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EDITORIALS
Jun 15, 2010

Disease still threatens livestock

It was believed that the outbreak of food and mouth disease in Miyazaki Prefecture would tail off thanks to the government's containment operation. But things haven't gone as expected.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 14, 2010

Wakui rules mound for first-place Lions

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. — Hideaki Wakui isn't perfect.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 13, 2010

Higashide, Otake ignite Carp to win over Lions

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. — Kan Otake might've been on the road, but it probably felt like a home game at times.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jun 13, 2010

Hillman enjoying break after departure from Royals

Former Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters and Kansas City Royals manager Trey Hillman will be taking a family break and then moving on after being fired as the K.C. skipper on May 13 after a little more than two years guiding the Royals.
JAPAN
Jun 12, 2010

Can Kan survive the leadership gauntlet?

Japan has gone through prime ministers at a dizzying rate — Naoto Kan is the sixth in the last four years, and 14th over the past two decades — the highest turnover among the major industrialized countries.
JAPAN
Jun 12, 2010

Child sex in 'manga' — art or obscenity?: Graphic but healthy, free speech

The Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly is deliberating stronger regulations on sexual images of minors in "manga" comic books, animation and video games.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 12, 2010

Quantitative analysts take on the 'Beautiful Game'

HONG KONG — Sepp Blatter and the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the organizers of the World Cup, had better watch out — the quants have arrived and have put their infamous models to work in predicting the outcome of the World Cup that has just kicked off in South Africa....
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Jun 12, 2010

Returning favors is indeed a thorny issue

I look out my door in both directions before I leave the house. Once I am out of the house, I go straight to where I am headed and come straight back. No stopping to talk to neighbors. I don't even answer the door anymore. I'm hiding — from gifts.
JAPAN
Jun 11, 2010

Kan keeps the media at arm's length, scales back interviews

Just days after forming his Cabinet, Prime Minister Naoto Kan has already been faced with tough decisions, including whether to extend the Diet session and how to turn around slumping stocks.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jun 11, 2010

Classical pianist Allevi proves that the time is now

W ith an unruly mass of dark ringlets, blue jeans and a pair of black Chuck Taylors, Giovanni Allevi doesn't look like your average classical pianist. But as he talks about the early masters that inspire him, he lights up in a way that marks him as a truly passionate musician.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / BY THE GLASS
Jun 11, 2010

It's down to earth in the Napa Valley

A certain amount of hubris might be expected from the representatives of some of Napa Valley's most famous wineries. Surely the Californians, who flew into Japan last month to show off their wares at Tokyo's American Club, would not miss the opportunity to brag a little about the big impact their wines...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 11, 2010

Closing the distance on David Elliott

Few non-Japanese can claim to have exerted a major influence on the machinations of the domestic Japanese art scene. David Elliott, the Briton who served as the founding director of the Mori Art Museum, from 2001 until 2006, is one of them.
Reader Mail
Jun 10, 2010

Japan Tobacco working to cut risks

I would like to point out that Roger Pulvers' May 16 Counterpoint article, "Reality check, 2010: 'Smoking doesn't cause cancer' (Japan Tobacco)," misquotes Japan Tobacco as stating "we don't believe smoking causes cancer." We are disappointed to learn that The Japan Times ran an article with an inaccurate...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Jun 10, 2010

Pac-Man creator Toru Iwatani

Toru Iwatani, 55, is the designer of Pac-Man, the classic video game that virtually kick-started the world market for the video-gaming industry. Released by Namco in Tokyo on May 22, 1980, Pac-Man made history as the first video game that appealed to both genders and to all age groups. Idea-man Iwatani,...
JAPAN
Jun 9, 2010

First order of business: Remedy nation's debts

New Prime Minister Naoto Kan on Tuesday reiterated his intention to work toward restoring Japan's fiscal balance, stressing in his inaugural remarks that the economy's plunge in recent years was the result of steering clear of tax hikes and relying too much on government bonds.
JAPAN
Jun 9, 2010

Henoko residents harbor hopes and fears about new U.S. air base

NAGO, Okinawa Pref. — People in the Henoko district of Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, have mixed feelings about the planned relocation of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to their shores.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jun 9, 2010

Wooden leaves behind legion of true believers

NEW YORK — I've long envied the privileged legions that played for John Wooden and bonded with him for so long.
LIFE / Digital
Jun 9, 2010

New iPhone features extra camera, HD video

SAN FRANCISCO — T he next iPhone comes out June 24 and will have a higher-resolution screen, longer battery life and thinner design.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHO'S WHO
Jun 8, 2010

Mobile game startup boss set own bar

David "DC" Collier, 44, from Britain, could not speak a word of Japanese when he first came here seven years ago.
EDITORIALS
Jun 6, 2010

Yakuza feel the pinch

Japanese leaders who have chafed at Japan being largely ignored by the rest of the world are now faced with Japan's new prominence as poster boy for how not to handle an economy: Its two "lost decades" are cited as a negative example of the dangers of inaction.
COMMENTARY
Jun 6, 2010

Another political circus act flops in Tokyo

LOS ANGELES — The prime minister of Japan has just resigned. Big deal.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jun 6, 2010

A guided tour to Akihabara

Maid cafes, cosplay (costume play), gachapon vending machines, canned oden noodles and otaku (geeks) — lots of otaku: I thought I knew Akihabara, or "Akiba" as its fans affectionately call it. I bought my first Apple computer (a secondhand Macintosh Powerbook) there in the early 1990s and had visited...
JAPAN
Jun 5, 2010

Voters hope new chief is a better fit

Voters were mixed Friday on whether Naoto Kan would be a better fit than his Democratic Party of Japan predecessor, Yukio Hatoyama, as the nation's leader.
BUSINESS
Jun 5, 2010

Economy, debt reduction trump party pledges: Kan

Inheriting a mountain of problems from his predecessor's administration, newly elected Prime Minister Naoto Kan appears to be clear about one thing: something must be done about the snowballing government debt and moribund economy.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Jun 5, 2010

Walcott a surprise omission from squad

LONDON — The phone calls started before England's World Cup squad was officially announced. The rumor mill told us Theo Walcott was the shock omission from Fabio Capello's selection for South Africa and the country was not happy.
Trump’s wake-up call for India’s foreign policy
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Feb. 13. Trump’s coercive use of trade threats against India during the Pakistan military crisis has undermined trust in the U.S.-India partnership and exposed Washington as an unreliable security ally.
Toyota considers making tiny trucks for U.S. market as demand booms
Toyota executives say the automaker is listening to U.S. dealer requests for a truck smaller than the brand’s best-selling Tacoma midsize and Tundra full-size pickups.
Onosato’s march to yokozuna could usher in golden age for sumo
Onosato (left) battles Gonoyama on Day 6 of the Summer Basho. With Onosato on the cusp of promotion to yokozuna, there could soon be two titans at the top of the sport fighting for titles.
Shinjiro Koizumi takes farm ministry reins after predecessor's rice gaffe
Agriculture minister Taku Eto (left), who resigned on Wednesday, and former Environment Minister Shinjiro Koizumi
Railguns, missiles and lasers: Japan uses massive defense event to highlight shift
A mock-up of Japan's state-of-the-art railgun, which is currently undergoing testing, is displayed at the three-day DSEI Japan defense exhibition in the city of Chiba on Wednesday.
Nippon Ishin grapples with poor governance ahead of Upper House election
Nippon Ishin no Kai co-leader Seiji Maehara speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Friday.
Beware of dubious websites offering cheap rice, consumer watchdog warns
Questionable websites appear to be taking advantage of consumers looking for cheaper rice online amid the high prices of the staple grain in the nation.
Onosato’s march to yokozuna could usher in golden age for sumo
Onosato (left) battles Gonoyama on Day 6 of the Summer Basho. With Onosato on the cusp of promotion to yokozuna, there could soon be two titans at the top of the sport fighting for titles.
A window into the mind of Esperantist and political activist Teru Hasegawa
Teru Hasegawa, Esperanto name Verda Majo, wrote leftist political essays during WWII.
Nissan’s troubles might go all the way back to Ghosn 
A lot at a Nissan plant in Mexico. The company may have overextended itself during the Ghosn era.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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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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