RSS Feed for Japan Today http://www.japantoday.com/feed Mon, 12 May 2008 10:38:14 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/what-are-nazis-todays-kids-cant-handle-movie-subtitles The first Hollywood film shown in Japan to carry subtitles on the screen was the Gary Cooper epic “Morocco,” released here in 1931. Up to… Mon, 12 May 2008 09:53:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/aids-spreading-via-dating-sites-fact-or-fiction The rumor mill had it that HIV, the AIDS virus, was spreading among users of “deaikei” (encounter) websites. These specialize in bringing strangers together as… Thu, 08 May 2008 17:49:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/few-authorities-know-how-to-deal-with-rape-victims-in-japan A 13-year-old Tokyo girl left alone at home one night ventures out and is raped by a man she doesn’t know. Yomiuri Weekly (May 4)… Fri, 02 May 2008 19:52:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/family-restaurants-face-uncertain-future There’s nothing quite like them, those “oases of the night” known in Japanese as “famiresu.” Clean, well-lit and open 24/7, the family restaurant is the… Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:00:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/pram-safety-aboard-trains-a-growing-problem From the end of March, JR East Japan and a consortium of railway companies in the Kanto and Kansai regions launched a joint campaign appealing… Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:37:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/briquettes-are-out-hydrogen-sulfide-in-as-latest-suicide-method “Generating poison gas. Don’t open.” Such was the notice on the bathroom door, posted on March 27 by a 27-year-old Kobe man testing a new… Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:00:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/yougn-women-lax-on-security-at-home The recent arrest of 28-year-old Toshiya Tsuji, accused of committing at least two break-in rapes in Saitama Prefecture, has shed light on the low awareness… Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:57:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/ols-licking-their-lips-at-young-fresh-faced-new-hires “If there’s anything you don’t understand, feel free to ask me,” smiles the veteran OL to the new company recruit. "Anything at all." It’s that… Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:00:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/vehicle-rip-offs-change-with-the-times “The other day, I ran into a friend. He told me two men had approached him in broad daylight. One sprayed some kind of tear… Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:35:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/laugh-meter-could-prevent-murder-in-the-family Laughter is no joke to Kansai University Prof Yoji Kimura. He studies it, measures it, seeks to develop its health-giving potential. He is the inventor… Fri, 04 Apr 2008 16:04:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/fraudsters-running-scams-ahead-of-digital-tv-switchover “We mailed you three explanatory flyers about the new terrestrial digital broadcasting system. Did you receive them?” the man asked. “Unless you have the work… Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:03:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/geek-hunting-turning-akihabara-into-dangerous-place “I was waiting for a friend at the Electric Town entrance at Akihabara Station,” Shukan Gendai (March 29) hears from a 27-year-old woman. “Suddenly an… Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:14:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/no-goodies-for-miura-says-saipan-jailer Japanese businessman Kazuyoshi Miura, 60, currently jailed in Saipan, awaiting possible extradition to Los Angeles, received a small disappointment this week when attorney William Fitzgerald,… Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:07:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/premature-death-rate-high-for-mainichi-employees Journalists working in war zones and dictatorships put their lives on the line. In Japan, at peace and nominally democratic, the stakes are rather lower.… Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:58:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/shinjuku-cops-roust-otaku-to-boost-sagging-arrest-stats “The places you’re most like to get stopped and questioned are by the east exit of Shinjuku Station, around the Sakuraya Hobby-kan, or at the… Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:59:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/five-years-on-roppongi-hills-hollowing-out “Over the weekend, I dropped in on Roppongi Hills and found myself in for a surprise,” writes a reporter for evening tabloid Nikkan Gendai (Feb… Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:59:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/chinas-economic-boom-mean-ipods-and-leather-jackets-for-tokyos-homeless It’s a good time to be homeless in Japan, Tokyo Sports (Feb 27) finds. Why? Because of this summer’s Beijing Olympics. What’s the connection? The… Mon, 10 Mar 2008 09:11:00 +0100 http://www.japantoday.com/category/kuchikomi/view/is-a-china-free-diet-possible-in-japan Japan’s single biggest news story since the beginning of February has been the ongoing revelations of pesticide-laced frozen gyoza (dumplings) from China and the repercussions… Sat, 01 Mar 2008 13:58:00 +0100