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BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 11, 2009

Ichiro produces magic with baseball bat in his hands

Ichiro Suzuki is a hitting machine.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Sep 11, 2009

Vivian Girls

Issued domestically by Tokyo record imprint Yacca at the beginning of September, "Everything Goes Wrong" is the sophomore effort from Vivian Girls.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 11, 2009

'The Burning Plain'

Charlize Theron is a rare Hollywood actress who has carved out a reputation for fearlessness and sheer guts. A former ballet dancer from South Africa, she has avoided roles that solely bank on her chiseled, amazingly statuesque beauty and instead gone far, far out on limbs where very few blonde bombshell...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Sep 11, 2009

Back from extinction

Few rock bands in Japan are as legendary as Unicorn. From their inception in 1986 at the height of Japan's "band boom," which saw the balance of chart power shift from idoru (idol) pop to real bands, through to their split in 1993 and subsequent reunion this year, the Hiroshima five-piece have left a...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Sep 11, 2009

Race for third place in CL tightening up

The race for the Central League title seems to be all but over with the Yomiuri Giants coasting with a 7 1/2-game lead over the Chunichi Dragons.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Sep 10, 2009

Electric bicycles take charge

A surge in electric bicycle sales means cleaner air, but for many, it's all about the bottom line and having a helpful push up that hill.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Sep 10, 2009

Annals of cheap: Gyoza no Osho

While others struggle to make ends meet amid the economic downturn, there's no stopping Gyoza no Osho, a late-night favorite for cheap Chinese eats.
Reader Mail
Sep 10, 2009

Agricultural 'trainees' a godsend

Regarding Shinogabu Chiba's Aug. 31 letter, "Trainees a burden in these times": I, too, think the government's program for foreign trainees is inappropriate, but from a different perspective. I assume that most of the "trainees" are here to earn money and not to be trained.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 10, 2009

Women lack confidence, ambition for Diet: experts

Although last month's election brought an unprecedented number of women into the Lower House, female lawmakers both at home and abroad are still subject to double standards and lack the ambition to take the stage in national politics, experts said at a recent symposium.
JAPAN
Sep 10, 2009

Interpreters put to first test in lay judge trial

SAITAMA — Court interpreters were put to the test Wednesday as the first lay judge trial of a foreign defendant drew on their language and translation skills at the Saitama District Court.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Sep 10, 2009

Tour guide Shinobu Nimura

Shinobu Nimura, 50, is an experienced tour guide who organizes long-distance bus journeys through Asia, Africa and South America. His tours take one to two months and cover vast territories. In 25 years, he has clocked up an incredible 280,000 km on buses, the equivalent to riding around the Equator...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Sep 10, 2009

Tour guide Shinobu Nimura

Shinobu Nimura, 50, is an experienced tour guide who organizes long-distance bus journeys through Asia, Africa and South America. His tours take one to two months and cover vast territories. In 25 years, he has clocked up an incredible 280,000 km on buses, the equivalent to riding around the Equator...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 9, 2009

Ishihara's clutch three-run home run carries Carp past Swallows

The Hiroshima Carp may be a long shot but they're not quite out of the race for the Central League Climax Series just yet.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 9, 2009

Fashion company to retail 200 items for ¥990

GOV Retailing Co. announced Tuesday that one-third of its g.u. brand's fall-winter collection, or 200 of the 600 items, will retail for ¥990.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Sep 9, 2009

Sharp puts faith in resurrection

Sharp faith: Belief in resurrection is not restricted to religion. Sharp has a real faith in the power of bringing gadget ideas back from the dead. Its new PC-Z1 looks like a reborn version of Sharp's Zaurus brand of PDAs. The PC-Z1, marketed under the NetWalker brand, is a clamshell device with a 5-inch...
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Sep 8, 2009

Not even sumo can outmaneuver swine flu

No one is immune to the current swine flu pandemic, not even professional sumo.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Sep 8, 2009

U.S. ambassador serves a role most vital

The U.S. ambassadors chosen for Japan have long reflected Washington's dedication to Tokyo, as each successive nominee has drawn Tokyo government and media speculation of how bilateral ties will evolve.
BUSINESS
Sep 8, 2009

Chugai Pharmaceutical planning to triple its production of Tamiflu for Japan

Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. plans to triple the amount of antiviral drug Tamiflu it supplies in Japan amid the global swine flu pandemic.
EDITORIALS
Sep 7, 2009

Rise of the telecommuters

The number of telecommuters in Japan jumped during fiscal 2008, according to a survey by the transport ministry. Nearly 10 million people telecommuted for eight or more hours per week at the end of last March, up five percentage points from three years earlier, to comprise roughly 15 percent of all workers...
EDITORIALS
Sep 7, 2009

Guarding against H1N1 flu

The rapid spread of influenza in Japan calls for vigilance. In the city of Kizugawa, Kyoto Prefecture, a 69-year-old man became the 10th person in Japan to die of H1N1 flu. He had suffered from cardiac and pulmonary diseases before becoming infected.
EDITORIALS
Sep 6, 2009

Plan for warmer oceans

Last July was the hottest month for oceans in 130 years of record-keeping, according to the National Climatic Data Center, the U.S. government agency that keeps track of world weather records and their impact. Part of the mystery of global warming had long been where the heat was going. Scientists are...
EDITORIALS
Sep 6, 2009

DPJ and Japan-U.S. relations

Some media in the United States expressed concern that the new Japanese government to be headed by Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Hatoyama may pursue a more independent foreign policy. The DPJ's election platform and a recent article by Mr. Hatoyama that appeared in The New York Times Web site...
Reader Mail
Sep 6, 2009

Fluent Japanese does not compute

Debito Arudou's Sept. 1 article, "Mr. James, gaijin clown," was written in a balanced and professional manner, and clearly showed that, even in 2009, Japan and Japanese corporations are still more than willing to stereotype non-Japanese as buffoons.
Reader Mail
Sep 6, 2009

Hatoyama's article recommended

Regarding the Sept. 2 article " 'Distorted' in translation?": I have just finished reading Democratic Party of Japan leader Yukio Hatoyama's entire article ("A New Path for Japan," published on The New York Times Web site Aug. 27) and see nothing in it that is "anti-American."
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media
Sep 6, 2009

Mikuni documentary brings actor full circle

Rentaro Mikuni is one of those people whose every virtue is matched by a vice. For each endearing, admirable act he can recall from his 86 years of life, he seems to have a sin to match.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Sep 6, 2009

Donald Keene: A life lived true to the words

Donald Keene is one of the greatest scholars of Japanese literature and has been highly influential in the establishment of Japanese studies in the West.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Sep 6, 2009

My key connection

It was 1954 and the summer holidays were over. The family had moved a few miles south from Tewkesbury to Cheltenham in the beautiful county of Gloucestershire in the west of England, and I had been transferred from the one town's boys grammar school to the other's.
Japanese markets brace for triple whammy if opposition wins big
A Sanseito campaign van in Shinjuku. The populist party is gaining ground and challenging the more centrist parties.
Polls open for key Upper House election that could shake Japanese politics
People vote during Japan's Upper House election at a polling station in Tokyo on Sunday.
Japan team finds ancient ocean full of squids
The ancient ocean was full of squids, whose population exceeded that of fish or ammonites, a Japanese research team mainly from Hokkaido University has found through a new method using technology.
Sunken WWII Japanese warship Teruzuki found off Solomon Islands
The Solomon Islands. A team from the U.S. nonprofit Ocean Exploration Trust has discovered the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyer Teruzuki on the deep seabed off the Solomon Islands as the 80th anniversary of the war's end approaches.
Living conditions index hits lowest level in 15 years in Japan
The share of respondents to a Bank of Japan quarterly survey in June who said they have become worse off came to 61.0%, up 5.1 percentage points from the previous survey.
‘Noto Democracy’ and the slow work of civic change
Yukio Iokibe’s “Noto Democracy" centers on Motoyuki Takii, a former junior high school teacher who publishes a handwritten newspaper every month to encourage the residents of Anamizu, Ishikawa Prefecture, to engage in local politics.
In microbes we trust: Embracing the nature of fermented food
You don't need an oven to make Kenji Morimoto's easy and delicious Miso Sticky Toffee Crepe Cake.
Touring the Silk Road — without leaving Tokyo
One of the entrances to Pao Compound, a nine-story Silk Road-inspired complex in Tokyo's Higashinakano neighborhood
Japan's rice farmers are confounded by Shinjiro Koizumi’s policies
Kiyoshi Shibata stands in front of one of the rice paddies in Murayama, Yamagata Prefecture, where he produces the prefecture's signature rice brand Tsuyahime.
In Gaza-made obi, Palestinian embroidery meets Japanese kimono
The Palestinian Embroidery Obi Project brings together a traditional Japanese garment and age-old designs from the Middle Eastern region.

Podcast

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

Longform

After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan
By Megha Wadhwa

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