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Jul 27, 2013

Examining nexus of sports, international relations

Editor's note: Whiting was a guest speaker and panelist at the inaugural gathering of the International Sports Relations Foundation in Seoul recently. This is a new organization founded by Moon Dae-sung, a Republic of Korea's National Assembly member and 2004 Athens Olympics taekwondo gold medalist,...
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BUSINESS / FOCUS
Jul 22, 2013

Restructuring wizard sets sights on Detroit

The man who has become the face of Detroit's historic bankruptcy planned to spend his weekend at home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, corralling the ferns that are overgrowing their planters and threatening his garden. Or maybe taking his two young children to the pool.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jul 22, 2013

Golf courses adjust to harsher economics and changing demographics

Golfers in Japan are getting older, with no one to replace them when they're gone.
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JAPAN
Jul 17, 2013

Pluralism Japan's answer: immigration expert

Japan's leaders need to confront the reality of the rapidly thinning labor force and acknowledge that a more ethnically pluralistic society can help ward off the looming demographic crisis, a British expert on immigration policy says.
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WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 7, 2013

Race takes backseat at Zimmerman trial

Thousands streamed into Fort Mellon Park, hard against the south shore of Lake Monroe, on that night in March 2012. An unarmed African-American teenager in a "hoodie" sweatshirt had been killed the month before in this central Florida city, but the agitated crowd felt echoes of another era. "Trayvon...
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LIFE / Travel
Jul 6, 2013

Hats off to Chiyoda's rice-field rites

I can't quite believe we're getting up just after dawn on a Sunday morning for an event that doesn't start till lunchtime. But our Japanese friends all assured us we'd regret it if we didn't arrive early.
Reader Mail
Jul 3, 2013

Mistaking preference for a fetish

In his June 25 feature article, 'Yellow Fever' and the fantasy of the Asian female," writer Nicolas Gattig asks "what are the fantasies driving 'yellow fever,' the fetish for Orientals [by white men]?" The question he should be asking is to what extent preconceptions of race and racial normalcy predispose...
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Jul 2, 2013

Former Dodgers owner reflects on Nomo, friendships

The paths of former Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Hideo Nomo and former owner and team president Peter O'Malley didn't cross during the latter's recent trip to Japan.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 1, 2013

At the Battle of Gettysburg, choices mattered

The Battle of Gettysburg, fought 150 years ago this week, was not the first example of 'total war.' But it did show why choices matter in U.S. history.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jun 25, 2013

Unpaid overtime excesses hit young

Some companies are compelling their younger employees to work more than 100 hours of uncompensated overtime a month to maximize their profits.
Reader Mail
Jun 20, 2013

India and Japan are different

Regarding the May 29 article "Japan and India are 'natural' partners, [Manmohan] Singh says in Tokyo": We have been hearing that Japan and India are "natural partners" for decades. As a serious admirer of Japan, I do hope things turn out well in the near future for both countries, although trade stands...
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CULTURE / CULTURE SMASH
Jun 12, 2013

Preserving a classic Japanese art form: tokusatsu magic

Our monster is scaly, spiky, reptilian — a cross between a dinosaur and an irradiated insect that shrieks like an angry bird. Our hero is lean, faintly muscular in a rubbery skintight suit with inscrutable praying-mantis eyes. They face one another, stomping left to right like sumo wrestlers, posing...
SPORTS / MAN ABOUT SPORTS
Jun 5, 2013

Lack of American heavyweights sad

What if they held a world heavyweight title fight and no one in America showed up?
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 3, 2013

'Privileged' dollar a cause of lopsided growth

For years, the dollar's role as the major global currency has been described as an 'exorbitant privilege.' Now it may be turning into an extravagant curse.
WORLD
Jun 1, 2013

Taliban rejects talks, citing No. 2's killing

Pakistan's Taliban said Thursday that it will not participate in peace talks with the country's new government and will exact "revenge in the strongest way" after one of its top leaders was killed in a suspected U.S. drone strike.
COMMENTARY / Japan
May 23, 2013

There are billions of reasons why Japan Inc. should reflect

The flood of cash the Bank of Japan has made available to Japan Inc. has not opened executives to new ways of thinking or ushered more women into the workforce.
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LIFE / Travel
May 19, 2013

Taking it easy on stroll-size Omi-jima

Mr. Hirohisa had made it clear when I called him from the nearest mainland city to the island — Nagato in western Honshu's Yamaguchi Prefecture — that there would be no supper provided that night; nor would he be able to pick me up from the station as expected.
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SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
May 18, 2013

Beckham's impact was immense

The England coach was pulling away after a training session when suddenly David Beckham asked the driver to stop.
COMMENTARY / World
May 18, 2013

China-India: coercion easily trumps diffidence

In a classic replay of its old game, China recently intruded across the Himalayan frontier with India and then disingenuously counseled 'patience' and 'negotiations.'
EDITORIALS
May 10, 2013

A shaky win for Mr. Najib

Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and his ruling coalition have prevailed again in a Malaysian election, but will his shrinking majority enable him to keep up reform efforts?
COMMENTARY / World
May 1, 2013

Ensuring Syria's chemical genie stays in the bottle

Syria's chemical-weapons stockpile is dangerous, but so are the remnants of a North Korean-engineered nuclear reactor buried beneath a base overrun by Syrian rebels.
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LIFE / Travel
Apr 28, 2013

Cook Islands paradise isn't plain sailing for all

They span an area the size of western Europe, but the Cook Islands may seem like the ends of the Earth when viewed from Japan — an 11-hour flight away south to New Zealand, followed by a four-hour "local hop" to the capital, Avarua, on the main island of Rarotonga.
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JAPAN
Apr 17, 2013

Film sheds light on plight of left-behind parents

Images of left-behind parents, holding up photos of their children, flash across the screen. In the United States, Canada, Europe and even Japan, these parents are waiting to reunite with offspring taken away by their estranged Japanese spouses.
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WORLD
Apr 1, 2013

Historian seeks to have Jefferson speak for himself

Thomas Jefferson died 186 years ago. But J. Jefferson Looney still wants the nation's third president to speak for himself.

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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