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BASKETBALL
Jul 1, 2011

Golden Kings re-sign McHenry

Versatile forward Anthony McHenry, who was named to the bj-league's Best Five Team last season, has agreed to terms of a one-year contract and will return to the Ryukyu Golden Kings for a fourth season, the team announced on Wednesday.
JAPAN
Jul 1, 2011

Cesium found in child urine tests

Small amounts of radioactive cesium were found in the urine of 10 children in the city of Fukushima, confirming their internal exposure to radiation, citizens' groups that carried out a survey said Thursday.
BUSINESS
Jul 1, 2011

Defiant Tepco rallies utilities around future of nuke power

Tokyo Electric Power Co. led utilities in rallying around a nuclear future, defying growing public opposition to atomic energy amid the Fukushima No. 1 plant accident.
Reader Mail
Jun 30, 2011

Better trip for Japanese retirees

Regarding the June 26 Kyodo article "Ogasawara Islands join World Heritage family": Last year I was part of a delegation of foreigners sent by the Japan Tourism Agency to assess the overseas tourist potential of the Ogasawara Islands.
Reader Mail
Jun 30, 2011

Why put down counseling?

I was frankly shocked when I read the following paragraph by Giovanni Fazio in his June 24 review of the movie "Hesher": "Hesher" stands in opposition to the modern American obsession with pop-psych, and the rather misguided idea that endlessly talking about one's feelings will help one deal with them....
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2011

Factory output rises, extending rebound

Industrial production rose for a second month, government data showed Wednesday, as manufacturers restored operations at plants and supply chain disruptions eased after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Jun 29, 2011

Kan keeps foes on edge over resignation timetable

Prime Minister Naoto Kan's announcement Monday that he would step down after the second extra budget and two key bills are passed may, at a glance, appear as though he finally clarified when he is leaving.
EDITORIALS
Jun 29, 2011

Boosting Japan's flagging tourism

In 2010, a record number 8,612,000 tourists from abroad visited Japan — up 26.8 percent from 2009 — and it was hoped that more than 10 million tourists would visit this year. But the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disasters dashed this hope.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 29, 2011

South China Sea: making sense of nonsense

After a series of aggressive incidents involving Chinese patrol boats and subsequent soothing official statements, many analysts are trying to figure out what is really going on.
BUSINESS
Jun 28, 2011

Nissan targets 8% share of global market in six years

Nissan Motor Co. CEO Carlos Ghosn said Monday the automaker aims to achieve a global market share of 8 percent by the business year ending in March 2017 by focusing on rapidly expanding emerging markets.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Jun 27, 2011

Dealing with addiction to the 'war on drugs'

Earlier this month a spate of reports and commentaries came out on the failure of the U.S. "war on drugs," beginning with the Global Commission on Drug Policy flatly stating the war "has failed."
Reader Mail
Jun 26, 2011

Thrilled to have made the trip

When disaster struck Japan on March 11, the whole world gasped over media news of the horror. We prayed every day for your great country to be spared further pain. The loss was and is inestimable.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 26, 2011

Red Cross: More Libya aid needed

Four months since a violent uprising swept Libya and split the nation in a civil war, fighting continues between forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi and the opposition seeking to drive him from power.
Reader Mail
Jun 26, 2011

All the news facts except 'who'

Regarding the June 22 Kyodo article, "Minami Sanriku (Miyagi Prefecture) must pay rent on temporary facility": Why didn't the reporter mention which construction company owns the buildings, and who is demanding rent?
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 26, 2011

Swallows heap more misery on last-place BayStars

It took the Tokyo Yakult Swallows a little while to get going in their first game after the interleague break.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jun 26, 2011

Potential MLB realignment presents challenges

You have no doubt heard about the proposal for realignment in Major League Baseball. According to media reports, the MLB wants to switch one National League team to the American League in order to make two 15-team leagues and end the current unbalanced setup of 16 NL teams and 14 in the AL, as early...
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Jun 26, 2011

Readers offer 3/11 insights, valuable resources

As Japan has struggled with the physical and emotional challenges of the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and tsunami of March 11, and the ongoing nuclear crisis that resulted, I have written three Our Planet Earth columns related to those events: one on Japan's response (March 27); one on alternative...
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jun 26, 2011

Hearn the Westerm misfit finally found himself at home in Meiji Japan

What does it mean to be an expatriate, particularly when you feel more at home and assimilated in an adopted country than in your own?

Longform

Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers