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Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHO'S WHO
Jun 26, 2012

British drama coach Gavin Bantock at top of his game; casts take a bow

If drama were a sport, then the name Gavin Bantock would probably be known throughout Japan.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jun 26, 2012

Japanese business isn't working: What would Shima do?

A Ponzi scheme. Alleged yakuza ties. Accounting scandals. Executive misuse of company funds for gambling. A record-breaking bankruptcy. Callous disregard of public health and safety.
Reader Mail
Jun 24, 2012

Japan too important to die off

I was happy to see the June 19 editorial "Reversing the population decline." Much more needs to be done on this critical issue. I keep reading articles in business journals about how Japan needs more female CEOs, and I think, no, what Japan needs is more mothers.
Reader Mail
Jun 24, 2012

Beware the national mythology

I have lived in Japan more than long enough to naturalize if I wish. But I don't wish to naturalize because I don't see sufficient advantage in it. Sure, I would be able to vote, but what's the good of that in a "democracy" such as this?
Reader Mail
Jun 24, 2012

Truth about population decline

The June 19 editorial "Reversing the population decline" lists facts and figures on Japan's population decline, recently made public by the health ministry. But the editorial's solutions offer nothing new and simply make well-worn suggestions by rote: more employment for young people, shortened working...
Reader Mail
Jun 24, 2012

Okinawan students vet Osprey

Regarding the June 20 article "Okinawa governor opposes Osprey deployment": This semester I am teaching "Current Affairs in English" at Okinawa International University. Almost all of the students in my class are English majors, and many view the U.S. military presence in Okinawa in a positive light....
Reader Mail
Jun 24, 2012

Jokes can reinforce stereotypes

Regarding Jim Makin's June 14 letter, "Getting accepted as an equal": I would like to thank Makin for taking my June 14 letter ("Undoing foreign stereotypes") seriously and for expressing agreement with the letter's main point — that foreigners in Japan sometimes contribute to the perpetuation of stereotypical...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Jun 24, 2012

Mutombo using stature to make a difference in world

Dikembe Mutombo commands attention, and it's not because he towers over people at 218 cm, or the fascinating fact that he speaks nine languages (including five African dialects) or blocked 3,289 shots during his 18-season NBA career. Simply put, the big fellow has lived a remarkable life.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jun 24, 2012

Fumiko Hayashi: Haunted to the grave by her wartime 'flute and drums'

If you compare the treatment dealt out in the immediate postwar period to Japanese writers who supported their nation's military aggression in World War II with that meted out to such writers in Europe, the Japanese literary collaborators seem to have got off lightly.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jun 24, 2012

Languid Lumbini: Just visit and you'll understand

It's a pilgrimage site, a UNESCO World Heritage site — and a building site. Lumbini in southern Nepal, less than 10 km from the Indian border, should be a name as familiar as Jerusalem, Bethlehem or Mecca, the holy places of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. It's where, in 563 B.C., the Buddha-to-be,...
Reader Mail
Jun 24, 2012

If not one excuse, it's another

In June 1991, I noticed an interesting newspaper editorial titled "Worrisome decrease in births," which warned Japanese people that their hardworking ways as "corporate warriors" had led to a decreasing birthrate. More than 20 years ago, the Japanese mass media were already making much of this, yet the...
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Jun 23, 2012

England must step it up to advance

It was Jock Stein, the former Celtic manager, who said of tournament football: "You qualify in your boiler suit and then put on your tuxedo."
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jun 23, 2012

When generations pass on the street

I see him first. The new guy in town. He's just popped out of a convenience store and has turned in my direction. The walkway pinches in and the only way he can avoid me is to freeze in his tracks and spin around. We are destined to pass.
EDITORIALS
Jun 22, 2012

Heed sentiment on Osprey

The government is trying to persuade local governments concerned in Okinawa and Honshu to accept a U.S. plan to station 24 MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, to replace the same number of CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters stationed there....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 22, 2012

'One Day'

They say that the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young. "One Day" is all about that need, and how two people (subconsciously and otherwise) hold on to that for 23 long years.
Jun 22, 2012

Cold War shadows Serb's win of key U.N. post

Shadows of the Cold War returned to the United Nations in the recent elections for president of the General Assembly, where a previously agreed candidate from Lithuania was challenged and subsequently defeated by a Russian-backed contender from Serbia.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 22, 2012

Innovative data delivery firm e-Parcel takes on the big boys

When e-Parcel Corp., an online data delivery service provider, last year sued 13 U.S. Internet-related service firms, including Yahoo Inc., Google Inc., AOL Inc. and Akamai Technologies Inc., for patent infringement, the action meant more than just protecting its intellectual property.
Reader Mail
Jun 21, 2012

Disposal of quake-tsunami debris

Regarding the June 12 Kyodo article "Gunma agrees to help dispose of Iwate quake-tsunami debris": I'm glad to hear this news. After hearing earlier that many people in a city of my prefecture had voted against accepting quake-tsunami debris, I was afraid that the number of areas willing to receive it...
Reader Mail
Jun 21, 2012

Focus on Tepco's negligence

The "regrettable" aspect of the June 17 editorial "Regrettable 'go' on nuclear reactors" is the predisposition that nuclear energy is bad and must be eliminated. It turns our attention away from what the real problem was. Nuclear energy is as safe as humans make it.
Reader Mail
Jun 21, 2012

New taxes are not the answer

Regarding the June 5 front-page article "Noda replaces censured ministers," what is Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda thinking? Japan doesn't have a revenue problem; it has a spending problem. The last thing you want to do is raise taxes during a time of deflation — particularly a tax that will...
Reader Mail
Jun 21, 2012

Anti-nuclear protest buried

Last week's arrest of Katsuya Takahashi, the last remaining fugitive wanted in connection with the 1995 sarin gas attack in the Tokyo subway, captured the attention of the Japanese news media. Often during the first 48 hours after Takahashi's arrest, it seemed as if every news camera from every Japanese...
Reader Mail
Jun 21, 2012

What 'international outcry'?

The June 17 Page 2 article "Oi decision draws international outcry" is very interesting with regard to the disparity between the headline and the body of the article.
Reader Mail
Jun 21, 2012

Back on the doomsday cycle

The biggest cartel in Japan, if not the world, has long involved the government and the utility companies. Is it any wonder, then, that Prime Minister Noda has taken the unilateral action of giving the go-ahead to restarting Japan's nuclear power industry, despite the common-sense reality that nuclear...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 21, 2012

The photographs that leave a paper trail

In today's complex world, in which we are routinely overburdened with data, intuition and a visceral response to imagery is increasingly trumping rational discourse, according to Thomas Demand. But this is something the German artist, whose work is the subject of a major solo show at the Museum of Contemporary...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 21, 2012

Japan also has stake in universal rights, says ex-Congo child soldier

Michel Chikwanine, a university student in Canada who was once a child soldier in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has suffered things no ordinary Japanese child will ever have to.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 21, 2012

"Bernard Leach: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Leach's Career as a Painter"

While in his 20s, British potter Bernard Leach (1887-1979), who was brought up in East Asia, started to fraternize with some of Japan's most forward-thinking artists. His friendship with Soetsu Yanagi, the founder of mingei — a movement that advocated the "utilitarian beauty" of Japanese traditional...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Jun 20, 2012

Gunma selects forward Sugasawa with No.1 pick in bj-league draft

A pair of bj-league franchises took the first step toward building their rosters for the 2012-13 season during Tuesday's draft day event in Tokyo.
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Jun 19, 2012

Greek outcome only step in right direction

The yen fell against the euro and Asian stocks rose after proausterity New Democracy won the national elections in Greece on Sunday, but pundits warned that it is too early for Japan to breathe a sigh of relief.
Japan on edge but prepared for tsunami after huge Kamchatka earthquake
Police officers ask a man to evacuate from an empty beach following a tsunami warning, in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, on Wednesday.
Japan to start new residency system for foreign workers
Students hoping to work in Japan attend a Japanese class at a job placement company in Hanoi in October 2022.
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.
Japan to regularly accept assistant language teachers from India
Indian assistant language teachers pose for a photo with Japanese Ambassador Keiichi Ono (center) at the Japanese Embassy in New Delhi on Friday.
At LDP’s post-election meeting, calls intensify for Ishiba’s resignation
Prime Minister and Liberal Democratic Party President Shigeru Ishiba, flanked by LDP Secretary-General Hiroshi Moriyama (left) and LDP Vice President Yoshihide Suga, speaks at a meeting of party lawmakers and executives at the party's headquarters in Tokyo on Monday.
Why Ishiba refuses to quit even amid intense pressure for him to go
Supporters of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba take part in a rally across the street from the Prime Minister's Office on Friday.
Behind the scenes at the Baseball Hall of Fame's new Yakyu/Baseball exhibit
“Yakyu / Baseball: The Transpacific Exchange of the Game” is set to remain on display in Cooperstown for at least five to 10 years — and possibly indefinitely.
Boys’ love dramas from Thailand make waves in Japan
Wakana, a Japanese fan of Thai BL, visits a temple in Thon Buri, Bangkok featured in the Thai adaptation of the Japanese series “Cherry Magic.” Her media consumption kindled an interest in Thai culture and language, and ultimately led her to relocate to Thailand. “I fell in love with the whole country,” she says.
Amid fossil fuel shift in U.S., hope emerges for India and Japan tie-up on solar
A technician works on the assembly line at a solar panel manufacturing hub on the outskirts of New Delhi last October.
Traditional Japanese swordsmanship — with modern matches
This year marked the eighth annual championship put on by the Hogyokukai school of traditional Japanese swordsmanship.

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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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