

More reform needed to underpin Japan's economic recovery

Japan has made important progress in recent years in the area of regulatory and other structural reforms, but there is an urgent need for further and more rapid progress to strengthen future Japanese growth and prosperity.
JAPAN
Jun 7, 1999

Enterprise Spirit: Internships turn jobless into entrepreneurs

28th in a series of occasional articles about venture businesses
JAPAN
Jun 7, 1999

Tokyo job fair sees 10% fewer firms

A two-day job interview fair with more than 650 companies began Monday in Tokyo in an attempt to help prospective university and junior college graduates in the metro area land work.
COMMUNITY
May 23, 1999

Whaling town Taiji dreams for miracle IWC reprieve

TAIJI, Wakayama Pref. -- Nestled between clear Pacific waters and richly forested mountains and valleys, Taiji and it's pristine surroundings have remained largely unspoiled thanks to the town's isolation in southeast Wakayama and the community's long-standing relationship with the sea and its resources....
JAPAN
May 20, 1999

Big shots endorse plan to rejuvenate manufacturing

To help Japan's ailing manufacturing firms in their restructuring efforts, an advisory panel of government and business leaders endorsed a set of proposals Thursday that include tax cuts to dispose of excess facilities and extended benefits for the unemployed.
JAPAN
Apr 9, 1999

More students get serious about part-time work

OSAKA -- More students are taking their part-time jobs seriously as training for the future despite decreasing pay during Japan's economic slump, according to a survey released Friday of 500 students in the Kansai region.
JAPAN
Feb 6, 1998

Hosting the Olympics -- boon or bust?

Fifth in a series
JAPAN
Dec 18, 1997

Laborer sit-in in Osaka enters third week

OSAKA -- About 500 day laborers continued their sit-in Thursday at an Osaka labor welfare facility, demanding nighttime shelter in a protest that began Dec. 3.
JAPAN
Nov 28, 1997

Tokyo taking foreign nurse's rights case to Supreme Court

Tokyo Gov. Yukio Aoshima said Friday that the Tokyo Metropolitan Government will appeal a high-court ruling that said the city violated the constitutional rights of a foreign public nurse by refusing to let her test for promotion.
JAPAN
Jul 29, 1997

Returning JOCV members to get help

The government might begin formulating measures to help find employment for those who have served as members of the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers after they return to Japan.
JAPAN
Jun 25, 1997

Reform panel ends meetings on ministry streamlining

Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's blue-ribbon panel on administrative reform completed a series of hearings for each government ministry and agency June 25, apparently only reconfirming opposition within the bureaucracy to his goal of a slimmer government.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 20, 2023

TSMC's first factory in Japan has to contend with horrible traffic

While construction on the facility in Kumamoto Prefecture proceeds at breakneck speed, little has been done to improve conditions on the area’s roads.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 13, 2023

Homework will 'never be the same,' says ChatGPT founder

Artificial intelligence tools will revolutionize education like calculators did, but will not supplant learning, said ChatGPT's founder Sam Altman.
Japan Times
EDITORIALS
May 26, 2023

Inexplicable debt debate undermines U.S. power and status

The U.S. secretary of the Treasury says the American government will hit the current debt ceiling on June 1. If it is not lifted, it will run out of money and be unable to pay its bills.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
May 14, 2023

Taiwan is running low on a strategic asset: engineers

A shrinking population, demanding work culture and an abundance of competing tech jobs have meant workers have become ever more scarce.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 10, 2023

Teens held after Ginza heist claim not to know each other

Police will analyze smartphones used by the suspects and probe their relationship and how they came together before the Monday robbery.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 30, 2023

China’s abandoned illusion of high growth

Instead of chasing rapid growth rates at a time when the world economy is sputtering, China is emphasizing job creation and macroeconomic stability.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 28, 2023

How 60 million South Africans are being failed by the West's green ambitions

Only one coal-fired power plant has been closed, and some South African politicians are pushing to keep others open longer than planned as the country struggles to end daily blackouts.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Mar 9, 2023

Pros against amateurs? The WBC’s Czech Republic team says bring it on

This weekend, a team of firefighters, accountants, teachers and doctors will face off against Shohei Ohtani and Samurai Japan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 9, 2023

U.S. Fed chief softens tone and says March rate hike size is not yet decided

Powell repeated his message that the central bank is likely to take rates higher than previously anticipated, but he diverged slightly from his prepared remarks to qualify the statement.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Mar 8, 2023

Fed's Powell sets the table for higher and possibly faster rate hikes

In his first public comments since inflation unexpectedly jumped in January, Powell acknowledged that the ‘disinflationary process’ is not unfolding smoothly.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FOCUS
Feb 23, 2023

A year after war broke out, Ukrainian evacuees take life in Japan one step at a time

Forced to abandon careers, education plans and other opportunities at home, those who made the 8,000 kilometer journey to East Asia have had their lives put on hold.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 29, 2023

From caterers to cowboy outfitters: Writers' strike hits Hollywood economy

It remains unclear how long the work stoppage will last. No new talks are scheduled between major Hollywood studios and the writers.
Workers at a garment factory in the Hlaing Tar Yar industry zone in Yangon, Myanmar, in 2010. Fast fashion retailer H&M says it is following up on 20 alleged instances of labor abuse at Myanmar garment factories.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 16, 2023

H&M probes Myanmar factory abuses as pressure intensifies

The move comes after top rival Zara owner Inditex said it is phasing out purchases from the Southeast Asian country.
U.S. President Joe Biden during an event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Tuesday. The president has crisscrossed the nation visiting groundbreakings and factories to sell his agenda, dubbed Bidenomics, with the Inflation Reduction Act as the centerpiece.
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Aug 17, 2023

Fires and heat block Biden from taking victory lap for climate law

It’s not the first time circumstances beyond Biden’s control have undone his efforts to revel in a victory.
Washington is worried that Beijing’s struggles with high unemployment and an aging workforce make China “a ticking time bomb.”
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 21, 2023

America’s ‘new’ China narrative: A wounded dragon

The new China narrative is really about the West, its lead in technologies, the free market, wielding power and keeping all challengers at bay.
A view of a Nestle, La Laitiere product cover in a supermarket in Paris. The video of Nestle's version of Baroque artist Johannes Vermeer's oil painting The Milkmaid generated sigificant "media value" for the Swiss food giant.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 21, 2023

From 'Mad Men' to machines? Big advertisers shift to AI

Many companies remain wary of security and copyright risks, however, meaning humans will remain part of the process for the foreseeable future.
Korean writer-director Kim Sung Hwan's "Iron Mask" took one of the two top awards at this year's Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan) in South Korea.
CULTURE / Film / CULTURE SMASH
Aug 30, 2023

Does South Korea now have the edge over Japan when it comes to film?

While Korean cinema tackles universal topics, Japanese studios are content to navel-gaze.
Twitter's new X logo at the company's headquarters in San Francisco, California, on July 29
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 31, 2023

Elon Musk's X to collect biometric data, work and school history

It’s unclear how X will collect the data or how it may be used.

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?