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EDITORIALS
Jan 9, 2010

The problems of Yemen

There are two important lessons to be learned from the bungled attempt on Christmas Day to cause an explosion on a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit: (1) the need to remain vigilant against the threat posed by terrorists, and (2) recognition of the importance of Yemen, a state that...
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Dec 27, 2009

Usual conformist cliches about the Japanese

NEW YORK — So Roger Cohen, a relatively new columnist with The New York Times, concluded after a brief stay in Tokyo earlier this month that Japan is a society laid low by "a tremendous conformity" and trivialized by "otaku" ("Japanese Obsessions," Dec. 14).
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Dec 20, 2009

Cultivating pure tastes from the past

Shinagawa Ward in central Tokyo has seen lots of high-rise condos and office complexes sprout up in recent years, especially since shinkansen bullet trains began to stop there in 2003.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Dec 13, 2009

Where myth meets the present

On the edge of town, by a bridge over a stream amid fields of rice stubble, there is a roughly hewn stone Buddha. The path to it is well worn, and though someone has left an offering of the last of the season's quinces at the base of the statue, today there's no one else around and only the sound of...
COMMENTARY
Nov 14, 2009

China-India tensions rising

NEW DELHI — The India-China relationship has entered choppy waters due to a perceptible hardening in the Chinese stance. Anti-India rhetoric in the state-run Chinese media has intensified, even as China has stepped up military pressure along the disputed Himalayan frontier through cross-border incursions....
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Nov 12, 2009

Discount Comme de Garcons, thermo threads, extreme styles and bohemian flair

Back to black
COMMENTARY
Oct 23, 2009

Influential Asian groupings

SINGAPORE — Can Asia leverage its growing weight in the global economy into a more influential leadership role in the world? This will be tested soon.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 17, 2009

Redknapp will face fury in Portsmouth return

LONDON — Harry Redknapp returns to Portsmouth on Saturday for the first time since his sudden departure to Tottenham Hotspur a year ago. The reception given to their former manager by most of the Fratton Park faithful will be red hot rather than warm, a significant difference.
Reader Mail
Oct 15, 2009

Standing up to noisy rightists

I would like to express my appreciation to the Japanese police force. On Sunday I was walking to Mass at my church in central Tokyo when I heard the unmistakable strains of uyoku (rightist) music. I thought, "Here we go again."
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Oct 11, 2009

Lessons of total devotion and high cruelty

LONG ROAD HOME: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor, by Kim Yong (with Kim Suk Young). Columbia University Press, 2009, 168 pp., $24.50 (hardcover) The author of this excruciating memoir led an unquestioning life in North Korea until one of the routine checks experienced by the citizens of that...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Sep 15, 2009

Transcontinental collaborations

Anime exports and web-enhanced communication is helping to bring about new transcontinental collaborations.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Aug 22, 2009

Activist preaches global education

Given the current global racial and religious tensions, it may sound utopian to envision a world in which people of diverse nationalities and cultural backgrounds live in peace and harmony by honoring the differences of others.
EDITORIALS
Jul 5, 2009

Let more Chinese tourists in

Forward momentum in Asian relations is always welcome, but the path to better international understanding seems to zigzag more than flow straight ahead. A case in point occurred last week, when the Japanese government started issuing tourist visas to Chinese individuals. That sounds like a solid sign...
Reader Mail
Jun 11, 2009

Taiwan's Chinese characteristics

In her June 4 letter, "Careful whom you call 'Chinese,'" June Dreyer contradicted the claim in my May 27 article, "Cross-strait gap narrows," that most Taiwanese think Chinese, speak Chinese and are Chinese like any other Chinese people.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 4, 2009

Tearing down the Iron Curtain

PRAGUE — A quiz for history buffs. Twenty years ago — on June 4, 1989 — three events shaped a fateful year. Which do you remember most vividly, and which most changed the world?: (a) the bloody denouement of the protests on Tiananmen Square; (b) the death of Iran's revolutionary cleric, Ayatollah...
JAPAN
May 19, 2009

H1N1 flu surges in Kansai

KOBE — The number of domestic swine flu cases reached 140 in Hyogo and Osaka as of Monday evening, prompting fears of an epidemic and leading to calls from the two governors to shut down all schools in the prefectures and for the central government to do more.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
May 10, 2009

Kawasaki risen from the grit with plenty to offer

Back in December 1972, having just taken a job with a Japan Airlines subsidiary, I moved into the company's bachelors dormitory at Miyauchi 2-chome in Kawasaki's Nakahara Ward.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
May 9, 2009

In search of picture-perfect Tokyo

Tokyo is infested with camera bugs. I can identify three species, at least.
JAPAN
May 1, 2009

Narita arrival tests positive for influenza

NARITA, Chiba Pref. (Kyodo) A woman aboard a Northwest Airlines flight that arrived Thursday at Narita International Airport from Los Angeles has tested positive for influenza in a preliminary examination, sources with the airport operator said.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Apr 19, 2009

Pedaling for the planet

One recent early morning, Franz-Michael S. Mellbin, the Danish ambassador to Japan, was to be found preparing for an important diplomatic mission at a rather unlikely venue — on the Tama River cycling track just by the Futakobashi Bridge linking Tokyo's Setagaya Ward and Kawasaki.
COMMENTARY
Apr 9, 2009

Australia and Afghanistan

So Australia's Labor Party prime minister, the Chinese-speaking Kevin Rudd, has promised Australia will stay the course with the United States in Afghanistan right to the very end. That's interesting. Canberra once also promised the U.S. it would stay in the Vietnam war till the very end. "All the way...
EDITORIALS
Apr 5, 2009

G20 stands up to crisis

Only history will judge whether last week's meeting of the Group of 20 nations did in fact provide a floor to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Equally uncertain is whether the conclave marked the emergence of a new economic order, as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown declared upon...
JAPAN
Mar 14, 2009

Aso slams North launch plan but wary of sanctions

Prime Minister Taro Aso on Friday condemned North Korea's plan to send up a rocket that will cross Japan, but stopped short of calling on the United Nations to impose further sanctions on the country.
SOCCER / SOCCER SCENE
Feb 14, 2009

Japan showed promise in draw

Japan's 0-0 draw with Australia on Wednesday night was far from being the disastrous result that Socceroos manager Pim Verbeek warned it would be during his pre-match mind games.

Longform

Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan