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BASKETBALL
Sep 12, 2010

Father, son team up to lead rebuilding Broncos

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. — Fathers and sons have worked together on countless sports teams since games began. And now a new variation of this story begins in Japan.
EDITORIALS
Sep 12, 2010

The new frugality

In a sad start to the new season, many of the events throughout Japan featuring one of the symbols of autumn, the lowly sanma (mackerel pike or Pacific saury), had to be canceled or postponed because of poor catches. At the beginning of September the catch was only 20 percent of that of the previous...
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Sep 12, 2010

Japan's mighty whale mountain

It's enough to make members of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society choke on their tofu burgers. Stocks of frozen whale meat in Japan have reached 4,000 tons — that's 4 million kg.
CULTURE / Books
Sep 12, 2010

Nara legends, myths and other weird tales

From May 1974 until March 1985, Kenji Inui wrote the column "Hometown Legends" for the prefectural news magazine Kensei Nara.
BUSINESS
Sep 11, 2010

Incubator Bank of Japan files for bankruptcy

The troubled Incubator Bank of Japan filed for bankruptcy Friday at the Tokyo District Court after an overly ambitious expansion and a series of allegedly illegal transactions prompted its downfall.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Sep 11, 2010

Benzaiten — Tomboy Goddess of the Sea

Our motorboat skimmed over the smooth water of the Seto Inland Sea. We were on our way to the mainland and I was attempting to apply last-minute beauty aids — nail polish to my fingers and toes. That's 20 appendages and, on a motorboat occasionally met by waves from passing cargo ships, that means...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Sep 10, 2010

New dining at 45 floors above Tokyo

The Ritz-Carlton, Tokyo, opened two new restaurants on Sept. 4, replacing the all-day dining outlet Forty Five on the 45th floor.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Sep 9, 2010

Fashion that blooms, rocks, roars and parties

Blooming T-shirts!
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Sep 8, 2010

Despite the big spender image, Japanese actually love to save

There's this image that the Japanese are drop-dead, go-all-out kaimono-chūdokusho (買い物中毒症, shopaholics), despite whatever the latest dreary news bulletin on the global recession says. While that may be true, it's also a fact of our collective lives that the Japanese hate spending, with every...
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Sep 7, 2010

Pair of veteran hurlers still have something left to give

A pair of veteran pitchers briefly turned back the clock.
EDITORIALS
Sep 5, 2010

Evolving convenience stores

In the three and a half decades since their introduction to Japan in 1974, convenience stores have become such a fixture that it is hard to imagine life without them. Passing department stores in sales by 2008, outlets now number more than 40,000 throughout Japan. In July their customer count rose by...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Sep 5, 2010

Scully set to carry on for 62nd season with Dodgers

Baseball news reports last week indicated Los Angeles Dodgers legendary play-by-play announcer Vin Scully has decided to return for another year behind the microphone in 2011. The 82-year-old Hall of Famer will be in his 62nd season calling Dodgers games in a career that goes back to seven years before...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Sep 5, 2010

Pro-life drama series; awards of dubious distinctions; CM of the week: Maruchan

On average, 600 abortions are performed in Japan every day. This rarely publicized situation is the subject of a new afternoon soap opera, "Tenshi no Dairinin" ("The Angels' Proxies"; Fuji TV, Mon.-Fri., 1:30 p.m.).
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 4, 2010

It's no surprise that America isn't working

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — As the U.S. economy limps toward the second anniversary of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, anemic growth has left unemployment near 10 percent, with little prospect of improvement soon. Little wonder that, with midterm congressional elections coming in November, Americans are angrily...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Sep 4, 2010

Moby Cat — the Great White Stray

Call me, "Stupid." My father did. Rather often in fact.
EDITORIALS
Sep 3, 2010

Mr. Kan vs. Mr. Ozawa

After some meanderings, the campaign for election of the next president of the Democratic Party of Japan officially started Wednesday, with Prime Minister Naoto Kan and former DPJ Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa vying for the post.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 3, 2010

Nishiguchi-led Lions climb into first place

TOKOROZAWA — There's still some life left in Fumiya Nishiguchi's right arm.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Sep 3, 2010

Photos, films depict Tokyo in turbulent times

The 10 years following the end of World War II in Tokyo are marked by two things — war-related devastation and the march toward reconstruction.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Sep 3, 2010

Lord of the 'Ring'

On Sept. 25, 2006, hundreds gathered in New York's Times Square to watch the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" on a jumbo screen. The Met, one of the world's most famous opera companies, was showing its opening night gala live to the general public for free....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 3, 2010

'Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro: Kaiki (Tales of Terror: The Bizarre)'

Starting in 1990 as a compilation of 100 "true horror" tales from ordinary folks around Japan, "Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro (Tales of Terror)" has spawned a series of short films broadcast on the BS-TBS cable and satellite channel and three theatrical omnibuses. The franchise is the snack food of J-horror....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Sep 3, 2010

From 'Dawn of the Dead' to the live-and-kicking golden 'oldies'

Shu Matsui's innocent smile is familiar. He's always beaming on TV ads, whether he's plugging a washing softener, playing a gentle new father or promoting mobile phones in the guise of a young doctor. But if you were to see any production by Sample, the theater company Matsui founded in 2007, you'd be...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Sep 3, 2010

J-pop diva Superfly has the classics covered

"It's really fulfilling to tackle a truly classic song with a beautiful melody; just to merely touch a song like that feels wonderful," says Shiho Ochi, better known to her legion of fans as J-pop soul diva Superfly, as we chat in her record company's Tokyo office.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 3, 2010

Contemporary ceramics update the tea ceremony

The Way of Tea has for centuries been a cornerstone of Japanese culture and aesthetic beauty. An old Japanese proverb states: "If a man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty."
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Sep 2, 2010

Power spots: Japan’s latest spiritual craze

Feeling down? Need a recharge? Seek the nearest 'power spot.'
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 2, 2010

A shift in strategy needed to revive Japanese industry

Against the backdrop of intensifying Japan-U.S. trade frictions in the 1980s, it was considered for some time that Japan's economic power was a threat to the United States. This country's high rating has since declined, however, giving way to comments like "Japan has disappeared from the world's radar...
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Tokyo ranked world’s richest city by GDP, with Osaka-Kobe also rated highly
Tokyo has a gross domestic product of $2.55 trillion, just ahead of New York’s $2.49 trillion and Greater Los Angeles’ $1.62 trillion, according to CEOWorld’s global wealth index.
Tokyo looks to keep ‘monster parents’ at bay with new protocols
New guidelines are addressing struggles by teachers to deal with the burden of parents who make irrational complaints that go beyond what is considered socially acceptable, often referred to as "monster parents," which is overwhelming their workload.
China delivers warning to U.S. and Japan with third aircraft carrier
The Fujian, China's third aircraft carrier, carries out sea trials at an unknown location in May last year.
Japan lawmakers eye firm response to Chinese envoy's threat to behead PM
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks at a Lower House Budget Committee meeting on Friday.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.
China delivers warning to U.S. and Japan with third aircraft carrier
The Fujian, China's third aircraft carrier, carries out sea trials at an unknown location in May last year.
Jenson Button brings end to an illustrious racing career intertwined with Japan
Jenson Button races for Honda during the Singapore Grand Prix in September 2008.
Cleanliness gets competitive at Tokyo’s Spogomi world cup
On Oct. 29, teams from 33 qualifying countries scoured the streets of Shibuya for all manners of trash as part of the Spogomi litter-picking competition.

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