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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 8, 2010

Japan's dismal dearth of new heroic figures

"Created in response to deep popular needs, the legendary hero survives long after his death. . . . While the positive aspects of the hero's life and character come to be emphasized (or even created out of whole cloth), less attractive features are passed over in silence and remain forgotten until they...
Japan Times
LIFE
Aug 8, 2010

Axed railroads signal nostalgia

The Miyanoharu Line that connected Oita and Kumamoto prefectures in Kyushu was a scenic wonder when it opened along its entire route in 1954, winding for 27 km through mountains and valleys and across no fewer than seven bridges in the town of Oguni in Kumamoto alone.
JAPAN
Aug 7, 2010

Rhetoric belies atomic policy

HIROSHIMA — At Friday's ceremony to mark the 65th anniversary of Hiroshima's atomic bombing, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and the city's mayor, Tadatoshi Akiba, urged Japan to do its bit to realize a nuclear weapons-free world.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Aug 7, 2010

Kamakura expat at one with all Buddhist deities

Mark Schumacher's home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, requires a journey, both on foot and for the spirit.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 6, 2010

Coming of age with Hiroshima's mourning

GREENVILLE, Calif. — I arrived in Hiroshima looking for a party on Aug. 6. I was 23 and starved for American jokes, American English, American company. For the past year I had been living with a Japanese family and teaching English in Wakayama, where the only other American women I knew of were an...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 6, 2010

Hippies and hipsters brave a soggy Fuji Rock

When you're talking about a music festival whose inaugural event was literally wiped out by a typhoon, it can feel a bit petty to complain about the weather. All the same, campers arriving at Fuji Rock Festival in Naeba on Thursday last week might have hoped for a warmer welcome than the torrential downpour...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 6, 2010

'The Men Who Stare at Goats'

Reality, wrote Philip K. Dick, is what's still there even after you stop believing in it. Thus an enlightened man in our age of science may well speculate on the notion that our bodies, like the walls of the room we are in, are all made up of atoms. And atoms, for their part, contain a lot of empty space....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 6, 2010

Thoughts on Fuji — Dirty Projectors, Ozomatli, !!! and Yeasayer

Dave Longstreth, Dirty Projectors You mentioned during your show that it felt pretty early to be rocking out . . .
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 6, 2010

'Kinako — Minarai Keisatsuken no Monogatari (Kinako — The Story of an Apprentice Police Dog)'

Animal movies are a thriving genre of Japanese films that foreign critics, scholars and viewers by and large cordially detest. It's similar to the typical gaijin reaction to natto (fermented soy beans) — i.e., disgust at a humble, but beloved, made-in-Japan specialty.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 6, 2010

Feel the heat of Cuban beats

August's heat can often leave you lethargic, but Havana Rakatan has a Cuban cure for the summertime blues.
BUSINESS
Aug 5, 2010

Toyota logs quarterly profit, raises forecast

Toyota Motor Corp. said Wednesday it logged a ¥211.66 billion group operating profit for the April-June period, reversing a ¥194.86 billion loss in the same quarter last year, due mainly to brisk sales in emerging Asian markets, including Thailand and Indonesia.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / WORLD UNIVERSITY BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
Aug 5, 2010

Japan reaches semifinal round

Team captain Shota Ishimine went 5-for-5 and drove in three runs to help Japan advance to the semifinals of the 5th World University Baseball Championship with a 13-0 victory over Taiwan on Wednesday at Yokohama Stadium.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2010

Kosovo decision sets a disastrous precedent

BELGRADE — Serbia will never recognize this unilateral declaration of independence: We seek peaceful compromise.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2010

That 70s show in Russia

MOSCOW — Can Russia escape the "resource curse" implied by high oil prices, or will it succumb to what we call a "70-80" scenario? That is the question confronting Russians today, and we fear that their fate will be the latter: If oil prices remain at $70 to $80 per barrel, Russia is likely to relive...
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2010

Is another war in the Mideast inevitable?

BERLIN — Fuad Siniora, Lebanon's former prime minister, is a thoughtful man with deep experience in Middle Eastern politics. So when he speaks of "trains with no drivers that seem to be on a collision course," as he recently did at a private meeting in Berlin, interested parties should probably prepare...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / WORLD UNIVERSITY BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP
Aug 4, 2010

Japan preps for quarters

KAWASAKI — Shooting for a first-ever gold medal, Japan isn't about to let its guard down against anyone and is treating every contest with a one-game-at-a-time mentality.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Aug 3, 2010

Media attention nothing new for celebrated hurler Saito

The fluttering of dozens of camera shutters following Japan's 4-0 win over South Korea on Friday served as a reminder that Yuki Saito is never far from the spotlight.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Aug 3, 2010

Karate teacher has worldwide allure

On first seeing him, it's hard to understand why people cross continents to meet this diminutive 65-year-old wiry gray-haired man, shaking his head in dismay as some of his karate students struggle to get a grip on the art of fighting with sticks.
BUSINESS
Aug 3, 2010

Inflation targets won't halt deflation: former BOJ deputy

Toshiro Muto, former deputy governor of the Bank of Japan, said inflation targeting by the central bank would do little to end deflation, dismissing an effort by politicians to impose such a measure.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / JUST BE CAUSE
Aug 3, 2010

The victim complex and Kim's killer con

It's fascinating whenever someone cons people out of pots of money — doubly so when someone cons a whole government. Take, for example, Japan's biggest news story two weeks ago: Kim Hyon Hui's four-day visit to Japan.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Aug 3, 2010

Dying to work: Japan Inc.'s foreign trainees

"The Industrial Trainees and Technical Interns program often fuels demand for exploitative cheap labor under conditions that constitute violations of the right to physical and mental health, physical integrity, freedom of expression and movement of foreign trainees and interns, and that in some cases...
JAPAN
Aug 2, 2010

Yakult Swallows fan claims Twitter's 20 billionth tweet

Twitter's 20 billionth message didn't make much sense, but it spoke volumes about the rapid global growth of the microblogging service.
Living conditions index hits lowest level in 15 years in Japan
The share of respondents to a Bank of Japan quarterly survey in June who said they have become worse off came to 61.0%, up 5.1 percentage points from the previous survey.
Tokyo emerges as a top market for global tech talent
Tokyo ranks among the world's top tech talent hubs alongside Beijing, the San Francisco Bay Area, Bengaluru, Paris, New York and Dublin, according to Colliers' newly released global tech markets report.
From stalking to death threats, female candidates still face harassment
Mayu Ushida, a former NHK newscaster running for election in the Tokyo electoral district on the Democratic Party for the People ticket, signs an autograph for a voter after a public rally at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Tuesday.
CDP leader criticizes ‘Japanese First’ policy and calls for inclusive society
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yoshihiko Noda said it is obvious that Japanese society could not function without the help of foreign workers in manufacturing, health care, construction and public transportation.
JSA’s 100th anniversary event is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for sumo fans
Egyptian wrestler Osunaarashi has some fun with children during a special Japan Sumo Association event in 2017.
Japan's rice farmers are confounded by Shinjiro Koizumi’s policies
Kiyoshi Shibata stands in front of one of the rice paddies in Murayama, Yamagata Prefecture, where he produces the prefecture's signature rice brand Tsuyahime.
From stalking to death threats, female candidates still face harassment
Mayu Ushida, a former NHK newscaster running for election in the Tokyo electoral district on the Democratic Party for the People ticket, signs an autograph for a voter after a public rally at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Kawaii Lab redefines idol pop for the TikTok generation
Misa Kimura is the main producer for Kawaii Lab, a project by entertainment agency Asobisystem whose groups have found success by pairing a social media-first strategy with a fresh perspective on traditional idol-pop tropes.
Craig Mod's life in motion in a disappearing Japan
Mod's memoir “Things Become Other Things” chronicles his walking trips across the Kii Peninsula, surveying “a graceful end to a certain life cycle.”
With China and Trump, Japan defense report says world entering ‘new era of crisis’
A senior member of a Self-Defense Forces honor guard inspects a formation before the arrival of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for a visit to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 30.

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After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan
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