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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 28, 2013

Nothing is clear about court ruling on illegitimate kids

Evidently I was wrong.
JAPAN / Media
Sep 28, 2013

Popular @Horse_ebooks web comic loses its comedic engine

Put enough monkeys in a room with a typewriter, the old theory goes, and they'll eventually hunt-and-peck some Shakespeare. But on Tuesday, the wired world learned that a couple of conceptual-art bards had been masking themselves as the equivalent of gibbons, sending seemingly random spam into the Twitterverse....
Reader Mail
Sep 28, 2013

Keep tabs on Lake Biwa water

It was with great distress that I read the Sept. 19 Kyodo article "Cesium-tainted wood chips found near (Lake) Biwa."
Reader Mail
Sep 28, 2013

Urban planners miss the plot

The tale of local communities losing energy and activities, told by Amy Chavez in her Sept. 21 article, "The ancient pilgrimage routes and the local community," is disheartening. If I were hyperactive, I'd immediately go to clear pilgrimage paths with Ms. Chavez. But the true solution would be to halt...
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 27, 2013

Toray in deal to buy U.S. carbon fiber maker Zoltek

Toray Industries Inc., which makes the carbon fiber used in Boeing Co.'s 787 Dreamliner, has agreed to buy Zoltek Companies Inc. for $584 million (about ¥57.6 billion) to expand into markets including windmill blades and auto parts.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Sep 27, 2013

When worlds collide

My Japanese language skills mostly stink. And always have.
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 27, 2013

Report raises fear about toxic algae fed by pollution

They call it the green slime, a toxic ooze of algae that covered lakes and other bodies of water across the United States this summer, closing beaches and killing scores of dolphins, manatees, birds and fish, a report says.
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WORLD
Sep 27, 2013

Lord Byron to Russell Brand: timeless appeal of the bad boy

When the singer Katy Perry spoke recently about her relationship with British comedian Russell Brand, not so long after their whirlwind courtship and immediately after their whirlwind divorce, she refrained from putting the boot in, despite Brand having ended the short marriage by text.
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CULTURE / Film
Sep 27, 2013

'There will be people who walk out of the cinema, I'm sure'

In a drab building in central Scotland, one afternoon in the armpit of winter, an actor who looks a lot like nice-guy James McAvoy is persuading a room full of blokes to — I'm paraphrasing here — Xerox their cocks.
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CULTURE / Music
Sep 26, 2013

Suede plays it anew with 'Bloodsports' album

Ten years ago, Suede was in the process of fizzling out to a backdrop of apathy. For a band whose initial brilliance inadvertently help kick-start Britpop in the 1990s, it all seemed unedifying.
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CULTURE / Film
Sep 26, 2013

Actor-director Okuda revisits wreckage of 3/11

Actors see how directors do their job — and not a few imagine they can do it better. But the number of Japanese actors who move successfully into the director's chair is small.
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CULTURE / Film
Sep 26, 2013

'Heaven's Gate'

The 1970s are fondly remembered now as an insanely creative and risk-taking era for American cinema, and there's one infamous film that is generally blamed for bringing it all to a crashing halt: "Heaven's Gate." Director Michael Cimino had cleaned up at the Oscars with "The Deer Hunter," and seemed...
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CULTURE / Film
Sep 26, 2013

'Warm Bodies'

Most zombie movies look at the undead and decide they're a problem best solved with a bullet to the head. But director Jonathan Levine gives us "Warm Bodies," which suggests that when World War Z comes, all you'll need is love.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2013

Tokyo to build new wharf for big liners

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government will build a new wharf that can handle large cruise ships to bring more tourists to the capital, Gov. Naoki Inose said.
Events / Events In Tokyo
Sep 26, 2013

Indian festival to tout culture and tradition

In today's world, cultural exchange has become increasingly important — and fun.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 26, 2013

Warlord behind Kenya attack has global ambitions

The alleged Somali mastermind of the assault on a posh mall that killed scores and jolted Kenya is a man of contradictions.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal / FOCUS
Sep 26, 2013

Wealthy guru's arrest on teen sex assault charges divides India

Men lay prostrate on the floor in front of the elevated seat of their guru: the man they call Asaram Bapu. Pictures of his avuncular face, with its flowing white beard, hang everywhere in his sprawling 12-hectare ashram in Motera, western India.
EDITORIALS
Sep 26, 2013

Ms. Merkel triumphant

The victory of Germany's conservative coalition in Sunday's elections was a rousing affirmation of the popularity of a wily chancellor whom Germans have come to call 'mummy.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Sep 25, 2013

Seiji Ozawa ends summer on high note

Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe reportedly once said “God is in the details.” Conductor Seiji Ozawa would literally agree. He meets The Japan Times at a cafe he frequents in Tokyo's Seijo district.

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Ichiro Suzuki, one of the most iconic players in NPB and MLB history, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame with 99.7% of the vote.
With Hall of Fame induction, Ichiro makes himself heard loud and clear