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Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Aug 19, 2008

What's your take on the use of the G-word?

COMMENTARY / World
Aug 18, 2008

Free trade system is in danger of extinction

In July, the Doha negotiations, promising freer trade, broke down, ostensibly over a small technicality in safeguard rules. In reality, the talks collapsed because nobody was willing to take the political short-term hit by offending inefficient farmers and coddled domestic industries in order to create...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WEEK 3
Aug 17, 2008

Akihito Ito: Keeper of the tales of a nuclear hell

Has George W. Bush ever heard of Akihito Ito? Dismayed at Pentagon plans to develop a new generation of "tactical" nuclear weapons — so-called mini-nukes — Ito sent Bush a gift: a box of CDs carrying the recorded voices of 284 atomic-bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / WEEK 3
Aug 17, 2008

'Inaudible' ringtone confounds adults

For at least 1,000 years, the struggle has continued.
EDITORIALS
Aug 15, 2008

About-face on Chinese 'gyoza'

It was learned Aug. 6 that an incident of "gyoza" dumpling poisoning occurred in China in mid-June, involving the same Chinese food maker whose gyoza caused cases of food poisoning in Japan last December and January. Although China informed Japan of the June incident on the night of July 7, the first...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 15, 2008

'Les Paul: Chasing Sound'

Any devotee of the electric guitar soon comes to learn the names of those pioneering musicians who realized the instrument's potential: people like Charlie Christian, who first started overdriving his amps and incorporating distortion into his playing, or Jimi Hendrix, who took that concept to the nth...
OLYMPICS
Aug 13, 2008

Phelps in esteemed company at top of Mount Olympus

BEIJING — Here's the answer to an obscure trivia question: Michael Phelps' middle name is Fred.
EDITORIALS
Aug 12, 2008

Rough course to digital waves

About three years from now, the era of analog TV broadcasting will end as digital broadcasting takes over. A survey shows that 92 percent of those polled know there will be a switch from analog to digital broadcasting, but fewer people know when the switch will take place (65 percent) or that they will...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 12, 2008

Artist puts a happy face on Olympics

Pictured on umbrellas paraded at the event, the happy faces of more than 1,000 children from around the world adorned Friday's opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics at the Beijing National Stadium, otherwise known as the Bird's Nest.
SPORTS / ODDS AND EVENS
Aug 11, 2008

China, U.S. matchup shows game's growth

BEIJING — Has there ever been a greater home-court advantage in basketball history?
Japan Times
JAPAN / CABINET INTERVIEW
Aug 11, 2008

New justice minister has no problem with capital punishment

New Justice Minister Okiharu Yasuoka believes most Japanese approve of capital punishment because, he said, the country has a cultural background in which death is considered "gracious" for criminals.
CULTURE / Books
Aug 10, 2008

Sharing Japanese poetry with the rest of the world

THE RABBIT IN THE MOON/TSUKI NO USAGI by Kayoko Hashimoto. Kadokawa-shoten, 2007, 260 pp., ¥2,667 (cloth) EARTH PILGRIMAGE/PELLEGRINO TERRESTRE/CHIKYU JUNREI by Ban'ya Natsuishi, English translations by the author and Jim Kacian, Italian by Luca Toma. Milan, Italy: Albalibre, 2007, 146 pp., 10.00 euro...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 8, 2008

Matsuya plugs environment with rooftop garden in Ginza

Holding a harvest festival in midsummer at a major department store in Tokyo's glitzy Ginza district may sound surreal, but Matsuya Co. did just that Thursday to fete a crop of fresh veggies grown on the rooftop of its flagship store.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CABINET INTERVIEW
Aug 8, 2008

Machimura steels himself for another Diet session

The key to getting bills and personnel appointments through the divided Diet is "patience," says Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 8, 2008

15 minutes with the Grandmaster

If you are a fan of hip-hop, then you have Grandmaster Flash to thank. He is one of the art form's earliest exponents, and the first hip-hop artist in history to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
JAPAN
Aug 8, 2008

First nurses arrive from Indonesia

Tri Yulianti, 23-year-old Indonesian, has worked as a nurse in Jakarta for two years and hopes to start caring for Japan's elderly early next year.
COMMENTARY
Aug 7, 2008

Terrorism and the Games

"Safety is our top concern," said China's Vice President Xi Jinping in late July, pointing to the deployment of 100,000 troops around Beijing and the surface-to-air missile batteries that protect the main stadiums as proof of the regime's determination to ensure that no terrorist attack would disrupt...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 7, 2008

Making art out of Article 9

Perhaps there are two types of Japanese people: those who stay in Japan, and those who leave for foreign shores. Distance means the two rarely interact, and it's just as well, because the results can be fiery.
EDITORIALS
Aug 7, 2008

Shot in the arm for nursing care

Under an economic partnership agreement between Japan and Indonesia, nurses and nursing care workers from Indonesia are arriving this week. As the number of aged people needing medical treatment and nursing care is increasing in this country, the Indonesians will be welcomed by hospitals and nursing...
CULTURE / Music
Aug 7, 2008

The Ventures: Still rocking after 50 years

The Ventures have just finished playing 33 songs in the space of two hours in front of some enthusiastic, though seated, middle-aged fans at the Hokutopia concert hall in Tokyo. Kazushi Kojima, who calls himself a "philosopher," is there with his son. He's been attending Ventures shows for 30 years....
JAPAN
Aug 7, 2008

Climate change seen in recent flooding

Two recent accidents have many people worried that something's gone wrong this year, that this summer is somehow different from the summers of their childhoods.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 6, 2008

The challenge of Hiroshima

MEDFORD, Oregon — When the penetrating heat of summer rises to a scorching point, I am brought back to one sunny day in 1945, faraway from my Oregon home today. I was a sixth grader waiting for my mother. On that day, Aug. 6, in Hiroshima, the sun and the Earth melted together. Many of my relatives...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / TAKING A CHANCE
Aug 5, 2008

The business of building an MBA program

When Yoshito Hori quit Sumitomo Corp. in the early 1990s and started a business school, many of his colleagues thought he was taking too great a risk. As it turned out, he was on the leading edge of the venture boom.
EDITORIALS
Aug 4, 2008

Tough budget environment

The Cabinet last week adopted the guideline for fiscal 2009 budgetary requests — at a time when tax revenues are expected to decline due to sluggish economic activities. This is a completely different picture from when the fiscal 2008 guideline was adopted. Therefore, budgetary negotiations will not...
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 3, 2008

Singh rises above the fray to keep fighting

HONG KONG — It was hardly the finest hour for Indian democracy, but Prime Minister Manmohan Singh finally called the bluff of his so-called leftist allies last month and won a vote of confidence in Parliament after two days of stormy debate and widespread allegations of bribery and corruption.
Is America ready for Japanese-style 7-Elevens?
Convenience stores are a fixture of Japanese life and 7-Eleven, a chain that began in the U.S. in 1927, opened its first store in Japan in 1974 — and then became wholly Japanese-owned in 2005 through parent company Seven & I Holdings.
Japan's cutting-edge railgun successfully strikes target vessel
The Defense Ministry’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) conducted a ship-board railgun shooting test from June to early July this year with the support of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
People rush to make furusato nozei donations ahead of tighter rules
A booth from the town of Betsukai in Hokkaido at an Amazon Japan furusato nо̄zei promotion event, on Sept. 5 in Tokyo's Minato Ward.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Strikes on Qatar and Poland shake U.S. sway among friend and foe
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Museum of the Bible in Washington on Sept. 8. Israeli strikes in Qatar and Russian drone incursions into Poland have challenged the U.S. leaders claims of global respect.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.

Podcast

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

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Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
Rethinking that second drink: Japan’s Gen Z gets ‘sober curious’
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