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COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jun 24, 2008

What should Japan be doing to ease climate change?

LIFE / Language
Jun 24, 2008

Building bridges across continents and cultures

Twelve Japanese elementary-school students gathered at Yoyogi Elementary School in central Tokyo on Saturday, May 10, to play games, cooperate with and learn a little about a similar group of students at an elementary school in Seoul, South Korea via Webcam on the Internet.
BUSINESS
Jun 24, 2008

Shigenari to head Morgan unit

Morgan Stanley named Yoshihiko Shigenari head of private equity in Japan to expand the company's $6.5 billion in global equity investments.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 23, 2008

The global food crisis: It's time to empower the world's have-nots

HONG KONG, (AP) The Times of London ran a cartoon offering its "solution" to the world food crisis as leaders gathered for their recent Rome summit: It showed Pope Benedict XVI holding a cross in his left hand and a packet of "extra safe" condoms in his right.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 22, 2008

Lame conclusions about U.S. occupations

NEW YORK, SPECIAL TO THE J (AP) Lately South Koreans' view of the United States has improved as the Obama-Clinton contest showed the possibility of ending the Bush-Republican Iraq war and halting the destruction of American democracy. Now, South Koreans are rebelling against President Lee Myung Bak,...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jun 22, 2008

Countryside games offer charming change of pace

FUKUSHIMA — I am writing this column on June 17 at the Yomiuri Giants-Orix Buffaloes interleague game at Azuma Stadium in Fukushima Prefecture, north of Tokyo. It is one of seven regular-season games the Giants will have played this year at countryside ballparks, and have you ever wondered why they...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jun 22, 2008

Fortune-teller detective mystery, manga drama of the business world, Ethiopia trivia special

Misuzu Maruyama (Kumiko Okae) is one of Ginza's most popular street fortunetellers, but she's also an amateur detective. In the two-hour mystery special "Uranaishi Misuzu Jiken wa Unmei no Kanata ni (Fortune Teller Misuzu's Incidents Are Beyond Fate)" (TBS, Monday, 9 p.m.), Misuzu plies her trade in...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jun 22, 2008

How can the press be free if it's used as a public-relations tool?

The Supreme Court's decision on June 12 to reverse a lower-court ruling that had found in favor of a women's group received a fair share of concerned media coverage. The suit involved a program NHK had produced about a 2001 citizens' tribunal, which prosecuted Japan's wartime leaders on behalf of sex...
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Jun 21, 2008

Gaijin of the Inland Sea

Believe it or not, I am not the only foreigner living on an island in the Seto Inland Sea. Allow me to uncover other insane gaijin "doing it" island style. And these are no ordinary people, mind you.
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COMMUNITY
Jun 21, 2008

An up-close look at global intelligence

Jun Isomura is delighted to meet twice. The first time I am in the front of a car, taking notes, he in the back, out of sight, answering questions in impeccably accented British English. It is only when we disembark that we finally meet face to face.
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JAPAN / RETRACING ROUTES
Jun 20, 2008

Immigrants weave tale of triumph

When the Kasato Maru arrived in Brazil with the first Japanese immigrants at Santos port near Sao Paulo on June 18, 1908, a shipload of Okinawans and other Japanese disembarked and headed out to find work on the coffee plantations, seeking a better life.
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BUSINESS
Jun 20, 2008

Robot startups join forces against South Korea competition

Four of Japan's leading robot startups have joined forces, brought together by a common concern that neighboring South Korea could pull ahead in the race to transform robots from science fiction fantasy to commercial success.
JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
Jun 20, 2008

Consensus elusive ahead of climate meet

Time is running out for Japanese diplomacy — and possibly for the future of the Earth, too.
BUSINESS
Jun 20, 2008

DoCoMo wooing Mideast carriers

SINGAPORE (Bloomberg) NTT DoCoMo Inc. said it is in talks with Middle East carriers, including Qatar Telecom QSC, Emirates Telecommunications Corp. and Saudi Telecom Co., as it seeks to expand overseas.
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JAPAN / G8 COUNTDOWN
Jun 20, 2008

Ambassador touts biofuel as climate change cure

Criticism that Brazil has prioritized the manufacture of biofuel at the expense of food production is preposterous and flies in the face of a superb solution for global warming, according to the Brazilian ambassador to Japan.
EDITORIALS
Jun 19, 2008

Big boost for cross-strait ties

The Taiwan Strait continues to shrink. Last week, China and Taiwan agreed on regular nonstop charter flights between the two sides of the strait, a move that would boost tourism, help the sputtering Taiwanese economy, and provide the impetus for even more ambitious links between them. This progress is...
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JAPAN / RETRACING ROUTES
Jun 18, 2008

Returnee from Brazil offers blend of both worlds to Gunma settlers

Second in a series When Shoko Takano opened a Japanese-language school in Oizumi, Gunma Prefecture, in October 1991, Japanese-Brazilians working at local factories flocked in to seek her advice on living in Japan.
EDITORIALS
Jun 18, 2008

Black Friday for the EU

Ireland has rejected the European Union reform treaty.
BUSINESS
Jun 18, 2008

As G8 summit nears, environment tax on fuels eyed

The government is set to consider a so-called environment tax on oil, coal and other greenhouse gas-producing fuels as part of an overall tax reform plan later this year, according to an economic policy draft paper released Tuesday.
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jun 16, 2008

Reluctant runner viewed as possible Fukuda fill-in

It is expected that a race for Japan's national leadership will start after Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda hosts the summit meeting of the Group of Eight industrialized nations in Toyako, Hokkaido, in July.
EDITORIALS
Jun 16, 2008

'Ni hao' to a new face

Justice Ministry records reveal that Chinese have become the largest group of foreigners residing in Japan, edging out Koreans who had been in the top spot since records were taken in 1959. Chinese residents in Japan now number 600,000, double their 1997 number. With Brazilians and Filipinos, the next...

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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers