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EDITORIALS
Feb 1, 2013

Give a little on wages

To help ensure a better future for Japan's economy, labor and management leaders should strive to agree on some improvement in workers' wages.
Reader Mail
Jan 31, 2013

Aso broaches a difficult issue

Recent comments by Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso about the elderly in Japan, while controversial, make a great deal of sense to me because of my personal experience.
Reader Mail
Jan 31, 2013

Men must be willing to help out

Denny Pollard's Jan. 24 letter, "Men to decide demographics," gave us a perspective from Yamagata Prefecture. And I agree with it!
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 30, 2013

Abe adviser Hamada wants more pliant BOJ

With his harsh criticism of the Bank of Japan in the spotlight, Shinzo Abe's economic brain, Koichi Hamada, says it is a big step forward for the central bank to finally adopt the new prime minister's 2 percent inflation target.
EDITORIALS
Jan 26, 2013

Six days of school not the answer

After reviewing the current five-day school week in public schools, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology says it is again considering holding Saturday classes.
WORLD
Jan 25, 2013

Communists celebrate 40 years since Paris peace deal

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CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Jan 24, 2013

'Fasting guys' not interested in women — at all

Remember the herbivore men? Japan's 'fasting men' make them look ambitious.
Japan Times
JAPAN / DAVOS SPECIAL 2013
Jan 23, 2013

Managing the Japan-China Row

At a time when official Japan-China dialogue has come to a standstill over conflicting territorial claims, the Tokyo Foundation hosted an important Track 2 meeting of foreign policy experts from Japan, China, and the U.S.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LABOR PAINS
Jan 22, 2013

AKB48: Unionize and take back your lost love lives

They started performing on stages in Tokyo's Akihabara electronics district, and today their ubiquity is unrivaled. The current flavors of the month pepper the TV schedules and covers of weekly magazines all year round. In Tokyo, you can't swing a carrot without hitting a giant poster of one or a bunch...
Reader Mail
Jan 19, 2013

Deport the solo 'fly-jin' of 3/11

Regarding the Jan. 16 article "Frenchwoman fired for leaving Japan during nuclear crisis sues NHK": I know this will upset a lot of foreigners in Japan, but I fully agree with NHK's terminating the employment of Emmanuelle Bodin after she fled Japan during the Fukushima nuclear plant crisis in March...
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Jan 19, 2013

Zen and the cross-cultural art of tree-climbing

In the upstairs meeting room of a camping lodge in Komagane, Nagano Prefecture, two women and about 20 men walked slowly and intently in circles one rainy day last November. At the front of the room, a weathered and wiry Englishman intoned the sort of instructions a yoga aficionado would find familiar....
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 19, 2013

Hamada hits DPJ deflation inaction

Koichi Hamada, one of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's special advisers, on Friday condemned past governments led by the Democratic Party of Japan for not pressing the Bank of Japan to conduct enough monetary easing steps to fight the country's prolonged deflation.
BUSINESS
Jan 17, 2013

Showdown over sales tax breaks on the horizon

A political showdown is approaching as the two ruling parties continue talks to nail down details of tax reform by their self-imposed deadline of Jan. 24, in particular over whether daily essentials such as food should be exempt from the planned hike in the unpopular consumption tax.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Jan 11, 2013

Gomez, Ogawa helping Shiga stay in playoff picture

In 10-game increments, you can get a pretty good measure of how a team is playing during the long, 52-game bj-league regular season.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 8, 2013

U.S. imagination goes wild regarding Iranian 'threat'

Reading the text of a bill that was recently signed into law by U.S. President Barack Obama would instill fear in the hearts of ordinary Americans.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / COMMUNITY CHEST
Jan 8, 2013

From Taiji to Okinawa, readers dissect some issues of 2012

In the first of our new Community Chest letters columns, we bring together a selection of mails received in response to some of the final Community stories of 2012.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 8, 2013

Razing skyscrapers from the inside

COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Jan 5, 2013

Serpent hunting in the Year of the Snake

As 2013 is the Year of the Snake, for your serpentine pleasure, I've put together a list of snake-like creatures from Japanese legends and folklore. Loch Ness monster fans, Yeti fans and Bigfoot fans, you're going to have a heck of a year in 2013 with all the cryptids waiting to be discovered. Japan...
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JAPAN
Jan 4, 2013

Child custody injustices hard to fix

On May 6, 2010, Yasuyuki Watanabe, an internal affairs ministry bureaucrat, came home to find his wife and 2-year old daughter gone, along with their clothes.
Reader Mail
Jan 3, 2013

Realizing the national condition

As a long-term resident, good friend and fair critic of Japan, I have to agree with the hard-hitting opinions expressed in Roger Pulvers' Dec. 30 Counterpoint article, "Is juggernaut Japan being driven to destruction (and no one's to blame)?," in Michael Hoffman's Dec. 30 article, "As the new year approaches,...
Reader Mail
Jan 3, 2013

Resolve territorial disputes first

I happen to disagree with Hiroki Hamagami's statement in his Dec. 27 letter, "Ambassador deserves support," that Japan's new ambassador to China should seek to strengthen economic ties between the countries and forget about the territorial dispute.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 3, 2013

Aid needed to counter Syrian extremists

The U.S. commitment to aiding the Syrian opposition against the brutal regime of Bashar Assad has been one of many words and few deeds. Repeated pledges of support absent material assistance have allowed fringe elements to establish themselves in northern Syria. If this trend persists, U.S. Secretary...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 2, 2013

'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel'

Mr. Antonini, who lived in the house next to ours in Brooklyn, had a rejoinder for all life's ailments. "You think you got problems?" he'd say with a querulous edge to his voice. "Wait till you get to my age, and I'll show you some problems!" At this point Mr. Antonini's son Denny would make his standard...
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LIFE / Digital / JAPAN TIMES BLOGROLL
Jan 1, 2013

Spoon & Tamago

Raised in Japan, the Brooklyn-based artist and writer who goes by the moniker Johnny Strategy has been blogging about Japanese art and design at Spoon & Tamago since 2007. Having studied art education and art and visual technology, he also has a background in pottery and hones the craft when not generating...

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