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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 |
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