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Reader Mail
Dec 22, 2011

Settle 'comfort women' claims

Regarding the Dec. 15 Kyodo article "Statue of 'comfort woman' erected outside Japanese Embassy in Seoul": Japan did compensate South Korea with a lump-sum payment in 1965. At that time, comfort women were not on the political agenda. Now they are and the issue is for Japan to do the right thing and...
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SOCCER
Dec 17, 2011

Barcelona inspired to claim title as tribute to injured Villa

Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola has vowed to overcome the loss of David Villa and win the Club World Cup after the striker broke his shinbone in Thursday's semifinal victory over Al Sadd.
Reader Mail
Dec 15, 2011

Public will foot bill as always

Regarding the Dec. 10 front-page Kyodo article "Tepco mulls 10% rate hike tied to '13 Niigata reactor restart": Is this 10 percent figure based on the government's intended consumption tax hike to 10 percent? The figure makes it even harder to distinguish between those government officials who have been...
Reader Mail
Dec 15, 2011

Credibility of government limits

Regarding the Dec. 11 front-page Kyodo article "Meiji ignored tipoffs on cesium in formula": I wonder what the purpose is of establishing cesium levels in baby formula if a detected amount that is one-sixth of the "acceptable" level causes Meiji Co. to do a massive recall. Is the level expected to be...
EDITORIALS
Dec 13, 2011

Sport and sexual harassment

The arrest of two-time Olympic judo champion Masato Uchishiba on suspicion of raping a female member of a judo team for which he served as a coach has come as a shock to judo fans and the sports world in general. But sport as a whole needs to examine whether it does not have a culture susceptible to...
EDITORIALS
Dec 13, 2011

Power industry buying influence

Reports on political donations for 2010 made public Nov. 30 by the internal affairs ministry show that both management and labor unions of the power industry provided a large amount of money to both the Democratic Party of Japan and the Liberal Democratic Party. It is logical to suspect that the power...
Reader Mail
Dec 11, 2011

Debt clock cannot be ignored

Regarding the Dec. 7 Kyodo article "Welfare recipients reach nearly 2.06 million": Rarely have I seen any mention by Japan's broadcast or print media of Japan's national debt clock.
Reader Mail
Dec 8, 2011

Japanese disclosure too, please

Regarding the Dec. 4 Kyodo brief "U.S. parks plan irks A-bombed cities": Perhaps the professional complainers from Hiroshima and Nagasaki (who want the three sites that the U.S. National Park Service is considering establishing as historic parks — because of their involvement with the Manhattan Project...
Reader Mail
Dec 8, 2011

Going the way of the dinosaur?

Regarding the Dec. 5 Kyodo front-page article "50.7% want election held before tax hike": Surely as God made little green apples, self-interest will kill Japan. The markets are currently distracted with the "1+1 = 5" economics of Europe and the United States, but eventually the Japanese short-sellers...
SOCCER / J. League
Dec 4, 2011

Reysol complete storybook season

Kashiwa Reysol captured their first-ever J. League title just a year after winning the second division with a 3-1 victory over Urawa Reds on the final day of the season on Saturday.
BUSINESS
Dec 3, 2011

Firms to aid disaster-info FM stations

Kyodo Shiseido Co., Canon Marketing Japan Inc. and Panasonic Corp. will provide financial help for 15 temporary FM radio stations broadcasting information for victims of the March 11 disasters.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 1, 2011

Green is the big thing at this year's Tokyo Motor Show

Japanese carmakers highlighted their latest green technology concept cars during Wednesday's media preview at the Tokyo Motor Show as they bid to lead the global trend toward energy efficiency and reignite interest among young people in automobiles.
BUSINESS
Dec 1, 2011

Olympus probe report could come this week

Olympus Corp.'s independent panel investigating the camera maker's acquisitions and accounting may release findings as early as this week, a source involved in the investigation said Wednesday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 25, 2011

Ochiai bows out after eight years in charge of Dragons

There was no secret that Hiromitsu Ochiai's days as the Chunichi Dragons manager were numbered. The team had, after all, announced in September it would not renew his contract after the season.
Reader Mail
Nov 24, 2011

So who is actually cooperating?

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JAPAN
Nov 22, 2011

Aum may be gone in name but guru still has following

Judicial proceedings for Aum Shinrikyo figures effectively came to an end Monday as Seiichi Endo became the 13th member of the doomsday cult to have his death sentence finalized by the Supreme Court.

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