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JAPAN / INTERPRETATION & TRANSLATION
Feb 18, 2013

Making a living using foreign language skills

What would it be like to make a living using foreign language skills as a freelance professional? Missa Takahashi, an interpreter and translator of English, French and Italian, shares how she established her career, expanded her work and deepened her understanding of language and culture.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 18, 2013

Italy's taxing polls will impact fragile eurozone

The outcome of Italy's parliamentary election ? a battle between the Bersani and the Berlusconi coalitions ? will hugely impact the fragile eurozone.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 18, 2013

Asian pivot turns African

In his first term, President Barack Obama instructed the Pentagon to pivot its forces and reorient its strategy toward fast-growing Asia. Instead, the U.S. military finds itself drawn into a string of messy wars in a much poorer part of the world: Africa.
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Feb 17, 2013

Garrison develops into first-rate coach

Matt Garrison did not set forth to reinvent the wheel when he was hired as the Niigata Albirex BB head coach for the 2011-12 season. So after replacing longtime bench boss Masaya Hirose, who was at the helm for 11 seasons in the team's JBL and bj-league eras, Garrison opted to keep things straightforward....
Reader Mail
Feb 17, 2013

Shortsighted plan for languages

The Jan. 30 Kyodo article "U.K. plan to limit Japanese worries language teachers" reports on a plan to minimize the teaching of Japanese in U.K. schools. As a result, Japanese may disappear from GCSE exams (for 16-year-olds) by September 2014.
Reader Mail
Feb 17, 2013

Chinese public not convinced

Regarding the Feb. 13 article "U.S. agrees: Chinese frigates locked their weapons radar on MSDF units": This is a very dangerous situation. The Chinese public will be overwhelmingly convinced that Japan is showing lying and treacherous colors familiar to them and that the belligerent Americans are siding...
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CULTURE / Books
Feb 17, 2013

Remarkably original debut thriller shines light on Glasgow's underworld

THE NECESSARY DEATH OF LEWIS WINTER, by Malcolm Mackay. Mantle, 2013, 256 pp., £14.99 (hardcover)
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 17, 2013

Much footage of meteor came from car cams

Washington THE WASHINGTON POST
JAPAN / Media / CHANNEL SURF
Feb 17, 2013

Beat Takeshi and disappearing Japan; Taking apart the Boeing 707; CM of the week: Takada Moving Center

An endangered plant or animal species symbolizes a world that changes irrevocably every moment, but there are also man-made things that vanish. This week, on the variety show "Takeshi no Nippon no Mikata" ("Takeshi's Way of Viewing Japan"; TV Tokyo, Fri., 10 p.m.), comedian-filmmaker Takeshi Kitano looks...
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ENVIRONMENT / WEEK 3
Feb 17, 2013

Fukushima radiation threatens to wreak woodland havoc

For Yuji Hoshino, mushrooms were a way of life. The 50-year-old farmer grew up watching his father raise shiitake mushrooms on their land at the foot of the mountains in Sano, southern Tochigi Prefecture.
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JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Feb 17, 2013

Tokyo Station nears completion, Hitler lauds Japan, high-schools surge, Constitution to keep Article 9, PM declares

100 YEARS AGO
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BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 16, 2013

SAS bullish on Japan after logging best year ever in 2012, exec says

Scandinavian Airlines System has seen its business in Japan recover dramatically since the Great East Japan Earthquake and the upturn is continuing, according to an SAS executive.
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ENVIRONMENT
Feb 16, 2013

War on the seabed: the Hebridean shellfishing battle

The problem with bottom-trawling is that it lacks discrimination. The gear plows through the seabed, taking or breaking nearly everything in its path.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Feb 15, 2013

Tips for springtime on the Shikoku pilgrimage route

Setsubun is over and it is officially springtime in Japan. So what if it's still cold — happy spring! And spring means cherry blossoms, a new school year and, of course, pilgrimaging! This spring, many people will set out on the pilgrimage of a lifetime as they walk, bicycle, bus or drive the Shikoku...
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TENNIS
Feb 15, 2013

Azarenka makes short work of Swiss Oprandi

Top seed and defending champion Victoria Azarenka scored a convincing 6-2, 6-3 victory over Switzerland's Romina Oprandi on Wednesday to move into the third round of the Qatar Total Open.
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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Feb 15, 2013

Party picks up in Chinatown this weekend

While it seems politics is all that comes to mind when talking about China these days, the current New Year's holiday shows what a remarkable breadth of culture the country has.
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CULTURE / Film
Feb 15, 2013

'Sado Tenpesuto'

Beginning with 2001's "Ichiban Utsukushi Natsu (Firefly Dreams)," a Yasujiro Ozu-esque drama about a friendship that develops between a rebellious teenage girl and an elderly former actress in the countryside, John Williams has been directing films in Japan with Japanese talent that do not proclaim...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Feb 15, 2013

Osaka restaurants revisit award-winning dishes

Over the next month, Osaka restaurants will start preparing some award-winning dishes to serve up to lucky diners.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Feb 14, 2013

Sharapova, Serena advance in Doha

Third seed Maria Sharapova advanced to the third round of the Qatar Total Open on Tuesday night with a 6-3, 6-2 victory over qualifier Caroline Garcia of France.
OLYMPICS
Feb 14, 2013

IOC set to drop wrestling for 2020

The IOC's decision stuns Japan, which collected six wrestling medals at the 2012 London Games.
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CULTURE / Art
Feb 14, 2013

Driven to shoot on the frontlines

The camera never lies — or does it? The double-barreled exhibition now on at the Yokohama Museum of Art suggests that it doesn't always tell the truth either.
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CULTURE / Music
Feb 14, 2013

Pianist Yazawa looks to the past to find security in the future

Pianist Tomoko Yazawa always thinks about her music with the future in mind. However, for her latest album, "Playing in the Dark," she made a rare diversion into the past — specifically, France at the end of the 19th century.

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Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years