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JAPAN
Mar 27, 2010

All interrogations must be taped: Sugaya

Toshikazu Sugaya, convicted of murder in 1993 and freed from prison last June, and others believed wrongfully convicted are calling for full videotaping of police interrogations to help prevent crime suspects from being forced to make false confessions.
JAPAN
Mar 27, 2010

New Komeito cozying up to DPJ?

With budget allocations having cleared the Diet earlier this week, passage of the child allowance bill Friday was a stroll in the park for the Democratic Party of Japan-led coalition.
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Mar 27, 2010

Deck stacked against defendant from the get-go

Had legal professionals over the past two decades followed the basic principles of law and given accused killer Toshikazu Sugaya the benefit of the doubt, he may not have suffered the miscarriage of justice that put him behind bars for more than 17 years, experts say.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Mar 27, 2010

Embracing the bicultural identity

Leslie Lorimer defied definition in Japan from the time she was a young child, when her blond hair, blue eyes and fluent Japanese proved a startling mix.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Mar 27, 2010

Big faces leave big impressions

I recently unearthed vital trivia stating that the average American will consume 35,000 cookies in his/her lifetime.
BUSINESS
Mar 27, 2010

Deflation hits 12th month

Consumer prices fell for a 12th month in February, adding pressure on the central bank to eradicate deflation that is hampering the economic recovery.
JAPAN
Mar 26, 2010

Craftsman turns schoolbags into tiny keepsakes

The "randoseru" rigid backpack is an iconic item for Japanese schoolchildren.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 26, 2010

Nationality is no way to select IMF leader

BERKELEY, Calif. — The International Monetary Fund, many say, has had a good crisis. As recently as three years ago, many observers thought that the Fund had outlived its usefulness and should be closed down. Since then, it has intervened in Hungary, Latvia, Iceland and Ukraine, among other crisis-stricken...
BUSINESS / U.K. JOURNALIST SYMPOSIUM
Mar 26, 2010

Japan seems to have done less than the West to revive economy

Japan does not appear to have explored all policy options available to revive its economy, Anatole Kaletsky, editor-at-large of The Times of London, said as he compared Britain's response to the latest financial crisis and what Japan did after the collapse of its bubble boom in the 1990s.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 26, 2010

'Cassandra's Dream'

Woody Allen has often commented that "making a movie is a great distraction from the real agonies of the world." While he's got a point, some days I wish he'd take up model trains or something else instead. You don't make films just to pass the time (unless you're Andy Warhol); you should be driven by...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 25, 2010

Giants looking to hold off CL teams

The Yomiuri Giants have been the Central League's top team for three years running.
Japan Times
SOCCER / SOCCER SCENE
Mar 25, 2010

Honda breathes life into Japan's World Cup aspirations

When Keisuke Honda arrived at Narita airport late last month for Japan's Asian Cup qualifier against Bahrain, he insisted he was "no savior" for a national team that had seriously lost its way. But with every impressive performance he gives, the 23-year-old is finding it harder to get people to listen....
EDITORIALS
Mar 25, 2010

The seed of secret deals

Japan paid the United States $320 million in costs for the 1972 reversion of Okinawa, according to the government's long-held official position. But on March 12, following an internal probe, Finance Minister Naoto Kan said that he believes the actual amount paid was much greater.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Mar 24, 2010

Another LeGarie power play set to backfire

NEW YORK — A few years ago, when the Cavaliers were head-hunting for a general manager, resulting in Danny Ferry's hiring, agent Warren LeGarie tried to pressure Nuggets owner E. Stanley Kroenke into giving lame duck GM Kiki Vandeweghe a new contract at a sizable salary spike.
More Japanese universities pushing toward teaching in English
Waseda University in Tokyo
The unstoppable rise of konbini tourism
Guests typically follow Ryo Ito’s lead as he weaves through the narrow, colorful aisles of convenience stores.
A narrow Pacific waterway at heart of U.S. plans to choke China’s vast navy
Philippine and Australian troops fire an M777 howitzer during live fire exercises as part of joint military drills in Laur, Nueva Ecija, the Philippines, in August.
The second life of Japan's net cafes
Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Takaichi’s balancing act: Supporting Taiwan and stabilizing China ties
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi shakes hands with Lin Hsin-i, Taiwan’s presidential adviser, on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Saturday in this image posted to Takaichi's official X account.
More Japanese universities pushing toward teaching in English
Waseda University in Tokyo
Young Indonesians in Japan find their political voice
Indonesian students at Hiroshima University hold posters of the 17+8 Demands, demanding transparency and action from their homeland’s government.
The unstoppable rise of konbini tourism
Guests typically follow Ryo Ito’s lead as he weaves through the narrow, colorful aisles of convenience stores.
Kenshi Yonezu, 'Chainsaw Man' and the art of pop ubiquity
Kenshi Yonezu's “Iris Out” was an instant hit when it dropped in September. Its association with smash anime "Chainsaw Man — The Movie: Reze Arc" has spread it to even more people.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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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
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