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BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Dec 17, 2012

Deflation only natural when politicians refuse to fix oversupplied Japan

Needless to say, the biggest challenge for the government to be formed after Sunday's general election is to put the Japanese economy on a growth path.
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Dec 17, 2012

Job one for Inose: stepping out from Ishihara's shadow

The Tokyo gubernatorial race ended Sunday with Vice Gov. Naoki Inose winning the top job, drawing the curtain on a lackluster campaign for the capital that was overshadowed by the Lower House election.
COMMENTARY
Dec 17, 2012

The focusing ability of an extraterrestrial canine

By topping Gerd ("Torpedo") Muller's record of goals scored in a year, Lionel Messi only confirmed what many people until now believed to be the truth: He doesn't belong to planet Earth, he is an extraterrestrial being.
JAPAN
Dec 17, 2012

Court cases to test Obama's 'evolution' on gay marriage

The Supreme Court gave itself plenty of room to maneuver when it agreed on Dec. 7 to review the issue of same-sex marriage. The justices could decide one of the great political and civil rights questions of our time, rule narrowly on the two cases it accepted or even punt, on the grounds that the cases...
Japan Times
JAPAN / ELECTION 2012
Dec 17, 2012

For Tokyo, Osaka voters, election revolved around economy

The multitude of parties and issues on the table Sunday made it difficult for voters to make up their minds, according to those who spoke with The Japan Times on the streets of Tokyo and Osaka.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / WEEK 3
Dec 16, 2012

Last Tokyo street view of Mount Fuji set to go

As the sun sets over a small patch of the Nippori district of Tokyo's northeastern Arakawa Ward, people can often be seen stopping to gaze to the West — something not so surprising atop a street named Fujimizaka, which means "Mount Fuji Viewing Slope."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Dec 16, 2012

Opening old wounds unhealed after decades

NISEI SOLDIERS BREAK THEIR SILENCE: Coming Home To Hood River, by Linda Tamura. University of Washington Press, 2012, 346 pp., $24.95 (paperback) A minority group enters a community and through hard work and perseverance gains a measure of financial security and grudging toleration from their neighbors....
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / WEEK 3
Dec 16, 2012

Tsunami survivor uses English to share his tragic story

Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 16, 2012

Stop foot-dragging on China's threat: Maher

With the Liberal Democratic Party widely predicted to come out on top in Sunday's election, Kevin Maher, a former senior U.S. State Department official, said an LDP-led government must act quickly to demonstrate Japan's readiness to effectively respond to the threat posed by an increasingly bellicose...
BASKETBALL
Dec 16, 2012

Crane Thunders earn first home victory in franchise history

You've got to start somewhere.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Dec 16, 2012

Japan loses its cool as South Korea heats up

Last month, a nationwide survey of 3,000 people by the Cabinet office found that the percentage of Japanese who do not view South Korea on friendly terms rose to 59 percent, up by 23.7 points from 2011. The sharply negative shift appeared to reverse over a decade of warming relations between the two...
Reader Mail
Dec 16, 2012

American protection not needed

Regarding Joseph Jaworski's Dec. 9 letter, "Responsibility for self-protection": First, the idea that Japan's political discourse is on the far left is ludicrous. Japan's major parties are all right of center, including the opposition Liberal Democratic Party, which is likely to regain power in Sunday's...
Reader Mail
Dec 16, 2012

China doesn't respect diplomacy

Regarding the Dec. 11 editorial "Hawkish approach won't help": It is beyond my ability to imagine how diplomacy can deter China from expanding its empire. Since 1949 the Chinese (under Mao Zedong as well as Chiang Kai-shek) have occupied one piece of territory after another: Tibet, east Turkistan, east...
Reader Mail
Dec 16, 2012

The criminally noisy politicians

Michael Hoffman's Dec. 2 Timeout column, "Silent majority blasted by political noise," lent me yet another moment to think about Japanese politics and election campaigns.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Dec 16, 2012

Otani made right decision by choosing to play for Fighters

So, the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters got a nice Christmas present with the decision by 18-year-old fire-balling right-handed pitcher Shohei Otani to play for the defending Pacific League championship club rather than head straight for a career in the major leagues. From this point of view, the boy did...
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 16, 2012

Frailty rising as a medical condition

As a medical resident 30 years ago, Ava Kaufman remembers puzzling over some of the elderly patients who came to the primary-care practice at George Washington University Hospital. They weren't really ill, at least not with any identifiable diseases. But they weren't well, either.
EDITORIALS
Dec 16, 2012

They do it, but hate it

Japanese students are less interested in mathematics and science than ever before even while continuing to perform relatively well, according to the 2011 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, a survey conducted every four years in 42 nations by the International Association for the Evaluation...
Reader Mail
Dec 16, 2012

Who cares for national treasures?

Regarding the Dec. 8 article "In era of skyscrapers, group lobbies to keep Tokyo's traditional buildings": Sumiko Enbutsu should be considered a national living treasure! She understands that the soul of a nation is in its architectural heritage. To tear down a landmark historical building to make room...
BUSINESS
Dec 15, 2012

Hitachi aiming to triple revenues from India

Hitachi Ltd. plans ¥70 billion in investments in India as it tries to boost revenue in the rapidly emerging economy to ¥300 billion in the year ending in March 2016 from ¥100 billion in fiscal 2011.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Dec 14, 2012

Golden Kings reign supreme in Western Conference

The Ryukyu Golden Kings, not unlike a well-oiled machine, are the best squad in the league. And this week we examine how they stack up with the other nine teams in the Western Conference over the past 10 games, or roughly one-fifth of the 52-game season.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ELECTION 2012
Dec 14, 2012

Dismayed Tohoku faces first post-3/11 poll

A mere 15 minutes before Azuma Konno, a Democratic Party of Japan candidate running in Sunday's Lower House election, was set to make a stump speech in front of JR Sendai Station last Friday evening, a 7.4-magnitude quake struck deep off Miyagi's shore, flooding one coastal district with 1-meter-high...
JAPAN
Dec 14, 2012

Coast guard needs more ships, sailors amid protracted isle-row: commandant

The Senkaku dispute is likely to drag on for a long time, the commandant of the Japan Coast Guard said Thursday, stressing the need for more manpower and better equipment to deal with the increasing confrontations with China.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 14, 2012

Jackson bids for more magic with 'The Hobbit'

When asked what "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" offers that "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy didn't, actor Sir Ian McKellan pauses before answering.
JAPAN / ELECTION 2012
Dec 14, 2012

Older voter glut helps politicians avoid long-range problems

Japan faces structural problems that threaten future generations, including snowballing government debt, swelling social security costs, a low birthrate and a rapidly aging population.
Foreign tourists with unpaid medical bills in Japan to be denied entry
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during ministerial meeting meeting on foreign residents in Japan on Friday at the Prime Minister's Office.
Japan eyes tougher rules for foreign residents and tax hike for tourists
A tax-free shop in Kyoto in April 2024. Last week, members of a Liberal Democratic Party study group drafted a proposal seeking to scrap the country's tax-free shopping system altogether.
Accidents raise concern over how Japan vets foreign drivers
Keita Ueno (right), the owner of Kiki Driving School and an instructor who supports both foreign nationals and Japanese citizens returning from abroad in getting their foreign driver’s licenses converted, is worried about the current lax system for the process.
Japan won’t wait for G7 summit for possible U.S. trade deal
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top negotiator in tariff talks with the U.S. speaks to reporters at the Japanese Embassy in Washington on Friday.
From ridicule to redemption: Rice crisis returns Koizumi to the spotlight
Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to the media as he inspects a warehouse storing stockpiled rice in Kanagawa Prefecture on May 30.
What can Kenji Yanobe’s cosmic cats teach us about humanity?
Kenji Yanobe’s spacesuited cats are the main characters of “Ship’s Cat Island,” the inaugural exhibition at Hyper Museum Hanno in Saitama Prefecture.
From ridicule to redemption: Rice crisis returns Koizumi to the spotlight
Agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi speaks to the media as he inspects a warehouse storing stockpiled rice in Kanagawa Prefecture on May 30.
New Naoshima museum bets on Asia, not the West
Detail of Takashi Murakami, “Rakuchu-Rakugai-zu Byobu: Iwasa Matabei RIP” (2023-25)
Japan’s prison reform focuses on rehabilitation
Justice Minister Keisuke Suzuki speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Friday. Suzuki said preparations for the changes that will focus more on rehabilitation are being actively made at each correctional facility.
Accidents raise concern over how Japan vets foreign drivers
Keita Ueno (right), the owner of Kiki Driving School and an instructor who supports both foreign nationals and Japanese citizens returning from abroad in getting their foreign driver’s licenses converted, is worried about the current lax system for the process.

Podcast

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

Longform

After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.
How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic
By Alex K.T. Martin

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