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Tokyo Skytree will celebrate its first anniversary Wednesday but has not yet completed its prime mission of reliably broadcasting to households in the capital and its suburbs. Since December, the world’s tallest free-standing tower, at 634 meters high, has been making test broadcasts to ...
If you work in an office, you probably spend a fair part of your time sitting at a desk, which, of course, isn’t very healthy. To combat that the Pomodoro technique recommends that you work in intervals with regular breaks — for example, 25 ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
“Outsider art” is relatively new in Japan and, as a genre, works made by self-taught Japanese artists are still not very well known on the category-delineating, label-loving international art scene. Now, though, “Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan,” an exhibition on view (through June 30) ...
After all these years, Rafael Nadal still knows how to dominate Roger Federer. In the 30th meeting between the two tennis greats, Nadal controlled the final from start to finish to win 6-1, 6-3 Sunday for his seventh Italian Open title. “Rafa was just ...
For Internal Submission's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
Regarding the May 15 front-page article “Hashimoto takes flak for sex slave rationale” and related media stories: Why would a system of government-sponsored brothels be considered inappropriate, not to mention criminal, in this day and age? If Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto doesn’t know the ...
Regarding the March 6 Kyodo brief “Tsunami ‘Noah’s Ark“: It would be a great idea for the infrastructure ministry to make special lifeboats for evacuation during tsunami. But we could save many more lives if car companies would make a new car or adapt ...
Regarding the Washington Post article by Jackson Diehl, which ran in The Japan Times on May 8 under the headline “Putin’s hand in radicalizing a secular rebellion“: The writer would appear to have little knowledge of Chechnya or Russia; nor does he seem to ...
Regarding the May 12 editorial, “Who’s to blame in Bangladesh?“: Globalization will inevitably proceed no matter what we want, but why must we hastily remove the boundaries that restrict the movement of money when borders prevent us from saving millions of people from abuse ...
I notice that a lot of senior employees of traditional Japanese companies often bemoan the fact that their daughters cannot easily find desirable husbands these days. Some people describe Japanese young men today as “grass-eating boys” who are too timid to find girlfriends. Others ...
The thing that struck me about Tokyo Gov. Naoki Inose’s Muslim-slurring remarks (May 1 front-page article “Inose apologizes for slurring Muslims“) is his apparent clueless obliviousness. Of course, there’s nothing surprising in that because Japanese politicians seem to tend toward obliviousness. The more oblivious ...
Regarding the April 6 article “Can China’s new government end corruption?“: China’s corruption can be solved by simply taking a page from the United States and legalizing it. Politicians in the U.S. like to point their collective finger at China for corruption problems while ...
Barry Andrew Ward’s Catholic-bashing letter of May 9 … falsely portrays the Cathars as an innocent, wrongfully persecuted religious minority. In fact they held that the world was fundamentally evil, that suicide was admirable, that marital intercourse and reproduction were abhorrent, and other teachings ...
Unable to refute the key role of Christian principles in progressive advances, from abolition of slavery to workers’ rights, or the geographical congruence of human rights with the historic arc of Judeo-Christianity, Barry Ward (May 9 letter, “Worthy fight to right the church“) resorts ...
Frankly I was very sad and disappointed with what Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso had to say on the definition of “invasion” as well as their attitude toward invasion and colonization by Japan before 1945. Chinese and Koreans believe ...
In Joseph Jaworski’s May 9 letter, “Limits of planning good health,” he admits making the assumption linking a decrease in smoking to an increase in obesity. He then says I made an “unsupported assumption” that the decrease in smoking was from smokers dying and ...
Regarding the May 11 editorial “Preventing use of nuclear weapons“: Japan’s refusal to sign the international anti-nuclear weapons statement is completely reasonable and consistent with its current defensive policy. Japan should not seek to join [four NATO countries] Denmark, Iceland, Luxembourg and Norway in ...