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JAPAN
Feb 27, 2008

Bangladesh's female workforce powers silent revolution

DHAKA — The women of Bangladesh are a force to be reckoned with.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Feb 27, 2008

Excercise machines stride into the future, Sony reels into the retro past and Thanko's latest product sucks

Give exercise the finger:
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Feb 27, 2008

Even oceans can only take so much

N ow that the wider world has finally recognized the extent to which human activities are altering the Earth's climate, maybe we can also begin to grasp the fact that our oceans, too, are in dire straits.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Feb 26, 2008

Is violence against women a big problem in Japan?

EDITORIALS
Feb 26, 2008

Fidel Castro steps down

Fidel Castro, one of the world's longest tenured leaders, resigned this month. His decision to step down, long anticipated, opens a period of uncertainty for Cuba, but hopes for sweeping change are muted. Mr. Castro's brother Raul was picked to succeed him.
Reader Mail
Feb 26, 2008

Reflecting on 'Sorry Day'

Regarding Alan Goodall's Feb. 18 article, "Australia's historic apology": Goodall's rendition of the mood of the "Sorry Day" apology by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was apt. Although the reply by the opposition leader Brendan Nelson was criticized by some, it provided the balance that many thought was...
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA / STYLE WISE
Feb 26, 2008

Harajuku's "Style Deficit Disorder," model Irina Lazareanu gets wicked and more

Cure for disorder The popular fashion hub Harajuku is the subject of a fascinating new book by Tokyo-based editor and creative consultant Tiffany Godoy. Rich in detail and accompanied by some remarkable images, her book, "Style Deficit Disorder" (Chronicle Books), documents the history of the area from...
EDITORIALS
Feb 25, 2008

Down to one DVD format

Toshiba Corp. has decided to exit the HD DVD business, ending its war with a group led by Sony and Matsushita over the next-generation DVD market. The group has been pushing the Blu-ray format. The decision is a bitter one for Toshiba but will benefit consumers, who no longer need worry about which format...
EDITORIALS
Feb 25, 2008

Right to know takes a hit

The Tokyo High Court has rejected a damages suit filed in 2005 by Mr. Takichi Nishiyama, a former Mainichi Shimbun reporter, who alleged he was illegally indicted over his news gathering on the 1972 reversion of Okinawa to Japan. The crux of the trial was whether Japan and the United States had had a...
COMMENTARY
Feb 24, 2008

Dawning of strategic realism in Cyprus

LONDON — To call Tassos Papadopoulos a dinosaur is a slur on the entire Cretaceous era, but at least the age of the dinosaurs has ended in Cyprus. Running for re-election as president last Sunday, Papadopoulos, the man who almost single-handedly scuttled a peace settlement in Cyprus four years ago,...
Reader Mail
Feb 24, 2008

Punished for the acts of a few

Regarding the Feb. 21 letter "Americans shouldn't be surprised": Seriously, does the writer really believe that Korea wouldn't have teamed up with China, the Philippines and other Far East countries to attack Japan to serve revenge for their perceived abuse by the Japanese in past wars?
CULTURE / Books
Feb 24, 2008

Intrigues above and below the 38th parallel

HIDDEN MOON by James Church. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2007, 293 pp., $23.95 (cloth) THE WANDERING GHOST by Martin Limon. New York: SOHO Press, 2007, 314 pp., $24 (cloth)
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 23, 2008

Back to the 'great game' in Kazakhstan

BRUSSELS — Those who oppose Western rapprochement with Kazakhstan cite the country's lack of political and human rights. But, while Kazakhstan has not gone down the "color revolution" route to democracy that other post-Soviet republics like Ukraine and Georgia have followed, its timidity about reform...
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Feb 23, 2008

Theories vary on why Liverpool is so inconsistent

LONDON — The question has been asked countless times yet no one can come up with a satisfactory answer.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Feb 23, 2008

Japan takes flight

I have been thinking a lot about airlines recently, specifically the naming of them.
JAPAN
Feb 23, 2008

Activists plan Article 9 conference

Dozens of peace activists from around the world will gather in Chiba from May 4 to 6 for an international conference on the Constitution's Article 9, which renounces war, the organizer said Friday in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Feb 23, 2008

Tokyo wants better tabs kept on U.S. forces ranks

The U.S. must report annually on the number of service members, employees and family members living off bases in Japan under new measures announced Friday by the government to curtail crimes by U.S. military-related personnel.
JAPAN
Feb 23, 2008

Horie's appeal starts at Tokyo High Court

The counsel for Livedoor Co. founder Takafumi Horie pleaded not guilty to charges of accounting fraud Friday as Horie's Tokyo High Court appeal trial began.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / HOME COMFORTS
Feb 22, 2008

Pursuing the flavor of the American South

For many North Americans in Japan, a case of gastronomic homesickness can easily be remedied at the nearest burger or pizza joint. But for someone craving the cuisine of the American South, the local Kentucky Fried Chicken will never, ever do.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 22, 2008

'Elizabeth: The Golden Age'

Our challenge this week is thus: Is it possible for a director to make a historical film and not have it wind up either: A) totally boring like "The Sun," Aleksandr Sokurov's film about Emperor Hirohito, or B) completely over-the-top and ludicrous like "300"?
Japan's cutting-edge railgun successfully strikes target vessel
The Defense Ministry’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) conducted a ship-board railgun shooting test from June to early July this year with the support of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
Is America ready for Japanese-style 7-Elevens?
Convenience stores are a fixture of Japanese life and 7-Eleven, a chain that began in the U.S. in 1927, opened its first store in Japan in 1974 — and then became wholly Japanese-owned in 2005 through parent company Seven & I Holdings.
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
People rush to make furusato nozei donations ahead of tighter rules
A booth from the town of Betsukai in Hokkaido at an Amazon Japan furusato nо̄zei promotion event, on Sept. 5 in Tokyo's Minato Ward.
Aging Japan’s centenarian population nears 100,000
Shigeko Kagawa, Japan's oldest person at 114, in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, on July 30
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
Aging Japan’s centenarian population nears 100,000
Shigeko Kagawa, Japan's oldest person at 114, in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, on July 30
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.
Shizuoka farmers fight to preserve sustainable tea method that’s steeped in tradition
As of August 2024, the number of confirmed chagusaba farmers had fallen to 302, just over half the 582 reported in 2015, according to the Shizuoka Chagusaba Farming Method Promotion Council.

Podcast

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

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
By Mai Yoshikawa

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