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COMMUNITY
Nov 8, 2011

More diversity in workforce touted as recipe for success

To achieve success both domestically and internationally, Japanese companies need to develop a strategic mind-set that allows employees from various backgrounds — regardless of gender, nationality or age — to build their skills and confidence and apply them to their jobs, according to speakers at...
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Nov 8, 2011

Birthdays, debuts and memorials, all in the name of fashion

Cavalli makes first trip to Japan
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 7, 2011

Reconstruction and healing must precede entry into TPP

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is strategically significant for U.S. re-engagement with East Asia and is a concrete response to the perception of U.S. decline in the region in light of Chinese economic power and regional ambition.
COMMENTARY
Nov 7, 2011

Asian leader receives coveted American award

They honored the controversial, though increasingly appreciated, Asian statesman Lee Kuan Yew at the historic Ford Theater in Washington recently, and I wish I had been there.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 7, 2011

Wrong timing by the Euro-skeptics

For Britain's Euro-skeptics, the current eurozone crisis has an air of inevitability and opportunity. The crisis validates their view of the single currency as a straitjacket forcing disparate economies into an unworkable union.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 7, 2011

Crime in America: execution of the mentally ill

Christopher Johnson's execution by the State of Alabama creates serious doubts about the justice of a measure that is widely criticized by human rights advocates throughout the world. According to the group Equal Justice Initiative, the Alabama Supreme Court planned the execution without even engaging...
BUSINESS / THE VIEW FROM EUROPE
Nov 7, 2011

A U.S. of Euro Land may be what's needed but unity is in short supply

Japan launched major yen-selling intervention on Oct. 31 in response to massive speculative yen-buying — the first such action since August. The ever-rising yen is threatening Japan's export industry and can easily derail the eagerly awaited economic recovery from the March 11 shock. However, it remains...
Reader Mail
Nov 6, 2011

Invest in factories, not bases

In his Oct. 30 letter, "" Scott Kenny warns of the economic harm that could result from the closure of U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Nov 6, 2011

Witnessing ways to make Japan's wasted woodlands pay

Ialways found it hard to think of single-species conifer plantations as real forests, but over the 32 years I have lived in the Shinshu area of northern Nagano Prefecture, that feeling has become even stronger.
EDITORIALS
Nov 6, 2011

Mr. Noda's damage control exercise

After three months in power, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has to wade through resistance not only from the opposition forces but also from within his own Democratic Party of Japan. Now that the Diet has passed the third supplementary budget for fiscal 2011 and related bills for reconstruction from the...
Reader Mail
Nov 6, 2011

Danger from other cyclists

In this Nov. 3 letter, "Culture shift to make cycling safer," Grant Piper seems to say that he would fear cars were he to ride his bike in the street instead of on the sidewalk.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 6, 2011

Matsunaka remains a potent weapon for Hawks

A lot of baseball fans, particularly Fukuoka Softbank Hawks supporters, can probably recall how good Nobuhiko Matsunaka was during his prime in the early 2000s.
EDITORIALS
Nov 5, 2011

Problem with restart of reactor

Kyushu Electric Power Co. on Tuesday restarted the No. 4 reactor at its Genkai nuclear power plant in Saga Prefecture, which had been shut down since it developed trouble Oct. 4. Due to the nature of the trouble, it was not legally required to get prior approval for the restart from the town of Genkai...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 5, 2011

DeNA buys BayStars, awaits nod to add its name to team's

Mobile social gaming company DeNA Co. announced Friday it has purchased the cash-strapped Yokohama BayStars baseball club.
LIFE / Style & Design / Japan Pulse
Nov 4, 2011

DesignTide Tokyo 2011

DesignTide Tokyo 2011
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BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Nov 4, 2011

Akita's Gardener proving a formidable force once again

With identical 5-1 records, the upstart Akita Northern Happinets and expansion Chiba Jets square off four times over the next two weekends. It will be a strong early season test for both squads.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 4, 2011

Get a sample of Japanese arts

The Japanese arts of noh and kabuki are popular with tourists from all over, and Kamigata Traditional Entertainment Night was created to make productions easier to comprehend with its all-English program of traditional theater.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 4, 2011

Strengthening ties with Brazil via film

Brazilian films enchant in a way Hollywood or other Asian movies cannot, according to the organizers of this year's Festival Cinema Brazil.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 4, 2011

"Asami Kiyokawa: Bijo Saishu"

Most people only think of drawing, painting and photography as the media for 2-D art works. Asami Kiyokawa, however, has chosen something different to enhance her work: embroidery.
Reader Mail
Nov 3, 2011

Nonsense from a poison pen

As much as I admire Debito Arudou for his efforts to point out flaws in the Japanese society and politics, he let himself get carried away this time.
Reader Mail
Nov 3, 2011

Culture shift to make cycling safer

Regarding the Oct. 26 article "Reckless cyclists face crackdown," I don't see that stricter enforcement of existing bicycle safety laws, or levying fines, or even banning bicycles from sidewalks altogether necessarily effectively address the problem of accidents involving cyclists and pedestrians.

Longform

Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell