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JAPAN

JAPAN
Oct 19, 2013
Fukushima 2020: Will Japan be able to keep the nuclear situation under control?
By Jun Hongo
Thirty seconds into what may ultimately be regarded as one of the defining speeches of his career, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe slowly raised his hands chest high, then spread them out sideways in a gesture of confidence.
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JAPAN
Oct 19, 2013
Nuclear refugees struggle to share Olympic joy
By Jun Hongo
While Tokyo Municipal Government officials were rubbing their hands with glee after winning the right to host the 2020 Olympics following their failed attempt to win the 2016 Games, it's perhaps fair to say that not everyone in other parts of the country shared their sentiment.
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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Oct 19, 2013
Enough already: Can Japan settle for less?
By Michael Hoffman
The pua-ju016b philosophy in short: Poverty as Japan understands it is not real poverty and does not rule out happiness. In fact, it may even be conducive to it.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Oct 19, 2013
'GTAV' aggro-risks doubt
By Rowan Hooper
In the last week I've been drunk in a strip club, got shot at by gangsters and driven a sports car into the ocean — where, regretfully, my partner drowned. But that's nothing compared to a friend of mine who has robbed a convenience store at gunpoint and broken into a military air base — then stolen...
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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 19, 2013
Imagining civil servants who actually serve
By Philip Brasor
As a comedy, Nippon TV's 'Dandarin' not only pokes fun at bureaucratic privilege, but also wags its finger at Japan's storied management style, which succeeds on the backs of put-upon employees.
JAPAN
Oct 19, 2013
'Abenomics' a pipe dream: professor
A Stanford University professor has criticized Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's economic strategy, saying it will be impossible to speedily execute all of the items in his "Abenomics" policy package.
JAPAN / View from Osaka
Oct 19, 2013
Will Olympic glory carry beyond Tokyo?
By Eric Johnston
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.

ASIA PACIFIC

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ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 19, 2013
U.S. helped asylum-seeker Wang tell Beijing about Bo in 2012: Clinton
By Max Fisher
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has disclosed new information about the United States' role in a major 2012 diplomatic incident in which a Chinese official sought asylum at a U.S. consulate but was turned away. The incident — which helped trigger the downfall of prominent Communist...

WORLD

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WORLD / ANALYSIS
Oct 19, 2013
Guantanamo's fate tied to Afghan exit
The approaching end of the U.S. war in Afghanistan could help President Barack Obama move toward what he has said he wanted to do since his first day in office: close the American prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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WORLD
Oct 19, 2013
Well-funded extremists bleed Syria's moderate rebel groups of fighters
By Loveday Morris
In a medical clinic packed with injured Syrian rebels, 23-year-old Mohammed Hadhoud lies waiting for an operation to remove a machine-gun bullet lodged in his spine. His family cannot afford the bill, and the moderate Islamist brigade he fights with has refused to fully cover the cost.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 19, 2013
Top-two primary systems could counter American extremist tendencies
By Reid Wilson
The latest game of political chicken that drove Washington to a government shutdown and the very edge of the debt ceiling gave new life to the omnipresent complaint of elder statesmen and centrist wise guys: If only congressional districts weren't so gerrymandered in the decennial redistricting process,...

BUSINESS

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BUSINESS / FOCUS
Oct 19, 2013
Feds return to work dreading unread email trove
By Ellen Mccarthy
There were a few times in recent weeks when Sophia Casey found herself mindlessly walking toward her laptop, ready to scan for new work messages as she's always done at nights and on weekends. Then she would see the computer — powered down, closed and unplugged — and remember: furlough.

ENVIRONMENT

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ENVIRONMENT
Oct 19, 2013
Countryside campaigner for us all
By Winifred Bird
In the mid-1970s, Souichi Yamashita, a farmer in northern Kyushu who also writes books about rural Japan, got to know a young man named Yutaka Une.

Opinion

EDITORIALS
Oct 19, 2013
Remedies for rigged research
It still isn't clear who manipulated clinical research data in favor of Novartis Pharma's blood-pressure drug Diovan, casting a cloud on the credibility of Japan's medical universities.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 19, 2013
Crossing the Mediterranean 'cemetery'
By Gwynne Dyer
Italians don't want the economic and political migrants crossing the 'Mediterranean cemetery' in flimsy boats to drown, but they don't want them to stay in Italy either.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Oct 19, 2013
Abe ought to show a red card to hate speech now
By Jeff Kingston
Last week I ended this column by noting that Myanmar (also known as Burma) can ill afford bigotry and intolerance. Neither can Japan. The outpouring here of hate speech targeting ethnic Korean residents is a disturbing development even if it is not representative. And certainly, it is encouraging that...

Sports

SOCCER / J. League
Oct 19, 2013
Saito fires Marinos by Sanfrecce
By Andrew MCKIRDY
Manabu Saito struck early in the second half to put Yokohama F. Marinos in control of the J. League title race with a 1-0 win over Sanfrecce Hiroshima on Saturday.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Oct 19, 2013
Tanishige to become rare player-manager for Dragons
By Wayne Graczyk
Kind of a surprise was the announcement last week that Motonobu Tanishige was named the new manager of the Chunichi Dragons.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 19, 2013
White Sox lock up slugger Abreu
AP — Cuban slugger Jose Abreu has agreed to a six-year, $68 million contract with the Chicago White Sox, a person familiar with the situation said Friday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 19, 2013
Giants put away Carp
By Jason Coskrey
This was the realist's ending.
BASKETBALL
Oct 19, 2013
Shimane falls to 0-5 under new coach Vlaikidis
By Ed Odeven
It's been a rough start this season for the Shimane Susanoo Magic.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 19, 2013
Ex-Oilers coach Phillips, 90, dies
AP — Bum Phillips, the folksy Texas football icon who coached the Houston Oilers during their Luv Ya Blue heyday and also led the New Orleans Saints, died Friday. He was 90.

LIFE

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LIFE / Travel
Oct 19, 2013
Sado Island: Iconic birds, gold mines, magic caves and art
By Eli Kirzner
"The people in our town, they died without ever seeing the ocean."
LIFE / Language / THE BUZZ
Oct 19, 2013
Omotenashi: The spirit of selfless hospitality
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CULTURE

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CULTURE / Books
Oct 19, 2013
On the beat with a cultural detective
By Kris Kosaka
The recent success of Barry Lancet, first time author and resident of Japan for over 25 years, reads like a bar-stool fantasy for any wanna-be writer, and Lancet's definitely enjoying the dream-like reality. With the TV rights optioned by Hollywood, positive reviews surging in across the globe, six countries...
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CULTURE / Books
Oct 19, 2013
Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation
By Shaun McKenna
There are some genres of music that Japan excels in. Recently, acts here have been appropriating the dance music styles of dubstep and juke to create a sound that feels like a real contribution to the global music scene. Before all this, though, there was noise.
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CULTURE / Books
Oct 19, 2013
The Little Book of Japan
By Jordan Sievers
Covering a broad range of topics for the first time visitor, yet comprehensive enough for the truly Japan-obsessed, "The Little Book of Japan" is certainly not small in scope. Sectioned into four chapters — Cultural Icons, Traditions, Places and Spiritual Life — this book includes 44 essays from...
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CULTURE / Books
Oct 19, 2013
Loco in Yokohama
By Shaun McKenna
I remember heading to the pub years ago, after teaching English at a high school, to swap horror stories with my peers. Baye McNeil's "Loco in Yokohama" is, in that sense, a trip down memory lane.
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CULTURE / Books
Oct 19, 2013
Craft Beer in Japan
By Elliott
As most beer-drinkers in Japan know, there's beer and then there's real beer. Mark Meli's "Craft Beer in Japan" makes this distinction in the very first sentence, before setting out, in a little over 200 pages, to comprehensively look at Japan's craft beer industry.

COMMUNITY

COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Oct 19, 2013
Wet behind the ears; Everybody needs good neighbors
Everybody needs good neighbors
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Oct 19, 2013
Ian Philip Tozer: 'Like good wine, age helps'
By Elliott
If you want to create something with longevity in my business (which I do), you have to balance creative inspiration with reliable and constant back-of-the-house grunt work.
Surrounded by Chinese bases, a tiny Philippine island stands firm
A Philippine Navy sailor looks at a China Coast Guard vessel just off the coast of Pag-asa Island in the disputed South China Sea last month.
Anger in Japan after Instagrammer drinks burial site offering
Foreign tourists visit a park near the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in August.
Tamagotchi hatches 100 million shipments worldwide thanks to ’90s nostalgia
The latest version of Tamagotchi, called Tamagotchi Paradise, is awarded the best digital toy at Tokyo Toy Show on Aug. 28.
Tropical Storm Peipah forms off southwestern Japan
Tropical Storm Peipah, which formed off southeastern Japan, is expected to travel east off the Tokai area and the Kanto region.
What we know about the supplements scandal linked to Suntory’s ex-CEO
Takeshi Niinami, the former chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings, at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday
London’s calling and sumo’s top division — along with Hello Kitty — are ready to answer
Yokozuna Hoshoryu and Hello Kitty, an ambassador for sumo's upcoming tour to London, at Tokyo's Kokugikan on Tuesday
Resonac creates 27-member consortium to pursue advanced chip developments
Representatives from member companies of JOINT3, a consortium working together on semiconductor-related developments announced by Resonac, pose for a photo in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Haru Nemuri’s radical new album refuses easy listening
Musician Haruna Kimishima, better known as Haru Nemuri, confronts Japan’s politics, nationalism and censorship on her recent output.
Overseas sluggers step up to bat in small-town Hokkaido
The Betsukai Pilot Spirits welcomed new players (left to right) Yuta Yamanaka, Roman Guthrie, Scott Bellina and Leo Jiminian this year, pictured here with Yassir Lachkar of the Ishikari Red Phoenix.
Xi — joined by Kim and Putin — delivers stark warning at military parade
Chinese leader Xi Jinping walks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un before a military parade marking the 80th anniversary of victory over Japan and the end of World War II, in Beijing on Wednesday.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
By Alex K.T. Martin

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