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Reader Mail
Dec 9, 2012

Perception as the standard

Regarding the Dec. 6 Kyodo survey article, "LDP set to win majority in general election": Japanese voters are being presented with the same false dichotomy that voters around the world face every few years — the "choice" to give power of attorney to a stranger to extort some concession for their majority...
Reader Mail
Dec 9, 2012

Burden on an ambulance crew

The Nov. 20 Alice Gordenker column, "So, what the heck is that?" — about emergency announcements — reminded me of the strenuous efforts that a Tokyo Fire Department crew made when my mother died about four years ago, as well as the painstaking job of the TFD and some troubles it faces in doing its...
Reader Mail
Dec 9, 2012

Show the translation difficulties

Thanks for Paul McCarthy's Dec. 2 review of Fumiko Hayashi's novel, "Floating Clouds." But I have one request for next time: Could the reviewer say a few things about the interesting differences where the two languages, English and Japanese, meet?
Reader Mail
Dec 9, 2012

Questions about infrastructure

Regarding the Dec. 5 Kyodo article "Panel will probe road infrastructure problems": Metal fatigue is a well-known problem in the aerospace industry and in automobile racing, among other fields. Vibration can cause nuts on bolts to loosen.
Reader Mail
Dec 9, 2012

Responsibility for self-protection

Regarding the Dec. 5 editorial "Dangerous moves on supreme law": It is a testament to just how far to the left political discourse is in Japan when the idea that Japan should take responsibility for protecting itself is labeled "dangerous."
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 8, 2012

Arab leaders ignore crowd dynamics at their peril

In 1896, the social psychologist Gustave Le Bon warned his contemporaries of the dangers of crowds, writing that, "It is necessary to arrive at a solution to the problems offered by [crowds'] psychology, or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them." As spontaneous protest overtakes organized political...
BASKETBALL
Dec 8, 2012

89ers-Albirex rematch called off

The Sendai 89ers-Niigata Albirex BB game on Friday was canceled due to the 7.3 magnitude earthquake (at 5:18 p.m.) and, the tsunami that followed in Tohoku.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 7, 2012

Xi attempts communist makeover to repair image

Just three weeks after taking over as his country's top leader, Xi Jinping is trying to give Chinese communism a more common touch.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 7, 2012

'MIS: Human Secret Weapon' / 'Santa Kurosu wo Tsukamaete (Chasing Santa Claus)'

Following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, thousands of Japanese-Americans, including those born and raised in the United States, were shipped to internment camps, while others joined the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, which fought with great bravery in the European theater.
Reader Mail
Dec 6, 2012

Reasons that sound like excuses

I had difficulty agreeing with Dipak Basu's Dec. 2 letter, "Good reasons to stay at home," about why Japanese youth tend not to study abroad. He mentions costs and the fear of racism.
Reader Mail
Dec 6, 2012

Details from scientific sources

I thank Richard Wilcox for his Nov. 25 letter, "Secrecy feeds nuclear skepticism" (which was a reply to my Nov. 11 letter, "Scientific fact vs. unfounded fear"). I agree that interpretation of data is a key skill. Unfortunately Wilcox makes a few errors in his letter.
Reader Mail
Dec 6, 2012

What hostility toward Japanese?

I would like to comment on Dipak Basu's Dec. 2 letter, "Good reasons to stay at home."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 6, 2012

Surprisingly familiar photography

How do you continually surprise and shock when your work has become so familiar? What can you say with a photograph that hasn't been said before? Will making things bigger make them better? These questions niggle at the back of the mind while visiting Shinoyama Kishin's current show. "The people by Kishin"...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Dec 6, 2012

Matthewdavid and Anenon

Two up-and-coming electronic musicians, Matthewdavid and Anenon, are in Japan to support the local branch of Los Angeles-based, nonprofit Internet radio station Dublab and they'll tour five cities with some of this country's next big dance acts.
Reader Mail
Dec 6, 2012

No shortcut to the master level

A thank you to Amy Chavez for her Dec. 1 column, "The best-ever tips on learning Japanese." I am pleased that Chavez knows how to write the truth with heart. Her article is the stake in the heart of those that whine about Japanese being difficult to learn.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 6, 2012

What lies behind Ben Shahn's lines of the times

When an artist feels compelled to incorporate words and poetry into many of his artworks, we get a sense that he may have taken up the wrong profession. This feeling of being unsettled in his art is something that comes up again and again with the career of the left-wing 20th-century American artist...
BASKETBALL
Dec 5, 2012

Ex-MVP White blasts bj-league, plans to sue Oita

Former Oita HeatDevils star Wendell White met with team officials on Tuesday and repeated his demands that the team honor his expired contract 14 days after his salary was due.
JAPAN
Dec 4, 2012

Double jeopardy practice scrutinized

Two recent high-profile exonerations have reignited calls by defense lawyers to require the full disclosure of evidence, and to let verdicts handed down by lay judges stand.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 4, 2012

Sacred India's Chinese flavor

More than a billion small lamps lit the evening sky and hand-held sparkler fireworks added to the dancing light, while firecrackers boomed almost as if a war was going on. In hundreds of millions of homes, people chanted the sacred mantras and called upon the gods to help good defeat evil, and light...
JAPAN / POSITIONING FOR THE POLL
Dec 4, 2012

Double-candidate Noda to fight till end

All media polls suggest the ruling Democratic Party of Japan will be crushed in the Lower House election Dec. 16 and that the Liberal Democratic Party will return to power for the first time in three years.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 4, 2012

Buffett's spending goal won't bring U.S. renewal

I hate to pick a fight with the sage of Omaha, but in an otherwise admirable New York Times Op-Ed that offered a new version of his idea for a minimum tax for the wealthy, Warren Buffett embraced (inadvertently, I'm guessing) spending and revenue goals for the federal government that would kill any agenda...
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Dec 4, 2012

Original gifts for your unique friends

The design lover
COMMENTARY
Dec 3, 2012

The politics and insanity of the Cuba embargo

An open letter to U.S. President Barack Obama:
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 3, 2012

Tell the stories of those who refused

At first it had seemed like an ordinary day in that Jerusalem court in mid-1961, during the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the logistical mastermind of the Jewish deportations in the Holocaust. Hannah Arendt, the German-Jewish philosopher attending the trial as a journalist, wrote later of "endless sessions"...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Dec 2, 2012

Michael Woodford: Japan's whistle-blower supreme speaks out

Michael Woodford glances out of the floor-to-ceiling window of his multimillion-pound loft apartment, which looks out across the River Thames toward the City of London, the so-called Square Mile that is among the world's leading financial and commercial centers.
Reader Mail
Dec 2, 2012

Usual 'decency' is not enough

In his Nov. 29 letter, "Opportunists pervert ideologies," Percival Constantine may fail to appreciate that, historically, the vast majority of "decent, upstanding citizens" went along with the Inquisition, pogroms, the gulags and so on.
Reader Mail
Dec 2, 2012

Suspicious cancer-risk report

Regarding the Nov. 27 Kyodo news brief "Fukushima cancer risk said low": I smell a big fat rat. First, why would anyone say this? Either it is true, in which case there's no problem, or it is false, and hey, there is always a reason people say things.
Reader Mail
Dec 2, 2012

Illusion of a nuclear phaseout

Regarding the Nov. 29 front-page article "Kada's party sets 2022 end for atomic power": There is no way the Japanese government is going to end nuclear power generation by 2022. This pledge reflects the moral and intellectual cowardice that I expect from politicians. If the atomic-power risk or threat...
Reader Mail
Dec 2, 2012

Judge Abe on education policy

The mass media is placing much emphasis on Liberal Democratic Party chief Shinzo Abe's hawkish and neoconservative plans for Japan if he becomes prime minister, but it seems there has been little or no mention of his plans for educating Japan's young.
Why did such a powerful earthquake produce such a weak tsunami?
A person records images of waves following a tsunami advisory generated by local authorities after an earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, prompting warnings and evacuations stretching across at the South Pacific, in Vina del Mar, Chile, on Wednesday.
Last soldiers of Imperial Japanese Army have a warning for younger generations
Kunshiro Kiyozumi, 97, who was the youngest crew member of the Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-58 in World War II, on his way to a restaurant to have lunch in Matsuyama, Japan, on April 29.
80 years on, former teacher conveys history of hidden island in World War II
Masayuki Yamauchi teaches junior high school students about the history of Okunoshima, an island in Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture, in May.
1,010 food and beverage prices to rise in Japan in August
The price increases in August will be especially noticeable for dairy products, including milk and yogurt, according to the research firm Teikoku Databank.
GTN takes a chance on newcomers to Japan
Hiroyuki Goto, president of GTN. The company started after Goto personally co-signed leases for around 20 non-Japanese people, including some friends and friends of friends.
Junglia brought dinos back to Okinawa. But will it bring tourists?
At Panorama Dining, one of Junglia’s two proper restaurants that also doubles as the rooftop Inifinity Terrace overlook, guests can pay extra to sit in balcony tables made to look like birds’ nests overlooking the park grounds.
Coordination office marks first step in U.S. Forces Japan’s shift to ‘warfighting’ command
U.S., Japanese and Australian staff work in the JJOC Cooperation Team office at the U.S. Army’s Hardy Barracks in central Tokyo in this image posted to the Australian Embassy's X account on July 25.
GTN takes a chance on newcomers to Japan
Hiroyuki Goto, president of GTN. The company started after Goto personally co-signed leases for around 20 non-Japanese people, including some friends and friends of friends.
Artist Chiharu Shiota weaves a hidden marvel on Teshima
“Memory of Lines” is Chiharu Shiota’s second art installation on Teshima as part of the Setouchi Triennale.
How the Japanese TV industry is changing
Fuji TV headquarters in Tokyo's Minato Ward. Fuji TV came under fire over the manner in which it handled a case of “sexual trouble” involving former boy band member Masahiro Nakai and a female announcer.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Ichiro Suzuki, one of the most iconic players in NPB and MLB history, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame with 99.7% of the vote.
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