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Reader Mail
Jul 31, 2011

Kan's escape from nuclear reality

Regarding the July 25 Kyodo article "70% back Kan's nuclear tack, ditto seek his exit": At a time when pragmatic statesmanship and hard-nosed realism are needed, it is extremely disappointing to read that Prime Minister Naoto Kan has decided to promote the unattainable ideal — at least in the foreseeable...
Reader Mail
Jul 31, 2011

Suspicious life expectancy figures

According to the July 28 Kyodo article "Men's life expectancy rises, but women's falls," there has been a slight dip in female life expectancy, though not enough to relinquish top spot, while male life expectancy hit a new high for the fifth straight year.
Reader Mail
Jul 31, 2011

Where are the rewards for effort?

My father has been a woodworker for 35 years. He makes wooden bowls and such, and lacquers them Japanese-style. My mother helps my father and makes chopsticks, using various kinds of wood. They run a shop in a small town and struggle to earn a living. They seem to work eagerly and put their hearts into...
Reader Mail
Jul 31, 2011

Little mention of dairy products

There has been a lot of discussion about contaminated beef, but little mention of dairy products in news reports. Has there been much testing of dairy products? Haven't some dairy cows eaten the same straw contaminated with radioactive materials?
Reader Mail
Jul 31, 2011

Update of released radiation due

Regarding the July 28 article "Threat to food chain grows as contamination spreads": In this article, and in a number of others, I have seen the following statement: "On June 6, the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency said the plant released about 770,000 terabecquerels of radioactive material into...
Reader Mail
Jul 31, 2011

Uprisings focus on food and jobs

Regarding the July 28 article "Winning the transition to democracy": Author Sri Mulyani Indrawati (a former finance minister of Indonesia) is living under the illusion that all the uprisings in recent memory are about democracy.
Reader Mail
Jul 31, 2011

Intimidating message to China

Regarding Ralph Cossa's July 27 article, "U.S. nukes to South Korea?": Cossa reports that some South Koreans are calling for the reintroduction of American nuclear weapons because they want to "send a message to China." The message that China is likely to take from such an action is that the die is cast:...
CULTURE / Books
Jul 31, 2011

Literary sludge insults child abduction issue

IN APPROPRIATE: A Novel of Culture, Kidnapping, and Revenge in Modern Japan, by Debito Arudou. Lulu Enterprises, 2011, $10, 149 pp., (paper) That prickly gadfly of gaikokujins, Debito Arudou, has done it again, diminishing a worthy topic — in this case, international child abduction — into dross...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jul 31, 2011

Nadeshiko Japan show that a relaxed approach gets the best results

The national women's soccer team that just won the FIFA World Cup in Germany is called Nadeshiko Japan. "Nadeshiko" is the name of a flower, but it also represents a certain ideal of Japanese femininity that's demure, quiet and accommodating to men; or, at least, it used to be. Japan's victory over the...
Reader Mail
Jul 31, 2011

Reports on Viet Cong made sense

On the question of Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett, who was denied a passport in the 1960s by the Australian government, I agree with Roan Suda's July 28 letter, "Portrayal of a leftist journalist," that Burchett was both pro-communist biased and sometimes sloppy in the use of dates and names....
SOCCER / J. League
Jul 30, 2011

Rafael says Ardija must keep poise despite home struggles

Omiya Ardija are yet to win a single game at their own Nack5 Stadium this season, but Brazilian striker Rafael is determined to find some home comfort as soon as possible.
Reader Mail
Jul 28, 2011

China's 'high-speed' intentions

Regarding the high-speed train collision in Zhejiang Province over the weekend, I feel very sad about the deaths and injuries, but angry over how China's government handled this accident.
Reader Mail
Jul 28, 2011

Portrayal of a leftist journalist

Unlike those in the mob gleefully calling for Rupert Murdoch's blood, Gregory Clark, in his July 20 article, "Murdoch's moral rise and fall," is thoughtful, even compassionate. Murdoch is, it would seem, a tragic figure, lured by ambition and greed into becoming a tool of the usual suspects: rightwing...
Reader Mail
Jul 28, 2011

Disappointing answers on beef

I was shocked to see that the July 23 question-and-answer article, "Are worries over meat warranted?," made it past editorial screening. For starters, I refer to the last paragraph of the first answer: "The 82.65 microsieverts compares with the 100 microsieverts of radiation a person would be exposed...
Reader Mail
Jul 28, 2011

The true costs of nuclear power

I have two comments about the July 24 Timeout article "Powering Japan's future." First, author Winifred Bird writes that the accuracy of the respective kilowatt-hour costs of generating electricity from coal, nuclear reactors, solar panels and wind — as estimated in 2010 by the Agency for Natural Resources...
Reader Mail
Jul 28, 2011

How much radiation got out?

I agree with the July 24 letter from the Marumori-machi, Miyagi, man, "Open letter to nuclear experts," who evacuated his wife and children from their home near the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. I would like to recommend a very interesting article on how Tokyo Electric Power Co. has betrayed...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 28, 2011

Growing up with photography and picturing youth

You know how difficult it is to get good photos of children. They fidget. They cry. And just when you think you've got the perfect shot, they turn the other way. Now try to imagine how challenging it must have been for early photographers, who had to contend with exposure times of minutes rather than...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jul 28, 2011

No sign of a summer break for The Hiatus

As the guitarist and vocalist of Japanese pop-punk band Ellegarden, Takeshi Hosomi toured throughout the country, played in the United States and South Korea, and even opened for Foo Fighters.
JAPAN
Jul 27, 2011

Meat sector to buy tainted beef, burn it

Meat industry organizations will buy up all radioactive domestic beef that has been shipped to the market in a bid to dispel mounting consumer fears as well as provide financial relief to suffering livestock farmers, agriculture minister Michihiko Kano said Tuesday.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jul 26, 2011

TV: Analog out, digital in, with rivals Net, satellite, cable

Sunday marked a nationwide transition to digital terrestrial television broadcasting, bringing to an end over five decades of analog transmissions in Japan.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jul 26, 2011

Living and loving The Alien from Nagoya

The year 1990 might not seem so long ago, but for many reasons, and in Japan especially, it was a completely different world. There was no Internet. There were no mobile telephones. There was hardly any way to get up-to-date English information on places beyond Tokyo and Osaka except by going there....
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jul 26, 2011

The more things change ... the more they stay the same

Ex-Alien chief picks five phenomena from '90s Japan that are gone but not forgotten
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 25, 2011

Toadies to the debt-to-GDP ratio

Economists like to talk about thresholds that, if crossed, spell trouble. Usually there is an element of truth in what they say, but the public often overreacts to such talk.
Reader Mail
Jul 24, 2011

Life in the 'middle-income trap'

Regarding the July 20 opinion article "Navigating the road to riches": I am not an economist by practice, and my credentials do not come anywhere close to those of writer Otaviano Canuto, the World Bank vice president for poverty reduction. As a historical economics hobbyist, my impression is that the...
Reader Mail
Jul 24, 2011

Open letter to nuclear experts

As a father who has evacuated his wife and children from our home near the mess at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, I would like to share a couple of insights that will hopefully inform the debate, or the lack of one, that has been raging:
Reader Mail
Jul 24, 2011

Sweet car-less option in Tokyo

Regarding the July 19 Views From the Street (Kamakura, Kanagawa) question, "Is it better to own a car or not in Japan?": For all of those people living in the bigger cities like Tokyo, it's nice to have the option of owning a car or not. Here in the countryside, if we don't have a car, we can't even...
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.
Trump announces Nippon Steel-U.S. Steel ‘partnership’ deal
U.S. President Donald Trump points as he boards Air Force One en route to New Jersey, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Friday.
Travelers avoid trips to Japan over viral comic book’s quake prediction
Visitors walk along Nakamise-dori as they visit Sensoji Temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district in March.
Tokyo's Yamanote Line resumes suspended train operations
All services on East Japan Railway's Yamanote Line in Tokyo were suspended for early Friday morning due to wire trouble.
Onosato set for yokozuna promotion after clinching Emperor’s Cup
Onosato after defeating Kotozakura at Ryokugikan in Tokyo on Friday. The win gave him a 13-0 record and clinched the Emperor's Cup, assuring him of promotion to yokozuna next week.
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.
NTT develops world's first 'flying lightning rod' using drones
NTT's drone — aimed at triggering, then redirecting lightning — is described as a "flying lightning rod."

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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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
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