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Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto aims to retract his remark that U.S. servicemen in Okinawa should use its adult entertainment industry to avoid committing sex offenses.
Kan Yasuda's art somehow draws in the landscape, and entices in people, so that it is natural to explore the view through his structures and keyholes, to sit awhile atop a sculpture or to pose within their frames.
If you don’t get into the ring once or twice, then you’re a coward, Geoffrey Ima says as he describes people’s attitudes toward boxing in his hometown in Uganda. Ima has been in the ring hundreds of times and came to love boxing so ...
It may seem perverse to express nostalgia for a category of mental illness, but many sufferers, as well as some psychiatrists, regret the passing of “manic depression.”
Getting slapped by a a coach has always been, as far as I could see, simply another aspect of sports training in Japan.
When it comes to preparing for the April launch of compulsory English classes in elementary schools, the private sector appears to have a clear lead over public school teachers. “We kicked off our preliminary research group in the beginning of 2007,” Mina Funabashi, who ...
When Kanagawa Gov. Shigefumi Matsuzawa formally announced Tuesday that he will run for Tokyo governor, he listed a raft of key policy objectives, many of which he advocated in his current office. Matsuzawa said he will try to get a total ban on smoking ...
Come April, English classes will become mandatory for fifth- and sixth-graders, but a 29-year-old elementary school teacher in Tokyo has heard the concerns of her overwhelmed colleagues, especially the older ones, who have neither taught the language nor studied it since their university years ...
While all elementary schools in Japan are scheduled to start teaching English this April, other parts of Asia and Europe have been doing it for years. They are teaching English earlier, longer and with more advanced content. Some even have teachers who are specialists ...
As battles rage in the Diet between the ruling and opposition camps over fiscal 2011 budget-related bills, one dreadful scenario has emerged: The debt-ridden government may run out of funds by around June. On top of this, various public perks would lapse because they ...
Toyota dealers interviewed by The Japan Times voiced relief Wednesday over the result of a 10-month investigation by NASA and the U.S. Transportation Department clearing the automaker’s electronic throttle systems, saying they never lost confidence in the safety of the cars they are selling. ...
Second in power only to the prime minister, Tokyo’s governor manages a metropolis with a population several times that of any other prefecture and a gross domestic product larger than that of most other nations. The metro government also has more employees than any ...
Hideo Higashikokubaru, the popular former Miyazaki governor, would not say Thursday if he will run in the Tokyo gubernatorial race in April. “I’m not ruling out any possibility,” Higashikokubaru told reporters at a Tokyo hotel. “I haven’t decided anything for the time being.” The ...
Despite being known for xenophobic remarks, Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara claims he welcomes an increase in foreign residents and says Japan should allow more immigrants to live here. Japanese are not a homogeneous people, because their ancestors can be traced back to Korea, Mongolia, ...
Opening up Tokyo’s Haneda airport to more international flights was supposed to make a lot of sense for travelers. But only open since October, the new international terminal has already sparked a raft of passenger complaints, particularly about the lack of amenities late at ...
As winter sets in, hospitals are calling for people to get flu shots. Last year, the spread of the H1N1 swine influenza caused an international health scare. How about this year? Following are some basic questions and answers on influenza: What is influenza? In ...
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government signed a deal with China in July to lease two giant pandas for 10 years for Ueno Zoo, which has been without a panda since the famous Ling Ling died in 2008. The animals are scheduled to make their Tokyo ...