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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jun 27, 2010

What's in a name? Politics as usual

When the Democratic Party of Japan indicated in its political manifesto that it favored voting rights for foreign permanent residents, the reaction from some quarters of the media was visceral. In early April, publisher Takarajima-sha produced a 96-page "emergency publication" titled "Gaikokujin Sanseiken...
CULTURE / Books
Jun 27, 2010

America's man from Japan

Edwin O. Reischauer, U.S. ambassador to Japan (1961-66), set the bar very high for all of his successors. Born and raised in Japan by missionary parents, when U.S. President John F. Kennedy called him into diplomatic service, he was already a prominent scholar who pioneered Japanese studies in the U.S....
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jun 27, 2010

Exploring man's 'role' in nature; idol Koike Teppei's big acting break; CM of the week: Nissin Cup Noodle

Popular culture, movies in particular, has given us so many glimpses of the apocalypse that we may think we know exactly what it will look like. The special two-hour program "Jinrui Zero no Mirai" ("A Future of Zero Humanity"; Nihon TV, Mon., 7:56 p.m.) gives us several more, only this time without any...
JAPAN
Jun 26, 2010

Can sumo survive stain of gambling? It's anyone's bet

The recent admissions by dozens of sumo wrestlers and stablemasters of engaging in illegal, underworld-linked gambling has sent the ancient sport's image, already dogged by scandals, to the mat.
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BASKETBALL
Jun 26, 2010

Apache hire veteran NBA coach Hill

While the NBA Draft grabbed the spotlight in the Big Apple on Thursday, the Tokyo Apache made a major move of their own.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jun 26, 2010

Baseball should follow sumo's example, at least in language

Sumo is a sport of big men . . . and big problems.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Jun 25, 2010

Apache name ex-NFLer Hetherington president

For the second time in their brief history, the Tokyo Apache have appointed a former pro athlete as the team's president.
COMMENTARY
Jun 25, 2010

Western media play along in the disinformation game

Are they being manipulated by governments? Or, are they just plain lazy, happy to go along with what everyone else is saying and what readers want to believe without wanting to look too closely into relevant background?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 25, 2010

It is safe to bank on this hard-boiled man

Eiji Okuda doesn't fit into any of the usual boxes for actors in Japan — or anywhere else for that matter. He's had his share of leading roles over a three-decade career, often as a world-weary cop or gangster, but he's not what the local industry considers a star.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 25, 2010

'Flowers'

Directors steal from each other constantly — sometimes out of love, sometimes envy, sometimes a tangle of motives. The results range from Brian De Palma's famed "Odessa Steps" sequence in "The Untouchables," which thrillingly referenced the Sergei Eisenstein silent classic "The Battleship Potemkin,"...
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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jun 25, 2010

'Beautified Taboo' fuses fashion, art

"Violent" and "gruesome" aren't adjectives typically associated with the world of fashion. However, curator Vivienne U.H. Doan hopes to change that.
CULTURE / Music
Jun 25, 2010

Japan fans to 'Beat It' in memory of Michael

One year after the death of pop icon Michael Jackson, the tears may have stopped, but the devotion continues.
BUSINESS
Jun 25, 2010

Sakata Seed foresees higher India share on 'F1' demand

Sakata Seed Corp. is betting that rising demand for its disease-resistant hybrid "F1" seeds will help the company triple its market share in India.
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BUSINESS
Jun 25, 2010

Drop in export growth signals cooler recovery

Growth in exports slowed in May for the third straight month, signaling the pace of the economic recovery is likely to cool.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 24, 2010

The European Central Bank has no clothes

LONDON — The crisis in the euro zone remains far from resolution. Investor worries are now concentrated on the health of European banks, many of which have large exposures to Greece and the other southern European countries with severe fiscal problems.
COMMENTARY
Jun 24, 2010

First Belgium, then the EU?

Bart de Wever, the Flemish politician who promises the "evolutionary evaporation" of Belgium, is now the political kingmaker in Brussels. The bureaucrats and politicians of the European Union, who also hang out in Brussels, will therefore have a ringside seat for the dismantling of the Belgian state....
BUSINESS
Jun 24, 2010

China strikes continue to hurt Toyota, Honda

Toyota Motor Corp. said production at one of its main factories in China remained halted Wednesday because of a strike at a supplier, the latest Chinese labor action to hit a Japanese carmaker in recent weeks.
EDITORIALS
Jun 24, 2010

Security treaty 50 years old

Fifty years have passed since the Japan-U.S. security treaty went into force on June 23, 1960. Under this revised treaty, Japan provides military bases to the United States, while the latter is to play an offensive role to defend Japan. Tokyo pursues a defense-only posture, as Article 9 of the Constitution...
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Jun 24, 2010

Home helper Takanori Kato

Takanori Kato, at age 68, is in his first year as a home helper in Tokyo's Chuo Ward. Last December, he graduated from a 4-month nursing course and immediately got a job at a nursing home. Since then, he's been learning the ropes of lifting the spirits of bedridden patients while taking care of their...
BUSINESS
Jun 24, 2010

Lenders plan to up property loans on recovery bet

Lenders, after suffering a decade of bad debts and loan losses after the property bubble burst in 1990, are looking to provide more loans for real estate investments as they bet prices will recover from a 36-year low.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Jun 23, 2010

A veteran plumbs his path to Japanese fluency

On a trans-Pacific flight to Narita several months ago, I struck up a conversation with a passenger who was upbeat about living in Japan. After six months, he told me with a self-satisfied grin, he had "just about got all the hiragana down pat."

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