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Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 8, 2013

Tokyo Olympic bid committee makes last-ditch pitch for 2020 Games

Delegates from Tokyo's Olympic bid committee made their final pitch to land the 2020 Summer Games and Paralympics on Saturday at the International Olympic Committee's general assembly in Buenos Aires.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Sep 7, 2013

Searching to define difficult, elusive concept

The title of this book is exquisite, while the cover illustration is of something else, different yet just as exquisite. This is appropriate because the aesthetic concept that the book considers is not just beautiful, but elusive and difficult to define.
Reader Mail
Sep 7, 2013

Circumcision should be outlawed

Regarding the Aug. 31 Observer story "High hopes for victims of female genital mutilation": This story reminded once again of the sad realization that there is no hope at all in the world for the many more victims of male genital mutilation. Male circumcision advocates might say there is no comparison...
Reader Mail
Sep 7, 2013

What's wrong with this picture?

Regarding the photo with the Sept. 4 article "In first big test, Obama overrules new team": This photo of the president of the United States, which has appeared in newspapers and on television around the world, deserves a few words of criticism. The photo shows the current president with his left foot...
CULTURE / Books
Sep 7, 2013

Amusing graphic novel about bipolar disorder

Until she was 30, Ellen Forney, an award-winning Seattle-based artist, took her slightly unusual personality for granted. Her obsession with exercise, her impulsive sexuality, her bouts of ecstasy: she considered these things, however uncomfortable, a major part of who she was. After all, aren't all...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 7, 2013

How Congress can limit Obama's war on Syria

If Congress wants to limit President Barack Obama's ability to wage war on Syria, it must use its appropriations power.
WORLD
Sep 7, 2013

Google races to keep out government spies

Google is racing to encrypt the torrents of information that flow among its data centers around the world in a bid to thwart snooping by the U.S. National Security Agency and the intelligence agencies of foreign governments, company officials said Friday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives
Sep 6, 2013

'Playground of Hope' project builds communities, benefits affected kids

Michael Anop, a longtime Tokyo resident and entrepreneur, says he is "very much a people's person," as demonstrated by a definite talent for connecting with the right individuals to make things happen.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 6, 2013

Science's great unknowns: 20 unsolved questions

What is the universe made of? Astronomers face an embarrassing conundrum: they don't know what 95 percent of the universe is made of. Atoms, which form everything we see around us, only account for a measly 5 percent. Over the past 80 years it has become clear that the substantial remainder is comprised...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 6, 2013

GM, Nissan log record sales of plug-in vehicles in U.S.

General Motors Co. and Nissan Motor Co., the biggest sellers of rechargeable cars, posted record U.S. plug-in sales in August as their low-cost leases pushed battery-vehicle deliveries this year past last year's tally.
Events / KANSAI: WHO & WHAT
Sep 6, 2013

Street performers to act at Osaka festival

The Tempozan World Performance Festival will take place in Osaka between Sept. 14 and 16. Visitors to the festival, which runs from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day, can watch 36 groups of street performers. Admission is free.
WORLD
Sep 6, 2013

Thai rubber farmers clash with police

Protesters demanding farmer subsidies to offset losses from falling world rubber prices clashed with police in Thailand Thursday evening, throwing bricks and acid-filled bottles at the officers, authorities said.
WORLD
Sep 6, 2013

N.Z. takes action to save rare dolphin

New Zealand announced plans Friday to restrict fishing in some regions to try to save the world's smallest and rarest dolphin from extinction.
CULTURE / Film
Sep 5, 2013

'The Wolverine' draws from other Hollywood hits set in Japan

Director James Mangold has claimed Japanese film influences on his Marvel comic adaptation "The Wolverine," including Akira Kurosawa's 1957 film "Kumonosu-jo (The Throne of Blood)." But the film, in which Hugh Jackman's immortal Wolverine character comes to Japan, falls in love with a local beauty and...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / SWEET INSPIRATIONS
Sep 5, 2013

Take a little bite of Portugal's egg tart

Portugal has plenty to answer for when it comes to the way Japan eats. Tempura, castella sponge cake and even bread — paõ in Portuguese, pan in Japanese — were all assimilated following the arrival of the first trading ships in the mid-16th century.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 5, 2013

'Le Magasin des Suicides'

In the miserable satire-world of French animated comedy "Suicide Shop," people are fined by the cops and billed for damages for failed suicide attempts. Of course in present-day Japan, this is the sad reality, where bereaved relatives get a bill for the disruption caused by a loved one who jumps in front...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Sep 5, 2013

Wine and dine in Totsuka; redesigned Daikanyama restaurant; new urban resort hotel in Fukuoka

A place to wine and dine in Totsuka
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 5, 2013

Remodeled Honda Fit to debut Friday

Honda Motor Co. will debut its remodeled Fit hatchback Friday in Japan to challenge Toyota Motor Corp.'s lead in hybrid compacts.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 5, 2013

'Kibo no Kuni (The Land of Hope)'

Director: Sion Sono
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 5, 2013

After Snowden revelations, China worries about cyberdefense

China has been seen as the aggressor in cyberattacks, but many worry its own defenses are woeful.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Sep 4, 2013

Rock group Zoobombs announce split, prepare for sudden farewell tour

This month marks the 20th anniversary of Tokyo rock 'n' roll act Zoobombs. It also marks their demise as the group has announced they will part ways at the end of September.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 4, 2013

The poster nation of unusual graphic design

Art often thrives as it wriggles out from under a big heavy rock. This can be said about creativity in Czechoslovakia from the 1960s to '80s. As the nation broke free of Stalinism, careered toward the Prague Spring and then finally celebrated the end of Communism in 1989, music, art and film began mixing...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 4, 2013

Obama risks little by going to Congress

The transfer of authority from the legislative branch to the executive branch has been, on the whole, a terrible thing for the U.S.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 4, 2013

'Gustave Moreau et Georges Rouault: Filiation"

Gustave Moreau (1826-1898), the leading French Symbolist painter, was also a professor at Paris Ecole des Beaux Arts. He taught many well-known artists but he was particularly enamored with Georges Rouault (1871-1958), who he sometimes referred to as his "son." Moreau encouraged Rouault throughout his...
Why did such a powerful earthquake produce such a weak tsunami?
A person records images of waves following a tsunami advisory generated by local authorities after an earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula, prompting warnings and evacuations stretching across at the South Pacific, in Vina del Mar, Chile, on Wednesday.
Last soldiers of Imperial Japanese Army have a warning for younger generations
Kunshiro Kiyozumi, 97, who was the youngest crew member of the Imperial Japanese Navy submarine I-58 in World War II, on his way to a restaurant to have lunch in Matsuyama, Japan, on April 29.
80 years on, former teacher conveys history of hidden island in World War II
Masayuki Yamauchi teaches junior high school students about the history of Okunoshima, an island in Takehara, Hiroshima Prefecture, in May.
1,010 food and beverage prices to rise in Japan in August
The price increases in August will be especially noticeable for dairy products, including milk and yogurt, according to the research firm Teikoku Databank.
GTN takes a chance on newcomers to Japan
Hiroyuki Goto, president of GTN. The company started after Goto personally co-signed leases for around 20 non-Japanese people, including some friends and friends of friends.
Junglia brought dinos back to Okinawa. But will it bring tourists?
At Panorama Dining, one of Junglia’s two proper restaurants that also doubles as the rooftop Inifinity Terrace overlook, guests can pay extra to sit in balcony tables made to look like birds’ nests overlooking the park grounds.
Coordination office marks first step in U.S. Forces Japan’s shift to ‘warfighting’ command
U.S., Japanese and Australian staff work in the JJOC Cooperation Team office at the U.S. Army’s Hardy Barracks in central Tokyo in this image posted to the Australian Embassy's X account on July 25.
GTN takes a chance on newcomers to Japan
Hiroyuki Goto, president of GTN. The company started after Goto personally co-signed leases for around 20 non-Japanese people, including some friends and friends of friends.
Artist Chiharu Shiota weaves a hidden marvel on Teshima
“Memory of Lines” is Chiharu Shiota’s second art installation on Teshima as part of the Setouchi Triennale.
How the Japanese TV industry is changing
Fuji TV headquarters in Tokyo's Minato Ward. Fuji TV came under fire over the manner in which it handled a case of “sexual trouble” involving former boy band member Masahiro Nakai and a female announcer.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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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
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