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Reader Mail
Aug 31, 2013

The American ramen dream

Regarding the Aug. 23 Everyman Eats column, "The ramen burger that ate New York": I don't know, I'm a purist. I love a good American hamburger, cheeseburger with fries even better, and I love a fine bowl of gourmet ramen.
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 31, 2013

Skipping a meal may help some lose weight

For years, we have been told that three square meals a day are essential to health. But popular dieting advice suggests that eating more often in small amounts may be a better approach. Some new diets advocate going the other way: consuming only one small meal a couple of days a week, followed by days...
JAPAN
Aug 30, 2013

Japan under increasing pressure to accept outside nuclear help

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, just back from a trip to the Middle East and Africa, where he pitched Japanese nuclear technology, faces mounting international criticism that his administration is not taking the Fukushima crisis seriously.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 30, 2013

After Bo Xilai case, China's trial is just beginning

The just-concluded trial of Bo Xilai will be remembered as one of the most critical political milestones in contemporary Chinese Communist history.
EDITORIALS
Aug 30, 2013

DPJ needs innovative new policies

To reinvigorate itself, the DPJ must recast its policies in a way that will distinguish them from those of the Liberal Democratic Party.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 30, 2013

Sony's newest hit tucked away in top smartphones, cameras

Sony Corp. has a hit product on its hands. Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc. will be happy to sell it to you.
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 30, 2013

White House, Republicans give up on budget talks

The Obama administration and a group of Republican senators on Thursday abandoned efforts to hammer out a budget deal and avoid a showdown over the national debt, saying they had failed to resolve their long-standing dispute over taxes.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Aug 30, 2013

Taylor's gambling no laughing matter

If Gordon Taylor, the chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association, did the equivalent job in the National Football League he would not have been allowed to run up alleged gambling debts of £100,000 to a bookmaker.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Aug 29, 2013

Weekday organic lunch at ANA Tokyo; Mount Fuji desserts in Hakone; try champion bartender's cocktails

Weekday organic lunch at ANA Tokyo
Reader Mail
Aug 28, 2013

Far cry from real discrimination

Chavez wrote: "Just once I'd like to hear someone who has been discriminated against in Japan say, 'Now I know what it is like to be an African, Iranian or Muslim in the U.S."
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 27, 2013

Polar bear's death is a warning

Does the death of a single polar bear, which starved on the Arctic tundra, carry a warning for all human beings
Japan Times
LIFE
Aug 27, 2013

A 3-D replica of Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers,' — yours for ¥3.4 million

A poster of one of Vincent van Gogh's sunflowers is one of the traditional adornments to a student bedroom. The rest of us hang our reproductions in the knowledge that even the good ones are far from faithful to the originals — for which the going rate is £24 million (¥3.7 billion).
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 26, 2013

Observing the world in Yokohama's giant Orbi

What's on show at this new, nature-themed high-tech museum should appeal to your senses — literally.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Aug 26, 2013

The age of 3-D printers has arrived, for better and worse

The 3-D printer boom in the United States is spreading to Japan as prices decline, but some fear the devices could break the mold, jobwise.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 26, 2013

Top challenger detained as Moscow's race for mayor heats up

Mayoral Candidate A raises questions about Candidate B's campaign literature. The police, who report to the incumbent, Candidate C, respond by raiding the print shop where the literature is produced. Candidate D raises a stink, because he was using the same printing firm.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 25, 2013

Challenges are just beginning for central banks

The global financial crisis is for all practical purposes over, but the world's top central bankers think their problems are just beginning.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 25, 2013

FDIC races against time to prosecute bank debacle suspects

As the clock runs out on a three-year statute of limitations, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has filed a flurry of lawsuits to recoup losses tied to the largest wave of bank failures during the financial crisis.
JAPAN / History / THE LIVING PAST
Aug 24, 2013

Only in Japan could a sword be 'life-giving'

Few countries have broken with their past as sharply as Japan did. That was the price it paid for modernity.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Aug 24, 2013

Gay marriage in Japan? Only over the reactionary LDP's cadaver

Tokyo Disneyland is an odd place to make a political statement, but the theme park now hosts same-sex wedding ceremonies.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 24, 2013

Deft campus romance between aloof professor and one-time mentor

Professor Elizabeth Stone, the heroine of Grace McCleen's incandescent second novel, is a classic campus contradiction: both quite brilliant and utterly clueless. Despite having a lauded book on Milton and a stack of learned articles to her name, her fellow human beings — indeed, her own self — remain...
BUSINESS / Tech / ANALYSIS
Aug 24, 2013

Under Ballmer, Microsoft struggled to modernize

In the 13 years that Steve Ballmer has led Microsoft, literature has climbed out of books, songs have freed themselves from CDs and computers have leapt off their desktops into our hands. An exhilarating new world of technology has emerged with little help from a company that once dominated the industry....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Aug 23, 2013

Pop star or avant-garde artist? Lady Gaga now wants to be the next Warhol

The message is crystal clear: do not buy Lady Gaga's latest album or download tracks because she is "over" and "no longer relevant." Many will be happy to obey, but it's not quite that simple.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Aug 23, 2013

'Senior moments' for foreigners — they could start in your 20s

"How do you know if you have Alzheimer's?" said the front of the pamphlet. The answer inside was: "If you can't remember what you ate for lunch, you don't have Alzheimer's. If you can't remember whether you ate lunch or not, that's Alzheimer's."
EDITORIALS
Aug 23, 2013

Less Diet time by prime minister

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party wants to reduce the amount of time that the prime minister and Cabinet members are required to Diet committee sessions.
Most Japanese teens struggling with school find end of summer ‘painful’
Some 93.1% of Japanese teenagers who struggle with school life said they felt like they “wanted to disappear from the world" at the end of summer vacation ahead of the start of a new term, according to a recent survey released by Yokohama-based nonprofit Daisan Kazoku.
Philippine bid to acquire used Japanese warships gains steam
Tokyo is looking to transfer Abukuma-class vessels to the Philippines as part of broader efforts to boost the defense capabilities of like-minded neighbors amid growing Chinese military assertiveness in the region.
Mitsubishi’s wind-power retreat a blow to Japan's alternative-energy goals
Wind turbines in the town of Happo in Akita prefecture. Wind power is a key part of Japan's alternative energy drive.
Can anime carry the memories of World War II?
Many schools in Japan show "Grave of the Fireflies" as educational material to tell the emotionally grueling story of a boy who has no means to prevent his sister from starving to death.
Akazawa's trip to Washington for tariff talks abruptly canceled
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's chief tariff negotiator, had been set to fly to Washington on Thursday.
Can anime carry the memories of World War II?
Many schools in Japan show "Grave of the Fireflies" as educational material to tell the emotionally grueling story of a boy who has no means to prevent his sister from starving to death.
Japan looks to build drone ‘shield’ in record defense budget request
A group of Ground Self-Defense Force service members discuss drone operations and capabilities at a joint static display during the Orient Shield 24 opening ceremony at the Yausubetsu Training Area in Hokkaido in July last year.
Jesse Kirkwood: ‘Languages are entire cultural universes with all sorts of baggage’
Jesse Kirkwood is part of a vibrant field of translators who have nurtured what might be called a “post-Murakami era of Japanese literature and translation,” one book at a time.
Mitsubishi’s wind-power retreat a blow to Japan's alternative-energy goals
Wind turbines in the town of Happo in Akita prefecture. Wind power is a key part of Japan's alternative energy drive.
Virtual singer Kaf's music becomes magic in 'Kamitsubaki City Under Construction'
Virtual singer Kaf got her start in 2018 by posting songs and covers to YouTube. Now, after having performed live shows at major venues including Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan, she is turning to voice acting and starring in the new anime series “Kamitsubaki City Under Construction.”

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
By Alex K.T. Martin

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