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LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Mar 18, 2013

Best to consult an expert before getting a cryptic kanji tattoo

"Mami," I said, reading the kanji 「真実」tattooed on the bicep of the young man seated beside me last December, aboard a flight bound for Houston, Texas. "Is that the name of your Japanese girlfriend?"
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WORLD
Mar 17, 2013

U.S. drone strikes violate Pakistan's sovereignty: U.N.

CIA drone strikes on targets in Pakistan violate its national sovereignty and have resulted in far more civilian casualties than the U.S. government has recognized, a special U.N. human rights envoy has reported after a secret investigation.
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LIFE / WEEK 3
Mar 17, 2013

Tohoku coast faces man-made perils in wake of tsunami

One day in October 2011, marine ecologist Masahiro Nakaoka donned his scuba gear, paddled into the waters of Funakoshi Bay in Iwate Prefecture, and braced himself for his first glimpse of its underwater communities since a massive tsunami triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake swept through seven...
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JAPAN / Media
Mar 17, 2013

'Veronica Mars' movie sets Kickstarter record

Shortly after 11 a.m. March 13, Rob Thomas, creator of the short-lived detective drama "Veronica Mars," tweeted that if fans would pledge $2 million by 11 p.m. April 12, Warner Bros. would put into production a "Veronica Mars" movie. The film would get a limited theatrical release early next year, and...
SPORTS / PREMIER REPORT
Mar 16, 2013

Stakes high in Aston Villa-QPR battle

Two in-form teams go head-to-head Saturday in a game that will go a long way to deciding the Premier League fate of Aston Villa and Queens Park Rangers.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 11, 2013

Ending the violence against women and girls

Two teenage girls, from Vietnam and Uganda, have traveled to U.N headquarters to find out what the world is doing to end violence against women.
SPORTS / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Mar 10, 2013

Buffaloes appear headed in the right direction

No doubt the Hanshin Tigers are the more popular of the two Japanese professional baseball teams in the Kansai area. Their games at historic Koshien Stadium between Osaka and Kobe draw packed crowds most of the time, and the fans are arguably the most boisterous in the country.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Mar 9, 2013

Time for England to stop whining

"Show me a good loser and I'll show you a loser."
EDITORIALS
Mar 9, 2013

Venezuela loses its champion

Hugo Chavez will be missed by all the Venezuelans who benefited from his largess and by world leaders who delighted in antagonizing Washington.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 9, 2013

Asia's dammed water hegemon

China's announcement of three new dam projects on the Brahmaputra underscores the emergence of water as a new divide in Sino-Indian relations.
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LIFE / Food & Drink
Mar 8, 2013

Bite into the journals of a Japanese burger critic

Many Japanese foodies are enamored with the hamburger, in much the same way that their American counterparts are often besotted with ramen. The number of hamburger shops in Tokyo has exploded in the last decade, but there are also signs that the fascination runs deeper: There are books, magazines and...
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BASEBALL / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 7, 2013

Japanese roots spread wide at World Baseball Classic

One of the beautiful things about sports is that there are always stories about the losers, not just the winners.
EDITORIALS
Mar 7, 2013

A blow to the weapons exports ban

The Abe administration's decision to let domestic firms participate in producing the U.S. F-35 fighter violates the spirit of Japan's weapon exports ban.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 7, 2013

The pope of Japanese finance

As with the deliberations at the Vatican, politics — not doctrinal debate — underpins the decision-making process for the next Bank of Japan governor.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 7, 2013

Enforced or not, repressive laws are bad

The creeping infringement of human rights in Russia under President Vladimir Putin raises a broader quandary for the international community: Do repressive laws matter if they're rarely or never enforced?
SPORTS / NBA REPORT
Mar 6, 2013

Pacers best placed to challenge Heat

Donnie Walsh wasn't impressed. The former and longtime Indiana Pacers general manager had returned to his Indianapolis home for the 2011-12 NBA season.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 6, 2013

Japan and Australia: natural allies in the changing Pacific

Does the U.S. pivot to the Pacific represent a necessary rebalancing, overbalancing or counter-balancing against China's growing wealth, power and assertiveness?
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 6, 2013

U.S. headed toward Italian-style politics

Since Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, a recurring theme of our political discourse has been how crazy Republicans appear to have become. Birthers, death panels, shariah law, legitimate rape: The heretofore successfully repressed tendencies of the Reagan coalition blossomed like a noxious flower...
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 4, 2013

Ballast for Australia-India relations

As long as India focuses on consolidating national aspirations, and not on developing global governance norms, it will remain an incomplete power.
BUSINESS
Mar 4, 2013

Clean energy incentive: Keeping up with Joneses

You'd think that with the vast amount of information out there connecting home energy use with global warming, consumers would be more into insulation, solar power and super-efficient furnaces.
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CULTURE / Books
Mar 3, 2013

A native son's grim account of hard-luck lives

DETROIT: An American Autopsy, by Charlie LeDuff. Penguin Press, 2013, 286 pp., $27.95 (hardcover)
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BASKETBALL
Mar 2, 2013

Kawai out as coach of Hamamatsu

In the what-have-you-done-for-me-lately world of pro basketball, Ryuji Kawai's 60-30 record in 90 games as head coach wasn't good enough.

Longform

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