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JAPAN / Media
Jan 17, 2010

Some detect a racist theme in 'Avatar'

PHILADELPHIA — Near the end of the hit film "Avatar," the villain snarls at the hero, "How does it feel to betray your own race?" Both men are white — although the hero is inhabiting a blue-skinned, 2.75-meter-tall, long-tailed alien.
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Jan 17, 2010

Guilty by ballot, Japan-U.S. security treaty signed, gang war feared

75 YEARS AGO
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Jan 17, 2010

Dangling around with the stars

There is a type of reporting known as burasagari shuzai in Japanese. Literally, it means "hanging reporting," or "dangling reporting," and there can be no better illustration of why it is given this name than the keyed-up backstage zone at "Kohaku Uta Gassen" ("Red and White Song Battle"), NHK's annual...
JAPAN
Jan 16, 2010

Ex-Ozawa secretary spills beans

Tension ratcheted up a few notches at Democratic Party of Japan headquarters this week when prosecutors raided DPJ Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa's office in connection with a shady Tokyo land purchase by the kingpin's fund management body.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Jan 16, 2010

Unlimited resources keep Man City in hunt

LONDON — The balance of power in Manchester is changing.
EDITORIALS
Jan 16, 2010

Port-au-Prince in ruins

Between 45,000 and 50,000 people are feared dead and 3 million people may have been injured or lost their homes, the International Federation of the Red Cross reports, from a powerful earthquake and aftershocks that hit the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 15, 2010

'Kondo wa Aisaika'

Japanese film marriages are as diverse as the real things, ranging from the uncommunicative couple of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's "Tokyo Sonata" (2008) to the doting pair of the "Tsuri Baka Nisshi" ("Dairy of a Fishing Fool") series (1988-2009), though the easy-going wife of the fishing-mad salaryman hero has...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jan 15, 2010

Order-buffet dinner in Odaiba

Chinese restaurant Ro-Lan at the Hotel Grand Pacific Le Daiba in Tokyo is holding an order-buffet dinner through Feb. 28.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jan 15, 2010

Dexpistols and Diplo

Over the last few years a new genre has come to dominate dance floors across the globe that combines house music and electro with mash-ups and hip-hop, and on Dec. 22 a global ambassador for the sound, Diplo, will join local DJ duo Dexpistols at Womb. Promoting the party are Dexpistols, who will be celebrating...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 15, 2010

East, West split by the lens

When the Leica was introduced in 1925, a new era in photography began. The compact camera, by being much lighter and more versatile than previous models, gave photographers unprecedented freedom in choosing the subject, angle and moment for their snaps.
COMMENTARY
Jan 14, 2010

Good intentions, bad results

A cycle in which intended results become reversed has overtaken Britain's political, government and social scene.
LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Jan 13, 2010

Kindle upgrades, but DX e-reader is just the start of a boom

E-inking a deal: Ghosts of U.S. TV makers past would find it amusing. Sony produced the world's first e-ink device for reading books, some six years ago. While Sony is still in the e-ink reader game, U.S. giant Amazon now leads the global market. Amazon is set to land a second blow against Sony in the...
JAPAN
Jan 12, 2010

Bankruptcy won't scare U.S. riders

DALLAS (Bloomberg) A Japan Airlines Corp. bankruptcy probably won't diminish demand from U.S. passengers, who have grown accustomed to flying on carriers operating under court supervision.
COMMENTARY
Jan 12, 2010

Push begins to clear electric-car obstacles

SINGAPORE — Does 2010 mark the start of a new era in road transport as electricity increasingly takes over from petrol and diesel engines as the source of power for vehicles?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHO'S WHO
Jan 12, 2010

Italian culture rep probes parallels

Umberto Donati, the 65-year-old director of the Italian Institute of Culture, is a force of nature when it comes to seizing every opportunity to introduce his country's paintings, books, art exhibitions and language courses to Japanese.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jan 12, 2010

Wannabe comics find their voices in Tokyo

"Everyone likes a laugh now and then, right?"

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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