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COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Jul 13, 2010

A light of hope for abused children: readers' responses

Following are some responses to "A light of hope for abused children" (Zeit Gist, June 15) by Richard Smart.
Reader Mail
Jul 11, 2010

Dropped broadcasts belittle Japan

Regarding the July 6 article "NHK not to broadcast Nagoya sumo meet live due to gambling scandal": This is outrageous! Is there any better way to kill off attention to sumo? Does an "ostrich-with-its-head-in-the-sand" response ring a bell? Give me my sumo! Surely Asashoryu left at the right moment,...
Reader Mail
Jul 11, 2010

Why are sumo fans punished?

Regarding the July 7 article "Nagoya Basho 2010 — a tournament that will live in infamy": It is unfair to overseas fans of sumo for NHK not to televise the Nagoya Basho (except to recap daily highlights). I am an older lady who takes much pleasure in watching each basho on television. It is appropriate...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jul 11, 2010

SMAP bled for rotten tomatoes

Last week, the Asahi Shimbun published an article about the suicide of actor-singer Park Yong Ha. The pieceanalyzed South Korean show business to ascertain why so many stars have killed themselves in recent years, and concluded that their relationships with management agencies grind them down. Park has...
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Jul 10, 2010

Beatles' 'Sgt. Pepper' album cover mystery a piece of Japanese history

Who owns the Sony TV that appears on the cover of the Beatles' famous "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album?
Reader Mail
Jul 8, 2010

Tired response to language study

Regarding the July 3 Kyodo article "Japanese 'critical' in U.S. language scheme": If we in the United States want to start promoting Japanese — or any other language — we should start by encouraging a variety of languages in our public schools. As a teacher credentialed in Japanese, my students always...
COMMENTARY
Jul 6, 2010

'A tall poppy is cut down'; Gillard could bloom awhile

Strange things happen to Australian prime ministers. One (Harold Holt, 1966-67) disappeared while swimming near a Melbourne beach; speculation says he may have been eaten by a shark.
COMMENTARY
Jul 6, 2010

Valiant voice against a war without borders

NEW YORK — Is it not fair to say that the more we love our country, the more we want it to be a better, more honorable country?
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jul 4, 2010

Amami Oshima: Take a trip to the cloud forest of the imagination

Despite the environmental mistakes of the postwar decades, the violation of a once pristine landscape, a recent trip to Amami Oshima, gave very real cause for hope. Some regions have always, it seems, been in good shape. Flying over the island's green, volcanic hills, I felt as if I were gazing down...
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jul 4, 2010

Japanese betray some blinkered views of their foreign coworkers

On June 6, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper ran a feature on Japanese people's attitudes to non-Japanese colleagues at their places of work. The article included the results of a survey that explored those attitudes.
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Jul 3, 2010

Foreigner suffrage, separate surnames stir passions in poll runup

Whether to grant permanent foreign residents voting rights for local-level elections and allow married couples to keep their respective surnames have become contentious issues ahead of the July 11 Upper House election.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 2, 2010

Self-defeating equivocation on democracy

MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin insists that "without normal democratic development, Russia will have no future." We Russians are pleased to hear these enlightened words, yet Putin adds a "but" to his argument that renders his points senseless.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 30, 2010

Eurozone isn't doomed yet

MUNICH — Despite huge rescue packages, interest-rate spreads in Europe refuse to budge. Markets have not yet found their equilibrium, and the governments on Europe's southwestern rim are nervously watching how events unfold. What is going on?
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Jun 27, 2010

Still shy of reversion after all these years

NEW YORK — Just about the time Yukio Hatoyama resigned as Japan's prime minister, apologizing to the Okinawa people in tears, I was writing about the last day of Yukio Mishima's life — Nov. 25, 1970.
Japan Times
LIFE
Jun 27, 2010

Asahiyama's natural touch

Ivan the polar bear has been having relationship problems recently.
COMMENTARY
Jun 25, 2010

Western media play along in the disinformation game

Are they being manipulated by governments? Or, are they just plain lazy, happy to go along with what everyone else is saying and what readers want to believe without wanting to look too closely into relevant background?
Reader Mail
Jun 24, 2010

Pacifism assures U.S. presence

As I am not an American I cannot comment on the greater part of John Knight's June 20 letter, "Be careful about wishing the U.S. away," but as I am ex-U.K./NATO military, I can comment on the latter part.
JAPAN / DECISION 2010
Jun 24, 2010

Parties focus on economy, taxes

With the campaign officially kicking off for the July 11 Upper House election, political parties are weighing in on rebuilding the economy and government finances, hoping their platforms will translate into votes.
EDITORIALS
Jun 24, 2010

Security treaty 50 years old

Fifty years have passed since the Japan-U.S. security treaty went into force on June 23, 1960. Under this revised treaty, Japan provides military bases to the United States, while the latter is to play an offensive role to defend Japan. Tokyo pursues a defense-only posture, as Article 9 of the Constitution...
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Jun 23, 2010

A veteran plumbs his path to Japanese fluency

On a trans-Pacific flight to Narita several months ago, I struck up a conversation with a passenger who was upbeat about living in Japan. After six months, he told me with a self-satisfied grin, he had "just about got all the hiragana down pat."
Japan Times
Events / WHERE IT'S AT
Jun 22, 2010

'Hafu' draws viewers into world of Japanese identity

"Hafu," the Japanese term for people who are half-Japanese, takes on a more intricate meaning through the unfolding of mixed-race Japanese lives in the documentary "Hafu." Those starring in the film and those behind the project identify themselves as a newly emerging community.
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jun 21, 2010

Janus-faced Russia hiding its snarls from the West

Diplomats in many corners of the world are puzzled by what appears to be a fundamental shift in Russia's foreign policies in recent months, from a strategy based on threat and intimidation to one of a low profile seeking friendship, especially with Western countries. Their consensus, however, is that...
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jun 20, 2010

Who pays for sumo?

Sumo wrestlers don't make huge salaries but they can get a lot of yen in other ways.
Reader Mail
Jun 20, 2010

Scant teachings about human 'soul'

When it comes to the Catholic Church, Rowan Hooper evidently writes with a proverbial chip on his shoulder, as in his June 13 Natural Selections column, "Synthetic life zaps 'the soul.' " He forgets that the Catholic Church consists of human beings and that there are as many opinions as there are human...
JAPAN
Jun 18, 2010

DPJ, LDP platforms test tax hike waters

The ruling Democratic Party of Japan and the opposition camp unofficially began campaigning Thursday for the July 11 Upper House election, by releasing their platforms, and both sides seemed to be dancing around a tax hike.
Reader Mail
Jun 17, 2010

Say whether tobacco is toxic or not

In his June 10 letter, Japan Tobacco working to cut risks," the Japan Tobacco Inc. general manager for media and investor relations, Hideyuki Yamamoto, states that a Japan Tobacco representative was misquoted in a recent article as saying that "we don't believe smoking causes cancer."
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jun 15, 2010

Mah-jongg ancient, progressive

Few games may be as addictive as mah-jongg, whose players range from university students to salarymen and tend to go at it all night, often for money.
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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