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Reader Mail
Jun 2, 2011

Focus belongs on Tohoku people

The lives of many people in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, the three prefectures that bore the brunt of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, are still in shambles. Many people in the region had their houses, beloved family members, property and means of living washed away. There is even an...
Reader Mail
Jun 2, 2011

Making room for the unthinkable

Regarding the May 28 article "Japan should stop building skyscrapers after quake": Before the earthquake, a lot of Japanese looked forward to the completion of the Sky Tree Tower in Tokyo. Some expected it to symbolize Japanese technology or at least to put Japan on a par with other countries like America...
Reader Mail
Jun 2, 2011

20% renewable target too timid?

Regarding the May 27 article "Kan sets 20% target for renewable energy": I can't help thinking that the 20 percent target is a little under-ambitious. I built my house six years ago, and if the local government at the time had offered incentives for me to add solar power to my house, I would have jumped...
Reader Mail
Jun 2, 2011

'Preparing for the best' has failed

Bravo! to Hiromi Murakami for his May 30 article, "Changing Japan's system to handle the 'unexpected.'" That's telling it like it is. I write a blog that gets about 1,000 reads per article under the pseudonym "gonzedo" in my local newspaper. Most of my recent articles have had to do with the Fukushima...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jun 2, 2011

Thee Phantom's genre-blending screams 'Rap Me Amadeus!'

Many hip-hop artists spend their days scouring record bins for choice samples to rap over, but rarely do they go out and find an actual orchestra. As rapper Thee Phantom, Jeff McNeill is doing just that.
COMMENTARY
Jun 1, 2011

Libya: running out of options

They swore blind that there would never be foreign "boots on the ground" in Libya, but as NATO's campaign against Moammar Gadhafi's regime enters its third month it is getting a lot closer to the ground. It started with Tomahawk missiles fired from over the horizon; then it was fighter-bombers firing...
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 31, 2011

Evacuees long for hometowns

Land minister Akihiro Ohata in early May said the government will construct temporary housing for all March 11 evacuees in time for the Bon holidays in mid-August. But speaking to those already living in such accomodations in Fukushima Prefecture makes it clear such housing units are not homes, and rebuilding...
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
May 31, 2011

Veteran Hawks running out of time to add title to legacy

The Fukuoka Daiei Hawks' caging of the Hanshin Tigers in Game 7 of the 2003 Japan Series seemed at the time as if it would be the heralding of a new dynasty in the Pacific League.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
May 31, 2011

LEDs make it cheaper to blind family and friends

How much can you really save if you switch your light bulbs to LEDs?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
May 31, 2011

Family slams stalled probe into Kabuki-cho death

Nine months after their only son, Hoon "Scott" Kang, a Korean-American tourist, died from severe head injuries sustained in the stairwell of a building in Kabuki-cho, his family and friends are still no closer to understanding how he died.
Reader Mail
May 29, 2011

An unimaginable commitment

The advice that Kotaku Wamura, former mayor of Fudai, Iwate Prefecture, is quoted as giving at his retirement — "Even if you encounter opposition, have conviction and finish what you start. In the end, people will understand" (May 18 AP article "How one village defied the tsunami") — reminds me of...
Reader Mail
May 29, 2011

Expect powering up to be harder

The eventual restoration of Japan's pre-March 11 electric power-generating capacity — I don't know, one, two or five years from now — might not mean the end of the current energy shortage that Japan is experiencing. Do people think that once capacity is restored, they can flip switches and return...
Reader Mail
May 29, 2011

Book challenges making of myth

I am baffled by Gregory Clark's May 26 letter, "The myth of Tiananmen Square," suggesting I have been taken in by the myth about a massacre in Tiananmen Square, since we seem to agree on the central point of where the killings took place.
Reader Mail
May 29, 2011

JTA's questionable use of students

The Japan Tourism Agency's recent announcement that it will dispatch 1,100 international students to tourist destinations throughout Japan beginning in July raises more questions than it answers. JTA's press release and an accompanying PDF can be found at www.mlit.go.jp/kankocho/news03_000028.html.
Reader Mail
May 29, 2011

Six decades of 'inconveniences'

The May 8 letter by Yoshio Shimoji, "" only shows there are many Okinawan/Japanese people plagued with heiwaboke (taking peace for granted), who don't appreciate what Americans have done for Japan. Its democracy and economic prosperity were not just the result of hard work. The U.S. government protected...
Reader Mail
May 29, 2011

Aussie treasurer should lead IMF

Kevin Rafferty's May 19 article, "Top vacancy looms in IMF," raises questions about Europe's 65-year rule at the International Monetary Fund. Its 24-person board has a chance to acknowledge the new world economic order and the emerging economies in its appointment of the new IMF managing director. It...
BASKETBALL
May 29, 2011

Apache's Hill to work in Taiwan

Tokyo Apache head coach Bob Hill, a veteran sideline supervisor of four NBA teams, told The Japan Times on Saturday he's accepted a position as a consultant for the Taiwan men's national basketball team's coaching staff for the summer.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
May 29, 2011

The hot, sticky summer of our discontent

Last summer went on record as Japan's hottest ever, as the daytime mercury seemed stubbornly stuck in the 33 to 36 degrees Celsius range while at nighttime it usually refused to budge to below the 25 C mark.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
May 29, 2011

Japanese genius shines eclectic in its extravagant simplicities of style

"Live your era, surmount your era!" With these words, written in 1935, the young woodblock artist Yoshio Fujimaki gave out a cry for genius. Certainly his words apply to the genius of Bob Dylan (whose 70th birthday was celebrated on these pages last week), since both he, Fujimaki and others of genius...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
May 29, 2011

Electrifying one-act lives

The late Meiji Era (1868-1912) to early Showa Era (1926-1989) saw the creation of a body of short, one-act dramas akin in their electrifying impact to the 1960s in Japan, with its upsurge in theatrical experimentation. This book begins with a telling quote from the playwright and director Osanai Kaoru,...
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
May 29, 2011

A garden pictogram lives on

Japanese gardens are often associated with temples, feudal estates or castles. Genkyu-en in Shiga Prefecture is certainly no exception, sited as it is adjoining a detached palace in the grounds of Hikone Castle, one of only a handful of the nation's feudal fortresses to have survived in its original...
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
May 28, 2011

CL final certain to be memorable

Over the last two weeks Sir Alex Ferguson has watched a rerun of the 2009 Champions League final five or six times. Manchester United began the stronger in Rome but after Samuel Eto'o gave Barcelona the lead in the 10th minute, the Reds lost their impetus, rhythm and thrust.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 28, 2011

Fukushima observatory chief offers solace of stars

With neon signs in the city of Fukushima switched off due to power shortages, making nighttime darker than usual, Hiroaki Ohno gazed up one night following the March 11 disaster and felt a sense of awe.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
May 28, 2011

CARE official helps Tohoku after a career of hot spots

Futaba Kaiharazuka, an assistant program director with the aid organization CARE International Japan, remembers clearly the first time she visited a refugee camp in Pakistan.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
May 28, 2011

Woman seeks owner of ring

A British woman who bought a secondhand Japanese van in the U.K. is looking for the owner of a platinum ring adorned with a blue gem that she found under the carpet in the backseat.
SOCCER / J. League
May 28, 2011

Kitajima confident Reysol can sustain strong run

Not many people expected to see Kashiwa Reysol leading the J. League with May drawing to a close, but club captain Hideaki Kitajima sees no reason why the bubble should burst any time soon.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 27, 2011

'The Adjustment Bureau'

The Adjustment Bureau" is the latest Philip K. Dick adaptation to be brought to the big screen, and it's more faithful to the spirit of the author than most. Dick was always trying to lace grand metaphysical themes into the pulpy genre requirements of sci-fi, and "The Adjustment Bureau" is no different....
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.
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.
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.
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.
Japan lawmakers eye firm response to Chinese envoy's threat to behead PM
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks at a Lower House Budget Committee meeting on Friday.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.
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.

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