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jp0000001 | [
"asia-pacific",
"offbeat-asia-pacific"
] | 2013/03/17 | World records no joke to frustrated Pakistanis | ISLAMABAD - One young contender created the world’s largest sequin mosaic using 325,000 of the sparkly discs. Two other youths achieved 123 consecutive badminton passes in one minute. And 1,450 participants broke the record for the most people arm wrestling. Such are the skills that Guinness World Records are made of i... | india;pakistan;guinness |
jp0000004 | [
"national",
"media-national"
] | 2013/03/13 | Photo report: FOODEX Japan 2013 | FoodEx is the largest trade exhibition for food and drinks in Asia, with about 70,000 visitors checking out the products presented by hundreds of participating companies. I was lucky to enter as press; otherwise, visitors must be affiliated with the food industry — and pay ¥5,000 — to enter. The FoodEx menu is global, ... | japanese food;japan pulse;foodex |
jp0000005 | [
"business"
] | 2013/03/25 | 'Abenomists' beware: Rising prices just one pitfall of spiraling yen | The Bank of Japan on Wednesday installed a new governor and two deputy governors who — in line with the wishes of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe — are advocates of ultra-easy monetary policy. Attention is now focused on what specific policy actions the new central bank team will take. But while benefits, including a weaker ... | boj;abenomics;economics;weak yen |
jp0000007 | [
"national",
"media-national"
] | 2013/04/16 | Google Street Views goes inside a Fukushima school | As everyone knows, Google Street Views lets you wander around 3D visualations of remote locations, giving you that You Are There sort of experience. Last year, the Street Views team traveled to Fukushima’s Namie-machi, making it possible for everyone to experience Japan’s no-go zone. Straying from the usual Street View... | fukushima;tsunami;earthquake;3.11;japan pulse |
jp0000008 | [
"reference"
] | 2013/04/16 | The 5 p.m. bell | Dear Alice, I live in a medium-size city in Saitama Prefecture and am puzzled by a speaker system mounted on a huge pole right outside my apartment. Every evening at 5 p.m., music plays from the speakers for 20 or 30 seconds and then stops. It’s the same song every day, which I don’t recognize, and it’s really, really ... | 5 p.m. chime;disaster warning |
jp0000009 | [
"national",
"history"
] | 2013/04/28 | Disaster long lurked amid Japan's isolation | “The evolution of political thought in this relatively isolated island nation during the period in question is unique to the point of being somewhat freakish.” This gives a reader pause. Freakish? The judgment is historian Hiroshi Watanabe’s in “A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901,” his 2010 book whose t... | japan;disaster;galapagos;isolation |
jp0000011 | [
"national",
"media-national"
] | 2013/04/30 | J-blip: Taro Aso 'gang style' t-shirts | When Finance Minister Taro Aso set off for a G20 meeting earlier this year, he did it in style, sporting a natty felt hat, pulled rakishly down over one eye. No sooner had he stepped out in public in this getup than Twitter was abuzz with comments celebrating the finance minister’s “gangster style.” Now the outfit has ... | taro aso;t-shirts;japan pulse |
jp0000012 | [
"business"
] | 2013/04/08 | Team Abe's grand plan leaves ghosts in charge of a haunted house | As I observe Team Abe in action at the helm of the Bank of Japan and elsewhere, a rather terrifying passage from a poem by William Hughes Mearns comes to mind: “Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today. I wish, I wish he’d go away . . .” There were no surprises in the BOJ’s a... | boj;bank of japan;abenomics;central bank |
jp0000013 | [
"national",
"media-national"
] | 2013/04/01 | April Fool's in Japan — the joke's on you | April Fool’s Day doesn’t have very deep roots in Japanese culture, but obviously branding creatives and open-minded corporations are seeing the potential benefits of making potential customers laugh. Rather than pulling a fast one, these pranks put their silliness up-front and center. > Introducing the iKA Organic Eboo... | smartphones;phones;au;pizza;ebooks;japan pulse;e-readers |
jp0000014 | [
"national",
"science-health"
] | 2013/04/14 | Casting a little light on fireflies | If dragonflies are the insects of Japan’s day, then the mysterious, magical fireflies are its bugs of the night. About now, firefly grubs will be emerging from rivers around the country. They’ve been living in the mud in larval form for the last year, and are ready to start the final, crucial part of their lives. They ... | battle of dannoura;firefly;hoteru |
jp0000015 | [
"national",
"media-national"
] | 2013/05/03 | J-blip: The secret behind Disney + Gogo no Koucha | httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nf5kCEOYpg Kirin is currently collaborating with Disney to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Disneyland. Not only are they giving away a grand prize of a 30-night stay for four at the DisneySea Hotel Miracosta, year-long passes to both parks and a resort giftcard worth a million yen, bu... | animation;disney;kirin;japan pulse;gogo no koucha |
jp0000016 | [
"national",
"media-national"
] | 2013/05/05 | Yakuza links put nation at added nuclear risk | On April 15, two alleged terrorists in Boston killed three people, injured more than 170 others and terrified a nation — for about $100 it cost them to modify pressure cookers into bombs. We should be glad they didn’t come to Japan, where they may have been able to explode a ready-made nuclear dirty bomb, kill untold t... | nuclear;terrorism;yakuza;bomb |
jp0000018 | [
"business",
"economy-business"
] | 2013/05/20 | Utility, ubiquity playing key roles in corrupting policymakers' thinking | Two mind-sets seem to be catching on in Japan these days. They worry me. One is the notion that something has to be useful to be of value. The other is that anything is justifiable on the grounds that everybody else is doing it. The theory of usefulness is driving the Abe government’s promotion of better working condit... | shinzo abe;ldp;abenomics;policymaking;japanese perspectives |
jp0000019 | [
"reference"
] | 2013/05/10 | How signs of a 'lost continent' came into JAMSTEC's underwater view | The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology and the Brazilian government recently announced the discovery of a large mass of granite on the seafloor off Rio de Janeiro — a landmark finding that suggests a continent may have once existed there because granite normally forms only on dry land. Experts say it’... | atlantis;jamstec |
jp0000021 | [
"national",
"science-health"
] | 2013/05/07 | Sub discovers signs of legendary Atlantis | RIO DE JANEIRO - A large mass of granite has been found on the seabed off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, suggesting a continent may have existed in the Atlantic Ocean, the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology and the Brazilian government announced. A Brazilian official said the discovery of the granite — ... | atlantic;continent;deep-sea probe;discovery;japanese scientists |
jp0000022 | [
"reference"
] | 2013/05/15 | Monju: Generating only misfortune | The troubled Monju prototype fast-breeder reactor made headlines again when the Nuclear Regulation Authority said it apparently plans to ensure the facility remains idled after announcing that the Japan Atomic Energy Agency failed to properly inspect some 10,000 components, including critical ones. Following are questi... | nra;monju |
jp0000023 | [
"national",
"science-health"
] | 2013/05/12 | Japan's Suzaku satellite shows how all bets are off around Cygnus X-1 | This month, the Vermillion bird of the South — which is currently flying 550 km above Earth — meets an astronomical swan some 6,000 light-years away. In Eastern mythology, the Vermillion bird of the South represents fire — it is a spirit creature renowned for its elegance and power. Its Japanese name, Suzaku, is also t... | black hole;suzuka x-ray satellite |
jp0000024 | [
"business"
] | 2013/02/03 | J-Blip: Mini kotatsu a cozy spot for singles | The humble domestic kotatsu is enjoying something of a revival since the disaster at Fukushima made the nation painfully aware of the need to conserve energy. The device is a table with a heating element underneath and a warm blanket draped over it keep one’s legs nice and toasty; without using up excess energy, the ko... | power;winter;singles;setsuden;japan pulse |
jp0000025 | [
"business"
] | 2013/02/04 | Abe's 15-month reversal budget fudges cost of swapping people and butter for concrete and guns | The government of Shinzo Abe has just unveiled its budget for fiscal 2013 starting in April. Abe’s stated intention was to “radically reset” spending priorities. He is indeed a man of his word. For this is a budget that is truly awesome for its radical step backward into the past — a past where every public spending pr... | shinzo abe;budget |
jp0000026 | [
"general"
] | 2013/02/20 | Writer Donald Richie dies at 88 | Long-term Japan resident, writer and critic Donald Richie, who through dozens of books and articles published from the late 1940s until the last decade helped introduce Japanese film and culture to the world, passed away in Tokyo on Tuesday, according to his long-term editor, Leza Lowitz. He was 88. Richie, who was bor... | donald richie;japanese cinema |
jp0000028 | [
"national",
"history"
] | 2013/02/17 | Tokyo Station nears completion, Hitler lauds Japan, high-schools surge, Constitution to keep Article 9, PM declares | 100 YEARS AGO Sunday, Feb. 2, 1913 Tokyo Central station nears completion The Tokyo Central Railway Station, now under construction at Eiraku-cho, Kojimachi Ward [a now-defunct ward spanning much of present-day Chiyoda Ward], will, when completed next year, make one of the finest structures of the metropolis. The stati... | hitler;tokyo station;manchukuo |
jp0000029 | [
"national",
"science-health"
] | 2013/02/10 | Fugu reveals its simple gender switch | It’s the most celebrated and notorious fish in the world, certainly in culinary circles. Now the puffer fish — one of Japan’s most enigmatic creatures — meets some of biology’s deepest questions: Why did sex evolve? Why are there two sexes? Why is the male sex chromosome such a puny little thing? I’ll admit right away ... | genetics;fugu;blowfish;x chromosome;y chromosome |
jp0000030 | [
"reference"
] | 2013/02/19 | Nori | Dear Alice, I was out for a walk with my camera the other day and came across a puzzling scene. I saw people putting what I thought were squares of dark paper onto easels in the sun, as if to dry. But when I went closer, the squares actually seemed to be nori seaweed sheets, the type used to make sushi rolls. Can you f... | nori;seaweed;ajitsukenori;yakinori |
jp0000031 | [
"reference"
] | 2013/02/08 | Chinese smog bomb floats toward Japan | OSAKA - Smog in China has reached alarming levels as its rapid industrialization spews ever-more toxic particles into the air. Over the past month or so, the problem has become particularly acute, raising health concerns in neighboring parts of Asia, including Japan. Following are questions and answers about China’s sm... | china;pollution;air |
jp0000032 | [
"national",
"media-national"
] | 2013/02/01 | Sales surge for men's fashion magazines | An unexpected surge in sales of fashion magazines aimed at men in their 30s and 40s has taken the magazine industry by surprise. Bucking the general downward trend in sales for print magazines, titles like Leon have been getting snapped up by style-conscious guys over the past two years. According to the National Publi... | fashion;men;publishing;magazines;japan pulse;oyaji |
jp0000035 | [
"national"
] | 2013/11/05 | More businesses admit misrepresenting menu items | Major department store chains Takashimaya Co. and Daimaru Matsuzakaya Department Stores Co. separately said Tuesday that some of their restaurants and stores misrepresented items on their menus, becoming the latest in a string of companies to own up to food fraud. Takashimaya said the misrepresentations involved 62 men... | food;scandal;hotels;takashimaya;hanshin;mislabeling;hankyu;menu |
jp0000036 | [
"national"
] | 2013/11/05 | Chef declines 'role model' medal | In light of the food mislabeling scandal at Hankyu Hanshin Hotels Co., the head chef of the company’s Chinese food division declined a Medal of Honor from the government he was soon to receive, company sources said. The sources quoted Seiji Oishi, 63, as saying he declined the Medal with Yellow Ribbon “because I distur... | food;restaurants;mislabeling |
jp0000038 | [
"world",
"politics-diplomacy-world"
] | 2013/11/18 | Bachelet tops Chile presidential vote, but fails to avoid runoff | SANTIAGO - Michelle Bachelet won nearly twice as many votes as her closest rival in Chile’s presidential election Sunday, but she fell short of the outright majority needed to avoid a Dec. 15 runoff. With more than 92 percent of votes counted, the moderate socialist Bachelet had nearly 47 percent, to 25 percent for con... | elections;chile;michelle bachelet |
jp0000039 | [
"national",
"media-national"
] | 2013/11/18 | J-blip: Tsutaya launches one-stop 'lifestyle' bookshop | Following on the success of Daikanyama T-Site , an upmarket complex targeted at an older demographic of book lovers and one that included satellite boutiques for cameras, bikes and pets, bookselling behemoth Tsutaya has opened a new similar envelope-pushing book store in Honjō-Waseda, Saitama. By offering objects for s... | books;tsutaya;japan pulse |
jp0000041 | [
"world"
] | 2013/11/27 | U.S. bombers cross China's claimed air defense zone | NEW YORK - Days after China asserted greater military control over a swath of the East China Sea to bolster claims to a cluster of disputed islands, the U.S. defied the move Tuesday as it flew two B-52 bombers through the area. The U.S. said what it described as a training mission was not flown to respond to China’s la... | senkakus;adiz;b-52s |
jp0000042 | [
"national"
] | 2013/11/16 | Think caviar but brace for caveat | In one of the most memorable scenes of the late, and sorely missed, Juzo Itami’s classic 1985 film “Tampopo” (“Dandelion”), Japanese businessmen enter a French restaurant. Confused by the exotic items on the menu, the elderly members of the party stick to what they know: sole meuniere, consomme soup and Heineken beer. ... | restaurants;hotels;hanshin;hankyu;ritz-carlton;menu falsifications |
jp0000046 | [
"national"
] | 2013/11/17 | Japan meets Kyoto goal via credit buys | WARSAW - Using the fiscal 1990 baseline, Japan achieved an 8.2 percent cut in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from fiscal 2008 to 2012, meeting a 6 percent target under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on curbing global warming, government sources said Saturday. The preliminary figure shows Tokyo managed ... | nobuteru ishihara;kyoto protocol;greenhouse gas |
jp0000048 | [
"national"
] | 2013/11/19 | Consumer body wants local-level food scrutiny | Responding to recent food frauds committed by hotel and department store operators, the Consumer Affairs Agency is aiming to amend the products labeling law to let prefectures issue improvement orders to businesses that violate the law, government sources said Monday. Under the existing Act Against Unjustifiable Premiu... | consumer affairs agency;mislabeling;food labeling;menues |
jp0000049 | [
"national"
] | 2013/11/19 | Firms tap apps that 'augment reality' | Smartphone applications featuring “augmented reality” are being used by an increasing number of companies to promote their products. Ikea Japan K.K., the Japanese arm of the Swedish furnishing giant, launched a service in August that gives customers a virtual preview of how a piece of furniture will look in their home,... | sanrio;ikea;augmented reality;tokyo shoseki |
jp0000050 | [
"national"
] | 2013/11/07 | Hotel Okura latest to own up to fraudulent menus | Hotel Okura on Thursday became the latest in a seemingly endless string of established hotels and department stores to admit to misrepresenting the items on its restaurant menus. Hotel Okura Co., the operator of the landmark hotel in central Tokyo and others nationwide, said 13 hotels and three restaurants under its wi... | restaurants;hotels;mislabeling;menu;misrepresentation;food fraud |
jp0000051 | [
"business"
] | 2013/11/30 | The secret of keeping official secrets secret | “He that would keep a secret must keep it secret that he hath a secret to keep,” says Sir Humphrey Appleby, permanent secretary to the Department of Administrative Affairs, a fictitious branch of the British government. He is one of the main characters in the highly acclaimed 1980s BBC television series “Yes Minister” ... | shinzo abe;secrecy;state secrets;state secrets bill |
jp0000052 | [
"national"
] | 2013/11/30 | Japan: The new Uzbekistan of press freedom in Asia | If you’re living in Japan, you may be surprised to know that your right to know has been replaced by the right to remain silent. Shhh … don’t protest. It’s practically a done deal. The first rule of the pending state secrets bill is that a secret is a secret. The second rule is that anyone who leaks a secret and/or a r... | shinzo abe;press freedom;secrecy;state secrets;state secrets bill |
jp0000053 | [
"national"
] | 2013/11/30 | In rare move, new medical department to be set up at university in Tohoku | The government will permit a university in Tohoku to establish a new medical department, education minister Hakubun Shimomura said. To be launched as early as spring 2015, it will be the first medical department to open in the country since the University of the Ryukyus established one in Okinawa Prefecture in 1979, Sh... | education;tohoku;universities;doctors;mext;medical schools |
jp0000054 | [
"national",
"history"
] | 2013/11/30 | Inokashira park to open, Yangtze mine sweeping detailed, Kennedy eulogized, Japan-U.S. visa pact begins | 100 YEARS AGO Sunday, Dec. 21, 1913 Tokyo’s Inokashira gets new park The proposal of providing a large public park at Inokashira for the benefit of the people of Tokyo has been approved by the Municipal Council. The Emperor has graciously offered the use of an extensive lot in that locality for that purpose. The park w... | visas;john f. kennedy;inokashira park |
jp0000055 | [
"national"
] | 2013/11/24 | Secrets bill raises fears among nuclear foes | OSAKA - In late 2005, U.S. government officials, invited by Japan, observed a counterterrorism drill at the Mihama nuclear plant in Fukui Prefecture and came away worried about the security situation at the complex. Some 2,000 police officers, firefighters, nuclear power officials, local authorities and residents were ... | terrorism;nuclear power;state secrets;secrets bill |
jp0000056 | [
"national"
] | 2013/11/24 | Bullet trains on a pro-nuclear curve | OSAKA - In the debate over the future of nuclear power, which provided about a third of Japan’s electricity needs before the Fukushima disaster began in 2011, commentators for and against resuming its use have argued their case. Experts on both sides often rely on arguments couched in status-quo assumptions or general ... | nuclear;shinkansen;fukui |
jp0000057 | [
"asia-pacific",
"offbeat-asia-pacific"
] | 2013/11/22 | In Thai capital, 852 schoolchildren set human Christmas tree record | BANGKOK - Christmas is not a holiday in predominantly Buddhist Thailand, and its palm trees outnumber pines, but the country still set a world record with its holiday spirit. One of the country’s largest shopping malls arranged a publicity stunt involving 852 schoolchildren dressed in green and red hoodies to break the... | thailand;yearend;festivals;records |
jp0000058 | [
"reference"
] | 2013/11/25 | ADIZs common but China's is worrisome | China’s announcement Saturday of its establishment of an air defense identification zone in the East China Sea that includes the Japan-controlled Senkaku islets has worsened already tense bilateral ties. From 10 a.m. Saturday, China said any aircraft entering the ADIZ must obey its rules or face “defensive emergency me... | china;adiz |
jp0000059 | [
"national",
"media-national"
] | 2013/10/05 | Has business blackballed the yakuza? Don't bank on it | The Financial Services Agency (FSA) publicly spanked Mizuho Bank last month by slapping it with a “business improvement order” for letting Japan’s organized crime groups use its facilities. At least $2 million in illegal transactions were cited. Mizuho had been warned about the same thing in 2010 but didn’t do anything... | mizuho bank;tadamasa goto;citibank;financial services agency |
jp0000060 | [
"national"
] | 2013/10/20 | JAL rehab a lesson for possible Tepco failure? | Since the start of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant crisis, debate has raged over whether the government should have Tokyo Electric Power Co. go bankrupt. Even though the financial crises facing Tepco are far greater than those Japan Airlines Co. faced, one question that crops up is why the state won’t let Tepco fail ... | jal;tepco;bankruptcy |
jp0000064 | [
"national",
"politics-diplomacy"
] | 2013/10/27 | The method behind the brashness | Osaka While his inflammatory comments have made headlines and his combative, argumentative style has shocked and enraged those who take comfort in the traditional politician’s art of discreet ambiguity, there is method behind Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto’s perceived rhetorical madness. Since coming to power in 2008 as th... | media;toru hashimoto |
jp0000065 | [
"national"
] | 2013/10/11 | Hokuriku line bullet trains christened | East Japan Railway Co. and West Japan Railway Co. have named four bullet trains that will run on the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line, which will connect Tokyo and Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, via Nagano, from spring 2015. The names — Kagayaki, Hakutaka, Tsurugi and Asama — were selected among proposals submitted by the publ... | names;bullet train;jr east;jr west;hokuriku shinkansen |
jp0000066 | [
"national",
"politics-diplomacy"
] | 2013/10/29 | SDP woos Koizumi to lend clout to anti-nuclear drive | If only briefly, former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi raised hopes he will stage a comeback as an anti-nuclear crusader when he met Tuesday with the head of a minor but like-minded opposition party. But, during their 45-minute meeting, Koizumi declined Social Democratic Party chief Tadatomo Yoshida’s request to coop... | fukushima;sdp;nuclear energy;junichiro koizumi;political alliance |
jp0000067 | [
"national"
] | 2013/10/29 | Hotel's misleading menus leave bad taste | OSAKA - Hankyu Hanshin Hotels Co., under fire for deceiving consumers by misrepresenting items on its menus, is drawing sympathy from some in the food and hotel industries. According to people involved in the food service industry, false advertising of this kind “happens quite often, and the company might have not inte... | hotels;hanshin;mislabeling;hankyu;menu;falsifications |
jp0000068 | [
"national",
"media-national"
] | 2013/10/10 | Psssst! Wanna bottle of fresh air? | httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLAxtYxUuLI Frisk is taking the phrase “like a breath of fresh air” quite seriously — or rather not seriously at all. The breath-mints brand’s latest online campaign involves a lottery to win a grand prize of seven bottles filled to their brim with exotic air (or, if you’re a cynic, seve... | japan pulse;frisk |
jp0000069 | [
"national"
] | 2013/10/19 | Will Olympic glory carry beyond Tokyo? | If Tokyo’s reaction to winning the 2020 Olympics, especially among the cash-strapped TV stations and other media types who rely on bread and circuses-type events to pay the bills, made you feel like Alice in Wonderland or a character in a Samuel Beckett play, you’re not alone. Well beyond the drawbridge of Old Edo, whe... | osaka;tokyo 2020;2020 olympics |
jp0000070 | [
"business"
] | 2013/10/26 | Flip a skirt a month in 2014 | The original run of Kari Kato ‘s “Skirt Flipping Calendar” did so well that it’s back this year in two colors: While the thrill of most novelty calendars is spurred by anticipating what the next month’s image will be, in this case, every month looks more or less the same… …which is not to say there’s no thrill here, be... | japan pulse;kaori kato |
jp0000071 | [
"national",
"history"
] | 2013/10/26 | Oh, to be blissfully unfree in Nippon's isles . . . | “Freedom.” “Liberty.” Ringing words. Better than any other, they define modern times. They sparked three early-modern revolutions — England’s “Glorious Revolution” (1688), the American Revolution of 1776-83, and the French Revolution beginning around 1789. Japan then was a “closed country” — had been since 1638, would ... | japanese constitution;daisetz t. suzuki;hagakure;emperor meiji |
jp0000073 | [
"asia-pacific",
"offbeat-asia-pacific"
] | 2013/10/31 | 'Autograph-seekers' throw bucket of feces into Taiwan pop star's van | TAIPEI - Taiwanese pop star Jam Hsiao said he’s outraged by an alleged attack in which two apparent autograph-seekers threw a bucket of fecal matter into his van. The 26-year-old singer told reporters Tuesday that two motorcyclists approached his van asking for autographs before the attack. He said his driver was hit a... | celebrities;music;taiwan |
jp0000074 | [
"business",
"corporate-business"
] | 2013/10/30 | JT to cut 1,600 jobs, close four plants | Japan Tobacco Inc. is cutting 1,600 jobs and closing four domestic factories as part of its plan to boost competitiveness at home and profitability. The job cuts will be made through a voluntary retirement program that will be offered to eligible employees in the domestic tobacco business and corporate functions, JT sa... | japan tobacco;tobacco;job cuts |
jp0000075 | [
"national",
"politics-diplomacy"
] | 2013/10/30 | Anti-nuclear Koizumi agitating for comeback? | Long silent and out of the public eye, former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s recent rumblings against nuclear power are causing many to wonder if the most popular leader of recent decades is laying the groundwork for a political comeback. The 74-year-old Koizumi has met separately with two opposition party heads — ... | sdp;junichiro koizumi;antinuclear activists;political comeback |
jp0000077 | [
"asia-pacific",
"offbeat-asia-pacific"
] | 2013/10/23 | China cracks down on 'American Idol'-style shows | BEIJING - Chinese authorities are cracking down on how often broadcasters can air reality, dating and talent shows such as the Chinese versions of “American Idol” and “The Voice,” which draw huge audiences. Provincial broadcasters show such programs, which are cheap to produce and earn a lot of advertising revenue, on ... | china;music;u.s . |
jp0000079 | [
"national"
] | 2013/10/25 | Hotelier lays food scam to staff ignorant of law | Hankyu Hanshin Hotels Co. has been misrepresenting items on its menus for seven years at eateries in at least four prefectures, possibly scamming some 79,000 patrons in the process, and management is blaming the misdeeds on employees ignorant about the law. The hotelier said Friday it is being inundated with calls from... | food;restaurants;hotels;hanshin;mislabeling;hankyu |
jp0000080 | [
"national",
"media-national"
] | 2013/07/04 | Marketing that enters your brain through your nose | On Meiji Dori, between Harajuku and Shibuya, I recently came across a tall futuristic titanium-silver contraption staring down at the street with what looked like six portholes. When I got closer, I found it had a window display of small bottles with three signs below saying “touch here!” Being the tragically curious A... | marketing;aroma;scents;japan pulse;fragrance |
jp0000081 | [
"asia-pacific",
"offbeat-asia-pacific"
] | 2013/07/05 | India's 'miracle rooster' further complicates chicken-and-egg dilemma | NEW DELHI - The question has long been, “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” The apparently insoluble puzzle has become further complicated in India, where a rooster in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh has been laying eggs. According to a report in the The Asian Age newspaper, people are thronging the house o... | india;animals |
jp0000082 | [
"national",
"history"
] | 2013/07/20 | Tokyo homeless, Olympics cancelled, medals given for kindness, Mandela's birthday feted | 100 YEARS AGO Wednesday, July 23, 1913 Tales of woe abound among Tokyo jobless Summer is generally a good season for employment-seekers of the laboring classes. This summer, however, there are twice as many unemployed men as usual. The Free Lodging House of Honjo, Tokyo, for instance, generally takes in about 20 lodger... | poor house;wartime |
jp0000083 | [
"national",
"history"
] | 2013/07/27 | What if Columbus had reached his goal: Japan? | Every school child knows that in 1492 Christopher Columbus discovered America. Every school child knows wrongly. When the Genovese explorer’s three ships sailed westward from Palo de la Frontera, Spain, on Aug. 2, 1492, he was bound, he thought, for “the noble island of Cipangu” — Japan. Cipangu would be his gateway to... | donald keene;mongol empire;kublai khan |
jp0000084 | [
"national",
"media-national"
] | 2013/07/11 | Japan by the numbers (07.11.13) | 90.8% of people in Japan do not know what a “smart TV” is , although some of that percentage had heard the term before, according to goo research. 84.5% of men who answered a poll by the Communication Design Research Institute said they are more attracted to women who eat a lot (note: most men said they prefer to see w... | mount fuji;voting;smart tv;japan pulse |
jp0000085 | [
"national",
"media-national"
] | 2013/07/29 | Cinderella stories inspire women to find their prince on social networking sites | According to a recent study by Trend Soken , the phenomenon of the “Social Cinderella” is one of the driving forces behind changing attitudes towards internet dating among young women. “Social Cinderellas” are women who snag “high spec guys” (i.e. well-educated, good-looking men with high salaries) via social networkin... | matchmaking;konkatsu;social network;japan pulse;social cinderella |
jp0000086 | [
"world",
"science-health-world"
] | 2013/07/17 | Body fat sheds calories when chilled | WASHINGTON - Transforming fat cells into calorie-burning machines may sound like a fantasy — the ultimate form of weight control — but the idea is not as far-fetched as it sounds. Unexpectedly, some fat cells directly sense dropping temperatures and release their energy as heat, according to a new study, and that abili... | food;diet;obesity;diabetes;fat;temperature;heat;insulation;calories |
jp0000087 | [
"national"
] | 2013/07/26 | Yamaguchi murder suspect nabbed | YAMAGUCHI - Police said Friday they have arrested the 63-year-old man sought in connection with the Sunday-Monday slaying of five people and the torching of two of their homes in the hamlet of Shunan, Yamaguchi Prefecture. The suspect, identified as Kosei Homi, was found barefoot and wearing only his underwear on an un... | yamaguchi;shunan |
jp0000088 | [
"business",
"economy-business"
] | 2013/07/21 | Beware your heroes and heed the lesson of stargazer Galileo Galilei | A scene from “The Life of Galilei” seems to encapsulate the dilemma Japan faces as it gropes for new leadership. “Woe betide a nation without heroes.” “Not so. Woe betide a nation in need of heroes.” This exchange from the play by anti-establishment German playwright Bertolt Brecht is a traumatic one in which Galileo G... | ldp;nuclear power;upper house election |
jp0000089 | [
"business",
"corporate-business"
] | 2013/07/31 | Ailing utility resumes offering jobs to new graduates for first time since 2011 | Tokyo Electric Power Co. has resumed offering jobs to prospective graduates for the first time since the Fukushima nuclear crisis started in March 2011. Tepco officials said Tuesday they plan to hire about 100 new recruits next April. They will be students due to graduate in March from technical high schools, universit... | tepco;new recruits |
jp0000090 | [
"asia-pacific",
"offbeat-asia-pacific"
] | 2013/07/31 | Lincoln statue vandal suspect is Chinese national | WASHINGTON - Moments before District of Columbia police found Jiamei Tian hiding in a bathroom stall at Washington National Cathedral, a family of tourists had spotted her in a back pew of the Children’s Chapel guarding two bags and muttering softly in a foreign language. Tian’s unsettling behavior continued Tuesday, w... | china;courts;police;scandals |
jp0000091 | [
"reference"
] | 2013/07/31 | Tepco trying to keep radioactive water from reaching sea, but can it? | Tokyo Electric Power Co. only recently admitted radioactive water is flowing from its crippled Fukushima No. 1 plant into the Pacific. Although Tepco is giving assurances that it is taking and planning steps to prevent more tainted groundwater from reaching the sea, it’s unclear how effective those efforts are, conside... | fukushima no . 1;tepco;radioactive water |
jp0000092 | [
"national"
] | 2013/07/08 | Lightning kills one as rainy season's exit kicks up storms | Two lightning strikes left a man dead and a woman injured Monday as the sudden departure of the rainy season and a high-pressure system from the Pacific sent temperatures soaring in much of the nation. In Tokyo, three men in their 50s and 60s were struck by lightning near the Arakawa River in Kita Ward after a thunders... | temperature;heat stroke;heat |
jp0000094 | [
"national",
"media-national"
] | 2013/07/12 | Cashing in on Fuji fever | Since the announcement that Mount Fuji, Japan’s most iconic landmark, had finally won World Heritage status on June 23 , Fuji fever has swept the nation. As souvenirs commemorating the event hit the shelves, sales of Fuji-themed merchandise were brisk. Stores selling climbing gear to those who have been inspired to mak... | mount fuji;loft;yamanashi;unesco;wifi;japan pulse;yama girls |
jp0000095 | [
"national",
"science-health"
] | 2013/07/13 | Effects will become more obvious as Japan's climate changes | Residents of Japan’s big cities, and of Tokyo in particular, are well aware of the heat-island effect — especially now with the onset of summer. The effect occurs because concrete and asphalt retain radiant energy, making the whole city a vast absorber and then emitter of convected heat, which creates powerful thermals... | cherry blossom;heat-island effect;sika |
jp0000096 | [
"reference"
] | 2013/09/05 | Data show twisters form over Kanto in September | Damage to people and property by tornadoes made headlines over the past week, with the latest in Tochigi Prefecture injuring three people while destroying houses and other buildings. Here are some questions and answers regarding twisters: Are twisters common in Japan? About 17 were observed each year between 1991 and 2... | weather;meteorological agency;tornado;q & a |
jp0000097 | [
"national"
] | 2013/09/02 | Summer heat killed 87 in 2013 | Record-high temperatures this summer caused at least 87 deaths from heat-related maladies and record-breaking downpours that triggered landslides across the country. According to the Meteorological Agency, temperatures from Kyushu to the Kanto-Koshin region began climbing between July 6 and 8, when the rainy season end... | weather;temperature;heat stroke;heat wave;summer |
jp0000100 | [
"national",
"science-health"
] | 2013/09/07 | Fukushima: health disaster or PR fail? | One thing about having a nuclear accident in a rich country is that at least there is going to be good medical care and long-term monitoring. The repair and clean-up operation is another matter, of course — which is why Japan is currently under pressure to accept help from abroad in fixing the appalling mess caused by ... | fukushima;great east japan earthquake;nuclear energy;radiation leak |
jp0000101 | [
"business"
] | 2013/09/01 | Pax No Man's Land needs more than Fed's tapering to smooth things over | U.S. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke hints at policy change. He is looking for an exit from quantitative easing whereby he has been buying financial assets to the order of $85 billion per month since the end of last year. He has emphasized the exit shall be a “tapering” procedure — no abrupt moves, no jumpi... | fed;noriko hama;ben bernanke;taper;emerging markets |
jp0000102 | [
"national"
] | 2013/09/12 | Students suggest policies to increase female scientists | A group of university students on Wednesday handed the government some policy proposals for achieving its stated goal of increasing the ratio of female scientists in Japan to 30 percent by 2020. Eight science majors, including five past winners of fellowships from UNESCO and Nihon L’Oreal K.K., the Japanese unit of the... | masako mori;scientists |
jp0000104 | [
"business"
] | 2013/08/04 | Japan increases TPP possibilities but not its own competitiveness | Japan finally entered the trade talks for hammering out the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement during the 18th round last month in the Malaysian resort of Kota Kinabalu. The delegates joined the talks on the afternoon of July 23 after Japan’s participation was cleared by the U.S. Congress. The TPP is a framework that ... | tpp;trade;competitiveness;kota kinabalu |
jp0000105 | [
"business"
] | 2013/08/02 | J-blip: Bandai's smartphone panties | httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muobpsb_5PI A new line of smartphone underpants has recently gone on sale. The mini panties, made by Bandai, are worn at the base of the smartphone, covering the home button. A home button sticker is also provided to protect your phone’s most thumbed area when the knickers have been remo... | smartphones;mobile phones;iphones;japan pulse |
jp0000108 | [
"national",
"media-national"
] | 2013/08/10 | Koda's baby gaffe may find different reception now | Five years ago, singer Kumi Koda caused an uproar when she joked on a late-night radio show about how a woman’s amniotic fluid ( y ō sui ) becomes “spoiled” as she gets older. The subtext of the comment was the advantage of having babies at a younger age, but those quick to ridicule Koda’s lack of gynecological experti... | fertility;in vitro;kumi koda |
jp0000109 | [
"national",
"politics-diplomacy"
] | 2013/08/19 | Murayama: SDP must find allies to stay in game | The Social Democratic Party doesn’t have a future and should consider disbanding and uniting with other opposition forces to create a united front to protect the war-renouncing Constitution and rid Japan of nuclear power, said former Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, who remains an SDP member. “Parties should join hand... | sdp;tomiichi murayama |
jp0000110 | [
"national"
] | 2013/08/21 | Texts alleging forced observance of anthem, flag axed | YOKOHAMA - A Japanese history textbook that takes a critical look at the national anthem and flag controversy has been dropped for use at public high schools in Kanagawa Prefecture starting next school year at the prefectural board of education’s request. The unusual intervention by the board drew flak from teachers an... | history;textbook;kanagawa prefecture |
jp0000111 | [
"national"
] | 2013/08/21 | Hiroshima, Nagasaki warn Obama on plutonium tests | HIROSHIMA/NAGASAKI - The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki separately sent letters of protest to President Barack Obama on Tuesday after the United States revealed it had conducted an experiment using plutonium to examine the capabilities of nuclear weapons between April and June. “I just can’t stop being angry,” Hirosh... | israel;nagasaki;hiroshima;atomic bombings |
jp0000112 | [
"reference"
] | 2013/08/21 | 'Barefoot Gen' pulled as anti-war images strike too close to home? | The decision by the board of education of Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, to limit students’ access to the manga series “Hadashi no Gen” (“Barefoot Gen”) at school libraries continues to cause a stir. While some support the move, others say it disrespects the best-selling anti-war classic, which tells the story of a young ... | hiroshima;hadashi no gen;matsue;barefool gen |
jp0000113 | [
"national"
] | 2013/08/09 | Cyberterror threat stalks Japan's high-end toilet users | Cyberterrorists could strike at your most vulnerable and least expected moment because of a glitch in a smartphone-controlled high-tech toilet system manufactured in Japan. According U.S. security firm Trustwave, high-end Lixil Corp. toilets, which can be controlled with Android smartphones, could easily be hacked to a... | toilet;lixil |
jp0000114 | [
"national",
"media-national"
] | 2013/08/31 | Japan's nuclear comedy just goes on and on | What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. — Ecclesiastes 1:9 These words are said to have been penned by King Solomon around 3,000 years ago. Perhaps they were an augury of Japan’s nuclear industry. I’m sure somewhere there’s an original text that reads, “In... | fukushima no . 1;tepco;nuclear power plant;tsunehisa katsumata |
jp0000115 | [
"national",
"history"
] | 2013/08/24 | Only in Japan could a sword be 'life-giving' | Few countries have broken with their past as sharply as Japan did. That was the price it paid for modernity. Japan in the mid-19th century had a beautiful, deep, highly refined culture that reached far down the social scale — but it was an ancient culture, not a modern one, artistic rather than acquisitive, helpless ag... | zen;miyamoto musashi;daisetz t. suzuki |
jp0000116 | [
"national"
] | 2013/08/13 | Former leader of Japan's ruling party against raising defense profile | Ahead of the anniversary Thursday of Japan’s surrender in World War II, former Liberal Democratic Party President and noted dove Yohei Kono expressed his views on constitutional revision proposed by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and other issues. Kono, 76, who was known for being the most dovish among LDP lawmakers, held s... | constitution;revision;yohei kono |
jp0000117 | [
"national",
"history"
] | 2013/01/19 | Man survives train fall, redistribution of resources Japan's mission, GSDF adopts local guns, chandelier falls | 100 YEARS AGO Wednesday, Jan. 29, 1913 Man survives train fall Tamejiro Kawai, aged 48, a milk-hall keeper in Yamashita-cho, Yokohama, while going by rail from Tokyo to Yokohama a little after midnight Jan. 27, fell between the cars. A by-stander sounded the alarm, the engineer stopped the train, and an examination was... | self-defense force;chiang kai-shek;sumitomo heavy industries |
jp0000118 | [
"national",
"science-health"
] | 2013/01/13 | How Japan's teens can avoid sleep demons | Have you ever woken up but been unable to move; felt a powerful pressure holding you down, gripping you tight? Haruki Murakami has, and he describes it like this: “I was having a repulsive dream — a dark, slimy dream. … After I awoke, my breath came in painful gasps for a time. My arms and legs felt paralyzed. I lay th... | sleep;teens |
jp0000120 | [
"reference"
] | 2013/06/18 | Okigusuri | Dear Alice, I was on a two-week home stay in the countryside of Japan when a visitor came to the house. I don’t think he was expected, but my home-stay mother greeted him like an old friend and fetched a plastic drawer-box from the kitchen, which seemed to contain packaged medicines. While they chatted over tea, he wen... | medicine;okigusuri;tokyo-to iyakuhin haichi kyokai |
jp0000121 | [
"national",
"science-health"
] | 2013/06/09 | Unraveling the mystery of male birds' missing members | How the chicken lost its penis: It sounds like a weird cousin of one of Rudyard Kipling’s “Just So Stories for Little Children” from 1902, which featured “How the Leopard Got His Spots” and “How the Camel Got His Hump.” But weird or not, this month we explore why almost all birds lack that flagpole of masculinity: the ... | sex;cancer;cell-death;bmp4;procreation;penis |
jp0000122 | [
"national",
"history"
] | 2013/06/23 | The 'barbarians' were coming — like it or not | ‘Sonn ō j ō i!” : “Revere the Emperor, expel the barbarians!” The writing was on the wall long before the wall crumbled. Japan’s splendid isolation — splendid in its own eyes — would no longer be accepted. The outside world was growing restless. Nations were reaching out, testing their strength, harnessing new technolo... | meiji restoration;perry |
jp0000123 | [
"national",
"crime-legal"
] | 2013/06/14 | Parolee in 1963 Saitama girl's slaying hits authorities for lying, forcing confessions | Investigators will lie, grill for hours on end and withhold exonerating evidence — in effect do anything — to extract a confession from a suspect they have pegged for a crime, a 1994 parolee seeking a retrial to clear his name in the 1963 kidnap-murder of a Saitama Prefecture girl said Thursday in Tokyo. Speaking at th... | sayama incident;substitute detention |
jp0000124 | [
"national",
"media-national"
] | 2013/06/25 | Japan by the numbers (06.25.13) | 97.4% of people use PowerPoint over other visual presentation tools, such as Prezi or Keynote, according to a poll by Goo Research . 73% of those surveyed by Goo Research said that they believe electric vehicles will continue to gain popularity in coming years . 52.3% people who responded to a poll by Asahikasei Homes ... | abenomics;smartphone;line;facebook;blogs;electric vehicles;ev;japan pulse;powerpoint |
jp0000125 | [
"business",
"corporate-business"
] | 2013/12/20 | FSA plans more action against Mizuho | The Financial Services Agency will soon take additional punitive action against Mizuho Bank doing business with organized crime, FSA sources said Friday. The financial watchdog first ordered the bank in September to improve operations, saying it did not take “substantial steps” to prevent or break off transactions with... | financial service agency;mizuho bank |
jp0000126 | [
"national"
] | 2013/12/20 | Japan achieves 10 million tourist target for 2013 | Japan on Friday welcomed its 10 millionth international visitor this year, achieving the government’s goal with barely less than two weeks to go. On top of the weakening yen and recovery from the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, tourist numbers were helped by easier visa regulations for Southeast Asian countries like ... | asean;inbound tourism |
jp0000127 | [
"asia-pacific",
"offbeat-asia-pacific"
] | 2013/12/28 | No-frills Beijing bun shop stunned as Chinese president drops by unannounced | BEIJING - Chinese President Xi Jinping dropped in Saturday at a traditional Beijing bun shop, where he waited in line, ordered and paid for a simple lunch of buns stuffed with pork and onions, green vegetables, and stewed pig livers and intestines. Such visits are extremely rare — if not unheard of — for top Chinese le... | china;food;restaurants;xi jinping |
jp0000128 | [
"business"
] | 2013/12/21 | It's business as usual 'back in the USSR' | Paul McCartney was in Japan some weeks ago. Having spent a totally Beatlemaniac four years of my pre-teen existence in the U.K., it was nice to see the erstwhile Beatle in such good form. The occasion also reminded me of the song “Back in the USSR,” a 1968 Beatles number. My fellow Beatles lovers will be very familiar ... | vladimir putin;noriko hama;japanese perspectives;beatles;secrecy law;back in the ussr |
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