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COMMENTARY / World
Nov 17, 2009

Unholy hunt for an EU president shows the hypocrisy of states

HONG KONG — With the signing of the Lisbon Treaty by Czech Republic President Vaclav Klaus, the leaders of the 27 countries of the disunity known as the European Union are now free to take an important step backward on the tortuous road to give Europe global relevance that matches the size of its combined...
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Nov 17, 2009

Pacqiuao assumes place among greats

NEW YORK — Manny Pacquiao had a hat perched jauntily on his head, a bandage wrapped neatly around his right ear. His real work done for the night, he was heading down the Las Vegas Strip to sing a few songs with his band.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Nov 17, 2009

Policy hurts Japanese nationals too

In the debate about whether Japan should sign the Hague abduction convention, a serious consequence of Japan's failure to ratify the treaty is being overlooked. Japan's failure to sign the convention is extremely damaging to Japanese nationals living overseas, since it makes it far harder for them to...
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Nov 17, 2009

Choice, chic, cheap — no one feels fleeced

Times are difficult for many retailers. Conspicuously not among them, however, is Fast Retailing Co., which posted both record sales of ¥685 billion and operating profit of ¥108.6 billion for the business year that ended in August.
JAPAN
Nov 15, 2009

Obama touches most bases in well-received Asia speech

U.S. President Barack Obama's first big speech on Asia, delivered Saturday morning in Tokyo, had a little something for just about everyone. He was tough on North Korea and Myanmar, but offered a way back to the fold.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Nov 15, 2009

Shades of Greece on the Inland Sea

The windmill is the first thing I notice, its delicate white blades gleaming against the cloud- flecked sky. Nearby, a semi-circle of polished Doric-style columns occupies prime position overlooking the glassy sea. As a breeze blows gently through olive trees on the shady hillside, it's easy to imagine...
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Nov 15, 2009

Panda-poop prof scoops Ig Nobel honor

Bacteria extracted from the feces of giant pandas can be used to reduce food waste to less than 10 percent of its original mass. For making this stunning — and potentially invaluable — scientific discovery, Fumiaki Taguchi, Professor Emeritus of Kitasato University in Kanagawa Prefecture, was awarded...
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Nov 15, 2009

Will Segway sci-fi ever be everyday fact?

When the Segway first appeared, in 2001, it seemed like science fiction had sprung to life. Quiet, compact, efficient, and utterly mesmerizing with its ability to self-balance on two wheels, the U.S.-made "personal mobility device" promised to revolutionize transportation as we knew it.
CULTURE / Books
Nov 15, 2009

No defense for policy born of prejudice

THE TRAGEDY OF DEMOCRACY: Japanese Confinement in North America, by Greg Robinson. Columbia University Press, 2009, 408 pp., $29.95 (hardcover) This is a superb history about one of the more shameful chapters in U.S. history. Given all the books and articles about the internment of over 120,000 Japanese...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Nov 15, 2009

Movie JAL doesn't want you to see snubbed by media

Big-budget movies need all the help they can get recovering their production and promotional costs at the box office, so advertisements stating that the 3 1/2-hour epic "Shizumanu Taiyo" ("The Sun That Doesn't Set") is a "big hit" should be taken with a grain of salt. First of all, every movie released...
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Nov 15, 2009

Babe Ruth in Japan, protestors storm Diet, Morinaga candy poisoned

75 YEARS AGO
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2009

LDP loss media's fault: Mori

The long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party's historic defeat in the August general election can in part be blamed on the media and its manipulation of public opinion, LDP heavyweight Yoshiro Mori told The Japan Times in a recent interview.
COMMENTARY
Nov 14, 2009

China-India tensions rising

NEW DELHI — The India-China relationship has entered choppy waters due to a perceptible hardening in the Chinese stance. Anti-India rhetoric in the state-run Chinese media has intensified, even as China has stepped up military pressure along the disputed Himalayan frontier through cross-border incursions....
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Nov 14, 2009

Finding wisdom in fire and earth

Mishima, nestled at the foot of Mount Fuji, is certainly not a center for yakimono (ceramics), one of the most revered arts in Asia. But it is home to Robert Yellin, one of the foremost English-speaking experts on the craft.
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2009

Obama, Hatoyama prioritize alliance

Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and U.S. President Barack Obama vowed Friday to bolster the bilateral alliance and cooperate on pressing global issues, including climate change and nuclear disarmament.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Nov 13, 2009

Surprise contributors provided major impact for Giants this season

One year ago, outfielder Tetsuya Matsumoto appeared in just three games for the Yomiuri Giants. Pitcher Wirfin Obispo wasn't even a real member of the team.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 13, 2009

Young unemployed taste life in corporate fast lane

A group of unemployed young people participated Thursday in a one-day job-hunt support program in Tokyo organized by JPMorgan and Sodateage-Net, a Tokyo-based nonprofit organization.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 13, 2009

No longer going straight to video

In addition to exhibition and workshop components, the recently opened International Festival for Arts and Media Yokohama 2009 (also known as CREAM) features a monthlong screening program of international feature-length and short films as well as prize-winning submissions to the CREAM Competition, which...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 13, 2009

Autumn has arrived, it is now time to reflect, at a haiku meet

With autumn leaves changing colors and the sunlight dimming, it's a good time to evoke some mental lyricism.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 13, 2009

Hong Kong to keep currency pegged to 'predictable' greenback

Despite the recent weakening of the dollar against other currencies, Hong Kong will keep its currency pegged to the greenback and will not consider linking it to the Chinese yuan, the Hong Kong financial and treasury secretary said Wednesday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / BY THE GLASS
Nov 13, 2009

An early start for Japanese wines

"Please don't drink too much," screeches a man wielding a megaphone, but he's a bit too late because half the genteel crowd are already totally hammered. It's not surprising, really, seeing as there are around 70 wines to sample and there's not a single spittoon in sight.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 13, 2009

The northern lights from Italy

In 1966, after graduating from Tokyo's Tama Art University with a degree in interior design and doing a few odd jobs, Hidetoshi Nagasawa got on a bike and cycled out of Japan.
Reader Mail
Nov 12, 2009

U.S. not likely to quit Okinawa

Regarding Naoshi Koriyama's Nov. 1 letter, "Respect the wishes of Okinawans": I can understand the situation that people in Okinawa face. They have been suffering from U.S. military aircraft noise night and day and, at times, from crimes committed by soldiers stationed there. They have appealed to the...
Reader Mail
Nov 12, 2009

Rote learning of English failing

Masayuki Aihara's Oct. 29 letter, "Texts stand some in good stead," I believe, proved a lot of the points that Stewart Tennyson was trying to make in his Oct. 22 letter, "English teachers have work to do." To say that a man once read government-authorized English textbooks aloud 100 times and then got...
COMMENTARY
Nov 12, 2009

Emissions cap-and-trade as policy?

Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, at the United Nations Summit on Climate Change held Sept. 22, stated Japan's pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) 25 percent from 1990 levels by 2020, which is premised on "all the major economies" agreeing on ambitious targets.
EDITORIALS
Nov 11, 2009

Problematic 'pluthermal' era

The 1.18 million-kW No. 3 reactor at Kyushu Electric Power Co.'s Genkai nuclear power plant in Saga Prefecture, which is Japan's first reactor using plutonium-uranium mixed oxide (MOX) as fuel, attained nuclear criticality last Thursday and started trial operations Monday (commerical operations are to...
BUSINESS
Nov 11, 2009

Japanese women still hitting a glass and bamboo ceiling in the boardroom

Japan ranks 31st out of 35 countries in terms of the percentage of female board of directors, falling below Jordan, Oman and Kuwait, a U.S.-based nonprofit group said Tuesday.
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
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.
Japan confirms hard-line position ahead of possible tariff talks in Washington
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan’s chief tariff negotiator, at a news conference on Tuesday. He said that when Japan states it wants the tariffs reviewed, it means Tokyo wants them removed.
Tokyo to cover cost of base service fees for water utilities through summer
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government is looking to make the cost of base service fees in water utility bills free during the summer, hoping the financial support will allow residents to turn on their air conditioners and protect themselves against heatstroke.
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.
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.
Random stabbing cases in Japan raise fears: Could the next victim be me?
Police officers stand guard on May 7 outside Todaimae Station in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward after a random stabbing that injured a University of Tokyo student.

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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
By Alex K.T. Martin

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