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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Sep 4, 2009

Musical Renaissance man brings us his world

Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Egberto Gismonti will return to Japan this month.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Sep 4, 2009

Tharros: Sardinian flavors in taberna style

Tokyo's love affair with Italian food and drink shows no sign of abating. In the bad old days — and they weren't that long ago — finding a ristorante that was even half good might entail a trip across town and considerable expense. Now we're spoiled rotten for choice.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 3, 2009

Crime, punishment and the quality of mercy

PRINCETON, N.J. — The recent release of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, convicted of blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, sparked outrage.
Reader Mail
Sep 3, 2009

DPJ policy at odds with capitalism

Regarding the Aug. 31 editorial, "Historic day for Japanese politics": The election of the Democratic Party of Japan is being celebrated by the usual suspects — people who are less interested in how economic value is created than in how to confiscate and control it for the benefit of the poor, the...
EDITORIALS
Sep 3, 2009

An erroneous broadcast

Nippon Television Network Corp. aired a special program at 12:50 a.m., Aug. 24, to examine a grave error in its Nov. 23, 2008, program of "Shinso Hodo Bankisha." The Broadcasting Ethics and Program Improvement Organization, a body made up of NHK and private broadcasting companies, had called on NTV to...
BUSINESS
Sep 3, 2009

Big business plans revolt against DPJ's 25% emissions-reduction goal

The nation's industries plan to jointly pressure the government to be formed by the Democratic Party of Japan to back off from its goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent from 1990 levels by 2020, business sources said Wednesday.
JAPAN
Sep 3, 2009

Rifts surface as DPJ seeks to woo allies

Fresh from Sunday's landslide Lower House election win, the Democratic Party of Japan officially kicked off talks Wednesday with its two small allies to form a coalition government, but the day's talks pointed to a rough road ahead.
JAPAN
Sep 2, 2009

New consumer agency debuts

The government Tuesday inaugurated the Consumer Affairs Agency, a consolidated entity expected to better serve the public by bypassing the sectionalism of bureaucrats, but its new civil servant boss quickly drew fire from the Democratic Party of Japan.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT
Sep 2, 2009

Conservativism: hoshushugisha or hankakumeisha

"Professor Keyes, you're drunk (yopparatta, 酔っ払った)! Ha ha!"
BUSINESS
Sep 2, 2009

AMP Capital may up Japan shareholdings

AMP Capital Investors, a unit of Australia's biggest pension-plan provider, said it may increase its Japanese investments following the Democratic Party of Japan's election win.
EDITORIALS
Sep 2, 2009

DPJ prepares to lead

The Democratic Party of Japan is making preparations for taking over the government as the Diet is expected to choose DPJ leader Yukio Hatoyama as prime minister in the middle of this month. It has to decide on the personnel lineup of the party itself and the new Cabinet, while carrying out talks with...
EDITORIALS
Sep 1, 2009

When cops drink and drive

Aug. 25 marked the third anniversary of a tragic traffic accident in the city of Fukuoka that caught nationwide attention. On that night in 2006, a car driven by a drunken Fukuoka city government worker rear-ended a sports utility vehicle carrying a family of five — a couple and their three children...
Japan Times
Events / WHERE IT'S AT
Sep 1, 2009

Students from around Asia team up at GPAC

Students from across Asia gathered last week to promote friendship and discuss some of the world's pressing issues at the Global Partnership of Asian Colleges 2009 event.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 1, 2009

A dose of common sense for the crisis in capitalism

HONG KONG — The global economic turmoil has sparked international debate over whether we are witnessing the death throes of capitalism or signs that a "new capitalism" needs to be devised. French commentators have gloated over the end of the Anglo-Saxon way of doing business, citing the need for the...
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Sep 1, 2009

A license to drive: Readers take the wheel

Japan resident Dee wrote in our last column that she had lost her U.K. driving license and couldn't get a new one from the British licensing authority because she is no longer living in the country.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2009

Komeito, LDP crash in Kansai

OSAKA — The Kansai region's most prominent members in the Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito lost their seats to younger challengers Sunday, part of the overwhelming national trend in favor of the Democratic Party of Japan and the other opposition parties.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2009

Victor puts on the glitz, with dash of humble

The Democratic Party of Japan victory was large enough to leave a grin even on the face of "iron-armed" deputy leader Ichiro Ozawa.
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2009

Voters, fed up with LDP, say it's time for change

As the Democratic Party of Japan's stunning victory and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's resounding defeat was reported Sunday night, many voters on the streets of Tokyo said they savored their chance to vote for change.

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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