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Reader Mail
Jan 23, 2011

Service with a smile sets us apart

Regarding the Jan. 11 Kyodo article "Japanese service winning customers in Europe": I am delighted that Japanese service is rated highly, because there hasn't been much good news recently. I feel that Japan is inferior when it comes to politics, scholastic ability and self-sufficiency, so I'm happy that...
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jan 23, 2011

The countdown: six months and a day till TV goes digital

Quick: what happened in Japan on Sept. 10, 1960? A few people might recall that was the day Japan commenced color TV broadcasting. At the startup, color programs were few in number, but consumers still had four years and one month to buy a color set before the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
COMMENTARY
Jan 23, 2011

Beyond the protests in another 'Arab regime'

SEATTLE — When faced with problems, most authoritarian regimes maintain a policy of rigidity when the appropriate response should be flexibility, political wisdom and concessions. In this way, authoritarian leaders can control their populations to serve the interests of a few individuals and political...
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Jan 23, 2011

Forests worldwide: a primer

For those living in Japan, it's easy to forget that forests are not a given.
Reader Mail
Jan 23, 2011

Safe life for celibate homebodies

Regarding Alex Martin's Jan. 14 article, "Young men, couples shunning sex": Maybe it's the growing intrusion of technology into our lives that encourages a corresponding insularity that partly accounts for the rise of disinterest in sex among teenage boys and young adult men. Yet, the advice that young...
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Jan 22, 2011

Frenchwoman follows pearl of destiny to Japan

A Frenchwoman who was fascinated by the shine of Japanese pearl works has come here all alone to master the skill from an artisan.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 21, 2011

Facebook and dark matter

HONG KONG — News that Goldman Sachs has taken a $450 million stake in Facebook in a deal that puts a $50 billion valuation on the fledgling company raises interesting and somewhat troubling questions beyond the immediate gawping and jaw-dropping headlines that a spotty-faced Harvard dropout aged 26...
COMMENTARY
Jan 21, 2011

China 'reasonably' pre-empting N.Z. justice

HONG KONG — Last October, when the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2010 Nobel Peace prize to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, official Chinese spokesmen waxed indignant. A spokesperson for the Beijing Municipal Higher People's Court, which had sentenced Liu to 11 years in prison on a...
Reader Mail
Jan 20, 2011

Heartwarming news this winter

Regarding the Jan. 14 Kyodo article " Gakkyusha also gets donation fever": Every time I hear of more news related to the "Tiger Mask Phenomenon," I feel that Japanese people are answering some purpose.
Reader Mail
Jan 20, 2011

Offer of time and skills to a child

Regarding the Jan. 12 Kyodo article "More anonymous 'cartoon hero' donors leave gifts for kids in need": I was pleased to hear about local donations to orphanages across Japan. It has long been something that has been behind closed doors and it is good to see an increased awareness of it in the public...
Reader Mail
Jan 20, 2011

No inducement to return islands

Regarding the Jan. 14 Kyodo article "Territory settlement 'impossible' now": This is a very sad situation, especially for those Japanese wishing to return to the place of their birth. If you look at any of the media sites for Russian television, the point of view of the Russian populace is that the "Northern...
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 19, 2011

Hu's momentous U.S. visit

HONG KONG — The pomp and circumstance marking President Hu Jintao's arrival in Washington could define a dangerous moment in relations between the United States and China. Political hype and pressures could easily poison the atmosphere and prevent progress on the proliferation of business, economic...
LIFE / Digital / TECH_JAPAN
Jan 19, 2011

Japanese Web outlook and predictions for 2011

Last year saw many changes for Japanese Internet users as people began to shift from Japanese social networks to international ones, and from regular cellphones to smart phones. The international influence was felt in other web-based areas too. So what can we expect for 2011?
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jan 18, 2011

Up the prosecutor's road

Public Prosecutor General Hiroshi Obayashi was forced to resign after being in office for only six months in the wake of a series of scandals involving the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office's special investigation squad, including the tampering of evidence by one of its prosecutors.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Jan 18, 2011

NPB's 50-homer club unlikely to be expanding ranks

The period between the start of the calendar year and the beginning of camp is often wrought with bold proclamations and lofty goals as ambition helps power players through their final winter preparations.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jan 18, 2011

Russian-held isles: So near, so far

On the morning of Nov. 1, Dmitry Medvedev became the first Russian leader to set foot on one of the four islands off Hokkaido seized by the Soviets at the end of World War II that Japan has long wanted returned.
Reader Mail
Jan 16, 2011

No country for traditional values

The Jan. 11 Kyodo article "In a first, new adults under 1% of population" made me think afresh of my daughter's Adults Day ceremony, still two years away.
Reader Mail
Jan 16, 2011

Japan-China comparison misses

Regarding Roger Pulvers' Jan. 9 article, "Let's hope China doesn't fall into the same traps that Japan once did": I wonder whether Pulvers holds too pessimistic a view of China. True, there seem to be some similarities between China in the early 21st century and Japan in the 1930s, but there is also...
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jan 16, 2011

Almost time for Japan to break out the bubbly for bubble 2.0

Remember the bubble? In case you don't, Shukan Gendai (Dec. 20) reminds us that the economic bubble of the late 1980s was an era of rocketing salaries, stock prices and property values, yet accompanied by little inflation. Wealth was seen everywhere. Catching a cab downtown at night required flashing...
Reader Mail
Jan 16, 2011

Improve teacher training at home

Regarding the Jan. 8 Kyodo article "Language teachers to go to U.S. for exchanges": I was surprised to hear about these people-to-people programs, because I had learned last year that a similar program would be discontinued because of the lack of followup on its effects.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Jan 16, 2011

Tired businesspeople pepped up with quick-fix intravenous drips

A Nagoya salon providing intravenous drips containing various vitamins and other health supplements is attracting many businesspeople as a quick way to get rid of work-induced fatigue.
Reader Mail
Jan 16, 2011

Excluding the best from exchange

Regarding the Jan. 8 Kyodo article "Language teachers to go to U.S. for exchanges": I don't understand the rationale behind most language exchange programs. This latest idea is, again, nothing more than a youth exchange. And this obsession with having young people teach language is absurd.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 14, 2011

Spelling out China's calligraphic influence

At the end of the Edo Period (1603-1868), as Japan began to change its long-held cultural reference point from China to the West, a strong Sinophile interest was maintained by the nation's cultural and political elites. From the late 19th century, however, the cultural reorientation to the West had deleterious...
Reader Mail
Jan 13, 2011

Youths missing vision of future

As an English teacher here for the past 14 years, I was saddened and disturbed — but not surprised — at the contents of Mizuho Aoki's Jan. 6 article, "Japan far behind in global language of business."
Reader Mail
Jan 13, 2011

No easy road to learning English

Regarding Mizuho Aoki's Jan. 6 article, "Japan far behind in global language of business": I am concerned that Japanese people tend to get mired in the delusion that there is a far better way to acquire English skills. Some might remember a childhood when he or she could not improve his or her English...
Reader Mail
Jan 13, 2011

Scare-mongering about China

Regarding Michael Richardson's Jan. 5 article, " China targeting U.S. deterrence": There he goes again — scare-mongering about China by making, in this instance, the unjustified assumption that China wants to control commercial shipping traffic in Asia. China has never indicated any intention of hindering...
Reader Mail
Jan 13, 2011

Aussie fisheries strictly managed

Regarding Hillel Wright's Jan. 9 Timeout article, "Are Japan's fish lovers eating tuna to extinction?": How utterly laughable it is for Hiroyuki Kuroda of Japan's Fisheries Research Agency to say that regulatory agencies believe that stock assessments of southern bluefin tuna (SBT), which are fished...
Reader Mail
Jan 9, 2011

Relative ranking of 'generosity'

Setsuko Kamiya writes in the Jan. 5 article "(JICA president Sadako) Ogata to Japan: Remember, pay it forward" that, in the 1990s, Japan was the world's most generous donor but that, by 2008, Japan was down to No. 5, after the United States, Germany, Britain and France among the 22 member countries of...
Reader Mail
Jan 9, 2011

Cycle of anxiety curbing growth

After reading Minoru Matsutani's Jan. 5 article, "20-year slump spawns anticonsumption generation," I began to worry about the Japanese economy, because I think the downturn in consumption will hurt economic growth. I had not heard of the "anticonsumption generation" until now.
Reader Mail
Jan 9, 2011

Keep religion in its proper place

In his Jan. 5 article, "Lost religious liberty worldwide," writer Doug Bandow states that religious liberty is the "most fundamental freedom" and "the most basic freedom of conscience." He then goes on to present a list of countries associated with horrible religious conflict and persecution.
Transport ministry issues warning to Haneda Airport operator
The operator of Tokyo's Haneda Airport has been warned by the government over its inappropriate transactions.
Xi defiance pays off as Trump meets most China trade demands
Then-Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping visits a school in South Gate, California, in February 2012. Experts say Xi won big in his standoff with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Nissan shares surge as carmaker set to cut 20,000 jobs in huge overhaul
U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs on cars and car parts imported to the U.S. have been painful to most global brands, but crippling in Nissan’s case.
Japan might be playing long game in U.S. tariff talks
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba at the White House earlier this year. Ishiba said Monday that farmers won't be sacrificed for automakers in Japan's tariff negotiations with the U.S.
More details emerge about stabbing near Tokyo University metro station
Yoshitaka Toda, the suspect in Wednesday's knife attack at Todaimae Station on the Tokyo Metro Nanboku Line, leaves a police station in the Japanese capital the same day for a pre-detention medical examination.
Sculpted waves, sleek updos: Showa hairstyles are back in fashion
The larger-than-life hairstyles of Japan's Showa Era are unmistakable — and they're making a comeback.
Consumption tax set to dominate Upper House election debate
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba enters his office in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan should produce its own AI defense solutions, Sakana AI CEO says
Sakana AI CEO David Ha speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Nissan gets ‘wake-up call’ with $4.5 billion annual net loss
Nissan CEO Ivan Espinosa in Tokyo as the company releases its results
Japan set for bigger role in Philippines after SDF’s debut in key drills
Philippine Army Brig. Gen. Michael Logico, who was involved in managing the latest iteration of the Balikatan U.S.-Philippine drills, told The Japan Times that he expects military ties with Japan to surge even further once Tokyo ratifies a key visiting-forces agreement with Manila.

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