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Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 6, 2009

New theater keeps it short and sweet

History is being made on the second floor of a new apartment block in Yokohama's waterfront Minato Mirai district where, since February 2008, the Brillia Short Shorts Theater has been Japan's first and only cinema dedicated to films under 25 minutes long. The one-screen venue is now showing this year's...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 6, 2009

'Plastic City'

You can take the boy out of Tokyo but you can't take Tokyo out of the boy. Jo^ Odagiri, currently described by the Japanese media as "the most Tokyo-like of actors" stars in "Plastic City," an ambitious, multicultural project by Nelson Yu Lik-Wai (best known as director Jia Zhang-Ke's cinematographer)...
SOCCER / J. League
Mar 6, 2009

J. League also-rans looking to change gear

The following is the first of a two-part J. League preview for the upcoming season. Team-by-team previews of the nine bottom-ranked teams competing in the first division are listed.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Mar 6, 2009

Dancing to the rhythm of destruction

Listening to echoes of the dead through sound art and experimental dance, the audience at a poignant artistic event on March 10 will experience for themselves something of the infamous Tokyo Fire Bombing of World War II when — at 00:08 on March 10, 1945 — the first waves of U.S. bombers began dumping...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 6, 2009

The explorers' cargo

Before the age of discovery, Europe had been separated for hundreds of years from the Indian Ocean by an impenetrable crescent of territories largely hostile to Christians. The Venetians — always more interested in commerce than proselytizing — controlled whatever trade there was with Asia through...
BUSINESS
Mar 6, 2009

ANA may delay discount carrier

All Nippon Airways Co. may delay the start of a discount carrier it planned to begin as early as this month, as overseas travel demand drops at the fastest rate in more than five years.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Mar 5, 2009

Miyamoto returns to pass on experience

Tsuneyasu Miyamoto's time at Red Bull Salzburg may not have been as successful as he would have liked, but the former national team captain is determined to use the experience to benefit his new Vissel Kobe teammates.
Reader Mail
Mar 5, 2009

Sympathy for victims comes first

This is in response to Franz Pichler's Feb. 26 letter, "No one to blame but the parents" — about the pending deportation of the Calderon family back to the Philippines. Everyone knows that what the parents of a 13-year-old, Japan-born girl did was illegal. However, the mistake wasn't so big that it...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2009

Elementary school English: Ready or not

Poor English skills and coordination with visiting English speakers are just two of the problems worrying elementary school teachers as the government's two-year transition period to inaugurate weekly classes in the language begins next month.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 5, 2009

Relaxed ace Darvish gets to grips with ball

When Yu Darvish was surrounded by hordes of reporters and asked whether his condition was developing favorably, the sole answer he gave them was: "I think so."
BUSINESS
Mar 5, 2009

Honda, Mazda eyeing state loans

Honda Motor Co. may ask to borrow money from the government to lend to U.S. car buyers after suffering a 38 percent plunge in U.S. auto sales in February, the company said Wednesday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 4, 2009

Players devote extra time to WBC preparations

With two days remaining until the start of the World Baseball Classic, Team Japan held a light two-hour workout in the indoor facility of Jingu Gaien in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on Tuesday afternoon. Due to cold weather, the team practiced there instead of holding its workout outside at Jingu Stadium.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT
Mar 4, 2009

Mothers-in-law: Our place or an ubasuteyama?

Wonderful, wonderful! Outside, the world as we know it is on the brink of collapse, but here in my study it is snug and warm; my books surround me, the coffee is hot and fresh . . .
COMMENTARY
Mar 4, 2009

China fuels Sri Lankan war

Sri Lanka, the once self-trumpeted "island of paradise," turned into the island of bloodshed more than a quarter-century ago. But even by its long, gory record, the bloodletting since last year is unprecedented. The United Nations estimates that some 1,200 noncombatants are getting killed each month...
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 4, 2009

Is Mexico disintegrating?

MEXICO CITY — Shortly before America's elections last November, then Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph Biden was widely criticized for predicting that an Obama administration would almost certainly be tested by what he called a "generated" international crisis, in much the way that the...
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Mar 4, 2009

Top technology comes in small packages

Touch and go: Asus virtually created the burgeoning market for netbook computers with its groundbreaking Eee PC lineup. Whether it can give the demand for touch-screen desktop machines the same sort of boost is open for debate. But the Taiwanese maker is giving it a shot with its Eee Top 1602, due out...
BUSINESS
Mar 4, 2009

Honda weathers crisis with Asia motorbike niche

Vanida Paipong, a 33-year-old noodle factory worker in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand, will pay installments of 5,000 baht (about ¥13,600) a month on her 100cc Honda CZ-i motorcycle.
COMMUNITY / Issues / JUST BE CAUSE
Mar 3, 2009

Of toadies, vultures and zombie debates

If there's one thing execrable in the marketplace of ideas, it's "zombie debates" — discussions long dead, exhumed by Dr. Frankensteins posing as serious debaters.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 3, 2009

Vexing slump has Ichiro searching for answers

There is no argument that Ichiro Suzuki will again be the star attraction for the Japanese team in its hunt for consecutive championships in the World Baseball Classic, but right now he isn't even a supporting cast member.
BUSINESS
Mar 3, 2009

MMC said looking to provide Peugeot with electric vehicles

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. plans to supply PSA Peugeot Citroen with electric cars for the French carmaker to sell under its own brand, three sources said.
EDITORIALS
Mar 2, 2009

Growing threat of space debris

The Feb. 10 collision of a defunct Russian military satellite and a commercial American satellite in the skies approximately 800 km above Siberia — one of the most popular altitudes in low Earth orbit — is worrisome for a world that has grown to rely on satellites for everything from communications...
Is America ready for Japanese-style 7-Elevens?
Convenience stores are a fixture of Japanese life and 7-Eleven, a chain that began in the U.S. in 1927, opened its first store in Japan in 1974 — and then became wholly Japanese-owned in 2005 through parent company Seven & I Holdings.
Japan's cutting-edge railgun successfully strikes target vessel
The Defense Ministry’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) conducted a ship-board railgun shooting test from June to early July this year with the support of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
People rush to make furusato nozei donations ahead of tighter rules
A booth from the town of Betsukai in Hokkaido at an Amazon Japan furusato nо̄zei promotion event, on Sept. 5 in Tokyo's Minato Ward.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Strikes on Qatar and Poland shake U.S. sway among friend and foe
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Museum of the Bible in Washington on Sept. 8. Israeli strikes in Qatar and Russian drone incursions into Poland have challenged the U.S. leaders claims of global respect.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.

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