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The Saturday Profile: Park Geun-hye, an Unsoiled Leader in South Korea’s Rowdy Democracy
Posted: April 20th, 2012, 9:47pm EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Park Geun-hye, the daughter of a slain South Korean dictator, has capitalized on a clean and trustworthy image to put herself in position to win the country’s next presidential election.
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Japanese Nuclear Industry Nearly Idle
Posted: March 8th, 2012, 8:27pm EST by By MARTIN FACKLER
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All but two of Japan’s 54 commercial reactors have been idled since the nuclear disaster a year ago, following the earthquake and tsunami, and it is not clear when they can be restarted.
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Japanese Nuclear Industry Nearly Idle
Posted: March 8th, 2012, 8:27pm EST by By MARTIN FACKLER
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All but two of Japan’s 54 commercial reactors have been idled since the nuclear disaster a year ago, following the earthquake and tsunami, and it is not clear when they can be restarted.
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U.S. and Japan Are Renegotiating Part of Okinawa Deal
Posted: February 8th, 2012, 12:57pm EST by By MARTIN FACKLER
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An earlier 2006 plan aimed at removing 8,000 Marines from the island hinged on relocating an important Marine air base.
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With Risk, Japanese City Takes On Once Accepted Fact of Life: Its Gangsters
Posted: February 2nd, 2012, 8:18pm EST by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Kitakyushu has declared war on the yakuza, just as authorities say any romantic aura that may have enveloped gangsters in the past is falling away in Japanese society.
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Wary, Japanese Take Food Safety Into Their Own Hands
Posted: January 21st, 2012, 8:17pm EST by By MARTIN FACKLER
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The discovery of tainted rice 35 miles from a damaged nuclear plant has Japan scrambling to plug gaps in its food-screening measures.
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Japanese Split on Fukushima Radiation Cleanup
Posted: December 7th, 2011, 7:51am EST by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Japan hopes the cleanup near the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant will allow the displaced to return home.
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Japanese Split on Fukushima Radiation Cleanup
Posted: December 7th, 2011, 7:51am EST by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Japan hopes the cleanup near the tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant will allow the displaced to return home.
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U.S. Airmen Quietly Reopen Wrecked Airport in Japan
Posted: April 13th, 2011, 10:09am EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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The United States military has tried to strike a careful balance in Japan, undertaking one its largest relief operations while trying hard not to upstage its hosts.
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Crisis Saddles Village With Unwanted Notoriety
Posted: April 6th, 2011, 1:40am EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Iitate, near the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, is struggling with questions about safety, evacuations and farming.
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Tight Web Saves Cut-Off Villages
Posted: March 23rd, 2011, 5:27pm EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Residents of Hadenya drew on the close bonds of their once-tidy village to survive nearly two weeks cut off from the world.
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The Great Deflation: In Japan, Young Face Generational Roadblocks
Posted: January 28th, 2011, 2:46am EST by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Japan’s economy is clogged with aging vested interests, frustrating the young people needed to create new products and industries.
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The Great Deflation: In Japan, Young Face Generational Roadblocks
Posted: January 28th, 2011, 2:46am EST by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Japan’s economy is clogged with aging vested interests, frustrating the young people needed to create new products and industries.
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Japan to Shift Its Military Toward Threats From China
Posted: December 12th, 2010, 4:58pm EST by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Japan is about to release guidelines reducing forces pointed toward Russia in favor of units that can respond to China.
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China Seeks New Talks to Ease Korean Tensions
Posted: November 28th, 2010, 1:10pm EST by By MARTIN FACKLER
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After the United States and South Korea began naval exercises as a warning to North Korea, China called for a meeting of six nations.
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North Korea Issues Warning as Artillery Fire Rattles Island
Posted: November 26th, 2010, 8:00am EST by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Artillery fire was heard from within North Korea Friday but South Korea’s military said the shots appeared to stay within the North’s territory and may have been part of a drill.
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News Analysis: From the North, a Pattern of Aggression
Posted: November 23rd, 2010, 1:12pm EST by By MARTIN FACKLER
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The provocations aimed at South Korea and its protectors often take place when North Korea feels under stress or threatened.
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New Dissent in Japan Is Loudly Anti-Foreign
Posted: August 29th, 2010, 2:10am EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Emerging in Japan is a new type of ultranationalist group, openly anti-foreign and unafraid to win attention by holding unruly demonstrations.
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Japan, Checking on Its Oldest, Finds Many Gone
Posted: August 15th, 2010, 2:20am EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Revelations of missing centenarians have hit an aging population already grappling with caring for the elderly.
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Japan’s New Plan in Okinawa Dispute
Posted: March 3rd, 2010, 9:11pm EST by By MARTIN FACKLER
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The proposal would modify a 2006 deal to relocate the Futenma Marine Corps air station to a less populated area in Okinawa, and the new base would be smaller.
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In Toyota Mess, Lesson for Japan
Posted: February 9th, 2010, 12:44am EST by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Economists said that Toyota’s troubles show that economic change is urgently needed in Japan.
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News Analysis: Change in Japan a Tough Task for Finance Minister
Posted: January 9th, 2010, 1:44am EST by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Analysts see the appointment of Naoto Kan as finance minister as a sign of the new prime minister’s desire to change the way Japan is governed.
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Japan to Give a Plan on U.S. Air Base
Posted: December 9th, 2009, 6:28am EST by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Japan’s prime minister said Wednesday that he wants to present concrete proposals to President Barack Obama next week in hopes of ending a growing rift over an American military air base in Okinawa.
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Japan’s New Leader Reassures U.S. on Alliance
Posted: September 3rd, 2009, 8:11am EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Yukio Hatoyama told President Obama that the U.S. alliance was the basis of Japanese foreign policy.
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News Analysis: Lost in Japan’s Election Season: The Economy
Posted: August 28th, 2009, 9:43pm EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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The momentous Japanese election has focused surprisingly little attention on the pressing problems that threaten the world’s second largest economy.
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As Japan’s Mediums Die, Ancient Tradition Fades
Posted: August 21st, 2009, 12:25am EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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The hyper-modern nation is losing its last remaining adherents to a belief in communing with the dead.
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Ruling Party’s Rural Base Erodes in Japan
Posted: August 5th, 2009, 1:14pm EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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The dogged loyalty of Japan’s conservative heartland, which kept the Liberal Democrats in power, is fading.
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Economy Spells Trouble for Leading Party in Japan
Posted: July 19th, 2009, 4:25am EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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A growing frustration over mass layoffs and tough times breeds an unusual call for change in parliamentary elections in risk-averse Japan.
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With Wounded Pride, Unemployed Koreans Quietly Turn to Manual Labor
Posted: July 6th, 2009, 11:10pm EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Former white-collar workers go to great lengths to keep their new jobs, like deckhand on a crab boat or back-scrubber in a bathhouse, from family and friends.
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North Korea Vows to Produce Nuclear Weapons
Posted: June 13th, 2009, 10:50pm EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Pressing forward on its nuclear weapons, the North vowed to take “military actions” against efforts to isolate it.
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Memo From Tokyo: In Reporting a Scandal, the Media Are Accused of Just Listening
Posted: May 29th, 2009, 12:46pm EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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A highly publicized corruption investigation has weakened Japan’s opposition party, but many worry about the failure of the news media to press the prosecutors for answers.
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Toyota’s Troubles Slam Japan’s Motor City
Posted: April 30th, 2009, 1:55am EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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The economic crisis has pushed Toyota City into its worst slump in memory, as jobs have vanished and tax revenues have dried up.
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Hime Island Journal: A Workers’ Paradise Found Off Japan’s Coast
Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 2:36am EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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The sleepy island of Hime invented its own version of work-sharing four decades before the current economic crisis popularized the term.
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Hime Island Journal: A Workers’ Paradise Found Off Japan’s Coast
Posted: April 22nd, 2009, 2:36am EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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The sleepy island of Hime invented its own version of work-sharing four decades before the current economic crisis popularized the term.
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Japan’s Rice Farmers Fear Their Future Is Shrinking
Posted: March 28th, 2009, 11:05pm EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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As rice imports grow, an aging work force is struggling to eke out a living on tiny plots of land.
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Economy Blunts Korea’s Appetite for Plastic Surgery
Posted: January 2nd, 2009, 12:10am EST by By MARTIN FACKLER
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An indicator of the economic doldrums in South Korea: Seoul’s obsession with plastic surgery is waning, and once-crowded clinics are closing.
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Economy Blunts Korea’s Appetite for Plastic Surgery
Posted: January 1st, 2009, 10:56pm EST by By MARTIN FACKLER
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An indicator of the economic doldrums in South Korea: Seoul’s obsession with plastic surgery is waning, and once-crowded clinics are closing.
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Japan Turns to Technology to Lift Fishing Industry
Posted: December 25th, 2008, 10:20pm EST by By MARTIN FACKLER
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A hybrid boat engine is one part of a multimillion-dollar government-led effort to address rising energy costs.
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News Analysis: Japan Offers a Possible Roadmap for U.S. Economy
Posted: December 19th, 2008, 1:55pm EST by By MARTIN FACKLER
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The United States is turning to the same sorts of policy tools Japan used for most of the last decade.
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South Korea Trade Fight Gets Ugly
Posted: December 18th, 2008, 1:59pm EST by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Sledgehammers, crowbars and fire extinguishers took the place of debate as opposition lawmakers tried to block the advance of a contentious free trade deal.
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Japanese Leader Offers a New Stimulus Package
Posted: December 12th, 2008, 12:38pm EST by By MARTIN FACKLER
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The sweeping $250 billion package was intended to create jobs, increase business loans and help laid-off workers.
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Japanese Companies Still Invest in Themselves
Posted: December 11th, 2008, 10:18pm EST by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Many Japanese companies are cutting back less than their rivals, investing instead for the eventual end of the downturn.
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Trouble Without Borders
Posted: October 23rd, 2008, 11:36pm EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Once again, South Korea appears threatened by an international financial contagion that began elsewhere.
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Japan Considers Bigger Role on Economic Stage
Posted: October 20th, 2008, 8:42pm EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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As the global financial order convulses, some Japanese leaders believe the country should take a more active role in economic leadership.
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Global Anxiety Catches Up to Japan’s Economy
Posted: October 10th, 2008, 10:02pm EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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The world’s second-largest economy, which had seemed immune from the global financial contagion, is suddenly looking a lot more vulnerable.
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Memo From Tokyo: Scarred by Past Woes, Japan Sees U.S. Bailout as a First Step
Posted: October 9th, 2008, 9:47pm EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Japan’s bitter memories of its banking meltdown in the 1990s made it sympathetic to Washington’s bailout efforts and reluctant to lecture America.
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Wall Street Attracts Japanese Banks
Posted: September 25th, 2008, 1:28am EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Japan’s megabanks and financial titans are returning to the world financial stage after an absence of almost two decades, buying pieces of Wall Street institutions.
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In Japan, Financial Crisis Is Just a Ripple
Posted: September 20th, 2008, 12:31am EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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While European and American financial titans have teetered and collapsed, Japan’s giant banking groups have stood relatively unscathed.
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Nissan and Others Add Factories in Emerging Markets
Posted: June 26th, 2008, 12:26am EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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In a radical shift, Japan’s staid Big Three automakers are plowing into exotic terrain, from Saharan Africa to the former Soviet Union to the scorching plains of southern India.
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Surging Oil and Food Prices Threaten the World Economy, Finance Ministers Warn
Posted: June 15th, 2008, 12:19am EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Finance ministers from the Group of 8 industrialized nations wrapped up a two-day meeting in Japan that was dominated by talk of rising petroleum prices.
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High-Tech Japanese, Running Out of Engineers
Posted: May 17th, 2008, 12:38am EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Engineering skill made Japan an economic superpower, but its young people are now choosing other careers.
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High-Tech Japanese, Running Out of Engineers
Posted: May 17th, 2008, 12:38am EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Engineering skill made Japan an economic superpower, but its young people are now choosing other careers.
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Japan Approves New Bank Chief
Posted: April 9th, 2008, 10:50am EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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As Dollar Keeps Falling, Talk of a Move by Japan
Posted: March 18th, 2008, 2:01am EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Choice of Central Banker Is Snarled in Japan’s Politics
Posted: March 13th, 2008, 1:12am EDT by By MARTIN FACKLER
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Finding a successor to Toshihiko Fukui before he steps down next Wednesday looks increasingly unlikely.