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Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Dec 19, 2009

Restaurateur's passion is aiding others

Christmas is a time of prayers, dreams and wishes, of children waiting for a gift from their parents and for an appearance by Santa Claus. But about 150 poor children on Smoky Mountain in Manila have a special Santa to wait for.
Reader Mail
Dec 17, 2009

Hard to view Tokyo as a model

In his Nov. 27 article, "Tokyo's urban design role," Jared Braiterman paints a very glowing and cheery picture of the integration of urbanism and nature in Tokyo. While I agree that many Tokyo residents show ingenuity in their use of mostly tiny available spaces for propagation of plants, projects such...
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 15, 2009

Ozawa's pride of place vs. policy

Ichiro Ozawa, secretary general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, is theoretically subordinate to Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who is also the DPJ president. Ozawa has even stated that all policy matters must be decided by the government, not by the party. Yet, in reality, he has established...
Reader Mail
Dec 13, 2009

Swiss vote was not anti-Muslim

In his Dec. 6 article, "The Swiss and Iranian agents of provocation," Gwynne Dyer commits at least two mistakes — sadly so for one claiming to be an expert in international politics: (1) He compares the referendum in which the Swiss people took responsibility to voice their opinion with the actions...
Reader Mail
Dec 13, 2009

Helpful 'ambassador' appreciated

Regarding the Nov. 15 article "Opening a 'window' to Japan": It's refreshing to see that Japan has such helpful personnel as Yuka Tsujimura at the Narita Airport Tourist Information Center. Especially in a recession, when people travel less, it is more important that the first impression be pleasant...
Reader Mail
Dec 13, 2009

Okinawans must challenge Tokyo

Regarding the Dec. 7 article "Okada's inconclusive visit irks Okinawans": It is very clear that Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada and the new Democratic Party of Japan represent more of the same old baloney that Japan has had in power for years, just under a different name. As an American who feels strongly...
Reader Mail
Dec 13, 2009

Food self-sufficiency comes first

I agree with Takamitsu Sawa's remarks in his Dec. 7 article, "Agriculture must be rebuilt ahead of oil's 'noble' limits." Japan's industrialization in the 1960s had a crucial flaw: Mild areas where farmers could cultivate crops year-round were industrialized while farming continued in areas that had...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Dec 11, 2009

(Near) death of a salesman

Amit started downloading music when he was 16 years old in India.
Reader Mail
Dec 10, 2009

Paying the price for an evil war

Regarding the Dec. 7 article "Okada's inconclusive visit irks Okinawans": I am not American and don't much like America, but the Okinawan people are paying the price for an evil war that their country started and they defended. I don't care how they feel and hope the American military bases stay in Okinawa...
Reader Mail
Dec 10, 2009

Okinawans must step up to fight

Regarding the Dec. 6 article "No Kadena switch for Futenma, Okada says": What does Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada mean when he says options (for relocating the U.S. Futenma air station in Okinawa) are running out and that the U.S. side thinks the time for negotiating is over?
Reader Mail
Dec 6, 2009

U.S. doesn't need a higher yuan

In his Dec. 3 article, "Time to get tough on China," Gregory Clark makes a ludicrous argument for the revaluation of the Chinese yuan. If the yuan appreciated, the U.S. dollar would weaken further, completely contradicting Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's claim about the need for a stronger dollar....
Reader Mail
Dec 6, 2009

Immigration buoys the economy

Regarding Hiroaki Sato's Nov. 29 article, "The warring mind-sets on U.S. immigration": Thanks to immigration, the population of the United States continues to grow, and due to the influx of young and not-so-young blood, the economy is more dynamic than stagnant.
COMMENTARY
Dec 6, 2009

Disgusting surfeit of anti-Obama remarks

LOS ANGELES — Some necessary context for President Barack Obama's long-awaited Afghanistan policy speech: Foreign policy performance is anything but the total measure of a president's worth. America's domestic politics, not to mention its elections, are more often than not driven by the forces, and...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Dec 6, 2009

Eco cars go up in smoke

Preadolescent tarento (TV celebrities) tend to provoke my gag reflex. I can only tolerate preternatural cuteness if it's presented without irony or intensification. Ten-year-old Nozomi Ohashi, who's famous for singing the theme song to the animated movie "Ponyo," has, according to her Wikipedia entry,...
EDITORIALS
Dec 6, 2009

Freedom of expression takes a hit

The Supreme Court on Nov. 30 upheld a high court ruling that had found a 62-year-old Buddhist monk "guilty of trespassing" for entering a Tokyo condominium to distribute political fliers for the Japan Communist Party in December 2004. The ruling fined him ¥50,000.
Reader Mail
Dec 6, 2009

What does OECD know about kids?

Regarding the Nov. 19 article "DPJ should rethink kid payouts, OECD says": The Democratic Party of Japan should stick to its guns and ignore the idiotic socialist-style thinking of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. My wife and I are planning a family in Japan and this type of...
SOCCER / J. League
Dec 6, 2009

Koroki-led Antlers capture third straight J. League title

SAITAMA — Shinzo Koroki struck with a 67th-minute diving header to give Kashima Antlers a tension-drenched 1-0 win over Urawa Reds and a record third consecutive J. League title on Saturday.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Dec 4, 2009

Winter tale: Do oseibo have a future?

The tradition of oseibo (winter gifts) undergoes a sea change as younger generations shift their priorities to practicality and sustainability.
Reader Mail
Dec 3, 2009

Resisting immoral leadership

Thank you for running Setsuko Kamiya's Nov. 19 article, "Demons still haunt Christian soldier." The story of Ryozo Watabe is important. I was moved to read his words of personal struggle against what he knew to be immoral, and I am thankful for his desire to share his experiences with others.
Reader Mail
Dec 3, 2009

Papal declaration on euthanasia

In his Nov. 18 article, "Slippery slope of doctor-assisted euthanasia," professor Peter Singer criticizes the Catholic Church's opposition to euthanasia, stressing that neither Pius XII — address to the Congress of the Italian Anesthesiological Society, 1957 — nor the Vatican's Declaration on Euthanasia,...
COMMENTARY
Dec 3, 2009

Time to get tough on China

It's time to start getting tough on Beijing.
Reader Mail
Dec 3, 2009

Stress universality of language

Roger Pulvers' Nov. 29 article, "Though elusive to all, the language of Japan surely merits a break," raises the difficulties faced by foreigners learning Japanese and Japanese learning other languages. This is an old story, and a recent publication by sociolinguist Takao Suzuki (summarized by Pulvers)...
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Dec 3, 2009

Platter of the day: Flash Sushi

LONDON — Nyotaimori — aka "female body arrangement" aka "naked sushi," in which the food is eaten from the nude body of a beautiful woman — is as much legend as fact in Japan (see accompanying article). But that hasn't stopped the Western imagination from seizing upon it as supposed shorthand for...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / JUST BE CAUSE
Dec 1, 2009

A level playing field for immigrants

For the first time in Japan's postwar history, we have a viable opposition party in power — one that might stick around long enough to make some new policies stick. In my last column for 2009, let me suggest how the Democratic Party of Japan could make life easier for Japan's residents, regardless...
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Dec 1, 2009

Scuba, shipping and 'Tachi' base memories

Scuba source In reply to the inquiry about scuba diving (Lifelines, Oct. 6), Matt writes on behalf of Mar Scuba, the oldest foreigner-run dive operation in Tokyo ( www.marscuba.com ).
Reader Mail
Nov 29, 2009

Rule change for master's students

Regarding the Nov. 24 article "Next step toward budget": I would like to bring to your attention another aspect of the new government's "waste-cutting" policy. I represent a group of international students who are discontented with recent measures taken by the Ministry of Education concerning requirements...
Reader Mail
Nov 29, 2009

Futenma has environmental issue

Regarding the Nov. 26 article "Budget may cover part of Futenma accord": I am tired of the United States demanding that Japan stick to a 2006 agreement made between two governments that are no longer in power.
Reader Mail
Nov 29, 2009

Don't pin the fall on globalization

Regarding Ramzy Baroud's Nov. 21 article, "Globalization: a culture killer": I completely disagree with the premise. In my opinion, globalization is the best thing that has happened in global politics and economics for a long time. The development of communications, transportation and information technology...
Reader Mail
Nov 29, 2009

Ban donations to individuals

Regarding the Nov. 25 article "Hatoyama silent on funds probe": This absurd saga of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama's shady political funds is merely another example of why donations to individual politicians should be banned completely. Under the current system there are just too many opportunities for...
Reader Mail
Nov 29, 2009

Nice scientific change of pace

I found Jeff Ogrisseg's "Our growing Earth?" (and related articles) on Nov. 22 particularly interesting as they presented a theory largely discredited by mainstream science — due to the natural bias of the scientific community — despite the fact that the theory explains a number of existing phenomena...
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.
Consumption tax set to dominate Upper House election debate
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba enters his office in Tokyo on Tuesday.
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.
In China’s ‘Michelin Guide,’ Tokyo leads overseas listings with 30 entries
China's Black Pearl Restaurant Guide held its award ceremony overseas for the first time, picking the dining capital of Singapore to promote its brand to an international audience.
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.

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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