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EDITORIALS
Oct 30, 2011
Sleepless in Tokyo
If you ever wonder why Tokyoites are always sleeping on the train, a report at the 6th World Congress of the World Sleep Federation explains why: They're not sleeping enough at home.
CARTOONS / ZERO GRAVITY
Oct 30, 2011
Zen Sand Trap
EDITORIALS
Oct 30, 2011
Give teachers time, not a fine
A recent spot check of working conditions of teachers in Hokkaido, Ishikawa, Tottori and Okinawa by the Board of Audit concluded that teachers in Hokkaido and Okinawa misused their working hours. The Board of Audit will ask the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry to demand those...
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CARTOONS / NOODLES
Oct 30, 2011
Halloween
COMMENTARY
Oct 29, 2011
No escaping the noise at Nanny State Airlines
By George Will
You step onto an airport's moving walkway, a flat metal conveyor belt that conveys travelers down an airport concourse, sparing them the indignity of burning a few calories by walking a bit. And soon a recorded voice says: "The moving sidewalk is coming to an end. Please look down."
EDITORIALS
Oct 29, 2011
Mr. Noda lays out tasks
In his policy speech Friday, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda listed three big issues Japan now faces — reconstructing the areas devastated by the March 11 quake and tsunami, bringing the Fukushima nuclear crisis under control and accelerating the recovery of the Japanese economy.
EDITORIALS
Oct 29, 2011
Downward risks for the economy
The Bank of Japan's biannual report on Thursday said that the Japanese economy is slowly recovering from the effects of the March 11 quake and tsunami. But it pointed out that it is unavoidable that the slowing down of overseas economies and the yen's historic rise in currency markets will negatively...
COMMENTARY
Oct 28, 2011
Global crises of democracy
By Ramesh Thakur
In 2000, at the first U.N. millennium meeting in Tokyo, Gallup presented interesting results of a global public opinion survey. Most people, even in the mature Western democracies, believed their government was failing to represent them — refusing to heed their voices, looking after their own and corporate...
EDITORIALS
Oct 28, 2011
Thailand in trouble
Floods in Thailand, which initially hit northern and central areas hard, are spilling toward central Bangkok, where government organizations are concentrated. On Oct. 25, two domestic airlines canceled all their flights to and from Don Muang airport in northern Bangkok. As of the morning of Oct. 26,...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 28, 2011
Neighbors warily eye a more muscular Turkey
By Shlomo Avineri
The recent surge in Turkey's military actions against the Kurds in northern Iraq is an indication that, somewhat surprisingly — but not entirely unpredictably — Turkish foreign policy has undergone a 180-degree turn in less than two years. The Turkish offensive is also an indication that these changes...
EDITORIALS
Oct 28, 2011
Reconsider Futenma relocation
Defense Minister Yasuo Ichikawa told U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta in Tokyo on Oct. 25 that the Japanese government will take an official procedural step by the end of this year to push the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from Okinawa Island's densely populated Ginowan city...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 27, 2011
Understanding the language of global protest
By Jan-Werner Mueller
The protest movements that have flared up across the West, from Chile to Germany, have remained curiously undefined and under-analyzed. Some speak of them as the greatest global mobilization since 1968 — when enragés in very different countries coalesced around similar concerns. But others insist...
JICA to designate four Japanese cities as 'hometowns' for African nations
The Japanese flag (left) with the flag of the African Union
Osaka fire kills two firefighters and leaves four injured
Firefighters work at the scene of a fire in the Dotonbori district in the city of Osaka on Monday.
Winning warship bid gives Japan confidence boost as Tokyo eyes more exports
Australia’s decision to select Japan's upgraded Mogami-class warship, seen in this computer-generated image, has been “well received across Japanese industry," a Defense Ministry official said.
Two Japanese nationals shot dead in Manila
Commuters cross the street through traffic in Manila.
A factory town in crisis shows Japan’s fading manufacturing era
Nissan workers walk outside its Oppama plant in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. Nissan plans to shut the plant by the end of fiscal 2027.
Tokyo crowned No.1 'workation' spot
Workations were a burgeoning trend in the corporate world for years before the COVID-19 pandemic turbocharged it.
Candidates preparing to make final pitches for Sawamura Award
Hawks pitcher Livan Moinelo has a 1.13 ERA in 19 starts this season.
Winning warship bid gives Japan confidence boost as Tokyo eyes more exports
Australia’s decision to select Japan's upgraded Mogami-class warship, seen in this computer-generated image, has been “well received across Japanese industry," a Defense Ministry official said.
In Paris, chefs Chizuko Kimura and Kei Kobayashi make their mark
Chef Kei Kobayashi is France's only Japanese chef with three Michelin stars.
In preserving Japanese hospitality, ‘details are everything’
Beniya Mukayu, a traditional "ryokan" inn located in Ishikawa Prefecture, considers itself at "the heart of onsen towns, local residents, farmers, fishermen, sake brewers and artisans" — all of which need new, sustainable methods of serving visitors to survive into the future.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers
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