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The consumption tax increase next April will hit every household in Japan hard, with many people's financial future hanging on whether their wages rise enough to offset the impact of the hike, experts say.
Every parent is all too familiar with The Tantrum. The screaming, the flailing arms, the angry head butting — and the timing (normally in the most inconvenient public place possible).
International events undermine Japan's democracy. Shame on the International Olympic Committee for being a party to it.
Tucked away behind the main museums in Ueno, the Tokyo University Art Museum may not be on most people’s radar, but it is definitely one of the city’s top museums in terms of curatorial quality. Whenever I go there, I am always delighted by ...
Francisco Liriano showed up at PNC Park on Tuesday afternoon in a suit with his suitcase packed for a trip St. Louis. The message reverberated through the Pittsburgh Pirates clubhouse. After 21 years away from the playoffs, it was time for the best story ...
Readers' mails on the Fukushima fiasco and the late, great Mary Sisk Noguchi, Kanji Clinic columnist and friend to Japanese learners around the world.
Hapa haole celebrated in Hawaii I’m writing about an article published in your newspaper and written by Ryan Surdick with the title “There is more to my son than the fact he’s a ‘half’ “(The Foreign Element, July 29). A perspective from Hawaii where ...
Confounding ‘half’ stereotypes Re: “There is more to my son than the fact he’s a ‘half’ ” by Ryan Surdick (The Foreign Element, July 29): I’m a bicultural teenage girl and I have lived in Japan since I was 8 months old. I connected ...
Some readers’ letters in response to recent Community articles: War is crime, Article 9 the solution I try to stay out of Japanese politics, not being a native of Japan. But I live here, and this includes me in the politics of this country. ...
Joel Assogba, in his Hotline to Nagata-cho column on April 30 (“Stand up to Abe for the sake of Japan, Asia’s future“), wrote that the Japanese [in particular] want to forget their most unpleasant memories as quickly as possible. He may be right. But ...
Whoever wrote “Right or wrong, corporal punishment can produce winners” (The Foreign Element, March 12) picked an excellent pseudonym. “Richard Parker” has a long fictional and actual history. In the Marvel Universe, Richard Parker is the father of Peter Parker, Spider-Man. You’d think that ...
The following are some readers’ responses to the March 12 Foreign Element column by Richard Parker headlined “Right or wrong, corporal punishment can produce winners.” See many more in the comment section below the original article. Coach endorses, defends violence This is a shocking ...
In response to the article “Blame it on the hara: harassment vocabulary makes us all victims” (The Foreign Element, Jan. 28), we invited readers to come up with their own ideas for new types of “harassment.” As you can see, one JT writer got ...
Regarding “Refer Senkaku issue to ICJ to avoid a train wreck,” Hotline to Nagata-cho, Jan. 8): Brian A. Victoria’s analogy—two steam locomotives rushing toward each other at full speed—is perfect, not so much because he predicts a collision but because it symbolizes that one ...
Do we really need to know ages? Re: “Osaka: What are your hopes for yourself, Japan and the world in 2013?” (Views From The Street, Jan. 1): Looking at your questions to people of Osaka about their hopes for 2013, I wonder — yet ...