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Reader Mail
Oct 9, 2011

Past opportunities for Palestine

Kevin Gaffney's Oct. 2 letter, "Effects of disenfranchisement," claims that Palestinian Arabs could "become citizens of their own nation through the United Nations as Israelis did, but that peaceful path has been blocked by, of all people, a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, (U.S. President) Barack Obama."...
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Oct 9, 2011

Iso happy to leave pro game to follow dream at OSU

For Ariko Iso, a stint with one of the NFL's perennial powerhouses may have only been a path to achieve her ultimate goal.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 9, 2011

Television's skewed version of poverty

The Occupy Wall Street demonstrations currently taking place in New York continue to garner more and more attention from the American media, which mostly ignored the movement when it began several weeks ago. Now everybody in America who reads a newspaper or watches TV news understands that the protesters...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 8, 2011

Rescuing America from Wall Street

Better late than never, the movement to take America back from Wall Street has arrived. This week the ranks of the Occupy Wall Street encampment swelled as MoveOn.org members, union activists and ordinary disgruntled citizens joined the demonstration against our financial sector's misrule of the American...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 8, 2011

Love and loathing of racial preferments Down Under

In 2009, in two articles published in the Herald Sun and the Herald and Weekly Times, columnist Andrew Bolt wrote that many light-skinned — that is, those who did not look Aboriginal — Australians had chosen to identify themselves as indigenous in order to gain material or professional advantage....
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Oct 8, 2011

Communication skill, beyond language, called key necessity

When Mark Rubiner drove tens of thousands of kilometers from Arizona to Mexico and through South America when he was only 21 years old, his high school Spanish skills became a key tool for survival.
EDITORIALS
Oct 8, 2011

Mr. Ozawa pleads not guilty

Former Democratic Party of Japan leader Ichiro Ozawa pleaded not guilty to the charge of conspiring with his three secretaries to falsify reports of his fund management body Rikuzankai, at the start of his trial at the Tokyo District Court on Thursday. The trial has a special character since it is based...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 7, 2011

Helping Japan with a dance

Take any teenager nearly 10,000 km (6,000 miles) from home on their first-ever overseas trip and you are bound to reap wonder. For 16-year-old French ballerina Sylvie Guillem, who came to Tokyo with the Paris Opera Ballet School in 1981, that wonder grew into 30 years of mutual admiration.
Reader Mail
Oct 6, 2011

Plutonium perspective needed

Regarding the Oct. 1 Kyodo article "Plutonium traces found in Iitate (Fukushima Prefecture) soil": Traces of plutonium will be found at every location on Earth if the test is sensitive enough.
Reader Mail
Oct 6, 2011

Close the air station ... tomorrow

On Sept. 7 the Noda Cabinet's new Foreign Minister Koichiro Genba made an inaugural telephone call to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in which he assured her that Japan would stick to the accord reached last year to relocate U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to Henoko in northern Okinawa....
Reader Mail
Oct 6, 2011

Doubts about Japan predate 3/11

I don't want to cross swords with Donald Wood, as I agree with most of what he says in his Oct. 2 letter, "Japanese leaders will find a way," but not with all. He misses the point of my Sept. 25 letter ("Mixed American views of Japan").
Reader Mail
Oct 6, 2011

Noda can't afford Futenma issue

The Oct. 3 editorial "Driving 'safe' through the Diet" states that Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda "is under pressure from the United States to resolve the issue of relocating U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma on Okinawa Island."
Reader Mail
Oct 6, 2011

Fitting reminder of an obligation

Regarding the Sept. 30 Kyodo article "Seoul urged to nix slave monument": The South Korean government should go ahead with the memorial to the "comfort women." It is clear that the Japanese government is hoping that the issue will die off along with the remaining handful of elderly Korean women. This...
Reader Mail
Oct 6, 2011

Look who's fretting about danger

For people who do not wish to see Russia regain its former strength, if not glory, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is a dangerous czar. Such is the narrative consistently sung by people like Ralph Peters, the writer of the Sept. 30 Washington Post article "Genius lurks in this dangerous czar."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 6, 2011

Gamarjobat: Pantomime artists who have plenty to say

Tough-looking with their cockscomb mohawks — the red one topping Ketch!; the yellow one, HIRO-PON — the "silent-comedy" duo Gamarjobat ("Hello" in Georgian) are now well into a 31-stop tour that's filling theaters around the country with whoops and rollicking laughter — as well as their own "language"...
COMMENTARY
Oct 6, 2011

Integration outlook for ex-Soviets

It is well known that, in the political field, the 20th century brought about a strong and, as it turned out, omnipresent trend toward disintegration of former empires and the formation in their place of nation-states all over the crumbling colonial world.
EDITORIALS
Oct 6, 2011

Another blow to al-Qaida

ACIA drone strike has killed Anwar al-Awlaki, one of the world's most wanted terrorists. Awlaki's death is another blow to al-Qaida, and proof yet again of the extraordinary reach bestowed on the United States by its technology.
COMMENTARY
Oct 6, 2011

Few dare call it federal control of education

Obama Gives States a Voice In 'No Child' — New York Times, Sept. 24
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 6, 2011

The patron saint of Japanese indie?

Steven Tanaka has a secret. The vibrant live-house scenes of Tokyo's Koenji and Shimokitazawa neighborhoods hold a special place in his heart, and since last year he has been spending vast sums to take some of that energy to Canada — just don't tell his parents.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Oct 5, 2011

Big Bulls ready to charge into debut bj-league season

The Iwate Big Bulls are about to begin experiencing something every professional sports team must encounter: an inaugural season.
BUSINESS
Oct 5, 2011

NEC touts 'smart innovation' for competitiveness

Fusing technologies of electronics industries, a Japanese strength, with other businesses is vital for the nation to increase its global competitiveness, NEC Corp. Chairman Kaoru Yano said Tuesday.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Oct 4, 2011

World Heritage listing has its price

News that Iwate Prefecture's historic Hiraizumi area and the Ogasawara Islands would be added to UNESCO's World Heritage List last June lifted the spirits of residents in the Tohoku region after the March 11 quake-tsunami trauma.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Oct 4, 2011

Left-behind dads take desperate measures

"In September of 2010, The Japan Times published a two-part series by a man under the pen name Richard Cory telling the extraordinary tale of his divorce and custody battles over his three children with his Japanese ex-wife . . . essentially custody by capture." — "Divorce and the Welfare of the Child...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 4, 2011

'Smart city' projects revived by disasters

Ever since the March 11 disasters exposed the nation's dependence on conventional power sources and infrastructure, energy-efficient "smart city" projects have drawn increasing attention.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Oct 4, 2011

Mascot menagerie: from the practical to the satirical

In the Aug. 30 Light Gist column, headlined "Mascots on a mission to explain the mundane," Colin P. A. Jones explored the marvellous menagerie of mascots deployed by Japanese authorities to educate adults and children alike about the law and the workings of government.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Oct 4, 2011

Hawks euphoric after triumph, focused on winning Japan Series title

For a few precious hours, the rigors of a demanding season were forgotten as the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks sprayed one another with bottle after bottle of beer.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2011

Greater growth with lower domestic demand

As the American economy continues to sputter three years after the global financial crisis erupted, one thing has become clear: The United States cannot generate higher rates of growth in gross domestic product and employment without a change in the mix of the economy's domestic and export-oriented components....
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 3, 2011

What political moderates can learn from America's political extremes

What is a campaign platform that most Americans would support but will never get a chance to vote for?
Reader Mail
Oct 2, 2011

U.S. record enervates influence

Regarding Washington Post analyst Anthony H. Cordesman's Sept. 28 article, "Long-range plan for Afghanistan would help": Washington's positions on the Saudi monarchy, its historical support for military regimes in Pakistan, its acquiescence to the inhuman Israeli repression of Palestinians, its unwelcome...
Wealthy foreign nationals picking up ultimate souvenir — a condo in Tokyo
A high-end property in the fashionable Daikanyama district in Tokyo
Bank of Japan to start unloading ETFs in surprise move that rattles market
BOJ Gov. Kazuo Ueda said it would take a century for the bank to sell all its ETFs at the pace proposed.
Over 90% of low-income families in Japan struggling to feed children
Save the Children Japan domestic program chief Sonoko Kawakami speaks at a news conference in Tokyo in July. A survey conducted by the group in June has found that over 90% of low-income households with children face food insecurity.
JAL to punish president and 36 others over pilot drinking scandal
Japan Airlines Managing Executive Officer Yukio Nakagawa (center) and others apologize after one of the airline's pilots was found to have been drinking alcohol, during a news conference in Tokyo on Sept. 4.
After seven decades, is it finally time for the LDP to split up?
Signage atop the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo. Japan’s ruling party faces a tough decision over its future as it searches for a new leader to replace outgoing Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, reverse its waning popularity and reassure investors
World Athletics stars relish Tokyo atmosphere after COVID-hit Olympics
Organizers of the World Athletics Championships said over 500,000 tickets had been sold and that they are expecting to end the event in front of large crowds this weekend.
Japan’s front-line researchers see bright path ahead for dementia treatment
A scientist looks at scans of grains at the Memory Centre at the Department of Readaptation and Geriatrics of the University Hospital (HUG) in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 6, 2023.
Still plenty to fight for, says Japan’s team leader at worlds
Race walker Hayato Katsuki earned bronze for Japan on the opening day of the World Athletics Championships on Saturday.
Wealthy foreign nationals picking up ultimate souvenir — a condo in Tokyo
A high-end property in the fashionable Daikanyama district in Tokyo
Japanese athletes inspired by raucous home fans at World Athletics Championships
Fans cheer on the home favorites during the women's marathon at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo on Sunday.

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