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JAPAN
Sep 22, 2011

Costa Rica envoy makes energy pitch

The new Costa Rican ambassador to Japan, Alvaro Antonio Cedeno Molinari, said his mission here is to raise awareness of investment opportunities in renewable energy.
COMMENTARY
Sep 22, 2011

The economic morality play

World attention focuses on the problems of the Greek economy — no doubt with a large helping of schadenfreude added: There, but for the grace of God, go the rest of us is the thought.
Reader Mail
Sep 22, 2011

Universities can skip the details

The Sept. 18 editorial "Slow transparency of universities" states these words of wisdom: "All Japanese universities and colleges need to provide parents and prospective students with everything needed to make informed decisions. An open appraisal of relevant, meaningful data, followed by a critical examination,...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 22, 2011

Tohoku students share tales of disasters on global stage

Global leaders who gathered last week in Dalian, China, for the Annual Meeting of the New Champions, Asia's premier global business forum, had a rare chance to hear Japanese high school and university students' firsthand experiences of the March disasters.
Reader Mail
Sep 22, 2011

Antagonistic position baffles

In response to Laura Holland's Sept. 11 letter, "Tourists ignoring dolphin culls": First, I never suggested that the barbaric, inhumane dolphin drives in Japan were keeping tourists from coming to Japan. Unfortunately, concerns of radioactive content in foods and surroundings are now a deterrent for...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / IN THE RECORD
Sep 22, 2011

Kenji Takimi

DJ, producer and founder of Crue-L Records, Kenji Takimi has been a central figure in Japan's house and disco scene since the late 1980s. The Japan Times takes a flick through the big man's record bag.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2011

Threats to the realization of India's potential

For all of India's many and weighty advantages and its present trajectory, a fatal stall cannot be ruled out.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 21, 2011

The 9/11-3/11 connection

It's an interesting twist that the recent Sept. 11, 2011, anniversary marks two momentous events — 10 years since the multiple terrorist attacks in the United States that spawned a worldwide "war on terror", and six months since the devastating combination of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear plant disaster...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 21, 2011

Checking the impulse to fight wars of choice

As the United States stumbles through its economic challenges at home, the pressure of world events will not subside. But America's ability to address them has changed. Its fiscal weakness limits its ability to act as global policeman.
COMMENTARY
Sep 20, 2011

End the grad student quotas

Starting in the 1991 academic year (April 1991 through March 1992), a number of leading national universities in Japan underwent major structural changes, led by the Law School at the University of Tokyo.
Japan Times
Reference / SO WHAT THE HECK IS THAT
Sep 20, 2011

Anzan kigan

Dear Alice,
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Sep 20, 2011

Hold the cesium: Ways to reduce radiation in your diet

Is our food really safe?
Japan Times
TENNIS
Sep 19, 2011

Japan back in Davis Cup World Group after 26 years away

Japan stormed back into the World Group of the Davis Cup after a 26-year absence on Sunday with a 4-1 victory over India.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 19, 2011

India and China in deep water over sovereignty

An unidentified Chinese warship demanded that the INS Airavat, an amphibious assault vessel, identify itself and explain its presence in the South China Sea after it left Vietnamese waters in late July, London's Financial Times reported.
Reader Mail
Sep 18, 2011

Flow of cesium and fish safety

Regarding the Sept. 15 Kyodo article "Cesium in sea may return in 20 to 30 years": I was wondering how cesium could affect sea life and the repercussions it could have on those who eat seafood.
Reader Mail
Sep 18, 2011

Hachiro's haunting straight talk

The Sept. 13 front-page article "Noda taps Edano for trade minister" states that former trade minister Yoshio Hachiro stepped down after he "triggered public outrage for calling the area around the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant a 'town of death."
Reader Mail
Sep 18, 2011

Overlooked aspects of beauty

The Sept. 14 front-page Reuters/Kyodo photo titled "ANGOLAN BEAUTY" shows Leila Lopes of Angola being crowned Miss Universe 2011 in Sao Paulo. Despite their feminist detractors, beauty contests do have lasting virtues: empowering women and putting worthy role models of education and grace, principle,...
Reader Mail
Sep 18, 2011

Muslim prayer for peace

Ten years since the war against terrorism was launched, the world is still suffering the regrettable loss of innocent lives in many countries. Many who supported the war in Iraq and Afghanistan later became disillusioned with the reasons for the war. Peace is still far away. It is unfortunate that the...
Reader Mail
Sep 18, 2011

LDP can't knock prime minister

Regarding the Sept. 15 front-page article "LDP slams Noda over ministers' miscues": While I agree that remarks by former trade minister Yoshio Hachiro were out of place at best, I don't believe that Liberal Democratic Party President Sadakazu Tanigaki or his opposition party are in a position to slam...
Reader Mail
Sep 18, 2011

Pro-Israeli policy at what price?

The recent coverage of 9/11 commemorations seemed to avoid the basic fact about the war in Iraq, the war on terror, airport security, etc. We are in this mess because of our support for Israel. Yet, it seems that almost all analysis scrupulously avoids dealing with, or even mentioning, this incontrovertible...
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Sep 18, 2011

Navy on alert in Shanghai, Japanese actor lauded, nuclear arms race, world's best-selling computer

75 YEARS AGOFriday, Sept. 25, 1936
CULTURE / Books
Sep 18, 2011

Ai Weiwei: an enemy of the state

AI WEIWEI'S BLOG: Writings, Interviews, and Digital Rants, 2006-2009, by Ai Weiwei. Edited and translated by Lee Ambrozy. The MIT Press, 2011, 307 pp., $24.95 (paper) The Chinese government hates the artist Ai Weiwei, and it's easy to see why. The artful criticism he posted on his blog from 2006 until...
CULTURE / Books
Sep 18, 2011

Existence is but a brief shimmer of light

INCIDENTAL MUSIC, by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa. BlazeVOX, 2010, 112 pp., $16.00 (paper); and NOTATIONAL, by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa. Otoliths, 2011, 68 pp., $12.45 (paper). If the saying is true that "writing about art is like dancing about architecture" — or, as Martin Amis argues, that, when reviewing poems,...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Sep 18, 2011

Castles and Crafts on the Yomitan Peninsula

Most people come to the Yomitan Peninsula on Okinawa's main island for the sand and the scuba opportunities. I, however, am one of those island residents on whom paradise is wasted — I like neither a sweltering day at the beach nor an afternoon spent exploring the intimidating world beneath the waves....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / WEEK 3
Sep 18, 2011

Expat filmmaker knows what Japanese cult movie fans expect

French-Canadian Alex Paille came to Japan in 2006 to teach English, study martial arts and try his hand as a manga artist. His artistic drive took a new direction when one of his English students turned out to be internationally renowned filmmaker Sion Sono ("Cold Fish," "Love Exposure," "Suicide Club")....
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Sep 17, 2011

Fuel cell generator for homes takes off

Nagoya-based Toho Gas recently announced that it sold its 1,000th fuel cell unit since the household power generators hit the market in May 2009.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 17, 2011

Koshiishi still siding with Ozawa

Azuma Koshiishi, the new secretary general of the Democratic Party of Japan, said he still believes Ichiro Ozawa's suspension should be lifted.
JAPAN / CABINET INTERVIEW
Sep 17, 2011

Edano won't rush restarts

Newly appointed trade and industry minister Yukio Edano said he won't set a time frame for deciding whether to restart halted nuclear reactors currently undergoing stress tests.
Japan unveils new overtourism countermeasures
The majority of tourists in Japan tend to stay in Tokyo, Osaka or Kyoto, resulting in overcrowding in popular tourist spots and a strain on transportation systems.
South Korea couple beat same-sex barriers to parenthood
South Korean lesbian couple Kim Kyu-jin (left) and her wife, Kim Sae-yeon, pose with a "pregnant woman" badge during an interview in Seoul last month.
Toyoko Kids: The lonely street children of Tokyo
Many young people who feel neglected at home flock to the Toyoko area to find a community where they can fit in.
Opportunities await the bold in the Year of the Wood Dragon
2024 marks the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac, with the year predicted to be a good time for fresh starts.
Don’t worry about global population collapse
Most projections show the world will hit peak humanity in the 21st century as people choose to have smaller families and women gain power over their own reproduction.
Manga translators walk a fine line between meaning and mayhem
Not only is the drawing of each frame an important part of the manga-making process, translation has increasingly demanded more attention as the art form gains popularity overseas.
AI fiction is already here. Are humans ready?
After last year’s controversy over using AI to write about 5% of her novel, Rie Qudan was asked by an advertising magazine to write a short story where she uses AI for 95% of it. The resulting short story, “Kage no ame” (“Rain Shadow”), was published March 25.  
Six short films that capture our world in mere minutes
“Marion” provides a glimpse into the lives of bull dodgers, who perform a nonlethal version of bullfighting.
As Taiwan looks to boost ‘unofficial ties,’ Paraguay’s leader offers facilitator role
Paraguayan President Santiago Pena speaks during an interview with The Japan Times in Tokyo on Thursday.
GCAP next-gen fighter joint venture likely to be running by this summer
A concept model of the Global Combat Air Program's fighter jet is displayed during the DSEI Japan defense exhibition in the city of Chiba on Wednesday.

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A sinkhole in Yashio, which emerged in January, was triggered by a ruptured, aging sewer pipe. Authorities worry that similar sections of infrastructure across the country are also at risk of corrosion.
That sinking feeling: Japan’s aging sewers are an infrastructure time bomb
By Alex K.T. Martin

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