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COMMENTARY / World
May 26, 2011

Japan: the silent IMF partner

Which of the following often used words is wrong — "Japan's the world's third biggest economic power"?
COMMENTARY
May 23, 2011

Health in hand with education

Better education, particularly among mothers, is widely associated with better health. Experiences in several countries have shown the power of education to increase the nutritional levels and the health status of the poor.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
May 23, 2011

Phoenix claim second straight title

The beast of the East proved once again it is the bj-league's best team.
Reader Mail
May 22, 2011

Unforgettable celluloid memories

The Observer book review of Philip French's "I Found It at the Movies" (which ran in The Japan Times on May 8 under the headline "Confessions of a movie maniac") reminded me that I used to watch five movies a week so that I could write reviews for The Film Buff, which was read by the famous San Francisco...
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
May 20, 2011

Osaka-Ryukyu battle highlights semifinals

Final Four weekend brings three teams to Tokyo that were expected to be here and one that joined the mix by a less conventional route.
BUSINESS
May 20, 2011

Takeda Pharmaceutical to buy out Swiss-firm Nycomed for €9.6 billion

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. agreed to buy closely held Nycomed for €9.6 billion (¥1.12 trillion), the largest takeover by a Japanese drugmaker, broadening its reach in emerging markets and adding a remedy for smokers' cough to its portfolio.
Reader Mail
May 19, 2011

Lack of details worsens situation

As a resident of Koto Ward in Tokyo with an infant son, I am very concerned when The Japan Times publishes vague articles about highly radioactive ash being found in Koto Ward ("Radioactive ash found in Tokyo after March 11").
Reader Mail
May 19, 2011

Avoid headlines that state obvious

Could The Japan Times please avoid writing stupid, obvious editorials and headlines like the one May 16, "Volunteer force declines." Of course, the post-Golden Week volunteer force declined in the Tohoku-Pacific disaster area after spiking during Golden Week. Everyone knew this would be a one-week period...
Reader Mail
May 19, 2011

News report not ready for release

Was the May 14 Kyodo article "Radioactive ash found in Tokyo after March 11" meant for normal people, or was it badly translated into English? It is just too vague and uses scandalizing vocabulary: "A sewage plant in eastern Tokyo detected a highly radioactive substance in incinerator ash shortly after...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / IN THE RECORD
May 19, 2011

Eccy

Coming off the release of his "Flavor of Vice" EP on Slye Records last month, Eccy gives The Japan Times a peek into his record bag.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
May 17, 2011

Print is suffering, but English readers have never had it so good

Returning to Osaka after several years, James wonders what became of Kansai Time Out, the magazine that served the English-speaking community in that region and beyond:
COMMENTARY / World
May 16, 2011

Drawing lessons from Japan's nuclear disaster

In 1945 the catastrophe was inflicted by the enemy. In what remains to date the most horrendous attack on human beings, more than 300,000 people were killed in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and many more went on to suffer because of radioactivity-related ailments. But today Japan's catastrophe is self-inflicted....
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
May 16, 2011

Nakata finally paying off for Fighters brass

The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters got next to nothing out of Sho Nakata for the better part of two seasons after selecting the heralded high school power hitter in the 2007 draft.
COMMENTARY / World
May 16, 2011

Bin Laden bled U.S. of a cool trillion

Osama bin Laden must be laughing from his watery grave. In announcing a new policy of "bleeding America to the point of bankruptcy," he mockingly declared in a 2004 video that "It is easy for us to provoke and bait. ... All that we have to do is to send two mujaheddin ... to raise a raise a piece of...
Reader Mail
May 15, 2011

Political 'gains' cost the country

Regarding the May 11 Kyodo article "Opposition rejects Kan's recovery efforts": It seems that the opposition parties are seeking political gains from the disaster caused by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. They completely forget that they are the ones that created the framework for the current energy...
CULTURE / Books
May 15, 2011

Natsume Soseki: mining a literary treasure

THEORY OF LITERATURE AND OTHER CRITICAL WRITINGS, by Natsume Soseki. Columbia University Press, 2009, 287 pp., $50 (hardcover) Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) is said to rank among the world's great 20th-century writers. Many consider him Japan's greatest modern novelist. His books, from the comic "I Am a...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 13, 2011

"Photographs of Children and War"

Bringing together a collection of photographs from an impressive lineup of Japanese and international individualistic photographers, this exhibition portrays how images of children during times of war have been used to provoke reaction and emotion in viewers. The range of documentation styles also offers...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 13, 2011

Aronofsky's footwork faultless in 'Black Swan'

We liked Darren Aronofsky when he was the scrappy young filmmaker from Brooklyn (via Harvard) who financed his debut, "Pi," in 1998 with $100-loans from friends and relatives, and relied on promotion that consisted of tagging Tokyo's streets with the film's logo.
Reader Mail
May 12, 2011

What goes around comes around

Regarding the May 8 editorial "Trusting imports from Japan": In the fall of 2003, Japan banned all imports of North American beef based on a single case of BSE (mad cow disease) found in a herd of cattle in Washington state.
Reader Mail
May 12, 2011

Obama trapped by his rhetoric

As the father of a surviving victim of 9/11, I felt relief at the news that the mass murderer Osama bin Laden is dead. Yet, I am not unsympathetic with the view of The Japan Times' May 5 editorial, "Death of bin Laden," and Jayna Tokie Tanaka's May 8 letter, "Bin Laden's execution disappoints," both...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 12, 2011

A tale of two cities: Art Fair Kyoto challenges Tokyo

After the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake and tsunami, the art scene in Tokyo was struck by cancellations, postponements and confusion as it attempted to make sense of the disaster and worked on ways to contribute to the reconstruction of the Tohoku region of Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 11, 2011

Message from chief of S. Korea relief team

The Japan Times received this letter from Lee Dong Sung, chief commander of the Korea International Disaster Relief Team of the National Emergency Management Agency of South Korea, who led one of the first international relief teams to enter the devastated areas in northeastern Japan following the March...
JAPAN / ANALYSIS
May 11, 2011

Hamaoka impact will be far-flung

The decision by Chubu Electric Power Co. to shut down the Hamaoka nuclear power plant in Shizuoka Prefecture is testament to the long-lasting and far-reaching impact of the March 11 megaquake.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
May 10, 2011

Japan Tourism Agency Commissioner Hiroshi Mizohata

Hiroshi Mizohata, 50, is the Commissioner of the Japan Tourism Agency. A native of Kyoto and a graduate of the University of Tokyo, Mizohata entered the ranks of the prestigious kanryō, the career bureaucrats who control Japan's top-tier government offices. He worked in various ministries in Tokyo and...
Reader Mail
May 8, 2011

The Thai-Cambodian border

With reference to the April 27 editorial, "A temple tests ASEAN": I wish to provide Japan Times' readers with facts about the recent situation at the Thai-Cambodian border, which was started by unprovoked armed attacks on April 22 by Cambodian troops on Thai soldiers and civilians.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
May 8, 2011

Checking the time on the Doomsday Clock

In 1902, an American science writer named Robert Kennedy Duncan wrote a magazine piece titled "Radio-Activity: A New Property of Matter." Its subject is French physicist Henri Becquerel's discovery, in 1896, of the rays that now bear his name. Duncan's tone is so radiant with hope, so luminous with the...
Reader Mail
May 8, 2011

Anti-nuclear medical experts

I am very disappointed in the May 3 front-page Kyodo article "U.S. doctors hit Tokyo radiation limit for kids."
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
May 8, 2011

Abdul-Rauf plans to keep playing, imparting wisdom

Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf understands what it takes to win consistently, and drastic changes, he insists, are not a recipe for success.
Reader Mail
May 5, 2011

Abomination by any other name

The May 1 front-page photo of the annual "Baby-cry sumo" event at Tokyo's Sensoji Temple is what I had been fearing to see since the new year started: culturally sanctioned child-abuse splashed on the front page like a celebration.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
May 5, 2011

Verbal wants to hit the reset button on pop

In the middle of her recent Japan tour, pop superstar Kylie Minogue surprised her fans by announcing a new song on YouTube. The song, written by Japanese rapper and producer Verbal, is called "We Are One" and is the pair's effort to try to raise donations for Unicef following the March 11 earthquake...
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

Podcast

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

Longform

Japan's growing ranks of centenarians are redefining what it means to live in a super-aging society.
What comes after 100?
By Tomoko Otake

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