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BUSINESS
May 14, 2011

Shiseido to slash product launches

Shiseido Co. plans to cut by half the number of products it introduces in Japan and spend more on marketing as the cosmetics giant reviews its strategy amid declining domestic sales.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Nov 3, 2009

The fatally flawed math of risking it all in Japan

Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim.
EDITORIALS
Jun 11, 2008

No more pieties on hunger

Another summit has produced yet more pledges to cut world hunger. But if the outcome of the Food Security Summit looks familiar, the consequences must not be. Food prices are rising and the number of people worldwide who lack enough to eat is growing. This is no time for rhetoric and empty promises:...
COMMENTARY
Jan 15, 2008

Recurring dream about Asia's prospects

LOS ANGELES — The Grand Asian Master, no more than a few thousand years old, appeared to me the other night (as he does from time to time) and asked what I wish for these days.
JAPAN
Nov 24, 2005

ACCJ seeks fair play for Japan Post competitors

The American Chamber of Commerce in Japan has urged the government to make sure private-sector firms will be able to compete on an equal footing with the four postal entities to be spun off from Japan Post.
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2005

Postal bills become law

The hotly contested postal-privatization bills that have been at the center of a political firestorm this year were finally approved Friday, passing through a House of Councilors plenary session with relative ease.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 29, 2005

Postal reforms to create giants: Maehara

Newly elected Democratic Party of Japan chief Seiji Maehara locked horns with Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi for the first time in the Diet on Wednesday, with the opposition leader lashing out at the revived postal privatization bills.
EDITORIALS
Apr 8, 2005

Mr. Koizumi's privatization battle

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's administration, which has just completed a skeleton draft bill to privatize postal services, is trying hard to iron out the remaining differences with the Liberal Democratic Party -- a crucial process that will largely determine the nature and direction of postal privatization....
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues
Aug 10, 2004

Your golden handshake

What is the Japanese pension system?
JAPAN
Aug 7, 2004

Japan Post faces four-way split under compromise plan

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's top policy panel unveiled plans Friday to split Japan's mammoth postal operations into four separate entities by 2017 at the latest.
JAPAN
Apr 8, 2004

DPJ pension reform plan has added 3% consumption tax

The Democratic Party of Japan on Wednesday revealed its countermeasures to the government-sponsored legislation on pension reform.
BUSINESS
Dec 18, 2003

Premiums rise, benefits fall under pension plan

The government and the ruling parties on Wednesday approved a public pension-reform plan that will increase premiums paid by workers and cut their benefits over the coming decades.
CULTURE / Books
Jun 29, 1999

Meet Dr. Doom, Asia's most interesting analyst

RIDING THE MILLENNIAL STORM: Marc Faber's Path to Profit in the New Financial Markets, by Nury Vittachi. John Wiley & Sons, 1998, pp. 241, $29.95 (cloth). Great combination. Hyperkinetic Hong Kong scribe Nury Vittachi, author of 10 books and countless newspaper and magazine columns, and Marc Faber,...
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 22, 2023

Titanic tour leader aboard missing submersible had called safety ‘pure waste’

Ocean scientists and at least one former employee of Stockton Rush’s company, OceanGate, have been sounding alarms about its safety procedures for at least five years.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal / EXPLAINER
Jun 19, 2023

What you need to know about the revision to Japan's sex crime law

Raising the age of sexual consent and an expansion of the definition of nonconsensual sex are among some of the major changes.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 16, 2023

Cyberattacks on renewables: Europe power sector's dread in chaos of war

The digitalized, interconnected technology of the thousands of renewable assets across Europe presented major vulnerabilities to infiltration.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing
Jun 15, 2023

The future lies in helping to make China a responsible superpower

Under its aim of realizing a 'community with a shared future for mankind,' Beijing is increasingly involving itself in global issues.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Jun 14, 2023

Players seek to keep U.S. Open focus amid merger turmoil

Jon Rahm and Brooks Koepka are among the favorites this week at Los Angeles Country Club, along with world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 4, 2023

China and India have fewer people than the U.N. thinks

The U.N.'s premature declaration that India has surpassed China as the world’s most populous country highlights the diminishing reliability of its population statistics.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 4, 2023

India’s worst rail disaster in decades convulses country dependent on trains

The government in Odisha, which is home to about 45 million people, declared a day of mourning.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 28, 2023

Japan's bigeye tuna catches in Indian Ocean to be cut by 6%

Japan's annual bigeye tuna catches in the Indian Ocean will be capped at 3,684 tons, down by 6% from the 2017-2021 average.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 25, 2023

Russian hypersonic scientist accused of leaking secrets to China

Russian President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly said that his military is the world leader in hypersonic missile technology.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 23, 2023

In West Africa, a ‘bokashi revolution’ takes root

A Japanese fermentation-based fertilization method is helping the region’s farmers cope with the effects of the war in Ukraine.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
May 20, 2023

Pokemon Go creator Niantic suffers metaverse woes

Questions about the future of the 'real-world metaverse” have been swirling around Niantic for years following a series of games that have underperformed.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Longform
May 8, 2023

Japan's spin on 'workations' proves a hit

The market for the new work initiative that grew in popularity during the pandemic is predicted to be worth in excess of ¥100 billion in fiscal 2023.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 4, 2023

Russia races to replace western technology to boost gas exports

Desperate for new markets for its languishing surplus of LNG, Russia is on a mission to boost exports of the fuel by sea.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Apr 29, 2023

Kim Jong Un's sister says Joe Biden is ‘in his dotage’ as she criticizes nuclear pact

In Pyongyang's first response to the Washington summit, Kim Yo Jong said the North remained convinced that its nuclear deterrent 'should be brought to further perfection.'
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
Tokyo police care for lost umbrellas, keys and flying squirrels
An employee at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Lost and Found Center in the Iidabashi area of central Tokyo bags, tags and organizes thousands of items.
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Japan approves ¥21.9 trillion stimulus plan
The policy chiefs of the Democratic Party for the People, Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito — Makoto Hamaguchi (left), Itsunori Onodera (center) and Mitsunari Okamoto — shake hands after reaching an agreement on an economic stimulus package on Wednesday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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