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CULTURE / Stage
Oct 23, 2013

Tears shed for puppets in the City of Love

Japanese photographer/artist Hiroshi Sugimoto is inescapable in Paris just now, with posters all over the Metro for his "Accelerated Buddha" exhibition at the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent and "Sugimoto Bunraku: Sonezaki Shinju" ("The Love Suicides at Sonezaki") at the Théâtre de la Ville...
Reader Mail
Oct 23, 2013

Impact on Taiwan's sovereignty

Regarding Frank Ching's Oct. 21 article, "Taiwan opposition leery of China trade accord": This is sheer propaganda. Ching doesn't seem to have the foggiest idea of the negative impact that the Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) has had, and will have, on Taiwan's sovereignty. Data to date...
Reader Mail
Oct 23, 2013

Perpetual threat to our survival

Regarding Robert Spalding Oct. 9 article, "Nuclear arms also serve as instruments of peace": Spalding's argument that the possession of nuclear weapons actually helps to maintain peace among states may convince some people, but what he seems to miss is that such deterrence works only in an interstate...
Reader Mail
Oct 23, 2013

Creating a future with foreigners

Regarding the Oct. 21 editorial "Firms hiring more foreign students": It really is auspicious that Japanese companies are hiring more foreign students, particularly from Asian countries including our neighboring countries South Korea and China.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Oct 23, 2013

Versatile Bozeman making impact for Toshiba Brave Thunders

For sure, there are countless basketball players who can compete at multiple positions. But it's hard to find someone that's as exceptionally versatile as Cedric Bozeman, who basically plays all positions but center.
Japan Times
TENNIS / MATCH POINT
Oct 23, 2013

Laver considers Federer best player ever

Australian tennis legend Rod Laver was a special guest at the recent Shanghai Rolex Masters tournament. Making his first trip to China, the only man to win the Grand Slam — which he did twice — spoke to a select group of reporters during the event.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 23, 2013

Balloon to offer luxury, $75,000 ride to edge of space

There's a new player in the bustling world of "commercial space," although the "space" part is a matter of definition.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Oct 22, 2013

Russia eyeing NSA-like surveillance

Less than three months after granting asylum to National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden, Russia is preparing to implement the kind of electronic surveillance that Snowden uncovered in the U.S.
EDITORIALS
Oct 22, 2013

Turn Japanese-Korean ties around

The chilly state of diplomatic relations between Japan and South Korea threatens to harm security cooperation among the two countries and the United States.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 22, 2013

Far from declining, America is on the rise again

In the 1970s and late '80s, expectations of America's waning power were followed by periods of geopolitical resurgence. There's every reason to believe that cycle is recurring today.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 22, 2013

Brain drain taking toll on India, China

Disillusionment with India's seemingly ineradicable corruption and inefficiency has resulted in a brain drain abroad. A similar quest for more congenial climes affects China's privileged classes.
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2013

No. 1 water woes laid to Tepco's ineptitude

Two and a half years after the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant experienced its three reactor-core meltdowns, the effort to clean up what remains of the complex is turning into another kind of disaster.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Oct 21, 2013

With ban on lead in hunters' bullets, California hopes to protect condors

By 1982, the number of California condors in the wild had dwindled to 22, an entire species nearly wiped out by, among other threats, lead poisoning from hunters' ammunition.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 21, 2013

Nuclear arms wake-up call

Nuclear policymaking in Asia, as elsewhere, is trapped in the Cold War mindset in which too much reliance is placed on the utility of nuclear deterrence and not enough on the risks.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 21, 2013

For the GOP to survive, the tea party must die

Tea party supporters think they are fighting for America's Republican soul. If they win, they will drive the party so far from the middle that a GOP president will become unimaginable.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 21, 2013

America's reckless financial policy

The U.S. pattern of decision making (or nondecision making) on debt deadlines has already created additional risk and will surely be reflected in upward pressure on interest rates.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 21, 2013

China has its own political gridlock to worry about

The U.S. and Chinese governments share a significant problem: how to align their political systems to enable the vital structural economic changes their countries desperately need.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Oct 21, 2013

Mercury still threat, Abe assurances or not

Earlier this month, delegates from over 130 nations gathered in Kumamoto to launch the Minamata Convention on Mercury. The U.N.-brokered treaty aims to limit mercury use and emissions. It comes at a time when the U.N. Environmental Program warns half of all global anthropogenic mercury emissions come...
WORLD / Politics
Oct 21, 2013

How much did the shutdown cost? Billions

Shutdowns aren't cheap. This year's closure, which ended Thursday, has probably cost the government and the economy billions of dollars, according to economists and policy analysts.

Longform

Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes