Hashimoto to retract sex suggestion for U.S. military

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.

Inaction during 'scandal' will undo a presidency

by John Dean

Few, if any, similarities exist between the redactions of the Benghazi e-mails and the deletions and distortions made by Richard Nixon in his taped conversations.

Kan Yasuda's tactile art brings new life to Bibai

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.

Our Lives

Uganda boxing trainer gives expert advice to aspiring pugilists

by Stephen Carr

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 ...

Review

Are we close to understanding bipolar disorder?

by Alexander Linklater

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.”

Japanese Baseball

Corporal punishment has long history in Japanese sports

Getting slapped by a a coach has always been, as far as I could see, simply another aspect of sports training in Japan.

TOKYO (12 a.m.)

Sexual harassment

Politics & Diplomacy

Hashimoto to retract sex suggestion for U.S. military

John Dean

Inaction during 'scandal' will undo a presidency

by John Dean

Travel

Kan Yasuda's tactile art brings new life to Bibai

by Mark Brazil

Our Lives

Uganda boxing trainer gives expert advice to aspiring pugilists

by Stephen Carr

Review

Are we close to understanding bipolar disorder?

by Alexander Linklater

Japanese Baseball

Corporal punishment has long history in Japanese sports

Issues | THE FOREIGN ELEMENT Jan 28, 2013

Blame it on the hara: harassment vocabulary makes us all victims

by Colin P.A. Jones