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Reader Mail
Jan 26, 2013

How does coach avoid arrest?

Since I first heard of the physical abuse perpetrated against students by a basketball coach at Osaka's Sakuranomiya Senior High School, I've been waiting fruitlessly to hear of the coach's arrest on assault charges. I cannot for the life of me understand why this man is not being prosecuted.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Jan 25, 2013

Aichi NPO helps the homeless land work and get off welfare

A program run by a nonprofit organization in Ichinomiya, Aichi Prefecture, to hire homeless people and help them get back on their feet is bearing fruit a year and a half after its inception.
LIFE / Food & Drink / EVERYMAN EATS
Jan 25, 2013

Snacking on squid guts and soybeans

Doritos and Budweiser, canapes and Champagne, jamon and Tempranillo — when it comes to happy hour, everyone has their favorite combination of booze and umami-infused treats.
Reader Mail
Jan 23, 2013

'Flyjin' demonstrated a reality

There is an old rule about judging people by their actions: Don't generalize. Generalizing may allow you to sound funny at first, but on second take, you may appear completely off the mark. Consider Emmanuelle Bodin (subject of the Jan. 16 article "Frenchwoman fired for leaving Japan during 3/11 nuclear...
JAPAN / Politics / DAVOS SPECIAL 2013
Jan 23, 2013

Expert details Japan's 'seemingly' rightward shift

When the Liberal Democratic Party's Shinzo Abe became prime minister in December, some domestic and global media ran editorials labeling his appointment as the sign of Japan's swing to the right.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Jan 22, 2013

Sisters are DIYing it for themselves

When you have a pink hammer, everything looks like a nail.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 21, 2013

Japan's leaders must see the need for sustaining a fiscal Big Bang

With Japan's stock market surging even before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe unveiled his plans for economic stimulus, we would have expected the usual anti-stimulus critics to be silent, at least for a while. But no. Already we hear the usual complaints — more printing of money, more public debt, more...
Reader Mail
Jan 19, 2013

Radiation results beggar belief

The Jan. 10 article "As radiation fears dwindle, so do checkups" has a Dr. Masaharu Tsubokura complaining that Fukushima residents have stopped coming in for additional body scans to gauge their exposure to radiation following the 3/11 nuclear plant disaster.
Reader Mail
Jan 19, 2013

Deport the solo 'fly-jin' of 3/11

Regarding the Jan. 16 article "Frenchwoman fired for leaving Japan during nuclear crisis sues NHK": I know this will upset a lot of foreigners in Japan, but I fully agree with NHK's terminating the employment of Emmanuelle Bodin after she fled Japan during the Fukushima nuclear plant crisis in March...
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Jan 19, 2013

Zen and the cross-cultural art of tree-climbing

In the upstairs meeting room of a camping lodge in Komagane, Nagano Prefecture, two women and about 20 men walked slowly and intently in circles one rainy day last November. At the front of the room, a weathered and wiry Englishman intoned the sort of instructions a yoga aficionado would find familiar....
Reader Mail
Jan 19, 2013

Coach may be just tip of iceberg

Regarding the Jan. 12/13 Kyodo article "Osaka basketball coach tries to justify physical discipline after beaten boy's suicide": Whether the student was struck one time, 10 times or 30 times does not make any difference. People with a mind-set like this teacher's have to be kept away from pupils.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 19, 2013

Rumors rife that Sony may unveil next-generation PS4 this summer

Speculation is growing that Sony Corp. plans to release a new version of its PlayStation game console in early summer following a recent remark by senior official Hiroshi Sakamoto during an interview with Chilean website emol.com.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Jan 19, 2013

Theater's collection of historical documents endangered

The Misonoza theater, long a fixture in Naka Ward, Nagoya, will be closed down at the end of March. Highly regarded as a symbol of the art world in Nagoya, its basement houses the only library for live theater in the Chubu region.
Reader Mail
Jan 17, 2013

Keep Christianity in perspective

Kevin Rafferty's Jan. 7 article, "Christianity vs. secularism," was lambasted by secularist Scott Mintz in his Jan. 13 letter, "Inequality in Christian nations." Now I'll lambaste Rafferty from the other side.
EDITORIALS
Jan 17, 2013

Third-pole parties' policy positions

The so-called third-pole opposition forces gained a slight foothold in the Dec. 16 Lower House election, although the Liberal Democratic Party and its ally Komeito control more than two-thirds of the Lower House seats.
Reader Mail
Jan 17, 2013

Corporal punishment common

The Jan. 11 Kyodo analysis article, "Physical punishment at elite school shows limits of ban," is unfortunately not surprising. I have seen firsthand as well as heard from others how sadly common the practice of corporal punishment is.
EDITORIALS
Jan 16, 2013

Stimulus package alert

The Abe Cabinet on Friday endorsed an emergency economic stimulus package designed to buoy the sagging economy. It is only second in size to the one adopted after the Lehman Brothers shock in the fall of 2008. Government spending will reach ¥10.3 trillion. If spending by local governments and the private...
EDITORIALS
Jan 15, 2013

Stimulus package alert

The Abe Cabinet on Friday endorsed an emergency economic stimulus package designed to buoy the sagging economy. It is only second in size to the one adopted after the Lehman Brothers shock in the fall of 2008. Government spending will reach ¥10.3 trillion. If spending by local governments and the private...
LIFE
Jan 14, 2013

Tour guide exams another example of national licensing frenzy

Colin P.A. Jones wondered if he was alone in laughing out loud at a question about impaired thinking in the national nursing exam ("Stop thinking — the exam is about to start," Zeit Gist, Dec. 18).
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jan 14, 2013

Our menacing infrastructure

"Expressway tunnels as well as other infrastructure throughout Japan are nearing the crisis stage," warns a university professor who is a member of an advisory body for the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
Reader Mail
Jan 13, 2013

Some might find it shallow

In my opinion, Roger Pulvers' Dec. 30 Counterpoint article, "Is juggernaut Japan being driven to destruction (and no one's to blame)?," lacks the power to persuade because it comes off as another stereotyped view of social trends by a foreign journalist.
Reader Mail
Jan 13, 2013

Who will care for the elderly?

Regarding Jun Hongo's Jan. 9 article, "Foreign nurse success story has message for Japan: Open up": Why did Japan bother to invite these poorly paid, overworked and under-appreciated nurses from Indonesia and the Philippines to work here.
Reader Mail
Jan 13, 2013

Another arrest bites the dust

Regarding the Jan. 8/9 AFP article "Cyber harasser's trail of riddles leads cops to memory card on cat collar": So, once again, lazy cops pulled in four "suspects" off the street and extracted bogus "confessions" (related to sending threatening messages) before finding out that the four actually had...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jan 13, 2013

Mascots bear cash for local authorities

In September 2007, after Shinzo Abe had abruptly quit his first stint as prime minister, sales of Shin-chan Manju, a bean-paste-filled bun named after Abe, spiked. The maker of the buns had tried to promote the product over the course of Abe's year as the Liberal Democratic Party leader, changing its...
Reader Mail
Jan 13, 2013

Inequality in Christian nations

Kevin Rafferty's Jan. 7 article, "Christianity vs. secularism," is a disjointed and mostly aimless sermon in disguise. He laments the absence of Christ in Christmas, but unfairly points to holiday festivities in Hong Kong as an example. Why should the Nativity story be taken seriously in a historically...
LIFE
Jan 13, 2013

What Japan needs to do

With its economy spluttering, large parts of its northeastern region still devastated by the effects of the mammoth Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 — and releases of radioactive materials that followed — its population shrinking and aging at unprecedented rates and its citizens despairing of...
JAPAN
Jan 12, 2013

'71 Pentagon paper says Agent Orange was stored on Kadena Air Base

Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA / CHUBU CONNECTION
Jan 12, 2013

Ise donates cypress logs to fix Tohoku shrines

"Hinoki" cypress from Ise Shrine in Mie Prefecture will be used to rebuild Shinto shrines damaged during the deadly March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, whose monster tsunami devastated the Tohoku region.
JAPAN / Politics
Jan 12, 2013

Abe huddle with Nippon Ishin duo just on economy?

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met Friday with Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui and Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto in what the latter two said was purely a discussion of the supplementary budget, economic issues, structural reforms, and the goal to make Tokyo and Osaka the twin engines of Japan's growth.
Tokyo ranked world’s richest city by GDP, with Osaka-Kobe also rated highly
Tokyo has a gross domestic product of $2.55 trillion, just ahead of New York’s $2.49 trillion and Greater Los Angeles’ $1.62 trillion, according to CEOWorld’s global wealth index.
Takaichi stands firm on controversial Taiwan contingency remarks
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a session of the House of Representatives' Budget Committee in parliament in Tokyo on Monday.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Tokyo looks to keep ‘monster parents’ at bay with new protocols
New guidelines are addressing struggles by teachers to deal with the burden of parents who make irrational complaints that go beyond what is considered socially acceptable, often referred to as "monster parents," which is overwhelming their workload.
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.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.
Jenson Button brings end to an illustrious racing career intertwined with Japan
Jenson Button races for Honda during the Singapore Grand Prix in September 2008.
Cleanliness gets competitive at Tokyo’s Spogomi world cup
On Oct. 29, teams from 33 qualifying countries scoured the streets of Shibuya for all manners of trash as part of the Spogomi litter-picking competition.
Jon Homewood: ‘There’s beauty in what we throw away’
After a peripatetic childhood around the world, teacher and artist Jon Homewood ended up coming to Japan in 2012 for a professional opportunity.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.

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