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Reader Mail
Jun 28, 2009

Whaling subsidies are not wasted

Regarding the June 20 Kyodo article "WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) raps use of taxes for whaling": About 1 million minke whales in the oceans consume about 400 million tons of fish per year, while mankind consumes about 90 million tons of fish per year, according to Kanagawa Prefecture. With consumption...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jun 28, 2009

International community signs on to help keep Bobby V. in Chiba

You heard where those dedicated fans of the Chiba Lotte Marines gathered more than 110,000 signatures on a petition opposed to the team's dropping of American manager Bobby Valentine at the end of the 2009 season. The document was delivered to the team's front office earlier this month for presentation...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 28, 2009

Itoi, Nioka ignite Nippon Ham

CHIBA — Yoshio Itoi and Tomohiro Nioka both played for Kinki University but never together on the same team.
EDITORIALS
Jun 27, 2009

Japan Post faces the music

Internal Affairs and Communications Minister Tsutomu Sato has approved the retention of Mr. Yoshifumi Nishikawa as president of Japan Post Holding Co. And now, with Prime Minister Taro Aso's endorsement of Mr. Sato's decision, the political turmoil over whether Mr. Nishikawa should remain in his position...

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