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BASKETBALL
Mar 12, 2011

Henry's 42 carry Akita past Tokyo in 2OT thriller

Few games can be considered an instant classic, but that's what Wednesday's Tokyo Apache-Akita Northern Happinets double-overtime clash became.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Mar 12, 2011

Arsenal fans have to be realistic

LONDON — The reaction was predictable.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Mar 11, 2011

Annals of cheap: Tsume-hodai

Food retailers looking to get more consumers through the door by inviting them to stuff it all they like.
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2011

DPJ veteran signed petition to drop Takeshima claim

A senior Democratic Party of Japan member close to Prime Minister Naoto Kan signed a declaration last month that Tokyo should immediately give up its claim to sovereignty over the two South Korea-controlled islets, it was learned Thursday.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Mar 11, 2011

Tyler raising his game as season progresses

Jeremy Tyler, still a few months shy of his 20th birthday, is no stranger to NBA talent evaluators. Though he's playing halfway around the world, the Tokyo Apache's highly touted 210-cm prospect is being closely watched.
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2011

Roos apologizes to Nakaima for Maher's alleged insult

NAHA, Okinawa Pref. (Kyodo) U.S. Ambassador to Japan John Roos apologized to Okinawa Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima Thursday over a U.S. State Department official's reported remarks that disparaged people in the prefecture.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2011

October-December GDP setback exceeds government estimate

The economy contracted more than the government initially estimated in the calendar fourth quarter because of a downward revision to capital investment and consumer spending.
JAPAN
Mar 10, 2011

Challenges await next Tokyo leader

While many familiar faces, among them Kanagawa Gov. Shigefumi Matsuzawa, former Miyazaki Gov. Hideo Higashikokubaru and businessman Miki Watanabe, are likely to be seen in the April 10 Tokyo gubernatorial election, the capital's most prominent is expected to stand down.
EDITORIALS
Mar 10, 2011

Harmony-breaking words

The assemblies of Okinawa Prefecture and two cities in the prefecture — Naha and Urasoe — on Tuesday unanimously adopted resolutions protesting comments by a U.S. official that allegedly disparaged the Okinawans. Other Okinawan assemblies will follow suit.
SOCCER / J. League / J. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Mar 10, 2011

Mental fortitude saves day for Grampus, Antlers

If Nagoya Grampus' and Kashima Antlers' failure to win their opening fixtures constituted good news for the rest of the J. League, the manner in which both teams eventually salvaged a point did not.
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Mar 8, 2011

DPJ loses potential successor to Kan

Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara's abrupt resignation Sunday may have averted even more turmoil in the Diet, but his loss bodes ill for the Democratic Party of Japan because he was a leading candidate to succeed Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Mar 8, 2011

Domestic child abuse in spotlight

The Fukuoka District Court in January sentenced a 34-year-old mother to six years in prison for causing bodily injury resulting in her daughter's death, casting the spotlight anew on child abuse.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Mar 8, 2011

Byzantine temp rules need permanent fix

Back in the days when I was a corporate drone in Tokyo, I had a wonderful secretary who had the good fortune to get pregnant. Bad news for me, though, since I had to endure a series of temps, some good, some bad, and one who marinated herself in enough perfume to make everyone ill. But what I found most...
BUSINESS
Mar 8, 2011

JR West taps low bond yields to refinance loans

West Japan Railway Co., starting the nation's newest bullet train service this week, is slashing interest costs by using the world's lowest bond yields to refinance government loans.
COMMENTARY
Mar 7, 2011

U.S. foreign aid hinders more than it helps

SEATTLE — The United States will run up a record $1.65 trillion deficit in 2011. Yet Washington keeps subsidizing foreign governments. House Republicans have targeted foreign aid. This year the State Department would lose 16 percent of its budget; humanitarian aid would drop by 41 percent.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2011

Maehara quits Cabinet over donations

Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara announced his resignation Sunday to take responsibility for illegally accepting donations from a foreign national, further damaging the already shaky Cabinet of Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
EDITORIALS
Mar 6, 2011

Vaccination policy booster

Japan's vaccination policy has taken a small step forward. The fiscal 2010 supplementary budget approved by the Diet in late November includes some ¥108.5 billion to financially help local governments subsidize the costs of inoculation with three types of vaccines: one to prevent haemophilus influenza...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Mar 6, 2011

Those old Snow Country blues

Sometimes I'm not even sure we were there at all. Distance and time often give perspective and clarity, but now when I try to call that day to mind, everything is obscured by a thickening curtain of falling snow.

Longform

Koichi Tagawa’s diary entry from Aug. 9, 1945, describes the day of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
The horrors of Nagasaki, in first person