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Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / Japan Pulse
Sep 29, 2012

Bagel head trend is a big distortion

Bagel heads as Japanese beauty trend? It's just an ugly distortion.
Reader Mail
Sep 27, 2012

Spare the presumption of doom

The Sept. 24 article from Sentaku magazine, titled "Power industry campaigns to pull the plug on the DPJ," states that "it became apparent that continued stoppage of the Oi reactors would cause serious power shortages in [Mayor Toru Hashimoto's] own city of Osaka." When on earth did this become "apparent"?...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Sep 22, 2012

Evessa GM Nomamoto fired after team's rocky preseason start: sources

Hirotaro Nomamoto, the Osaka Evessa general manager since the team entered the bj-league in 2005, was relieved of his duties on Wednesday, sources familiar with the situation told The Japan Times.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 21, 2012

Game show highlights smartphone offerings

Producing more quality social games will be a key to succeeding in the growing smartphone video game market as devices become more powerful and high-speed networks spread, according to Yoshikazu Tanaka, the president of game site operator Gree Inc.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Sep 20, 2012

To stand out in Super Junior, sometimes a side job helps

Young K-pop fans may just kill for the chance to walk backstage on the set of "M Countdown," a popular cable television music program in South Korea.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 20, 2012

The art of photography

This weekend sees the fourth installment of "Tokyo Photo" — Japan's first international photography fair, and now the biggest event of its kind in Asia. Since its inception in 2009, the fair has cast its net wide, and this year has more than 35 agencies and galleries taking part. Over half of them...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Sep 18, 2012

Shilling for our side over the Senkakus

Akihiro Suzuki does not think war will come, but if it does, he believes Japan will prevail.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Sep 18, 2012

Celebration of Kanemoto's career offers Tigers brief respite

For the next couple of weeks, the prevailing narrative of most Hanshin Tigers games will be the impending retirement of star outfielder Tomoaki Kanemoto.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Sep 16, 2012

Man eats dynamite, fighting intensifies in Shanghai, Tokyo may allow skyscrapers, Michael Jackson in Japan

A correspondent reports from Nagano that the magazine of Shiokawa, a powder-maker in Komoro in that prefecture, was broken into and had 600 sticks of dynamite stolen lately. T
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Sep 14, 2012

Ex-referee says bj-league made wrong call with Yuzuki

Kunio Kurata, the bj-league's director of officials since its establishment in 2005, has quietly retired. That shouldn't come as a big surprise; after all, the Shizuoka Prefecture native will turn 61 on Nov. 27, so he reached the mandatory retirement age early in the 2011-12 season.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Sep 11, 2012

Three steps to judging whether a disciplinary measure is legal

An English teacher writes: "Recently, my company placed me on a three-month suspension from work, until five days before my fixed-period employment contract expires. As I am still employed, I cannot claim unemployment benefits, and this lengthy period makes it almost financially prohibitive to remain...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHO'S WHO
Sep 11, 2012

Hotelier sees disaster bring out best in Japanese

As a veteran of the tourism and hotel industries in Japan for more than two decades, Tony Virili says he will "never forget" what took place at one of his firm's franchise hotels in Sendai on March 11, 2011.
Reader Mail
Sep 9, 2012

Stop panicking over birthrates

Regarding the Sept. 4 front-page article "Population of Tokyo to drop to half by 2100": So much fuss has been made in the news media about the declining birthrate that it would be easy to mistake it for an impending disaster.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 8, 2012

Toray ups output to meet Daimler, Boeing demand

Toray Industries Inc., the world's largest producer of carbon fiber, plans to increase capacity as customers from Daimler to Boeing. boost the use of the lightweight material to make fuel-efficient cars and planes.
Reader Mail
Sep 6, 2012

Japan's history is in the details

In his Aug. 26 letter, "Military brothels go way back," Takashi Nagata treats us to a generalized history lesson: Europeans and others kept "comfort women." ... South Koreans had separate brothels for their soldiers and Americans in the 1970s. ... The film "Sandakan Brothel No. 8" depicts a brothel worker's...
Reader Mail
Sep 6, 2012

Building a musical following

Regarding Ian Martin's Aug. 30 column, pay to play is not a system unique to Japan. Ticket sales, space and equipment rental are a fact of life for musicians everywhere. Of all the performance-level musicians in the world, only a very small percentage make their living with music. And, by and large,...
Reader Mail
Sep 6, 2012

A perspective on GOP thought

Regarding Jennifer Rubin's Washington Post article, "Ten myths about the U.S. Republican agenda," which was printed in The Japan Times on Aug. 31: I'm confused. If the article is supposed to be about "10 myths," how come the author presents 10 facts?
Reader Mail
Sep 6, 2012

Elderly blocking young workers

Regarding the Aug. 31 Bloomberg article "Willing elderly workers helping to defuse pension time bomb": At 66, I'm also one of those elderly workers. While delaying retirement is helping to defuse the pension time bomb, it's adding to other problems.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 6, 2012

JAL reportedly gets all IPO orders

Japan Airlines Co.'s ¥663 billion initial public offering, the largest since Facebook Inc., has drawn orders for all the stock being sold, according to two sources with knowledge of the transaction.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 5, 2012

U.S. candidates can't ignore war in Afghanistan

As Republicans gathered in Tampa on Aug. 27, a 25-year-old Army sergeant serving his third tour in Afghanistan, Christopher J. Birdwell of Windsor, Colorado, was killed in action.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 3, 2012

The heirs of inequality

It has long been known that spurts of rapid economic growth can increase inequality: China and India are the latest examples. But might slow growth and rising inequality — the two most salient characteristics of developed economies nowadays — also be connected?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Sep 2, 2012

Film star Satoshi Tsumabuki moves up to a new stage

Wearing a headband and tracksuit, Satoshi Tsumabuki — the 31-year-old darling of the Japanese entertainment world — was easy to spot among a crowd of actors in a rehearsal studio in downtown Tokyo recently. He was there preparing for "Egg," Hideki Noda's new play, which opens Wednesday at the Tokyo...
LIFE / Food & Drink
Sep 1, 2012

Welcome to ramen land

Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 31, 2012

Tokyo Jazz Festival grabs Ornette Coleman for headlining spot

Note: A week after the publication of this article, Tokyo Jazz Festival organizers announced Ornette Coleman will not come to Japan due to poor health.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 31, 2012

Reverse imports on the rise thanks to strong yen

Japan Inc. has found a new export market: Japan.
Reader Mail
Aug 30, 2012

Old 'small government' refrain

In a Washington Post opinion article that ran Aug. 27 in The Japan Times under the headline "The unlikely chance of shrinking government," Lawrence Summers discusses the debate about the size of government, and how and why the size is unlikely to decrease in the coming years.
COMMENTARY
Aug 29, 2012

Tensions rise in Northeast Asia

Japan and South Korea, allies of the United States since World War II, are supposed to be part of an Asia-Pacific counterbalance to China's growing power and its expansive maritime and island claims in East Asia's seas. Instead, an upwelling of nationalism as the region marked the Aug. 15 anniversary...
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Aug 27, 2012

Shifting views on the role of the Emancipator

Gore Vidal, who died at the end of July, was one writer whose essays I began to read years ago. I then moved on to his novels, though I saw one of his more famous Broadway plays, "The Best Man," only recently for the first time.
Reader Mail
Aug 26, 2012

'Grandmothers' still victimized

Regarding the Aug. 23 article "No evidence sex slaves were taken by military: Hashimoto": I always read The Japan Times in the afternoon, and although I should be used to it, I am always flabbergasted by what politicians dare to say.
Global militaries to study India-Pakistan fighter jet battle
The Indian Air Force's Rafale fighter jets. India and Pakistan aircraft engaged in a dogfight on Wednesday.
Trump says India and Pakistan have agreed to 'immediate ceasefire'
A man stands amid debris on the roof of a damaged house, following Pakistan's military operation against India, in Rehari, Jammu, on Saturday.
Who could become Japan's next prime minister?
Clockwise from top left: Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi, former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi, Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi
Suspect in Tokyo Metro stabbing chose station to highlight ‘educational abuse’
Yoshitaka Toda is escorted out of a police station in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward on Friday to be sent to prosecutors.
Japan stuck at starting line in tariff talks with U.S. as U.K. inks deals
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan’s top tariff negotiator, speaks to the press on Friday. Japan and the United States are still discussing what to negotiate.
Who could become Japan's next prime minister?
Clockwise from top left: Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi, former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi, Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi
With a new Shibuya studio, Apple Music bets big on Japan
Apple Music personalities (from left) Ebro Darden, Kentaro Ochiai, Zane Lowe and Mino came together for a special recording in late April to discuss music and celebrate the newly opened Apple Music studio in Tokyo.
Kazuki Nagasawa's sustainable designs are rooted in tradition
For centuries, artisans have unraveled strands of the fibrous bark of "shuro" trees to create a medley of everyday objects. Designer Kazuki Nagasawa is now transforming the traditional material into ethereal contemporary pieces.
SusHi Tech Tokyo 2025 expands to become one of Asia's largest startup events
SusHi Tech Tokyo 2025 was bustling with participants of various nationalities Thursday, and multiple languages could be heard around the room as many engaged in conversations throughout the day.
Celebrating Japan’s defeat at Shimoda’s Black Ships Festival
Tatsumi Onose (right), who plays the part of Commodore Matthew Perry in Shimoda's Black Ship Festival, says the historical episode the event is based on should be remembered for its positives more than its negatives.

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

Longform

Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan
By Hanako Lowry

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