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Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 16, 2014
For China, pollution and climate change are not the same problem
Pollution is literally killing the inhabitants of China's most polluted cities.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 16, 2014
More insulation can help China clean up its act
During the 2000s, nearly half of the world's new buildings were erected in China, yet only five percent of them met China's energy efficiency standards.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 13, 2014
Takata subpoenaed by federal grand jury in U.S. as chairman apologizes
Takata Corp., the Japanese air-bag maker at the center of a global recall crisis, has been subpoenaed by a U.S. federal grand jury to explain the defects with its safety devices.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 13, 2014
Honda discloses fifth Takata air bag-linked fatality, widens recall
Honda Motor Co said Thursday that a driver in Malaysia died after a July accident involving an air bag supplied by Takata Corp — the fifth such fatality and the first outside the United States.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 13, 2014
Takata says it has modified compound involved in air bag recalls
The composition of an air bag propellant that contains a volatile chemical at the center of a global car recall has been modified, a company official says.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 12, 2014
Takata chairman stays out of sight as air bag crisis imperils dynasty
Takata Corp. Chairman Shigehisa Takada's failure to come forward and address an air bag crisis ensnaring the world's biggest automakers risks shaking investor confidence in the 81-year-old company's prospects.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 11, 2014
Takata coverage suspended by SMBC Nikko, citing air bag crisis
Takata Corp. was suspended from coverage by a securities firm that said the lawsuits and recalls the air bag maker faces in the U.S. cloud its earnings outlook.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Nov 8, 2014
Media culture is the driving force behind a lack of critical car-safety stories
Last month, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism released the results of tests to evaluate automatic braking functions that some automobile manufacturers now offer. The purpose of the tests, according to a report in the Asahi Shimbun, was to "provide consumers with a set of references...
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 7, 2014
Facing U.S. safety probe, Honda expands air bag recall
Honda Motor Co., facing a U.S. safety probe, strengthened its recall of U.S. cars to replace potentially defective Takata Corp. air bags linked to several deaths.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 7, 2014
Takata widens loss forecast as air-bag recalls mount
Takata Corp., the Japanese air-bag maker at the center of a safety crisis, widened its annual loss forecast and warned it can't estimate the full financial liability as regulators urge automakers to speed up recalls.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 31, 2014
U.S. regulator orders Takata to release documents on its troubled air bags, testify under oath
U.S. auto safety regulators on Thursday ordered Japanese supplier Takata Corp. to provide documents and answer questions under oath related to the government's ongoing probe of potentially defective Takata air bags in millions of U.S. vehicles.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 29, 2014
A hobbit won't help with your emergency oxygen
Placing a priority on entertainment in preflight safety videos may not be the best way to teach first-time fliers emergency procedures.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 28, 2014
U.S. consumers sue Takata over air bags, seek class action
Takata Corp., the Tokyo-based company whose potentially defective air bags have led to the recall of millions of vehicles, is being sued by consumers in the U.S. who claim the firm and several car manufacturers defrauded them by concealing crucial information.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 27, 2014
Air bag maker in crisis used unique chemical explosive
The emerging crisis over air bags traces back to a little-known Tokyo company that for over 20 years has supplied the safety devices to automakers including Toyota Motor Corp., Honda Motor Co. and General Motors Co.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 25, 2014
Air bag crisis may shift auto market to Daicel, Autoliv
The defect in Takata Corp. air bags linked to four deaths in Honda Motor Co. cars opens the supplier to the risk of losing business in a crucial portion of the market for the safety devices.
WORLD
Oct 22, 2014
Syria air force strikes 200 times in 36 hours, monitor says
The Syrian air force carried out more than 200 airstrikes around the country in the past 36 hours, a group monitoring the war said on Tuesday, a rapid increase in government raids as U.S.-led forces bomb Islamist insurgents elsewhere.
Japan's elderly population grows to record 36.25 million
The proportion of people aged 65 and over has risen since the 1950s and is expected to hit 34.8% by 2040, when the second baby boomers (born 1971-1974) will join that group.
'Shogun' becomes first non-English-language winner of best drama Emmy
Japanese actress Anna Sawai, winner of the outstanding lead actress in a drama series award for "Shogun," and Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada, winner of the outstanding lead actor in a drama series award for the show, pose in the press room during the 76th Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday.
Japan jumps to No. 2, from sixth place, in Best Countries index
Pedestrians cross an intersection in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Japan has experienced a postpandemic travel boom, with tourists pouring back in after restrictions closed the country’s borders to travelers.
South Korea is facing deepfake porn crisis
Activists hold up symbolic eye masks during a protest against deepfake porn in Seoul on Aug. 30.
Second assassination attempt on Trump is latest jolt in chaotic campaign
U.S. Secret Service and Homeland Security agents check a former home of a Ryan Routh, a suspect in an alleged assassination attempt on former U.S. President Donald Trump, in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Sunday.
‘Shogun’ and the painstaking art of ‘getting it right’
Hiroyuki Sanada and the cast and crew of "Shogun" accept the award for best drama series at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles, California.
Japan’s schools battle to keep kids cool, with or without AC
Students sit under a misting system during recess at Hikarigaoka Haru no Kaze Elementary School in Nerima Ward, Tokyo, on Sept. 6.
Chris Broad's new bar puts cocktails first, YouTube second
A self-proclaimed lover of great cocktails, YouTuber Chris Broad says his new Shibuya watering hole is more a place to get yourself a solid drink than it is anything related to his social media career.
In LDP presidential poll, three kingmakers hold all the cards
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo in January as former Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (left) looks on.
How China’s dominance of solar and batteries is impacting Japan’s energy transition
Solar panels and wind turbines at a power plant in Hami in China's Xinjiang region. The U.S. and other countries have described China’s actions against Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region, a key cog in the cleantech supply chain, as a genocidal campaign aimed at erasing an entire culture.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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A store clerk tries to cool things down in front of their shop by spraying a hose.
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