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COMMENTARY / World
Oct 7, 2002

EU needs a common purpose

LONDON -- Since the original European Common Market was founded in the mid-1950s, the Continent sought a common economic role, to be followed by growing political integration. Now, there is general agreement on the first count that a new institutional framework is needed to give the community more political...
SOCCER / J. League
Oct 7, 2002

Antlers thrash Grampus Eight

KASHIMA, Ibaraki Pref. -- Kashima midfielder Mitsuo Ogasawara struck two goals to give the Antlers' a 4-1 triumph over Nagoya on Sunday afternoon, remaining unbeaten in their 12 games played against Grampus Eight at Kashima Stadium since the J. League started in 1993.
COMMENTARY
Oct 7, 2002

Howard vs. Mahathir -- who's correct?

LOS ANGELES -- In the Asia-Pacific reEgion, there is no uniform view on the Iraq issue. Many support the Bush adminisEtration, while hoping that somehow the war clouds will pass. Only a few are speaking up loudly. From Australia, plain-spoken Prime Minister John HowEard is supportive and hopes for the...
MORE SPORTS
Oct 7, 2002

Carlsen, Craybas end big week with AIG Japan Open titles

For 19 months, Kenneth Carlsen wasn't aching to pick up a racket. From September 1999, the Dane was cherishing his time off the rigid schedules of the tour after two major shoulder surgeries.
COMMENTARY / JAPAN IN THE GLOBAL ERA
Oct 7, 2002

Brainstorming to bring positive change

LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- In an article on the IMF/World Bank meeting in Washington last month entitled "A Washington gathering of incompetents," Gerald Baker, while lambasting policyma- kers in the United States and the European Union, handed the first prize for incompetence to Japan. "Every time it...
COMMENTARY
Oct 7, 2002

Seize the chance for peace

At their historic Pyongyang summit Sept. 17, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and North Korean leader Kim Jong Il opened a new chapter in the history of Northeast Asia by agreeing to resume bilateral talks on diplomatic normalization this month. The agreement was announced in the Pyongyang declaration...
COMMENTARY
Oct 7, 2002

Political reform the only option for China

HONG KONG -- China's late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping deserves much credit for trying to modernize the country and remove it from its Maoist ideological straitjacket. He emphasized pragmatism, not ideology. He put China on the path to a market economy. And, perhaps most important, he tried to lift...
EDITORIALS
Oct 7, 2002

Disunity in the DPJ

The new leadership of the Democratic Party of Japan, headed by Mr. Yukio Hatoyama, faces a bumpy road ahead as it begins steering a party wracked by internal rifts. The sharp discord that surfaced over the selection of the party's secretary general following the Sept. 23 presidential election is symbolic...
MORE SPORTS
Oct 6, 2002

Srichaphan bows out of AIG Japan Open

One day, Paradon Srichaphan was being hailed as a future star. The next, he came crashing down to mother earth with a bump.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Oct 6, 2002

Takahara continues goalscoring form as Jubilo extends lead

OSAKA -- In-form Japan striker Naohiro Takahara bagged a goal in each half as J. League leader Jubilo Iwata cruised to a 2-0 win away at Gamba Osaka on Saturday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 6, 2002

A pair of magic hands

I t is a case as egregious, and as puzzling, in its way as the case of Mr. Shinichi Fujimura, the eminent Japanese archaeologist who was found two years ago to have faked a number of key discoveries. When Mr. Fujimura could not find the prehistoric stoneware pieces he was looking for, he did the next...
COMMENTARY
Oct 6, 2002

Hussein finds 'useful idiots' in Washington

WASHINGTON -- Hitler found "Lord Haw Haw" -- William Joyce, who broadcast German propaganda to Britain during World War II -- in the dregs of British extremism. But Iraqi President Saddam Hussein finds American collaborators among senior congressional Democrats.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Oct 6, 2002

Lifelong learning makes a dream come true

"Youth," said George Bernard Shaw, "is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children." Could he have said the same of a college education?
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 6, 2002

Buffs bomb Fighters

Kintetsu slugger Norihiro Nakamura homered in consecutive at-bats, three other Buffaloes hit homers and starter Jeremy Powell tossed seven solid innings as Kintetsu powered past the Nippon Ham Fighters 10-1 at the Tokyo Dome on Saturday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Oct 6, 2002

Building bridges by degree

Life was tough for Yanan Shen at his undergraduate alma mater, located between Shanghai and Nanking in China's Chang Zhou area.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 6, 2002

Hawks stall Cabrera's hunt for 56th HR

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. -- You can walk Alex Cabrera to prevent him from breaking the home record, but don't try hitting him with a pitch. He might take it personally.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Oct 6, 2002

Takafumi Goda: the man at the helm

As director of the university division of the higher education bureau at the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry, Takafumi Goda is at the helm of national policy on university education. Recently, one of his chief tasks has been to oversee long-awaited reforms to Japan's university...
COMMENTARY
Oct 6, 2002

A very busy month for Japanese politics

Last month, the political situation in Japan was roiled by three big events: Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's surprise visit to North Korea (Sept. 17); the confused leadership election in the Democratic Party of Japan (Sept. 23); and a Cabinet reshuffle (Sept. 30).
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Oct 6, 2002

No looker, but a great personality

BANGKOK, by William Warren. Reaktion Books, 2002. 160 pp., with monochrome photos, £14.95 (paper) Thailand's ebullient capital is many things, but it is not beautiful. True, there are many lovely things in it, but it can no more be considered comely than can Tokyo, a city it in some ways resembles....
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / BEST BAR NONE
Oct 6, 2002

Into the night at Meguro's Saka Bar

When a friend took me on a tour of his favorite bars in Nakameguro, Saka Bar was the scheduled last stop. It scored this slot on the tour because of its notoriety in the area as a late-night hangout. On that first visit we arrived at 5 a.m. to find all stools at the bar taken -- though in an eight-seater...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Oct 6, 2002

Postmodern tales of the unexpected

"NEW JAPANESE FICTION," The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Summer 2002: Vol. XXII, No. 2. 262 pp., $8. Japanese literature, at least as it is known to those of us who cannot read it in the original, is in a position similar to that of Western classical music. Just as classical music lovers are likely...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 6, 2002

When every channel is the same channel

Ever since the advent of that popular programming idea known as the "wide show" in the mid-1980s, so-called hard news and tabloid news have slowly merged into an alloy of informational reporting that defies easy categorization.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Oct 6, 2002

Tuning into the changing face of higher education

Japan's universities are at a crossroad. The notion has been voiced in some quarters for many years, but now -- by common consent -- the fact of the matter is impossible either to deny or to ignore.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2002

Koizumi almost pulls it off

SHANGHAI, China -- My perspective for Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to North Korea is that of the Chinese. I have been in Shanghai since just before his visit. The reports I have been reading and listening to are those of the Chinese media and my Chinese friends and colleagues.
COMMUNITY
Oct 6, 2002

Teachers take the strain of a system in flux

Hiroshi Sato, 37, is an assistant professor of political science at a private university in Tokyo that, while not among the nation's top-ranked seats of learning, nonetheless enjoys a high status and popularity.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / THE WAY OF WASHOKU
Oct 6, 2002

Simmered veggies just like mama used to make

In a traditional Japanese restaurant's kitchen, the head chef — the oya-kata, literally the boss — wields the knife and rules the cutting board. He watches and directs each phase of food preparation, beginning with the early-morning procurement of fish. Standing close to the chef and performing an...

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