Tag - trade

 
 

TRADE

COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 18, 2013
The 'Afraid of China Club' beckons, though free farm trade is still a farce
Given the regional paranoia concerning China's regional ambitions, the Trans-Pacific Partnership could realistically be called the 'Afraid of China Club.'
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 31, 2013
How will Australia rebalance its trade, security relations?
How does Australia reconcile the pull of its European heritage, the security imperatives of the U.S. alliance and its trading ties with East Asia?
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jan 30, 2013
Calls grow for U.S. to release first WTC bomber
Before bin Laden, there was the blind sheik. A generation ago, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman stood as the embodiment of Islamist terrorism: a bearded, religious extremist with a trademark red and white cap and dark sunglasses who helped orchestrate the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993 and plotted...
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 30, 2013
The return of the trading city
Although global trade imposes short-term costs on people and places, it provides a route to long-term prosperity that runs squarely through cities.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 21, 2013
Panama Canal expansion spurs race to fit supersized ships
This is a story about big, and how one of the biggest construction projects in the world, the remaking of the Panama Canal, will let bigger boats sail into deeper harbors, where authorities are spending billions dredging channels, blasting tunnels and buying cranes from China the size of 14-story buildings...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Mar 30, 2012
How much money do rice farmers need to make from farming?
Since most Japanese farmers are part-timers, TPP may have little effect on their real income.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Nov 15, 2011
Fair Trade turns from a movement into a brand
Are products with the Fair Trade logo targeted at certain types of consumers?
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Oct 1, 2009
Motherhouse: beyond Fair Trade
By cutting out the middlemen, Tokyo-based Motherhouse has found a way to make the Fair Trade system work like it's supposed to.
JAPAN
Oct 23, 1998
Ostracized burakumin leather tanners faced with new threat
The biggest victim of a leather products trade dispute between Japan and the European Union may turn out to be the hisabetsu buraku — the ostracized hamlets where many of Japan's social outcasts earn a living tanning leather.

Longform

A woman passes an "akichi" (vacant lot) in Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo. The capital is littered with such small lots in part because of Japan's aging and shrinking population.
Dealing with rising land vacancies as Japan shrinks