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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 18, 2009

Professor, schoolgirl share victim status in grope case

Last April, the Supreme Court reversed a Tokyo High Court decision that found Masahiro Nakura, a professor of medicine at the Self-Defense Forces University, guilty of being a chikan (groper) after he was charged with sexually assaulting a 17-year-old high school girl on the Odakyu train line in 2006....
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Oct 18, 2009

Wildlife on your doorstep

To be brutally honest, wildlife photography is mostly about having the means to get to amazing places, where wildlife still abounds. Then it takes heaps of patience. And the final ingredient is a good eye to capture the moment.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2009

Brouhaha stirs over Belgian brew

Belgian beer, rich in fragrance, flavor and potency, is not like other brews in Japan.
CULTURE / Art
Oct 16, 2009

Antony Gormley shrugs off the plinth critics

BEIJING (AP) The sometimes scathing reviews of British artist Antony Gormley's public art installation in London's Trafalgar Square are just proof, he says, that it's been as challenging for audiences as he hoped it would be.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 16, 2009

Tea gets Grand treatment

This year's Tokyo Grand Tea Ceremony provides an opportunity for anyone to experience Japan's renowned tea culture.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 16, 2009

Foreign filmmaker wrestles with legacy of manga hero

"I hope people give it a chance. Because if people give it a chance they'll like it," says director David Bowers about his new animation, "Astro Boy" (titled "Atom" in domestic release), in a room at the Park Hyatt hotel in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 15, 2009

Japan can learn from Silicon Valley

With unemployment figures reaching their highest level in the post-World War II era, the Japanese economy shows no sign of a Silicon Valley-like resurgence that could give hope to the unemployed or to "zombie" corporations that have no customers for their products and no growth.
EDITORIALS
Oct 15, 2009

Police interrogations on video

The Democratic Party of Japan's election manifesto calls for all interrogations of criminal suspects by investigators to be recorded on video, to (1) prevent prolonging a trial because of differences in opinion between public prosecutors and defense counsel members over the reliability of the record...
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Oct 14, 2009

Plant-eating guys just waiting to get chomped on

It has finally happened: the inevitable relationship phenomenon. I was at a party the other day where every one of the couples present were paired off in the kokusan onna (国産オンナ, domestic woman)-gaikokujin otoko (外国人オトコ, foreign man) combination, a sight that would have caused my...
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Oct 14, 2009

Sekai Camera's new reality

Speaking on the sidelines at the CEATEC technology conference in Chiba on Friday, Takahito Iguchi made a bold statement: "We will make a new environment."
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Japan Pulse
Oct 13, 2009

All the leaves are brown . . . and the chips are purple

Japanese food is about the seasonal freshness, even when it comes to convenience store snacks such as Calbee's Jagabee purple potato snacks.
Reader Mail
Oct 11, 2009

Garbage destroying national assets

Regarding Philip Brasor's Sept. 27 Media Mix article "Denied bear necessities of life": I want to thank Brasor for writing the truth about nature and Japan. It is not bears but people who are the problem, invading nature and leaving leftover food that animals naturally sniff out and go for.
Japan Times
LIFE
Oct 11, 2009

The long road to identity

A striking fact regarding modern Japanese surnames is their sheer number. There's no precise count, but the consensus is that there are more than 100,000.
CULTURE / Books
Oct 11, 2009

Behind the sinister science of sleep

PAPRIKA, by Yasutaka Tsutsui. Alma Books, 2009, 350pp., £9.99 (paperback) Comparisons to Haruki Murakami and J.G. Ballard on the cover of this book do Tsutsui little service. His novels do not have the steely gaze and cool prose of Ballard's "Crash," nor the magical-realist tint of Murakami's "The Wind-Up...
EDITORIALS
Oct 10, 2009

A victory for beautiful landscapes

The Hiroshima District Court on Oct. 1 ordered Hiroshima Gov. Yuzan Fujita not to issue a license sought by the prefectural and Fukuyama city governments to reclaim a portion of a bay in the scenic Tomonoura area for by-pass bridge construction. This is an epoch-making ruling. It has blocked a large...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 10, 2009

Widow asks Toyota to move now on floor mat accelerator hazard

Two years before the fatal accident that prompted Toyota Motor Corp. to warn 3.8 million U.S. car owners to take out floor mats, Troy Johnson died in a crash also suspected of being caused by a floor mat jamming an accelerator.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Oct 9, 2009

Coach Rowsom faces tough task in rebuilding HeatDevils

From humble beginnings growing up in a town of 900 people in North Carolina, Brian Rowsom defied the odds by making it to the NBA.
JAPAN
Oct 9, 2009

Robbery compromise?: five years

A Chinese visa overstayer was sentenced to five years in prison Thursday at the Tokyo District Court by a group of lay and professional judges for robbery resulting in injury at a convenience store in 2001.
CULTURE / Film
Oct 9, 2009

Osamu Dazai: genius, but no saint

Major Japanese cultural figures often become subjects of films when big birth or death anniversaries roll around. The hero (far more rarely, the heroine) is usually portrayed as a sainted genius, tragic or otherwise. Osamu Dazai, however, was one such figure who didn't fit the saint template.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 9, 2009

Butoh master Maro finds 'G'

Just seven months after the box-office and critical success of his magnificent and divine dance program "Symphony M," Akaji Maro is set to stage a new production.
JAPAN / CABINET INTERVIEW
Oct 9, 2009

LDP exec mulls novel notion: fielding opinions

Ryotaro Tanose, new chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party's General Council, says good policies can only come from heated discussions among lawmakers, adding he will work to promote precisely such an environment.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 9, 2009

Kobe to hold Scottish games, international-themed charity event

This year's Kobe Global Charity Festival promises a day of fun and international cultural exchange.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 9, 2009

All aboard for Drive to 2010

It's Aug. 28, 1979, and the audience dutifully files into the old Shinjuku Loft livehouse to take their places, seated on the floor in preparation for another night of quiet musical appreciation. This time, however, something strange starts to happen. People keep coming in, the audience have to shuffle...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Oct 8, 2009

Nissan Chuzousho President Shunichiro Tsuji

Shunichiro Tsuji, 62, is president of Nissan Chuzousho Ltd., Japan's last surviving beigoma maker, located in Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture. Beigoma are small cast-iron spinning tops that are spun in a game that has been a favorite with kids and grown-ups in Japan for many generations. Tsuji has...
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Oct 7, 2009

Gearing up for a Windows update

In the dock: Sony's new CMT-E350HD music system boasts a 160-gigabyte internal hard drive for storing digital music, enough to store a stack of audio libraries, and is the latest swipe in the company's rivalry with Apple. The CMT-E350HD has left out an iPod dock in preference for a WM-PORT, which in...
OLYMPICS
Oct 6, 2009

Olympics urged to get tech-savvy

COPENHAGEN (AP) The Olympic movement needs to learn from the likes of YouTube or risk losing young viewers for life, IOC members were told Monday.
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.
Takaichi stands firm on controversial Taiwan contingency remarks
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a session of the House of Representatives' Budget Committee in parliament in Tokyo on Monday.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
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.
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.
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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