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For Minoru Matsutani's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
JAPAN
Feb 15, 2012
Governor: Why no arrests over crisis?
Saitama Gov. Kiyoshi Ueda wants to see Tokyo Electric Power Co. held criminally responsible for the Fukushima nuclear crisis.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 14, 2012
Reactor 2 heat spike reading said faulty
A thermocouple device in the pressure vessel of reactor 2 at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 power plant read over 285 degrees Monday but Tepco dismissed the reading, claiming the device is faulty.
JAPAN
Feb 14, 2012
Oi reactor stress tests approved by NISA
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, in its first approval of stress tests for nuclear facilities, said Monday the level of quake and tsunami resistance of two reactors at the Oi power plant in Fukui Prefecture is adequate.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media
Feb 12, 2012
The idol's mom, the underage boy and the media
The recent arrest of the mother of a Japanese pop idol for sex with a minor raises questions on how the media here handles such high-profile cases.
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Feb 8, 2012
Bills could render Hague toothless
Japan may sign the Hague Convention, but if planned new laws for ratifying the treaty fail to compel family court judges to adhere to its principles, the whole exercise could be meaningless, legal experts and people whose children have been victims of parental abductions say.
JAPAN
Feb 8, 2012
Outline approved for Hague treaty bills
A Justice Ministry panel on Tuesday gave the green light for the ministry to write bills for new domestic laws in preparation for signing the Hague Convention, which would theoretically promise other countries that Japan will try its utmost to return abducted children.
BUSINESS
Feb 7, 2012
FSA seeks disclosure on bank salaries
Citing an international trend to clamp down on risk-taking that could lead to financial disasters similar to the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers, banks will soon be required to disclose the salaries of employees who earn as much as board members do, a Financial Services Agency official said Monday.
JAPAN
Feb 3, 2012
Axed Giants general manager Kiyotake, Yomiuri face off in court
Both sides stood fast at their first court session Thursday as former Yomiuri Giants general manager Hidetoshi Kiyotake maintained his firing was illegal while the Yomiuri group countered that his public criticism of the team's chairman was defamatory.
JAPAN
Feb 3, 2012
Retired police chief, 74, arrested after paying two 16-year-old girls for sex
A 74-year-old retired police chief has been arrested on suspicion of paying two 16-year-old girls for sex in Sapporo, a Hokkaido police spokesman said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 2, 2012
Privacy and Net cafes — a tale of two cities
Kazushi Takahashi, a 22-year-old student in Tokyo, likes the privacy provided by closed individual rooms in Internet cafes, where he can surf the Web, play online games and read manga.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CABINET INTERVIEW
Feb 1, 2012
Justice minister feels signing off on hangings just part of job description
Toshio Ogawa is the first justice minister to tacitly support capital punishment since the Democratic Party of Japan came to power in September 2009 and has no intention of engaging in the debate over whether to end the death penalty.
JAPAN
Jan 31, 2012
Cyber-attack disrupts website of nuclear crisis panel
The website of the government-appointed panel probing the Fukushima disaster was hit by a cyber-attack Saturday night that lasted until Sunday morning.
JAPAN
Jan 28, 2012
NRC briefed NISA on contingencies; Tepco in dark
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency in 2006 and 2008 received briefings from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on its contingency guideline for handling nuclear plants in case of a terrorist attack, which may have included detailed procedures to lower reactor pressure to avoid explosions, an agency official said Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 28, 2012
Veteran of two wars — in two different armies
Minoru Ohye, 86, is a rare veteran: He served in both the Imperial Japanese Army, fighting the Soviet Red Army during World War II, and in the U.S. military during the Korean War.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 28, 2012
Nuclear foes defy order to remove tents from the grounds of METI
Antinuclear activists camping out at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry refused to take down their tents Friday despite an order to do so by 5 p.m.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 26, 2012
Photos found in tsunami aftermath displayed
Most are faded or discolored by seawater and the elements. About 1,500 photos found in the aftermath of the March 11 tsunami — snaps of daily life, such as small children at play and friends gathered around a dinner table — are on display at a Tokyo art gallery.
JAPAN
Jan 20, 2012
Scientists say they can find melted reactor fuel
One major mystery — and a source of serious concern — at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant is the exact location of the molten fuel from reactors 1, 2 and 3.
BUSINESS
Jan 19, 2012
Takayama vows to stay at Olympus helm until late April
Olympus Corp. President Shuichi Takayama, one of the defendants in a suit over the firm's massive hidden losses, said Wednesday he will stay at his post until the second half of April, when the company will hold a shareholders' meeting.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jan 10, 2012
Student count, knowledge sliding
Education experts have for years been lamenting the academic decline of young Japanese.
BUSINESS
Jan 7, 2012
Woodford ends fight to lead Olympus
Former Olympus Corp. President and CEO Michael C. Woodford said Friday in Tokyo he will give up his proxy fight to regain the top job in the medical equipment and camera maker because of lack of support from Japanese shareholders and trauma suffered by his family.
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
Three men rearrested over brokering of overseas prostitution
A woman speaks of her experience of being sent to Macau by an overseas prostitution broker during an interview in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on April 8.
Ex-METI bureaucrat given 10-year sentence for drugging and raping women
The Tokyo District Court on Monday sentenced a former industry ministry bureaucrat to 10 years in prison for drugging six women with sleeping pills and then raping or groping them in 2022.
Money stolen via online transfers up fivefold in Tokyo
Special fraud cases in Tokyo in which stolen money was sent via online banking services grew some fivefold from the previous year in 2023.
How the discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan
Archaeologists say a 1,600-year-old wooden coffin at the Tomio Maruyama tumulus in the city of Nara was kept in good condition probably because it was protected by a layer of clay and copper ions that had seeped out of the mirrors that were buried together.
In a rare event, the Northern Lights show up in Hokkaido
The Northern Lights in Nayoro, Hokkaido, on Saturday
Is black the new green for Japan’s flagging tea farmers?
George Guttridge-Smith brews tea at Kyoto Obubu Tea Farm in Wazuka, Kyoto Prefecture, where he serves as head of international development.
Japan's logistics firms seek partnerships to cope with driver shortage
Japan Post CEO Tetsuya Senda (right) and his Seino Transportation counterpart Satoshi Takahashi announce their companies' agreement on joint long-haul truck operations, in Tokyo on Thursday.
How the discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan
Archaeologists say a 1,600-year-old wooden coffin at the Tomio Maruyama tumulus in the city of Nara was kept in good condition probably because it was protected by a layer of clay and copper ions that had seeped out of the mirrors that were buried together.
Unlike 10 years ago, Japan's new security bill sparks little debate
The Lower House starts discussing a security clearance bill on April 19 in Tokyo.

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