Announcement
MDN launches revamped site, renews apology
The Mainichi Newspapers has revamped its English Web site, The Mainichi Daily News (MDN). Based on many opinions received from readers, the MDN will place importance on content from the Mainichi Shimbun -- news, commentary and reviews. We will translate Mainichi Shimbun editorials, columns and commentary pieces by prominent figures, such as "Jidai-no-Kaze" (Sign of the Times) into English. We have adopted a new masthead and site design.
More...Perspectives
Tackling Japan's overwork ethic
Tsugumasa Muraoka is 35 years old and works in Kasumigaseki, Tokyo, for the Local Public Finance Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications. Sometime after midnight, he leaves the brightly lit government office where he works and rushes to catch the last subway train.More...
News
- Digging up the causes of overtime work in Japan
- Over 7,300 children face full medical costs after parents fail to pay insurance premiums
- Family of aid worker killed in Afghanistan views body at airport in Aichi
- China Investment Corporation to invest in Japanese stock market
- Quake in southwestern China kills 27, destroys 180,000 homes
- Sony to release world's slimmest LCD TV in autumn
- Akita maintains top spot, Kochi and Osaka fall further in academic ability ranking
- Lack of international savvy, inflexibility doomed Japan's national baseball team
- 150 photos of post-Great Kanto Earthquake Yokohama found in Tokyo home
- Slick new au phone targets middle-aged and elderly customers
- Gaps in academic ability highlighted in nationwide school tests
- The Power of Diversity
Features
Hibakusha: A 63-year battle in solitude
"Steroids, pills to prevent thrombosis, pills to relieve stomach acid ... pills, pills and more pills. Hiroshima resident Seiko Komatsu begins each morning by downing 13 types of medication with his tea. 'I eat pills instead of food,' he says with a short laugh."More...
Daily Haiku Selection
Aug. 29, 2008
summer solstice
dawn silently scales
skyscraper windows
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Origa (Lancing, MI, USA)More...