Robert Austenfeld's proposal in his Letter to the Editor in the April 15 edition ("Why not teach abstinence in schools?"), seems nothing more than a thinly veiled attempt to project his own personal and religious beliefs into the debate on the use of abortion ...
The March 6 article "Japanese official allegedly did not rule out building nuclear weapons storage site in Okinawa" repeated an allegation by a U.S. researcher that we know not to be true. This is in reference to a 2009 discussion between the U.S. Congressional ...
You have to look out for yourself Facebook, Edward Snowden and AR-15s all have something in common. Americans are always so shocked to find out what is going on in the world. Snowden told the world about NSA spy programs. Cambridge Analytica told the world ...
Regarding the recent incident over women entering the ring at a sumo event, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has been promoting "womenomics," but women face discrimination every step of the way. Elected female politicians face harassment in their government assemblies. Corporate sex harassment goes without ...
In his opinion piece "Preventing another Moritomo scandal" on April 14, Ichiro Asahina said politicians should focus on "more important issues," such as North Korea and work-style reform. But how can a government paralyzed by successive scandals effectively tackle such issues? The scandals are not ...
Philip Brasor's Media Mix column headlined "In Japan no one wants to talk about sex education" in the April 8 edition tells of a sex education program by an "unnamed school" in Adachi Ward that apparently flew in the face of the Tokyo Board ...
Regarding the story "Women tending to collapsed mayor told to stay out of 'sacred' sumo ring" in the April 6 edition, sumo has sanctioned violence and sexual harassment. Apparently, stupidity added. Although the chairman of the Japan Sumo Association apologized after life-saving women were told ...
I am a Taiwanese American living in San Diego. I was born in Kyoto, when my father was a district attorney there before the end of World War II. I love to visit Japan. From my dealings with Chinese, I have been surprised to find ...
I was very much impressed with the Letter to the Editor titled "Returning Taiwan's quake generosity" by Hiroshi Noro in the April 1 edition. Feeling quite the same gratitude toward Taiwanese since our quake happened in 2011, I visited my nearest post office, asking them ...
Regarding the story "Riga alarmed as Russian missile tests force partial closing of Baltic Sea and airspace" on April 5, given that aggressive behavior that NATO has exhibited against Russia since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, I'm not certain what is ...
Regarding the story "Long lines plague Narita" in the March 27 edition, I am a woman of "a certain age," just returned from 13 days of traveling on my own in Tokyo and Kansai. This was my first trip back after spending three years ...
Every year the world focuses on energy for the global event known as Earth Hour. This is very good, but there is no international concept for focusing on meat and dairy consumption, which we know has a terrible effect on climate change, water shortages ...
