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It's become a dumping ground for old men, a place where waste is disposed of.
Quote of the Day › 06:12 AM JST - 14th October
Minoru Yamada, who moved to the Airin district of Osaka in 1973. He once worked as a day laborer and is now chairman of Kamagasaki…
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Japan is not immune. Confidence has fallen off a cliff.
Quote of the Day › 05:30 AM JST - 13th October
Nobuhiko Kuramochi, a stock analyst at Shinko Securities in Tokyo. He says Japan is suddenly feeling a lot more vulnerable to the global turmoil, following…
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There are some men who say, ‘I don’t bring sex into the home, I just do it with other women away from home.’ We shouldn’t allow them to say something like that! Japanese women allow men too much — we need to show more effort and energy.”
Quote of the Day › 12:03 AM JST - 12th October
Pop singer, erotic actress, lingerie model and pro-sex activist Aya Sugimoto (Metropolis)
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LDP leaders are out of touch with the public and they don't even realize it. The prevalence of hereditary politicians is one reason the public is getting sick of the LDP.
Quote of the Day › 06:21 AM JST - 11th October
Jun Iio, a professor of political science at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. (Bloomberg)
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It was the middle of the student activism period and sometimes students would jump on stage and begin arguments. Musicians were playing at the risk of their lives.
Quote of the Day › 04:26 AM JST - 10th October
Veteran guitar player Char, 53, recalling the birth of Tokyo's rock scene in Hibiya Park, where bands came together for concerts every Saturday and Sunday.…
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Japan's real attractions exist in rural regions. Although the three major metropolitan regions now attract 70% of foreigners touring Japan, we would like to raise the percentage for other regions to more than 40%.
Quote of the Day › 05:55 AM JST - 8th October
Yoshiaki Hompo, commissioner of the newly launched Japan Tourism Agency (Kyodo)
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To attract 20 million tourists by 2020, we need to get Asian tourists, particularly Chinese people. But Japan does not have a system in place to accept them in terms of visa and language problems.
Quote of the Day › 03:22 AM JST - 6th October
Kazuhiko Kanazashi, a Japan Tourism Agency official (Reuters)
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The so-called boots on the ground don't have to be military boots. They don't have to be Self-Defense Forces boots. They can be policemen's boots. They can be construction workers' boots. They can be aid workers' boots. They can be teachers' boots.
Quote of the Day › 05:10 AM JST - 4th October
Daniel Russel, new director at the U.S. State Department's Office of Japanese Affairs, saying that there are many ways in which Japan can support the…
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Many citizens found it difficult to find alternative hospitals and some members of staff are still looking for a place to work. The city has, in effect, turned its back on both patients and staff.
Quote of the Day › 04:47 AM JST - 3rd October
Rikuo Kanaaki, 62, who represents a citizens' organization in Choshi, referring to the closure of Choshi Municipal Hospital due to a shortage of doctors. (Yomiuri…
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Japanese leaders have done nothing to increase immigration, nothing to ease the strain on working mothers and nothing to change a work-obsessed culture that keeps many young couples from having children.
Quote of the Day › 03:58 AM JST - 2nd October
Sadako Ogata, 81, who heads the Japan International Cooperation Agency. She says Japan has no leaders far-sighted enough to deal with the country's demographic crisis.…
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I'm sure many people know there are no magic foods, but they're led to believe things in TV programs and other media that are designed to get their attention.
Quote of the Day › 06:31 AM JST - 1st October
Gunma University Prof. Kuniko Takahashi, referring to the current banana boom. Sales are up 30% across the nation since TV programs and books claimed that…
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We can't change the mindset of Japanese people. It's the uniqueness of Japanese culture -- anonymous works in Japan.
Quote of the Day › 03:12 AM JST - 30th September
Tomoe Makino, in charge of partner development at YouTube's Japan site, on why Japanese don't like to post photos of themselves on social network sites.…
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Japan has been facing up to its past with sincerity and consistency.
Quote of the Day › 12:21 AM JST - 29th September
Norihiro Okuda, Japan's deputy ambassador to the United Nations, responding to North Korea's claim that "Japan is the only war criminal state that beautifies the…
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Beer has been walloped by cheaper and perceivably healthier alcohol drinks.
Quote of the Day › 06:46 AM JST - 27th September
Tokushi Yamasaki, an analyst at Daiwa Institute of Research. Times are tough for Japan's brewers as young people lose their taste for lager. (Reuters)
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The LDP is not qualified to receive a Diet nomination for prime minister as two of its leaders in a row have thrown away their administrations.
Quote of the Day › 07:53 AM JST - 25th September
DPJ Acting President Naoto Kan (Kyodo)
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Yohan's bankruptcy was too sudden and it is taking a long time for other book distributors to establish a supply system. They do not have the knowhow for handling large volumes of foreign magazines and books.
Quote of the Day › 06:42 AM JST - 24th September
Hiroshi Hirota, in charge of book and magazine procurement at National Azabu supermarket in Tokyo. Yohan's bankruptcy has left stores scrambling to meet customer demand…
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If you can find the right positioning, the right messages, this is still a very wealthy country.
Quote of the Day › 04:17 AM JST - 22nd September
David Rudlin, the Tokyo-based director of international markets at De Beers. He says that despite a tendency for Japanese to react disproportionately to economic uncertainty,…
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Wild animals are going to become acceptable as food.
Quote of the Day › 05:38 AM JST - 21st September
Masatsugu Suzuki, a professor at Gifu University, saying that game meat is becoming more popular as food scandals come to light one after the other…
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The LDP is trying to maintain its power base in the same old way. And that is the major factor behind the political vacuum, not the personal qualities of the prime ministers.
Quote of the Day › 05:00 AM JST - 20th September
Economist Naoki Tanaka, who says the vacuum in Japan's leadership is an inevitable result of Japan's abnormal political environment through to the end of the…
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Every one year of action here is about equal to what it took Japan seven years to do.
Quote of the Day › 04:59 AM JST - 19th September
Adam Posen, deputy director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. He says you can't compare the effect of the current financial upheavals in the…
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Japan's real attractions exist in rural regions. Although the three major metropolitan regions now attract 70% of foreigners touring Japan, we would like to raise the percentage for other regions to more than 40%.
Quote of the Day › 05:55 AM JST - 8th October
LDP leaders are out of touch with the public and they don't even realize it. The prevalence of hereditary politicians is one reason the public is getting sick of the LDP.
Quote of the Day › 06:21 AM JST - 11th October
There are some men who say, ‘I don’t bring sex into the home, I just do it with other women away from home.’ We shouldn’t allow them to say something like that! Japanese women allow men too much — we need to show more effort and energy.”
Quote of the Day › 12:03 AM JST - 12th October
Japan is not immune. Confidence has fallen off a cliff.
Quote of the Day › 05:30 AM JST - 13th October
It was the middle of the student activism period and sometimes students would jump on stage and begin arguments. Musicians were playing at the risk of their lives.
Quote of the Day › 04:26 AM JST - 10th October
