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JAPAN
Jun 15, 2010

Kan urges Diet to unite for fiscal fix, draws fire

Prime Minister Naoto Kan called Monday on the opposition camp to back his plans to launch a joint panel to discuss ways to restore the nation's battered finances, but he also came under fire.
COMMENTARY
Jun 15, 2010

Poor grades for U.K. schools

LONDON — The new British government has declared its intention to do all it can to improve standards of education in Britain. This was also a high priority for the previous Labour administration. As prime minister, Tony Blair used to declare that his mantra was "education, education, education."
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jun 14, 2010

South Koreans show split over what sank their ship

Despite the confident and harsh manner in which President Lee Myung Bak condemned North Korea for attacking and sinking a South Korean naval vessel, his country is deeply split between the conservative anti-Pyongyang forces and the opposition forces favoring promotion of closer ties with the North.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 14, 2010

Wakui rules mound for first-place Lions

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. — Hideaki Wakui isn't perfect.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jun 13, 2010

Hillman enjoying break after departure from Royals

Former Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters and Kansas City Royals manager Trey Hillman will be taking a family break and then moving on after being fired as the K.C. skipper on May 13 after a little more than two years guiding the Royals.
EDITORIALS
Jun 13, 2010

Compensating Siberia internees

Some 600,000 Japanese are believed to have been interned in Siberia, Mongolia and Central Asia and used for forced labor after World War II. Some 60,000 of them are estimated to have died. Of the more than 460,000 who came back to Japan, 70,000 to 80,000 of them are believed to be still alive. Their...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jun 13, 2010

'Superpowers' explained; super-beautiful women ranked; CM of the week: Suntory Black Oolong Tea

The appeal of NHK's half-hour science show "Suiensa" (NHK-E, Tues., 6:55 p.m.) is pretty simple: Cute young women carrying out scientific experiments. The premise is even simpler: Answer an everyday question scientifically.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / Japan Pulse
Jun 12, 2010

Pulse Rate: 'Free rent' pricing aims to fill up empty apartments

To fill the dead spot in the annual real estate calendar, realtors have taken to renting apartments at low, low rates.
JAPAN
Jun 12, 2010

Kamei resigns over postal reform bill

New Prime Minister Naoto Kan's government had its first casualty Friday as financial services minister Shizuka Kamei stepped down in protest because the Diet session won't be extended to act on his controversial pet bill to scale back the postal system privatization.
JAPAN
Jun 12, 2010

Can Kan survive the leadership gauntlet?

Japan has gone through prime ministers at a dizzying rate — Naoto Kan is the sixth in the last four years, and 14th over the past two decades — the highest turnover among the major industrialized countries.
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Jun 12, 2010

Tour execs woo Ieyasu's China fans

The cities of Okazaki, Toyota and Anjo, in the Mikawa region of Aichi Prefecture, are known as the hometown of the Tokugawa clan, which ruled the country for nearly 300 years from 1603 and laid the foundations of modern Japan.
JAPAN
Jun 12, 2010

Child sex in 'manga' — art or obscenity?: Rape, unsafe acts wrong signals

Tsuneo Akaeda, a 66-year-old obstetrician and gynecologist who runs a clinic in Tokyo's Roppongi nightlife district, knows more than most about the sex lives of teenagers, many of whom come to him for abortions or treatment for sexually transmitted diseases.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 12, 2010

Quantitative analysts take on the 'Beautiful Game'

HONG KONG — Sepp Blatter and the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the organizers of the World Cup, had better watch out — the quants have arrived and have put their infamous models to work in predicting the outcome of the World Cup that has just kicked off in South Africa....
JAPAN
Jun 11, 2010

Freelancers OK at Tokyo prosecutor briefings

The Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office opened its news conference to nonpress club members Thursday, following the example of several ministries that have started allowing freelancers into their regular media briefings.
COMMENTARY
Jun 11, 2010

Who to credit for Asia's extraordinary rise?

LOS ANGELES — The extraordinary rise of Asia in recent decades cannot be understood or appreciated without some reference to outstanding leadership. Consider the experience of other regions of the world.
EDITORIALS
Jun 11, 2010

National strength for security

U.S. President Barack Obama has long emphasized the necessity of getting his country's house in order if it is to play the global role that it sees as appropriate. That focus explains his seeming preoccupation with domestic issues. In his mind, domestic reform is the crucial stepping stone to a credible...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 11, 2010

'Modern Life'

Filmmaker Raymond Depardon is a committed man. He traveled to the remote and isolated Haute Garrone region of southwest France for a solid decade, meeting and interviewing an ever-dwindling community of farmers who had chosen to work the land in the way of their ancestors.

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight