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CULTURE / Film
Nov 12, 2010

'Ghost — Mo Ichido Dakishimetai (Ghost: In Your Arms Again)'/'Paranormal Activity Dainisho: Tokyo Night (Paranormal Activity 2: Tokyo Night)'

Hollywood has been remaking Japanese films for decades, but now Hollywood studios — as part of a worldwide strategy to boost box office in overseas markets — are starting to remake their own films for Japan, with Japanese talent.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / ART BRIEF
Nov 12, 2010

'Llove'

Daikanyama i Studio
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 11, 2010

Taiwan seizes chance to make regional statement

Taiwan has thrown its support behind a proposed Pacific Rim free-trade zone and considers APEC a key forum to achieve this, according to a senior Taipei official.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 11, 2010

Familiar pain fuels Ochiai's desire

NAGOYA — Immediately after the final out of the 2010 Japan Series, Chunichi Dragons manager Hiromitsu Ochiai made a short, brisk walk to the Dragons clubhouse.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 9, 2010

Seoul's opportunity amid economic change

SEOUL — Hubris usually gives birth to disaster. The root cause of the current global crisis was intellectual hubris in the form of the blind belief that markets would always resolve their own problems and contradictions. Thirty years after the Reagan-Thatcher revolution, the ideological pendulum has...
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2010

Obituary: Frederick Harris

Artist and community leader Frederick Harris, a resident of Japan for more than 50 years, died early Monday of heart failure. He was 78 and is survived by his wife, Kazuko.
COMMENTARY
Nov 3, 2010

Asia warily watches China

Asia's festering Cold War-era territorial and maritime disputes highlight the fact that securing long-term regionwide peace depends on respect for existing borders. Attempts to disturb Asia's territorial status quo are an invitation to endemic conflict — a concern that led Asian states to welcome the...
EDITORIALS
Nov 1, 2010

Shoplifters getting older

A sad trend is emerging with the all too common crime of shoplifting. Although the total number of crimes recognized by authorities declined to 1.7 million in 2009 from a peak of 2.85 million in 2002 — with shoplifting leveling off at 140,000 to 150,000 cases yearly — more and more elderly people...
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 30, 2010

Di Matteo's West Brom winning friends in top flight

LONDON — With a quarter of the Premier League campaign gone there can be little doubt about the team of the season so far — West Bromwich Albion.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 28, 2010

Lawyer putting foreigners first

Masako Suzuki has dedicated her career to giving legal support to foreigners living in Japan. Starting Monday, she will become the first head of the new Section of Legal Assistance for Foreigners at the Tokyo Public Law Office.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Oct 27, 2010

Playoff jinx bedevils Fukuoka faithful once again

The team colors are yellow and black, but the adopted color is red and, when the final out was recorded of the Pacific League Climax Series last week, Fukuoka fans were blue-shocking blue. Their team had just completed a stunning collapse after it appeared headed for its first Japan Series appearance...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 26, 2010

Dark side of a Western defense of freedom

BRUSSELS — The price of freedom, it is said, is eternal vigilance. But that price can take the form of morally squalid decisions in which innocent people bear the brunt of the cost of freedom's defense.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Oct 24, 2010

Flood control: Destroying neighborhoods to save them

If there was ever an example of government overspending, the long-term flood control project involving super-levees would be it.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 24, 2010

Nomo's legacy should land him in Hall of Fame

Fourth in a four-part series
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2010

Salarymen feeling pressure of elderly care

For Itsuo Kandatsu, cooking three meals a day is a task he performs for his wheelchair-using mother and disabled brother. But the 49-year-old Tokyo resident isn't a house husband.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 21, 2010

Okada urges less heat in Senkaku row

Democratic Party of Japan Secretary General Katsuya Okada cautioned both Japan and China not to resort to extreme nationalism following the recent bilateral spat in connection with the Senkaku Islands.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 21, 2010

Poor decisions cost Hawks as much as Marines' spirit

FUKUOKA — The Chiba Lotte Marines have achieved a feat nobody had ever done before — advanced to the Japan Series as a third-seeded team.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 20, 2010

'Miracle Marines' eliminate Hawks

FUKUOKA — The Chiba Lotte Marines' miraculous run continues.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 20, 2010

U.S. is no role model for prosecutor reform

The revelation of an "ace" prosecutor's criminal misconduct in Osaka, and of a coverup by his bosses and peers, have led to one of the most serious scandals in the history of Japanese criminal justice — and to many calls for reform of Japan's prosecution system.

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight