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JAPAN
Jan 30, 2010

Hatoyama sets agenda in Diet

Drawing on Gandhi quotes for inspiration, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama called on his colleagues Friday to make 2010 "a new start for Japan" in his first administrative policy speech at the ordinary Diet session.
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2010

Okada offers 'proactive leadership' plug

Japan needs to take "proactive leadership" on global issues like nuclear nonproliferation and climate change and play a larger role in United Nations peacekeeping missions, Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada said Friday.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Jan 29, 2010

Golden Kings confident despite losing Newton

The Ryukyu Golden Kings' championship aspirations took a major hit last weekend when Jeff Newton sustained a dislocated left shoulder in Saturday's game against the Kyoto Hannaryz.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 29, 2010

Creativity flourishes in 'No Man's Land'

Known for its quaint cafes and high-end high rises, the upscale neighborhood of Hiroo is home to many of Tokyo's local and ex-pat illuminati, as well as to several foreign embassies. The area is pristine, even by Tokyo standards, and it is this refined backdrop that makes arriving at the French embassy...
JAPAN
Jan 28, 2010

Victim of Akihabara rampage reaches out to defendant

Until June 8, 2008, Hiroshi Yuasa led an ordinary life, one of thousands of taxi drivers who work Tokyo's streets. But just after noon on that rainy Sunday, as shoppers thronged the streets of Akihabara, he witnessed an event that changed everything.
Reader Mail
Jan 28, 2010

Americans won't sweat changes

Regarding the Jan. 25 article reprinted from Sentaku magazine, "Japan could pay big price for hurting American pride": As an American living in the United States, I could not disagree more with the assumption made in the article that American pride would be hurt by changes in the defense agreement or...
COMMENTARY
Jan 28, 2010

It's better to help arm Taiwan than defend it

The Obama administration is preparing a new arms package for Taiwan. Ironically, selling weapons to Taipei may be the best way for Washington to get out from the middle of one of the world's potentially most volatile relationships, between China and Taiwan. Relations between China and Taiwan are improving....
BUSINESS
Jan 28, 2010

Camera sales lift Canon's profit

Canon's fourth-quarter net profit soared more than fivefold from a year earlier, as global stimulus measures helped drive demand for new cameras.
BUSINESS
Jan 28, 2010

S&P rating cut further pressures Hatoyama to rein in spending

The cut to Japan's debt rating outlook by Standard & Poor's escalated pressure on Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama to rein in spending and consider raising taxes to reduce the nation's borrowing.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 27, 2010

Rescuing Yemen from the grip of extremism

LONDON — Yemen has suddenly joined Afghanistan and Pakistan as a risk to global security. Indeed, it is increasingly seen as a nascent failed state and potential replacement host for al-Qaida.
JAPAN
Jan 27, 2010

Suit fails but tobacco risks noted

A five-year legal battle against Japan Tobacco by two former smokers and a widow has ended with damages demands thrown out, but a court for the first time clearly acknowledged the health risks of cigarettes.
LIFE / Digital
Jan 27, 2010

Japan's techies strive to bridge culture gap

In November, more than 100 people met in Yokohama for a daylong "unconference" on technology and the Internet. Attendees addressed each other on topics of their choosing — the roster of speakers determined solely by whoever signed up fastest for time slots on a whiteboard.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Jan 26, 2010

Late-night frolics mar Asa's 25th yusho

Asashoryu Akinori, to call him by his full Japanese name, remains as divisive as ever in the world of Japanese sumo.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 26, 2010

Google walkout will expand the possibilities

NEW YORK — Usually, disclosure statements go at the end of an article, but let me start with mine. I sit on the board of Yandex, a Russian Internet search company with a roughly 60 percent market share in Russia, compared to Google's 20 percent or so.
BASEBALL / SPORTS SCOPE
Jan 26, 2010

Buffaloes take big gamble by giving up on veteran slugger Tuffy Rhodes

The Orix Buffaloes' decision to reel in So Taguchi instead of working things out with Tuffy Rhodes will either go down as cheap or shrewd.
COMMENTARY
Jan 26, 2010

Fault lines in the Sino-Indian frontier dispute

"Quand la chine s'reveillera, le monde tremblera" (When China wakes, the world will tremble), Napoleon said while in exile at St. Helena.
EDITORIALS
Jan 26, 2010

Religious sites on public land

The Supreme Court's grand bench on Jan. 20 ruled that the city government of Sunagawa in Hokkaido has violated the Constitution through its longtime practice of letting a Shinto shrine use a city-owned plot of land without charge. The top court's precedent-setting ruling should serve as a warning to...
BUSINESS
Jan 26, 2010

Public debt to hit ¥973 trillion

The national debt will probably swell to ¥973 trillion by the end of fiscal 2010, according to the Finance Ministry.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Jan 25, 2010

What if Clarke had embarked on an economic odyssey?

The movie "2001: A Space Odyssey," Arthur C. Clarke's epoch-making science fiction masterpiece, was first published in 1968. Its sequel "2010: Odyssey Two" came out in 1982. To put "2010" more precisely in its place, it was actually the first sequel among three. The ultimate resolution, if such it may...
Reader Mail
Jan 24, 2010

Japan needs foreign wakeup call

Regarding the Jan. 16 article by Lakhdar Brahimi and Desmond Tutu, "Hope and peril for Sudan": The situation in Sudan reminds me of the political and economic situation in Japan. First, our political leaders have neither a strategic vision nor immediate ideas for making Japan a competitive and thriving...

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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