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Reader Mail
Jun 18, 2009

Dark side of buying a Mumbai flat

Regarding Caroline Boin's June 14 article "Neither charity nor bulldozers prevent slums": The root cause of corruption in Mumbai is land and housing. Titles to land are often not clear, and builders sell flats to hardworking middle-class people who have dreamed of owning one in the city. Later, when...
Reader Mail
Jun 18, 2009

Temps feel lost and powerless

Regarding the June 9 article "Akihabara marks year since attack": I wonder, how much did the temporary employment status of Tomohiro Kato (the man charged with running down pedestrians and fatally stabbing passersby on June 8, 2008) contribute to his feelings of hopelessness and his desire to gain recognition...
/ Sarah Furuya Coaching
Jun 18, 2009

Ship inspections could be a recipe for conflict

KUALA LUMPUR — In response to North Korea's latest nuclear weapons test, the U.N. Security Council has passed a resolution (1874) that expands and tightens the sanctions specified in its earlier resolution (1718), passed in response to North Korea's first nuclear test in 2006. But it goes a step further...
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Jun 16, 2009

Bug-killers, jet lag and rent down payments

Tackling jet lag Newly arrived in Tokyo, Neil is going to have to fly often in his new job, and wonders how best to handle jet lag. He knows about cutting down on food and alcohol, drinking a lot of water and exercising, but wonders if there is any magic trick.
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jun 16, 2009

Ozawa's residual influence

Even after being forced to resign as Democratic Party of Japan president because of a scandal involving his secretary, Ichiro Ozawa appears to exert strong influence over his successor, Yukio Hatoyama.
Reader Mail
Jun 14, 2009

Rule of anger is no substitute

Regarding Frank Ching's June 5 article, "Suspect in stabbing death a national hero": The fact that a country's legal system is not perfect is by no means an excuse to replace rule of law with rule of anger. Personally, I have great sympathy for the waitress Miss Deng Yujiao and much antipathy for the...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / ONE-ON-ONE WITH ...
Jun 14, 2009

Pierce looking to build on successful first season with Lakestars

The Japan Times will be featuring periodic interviews with individuals in the bj-league — Japan's first professional basketball circuit — which wrapped up its fourth season in May. Head coach Bob Pierce of the Shiga Lakestars is the subject of this week's profile. Pierce guided the team to a 19-33...
Reader Mail
Jun 14, 2009

Fallout from 'terrorist' label

Regarding Gregory Clark's June 11 article, "Sri Lanka and Tiananmen: Time to accept the truth": Thank you for trying to bring out the truth about these conflicts.
Reader Mail
Jun 11, 2009

Killings overshadow Polish vote

In his May 17 article, "1989: A year of hopes turned sour that we all must live with today," Roger Pulvers states that the massacre in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, was one of the most significant turn of events in the second half of the 20th century. Nineteen years later, the democratic world granted...
Reader Mail
Jun 11, 2009

Background of a couple's tragedy

Regarding the June 4 "Couple leap to death in Britain with dead kid": This terrible story was given wide coverage by the British tabloids, and I don't think the (Kyodo) article that appeared in The Japan Times did it justice. Kazumi Puttick met her British husband, Neil, when they were undergraduates...
Reader Mail
Jun 11, 2009

Deal rationally with North Korea

Regarding Ralph Cossa's June 4 article, "The path with North Korea": Like U.S. Defense Minister Robert Gates, Cossa wants to turn back the clock. They and the world must face the fact that North Korea is a nuclear power.
COMMENTARY
Jun 11, 2009

Sri Lanka and Tiananmen: Time to accept the truth

It used to be said the first casualty of war is the truth. But today we do not even need wars to see truth destroyed. Even domestic conflicts in distant countries can do the job, with a flood of black information and news distortions produced, some causing enormous harm. The distorted interpretation...
JAPAN
Jun 9, 2009

Akihabara split on whether to reopen pedestrian strip

A year after a man went on a murderous vehicle and stabbing rampage in Tokyo's Akihabara district, business owners and local residents still traumatized by the attack are split over whether to again close off one of the area's main streets to cars on Sundays and holidays.
Reader Mail
Jun 7, 2009

The capital punishment debate

I support the death penalty and there is nothing awry with Justice Minister Eisuke Mori's plea (in the May 22 article, "Mori to public: Don't shy from death penalty") that civilian lay judges not turn away from death as a sentencing option.
Reader Mail
Jun 7, 2009

Build poor countries with trade

David Howell's May 28 article, "West resembles Mr. Jellyby," would have to be one of the most perceptive articles on (foreign aid) that I have seen to date. Quite apart from recycling the old saying "charity begins at home," it correctly points out that the continuing pouring of that commodity into struggling...
Reader Mail
Jun 7, 2009

The way to attract foreign tourists

Regarding the May 30 article "Tourism looks for a boost": My wife and I have a long association with Japan, having hosted home-stay students and teachers in our home for many years. Our son has attended high school and university in Japan, but we had never been there. In 2008 we decided that our time...
Reader Mail
Jun 7, 2009

Improve the immigration laws

Regarding the May 29 article "Immigration bills threaten rights of foreigners": With many foreigners gravely concerned about proposed changes to immigration laws in Japan, it sounds as if an opportune moment has presented itself for the Japanese people and foreign residents to converse openly and frankly...
Reader Mail
Jun 7, 2009

Unreasonably light sentence

Regarding the June 4 AP article "Ozeki Kaio says harsh treatment is integral": I am an avid fan of sumo and have been watching the televised bashos for almost 10 years now, five of them while in Japan. I have great liking and respect for sumo veteran Kaio, basically because of the way he conducts himself...
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 5, 2009

Geithner's 'G-2' invitation

HONG KONG — Some Chinese see U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, who was in Beijing this week, as a repentant debtor humbly visiting his bank manager. Influential Americans, however, see the visit as the start of a beautiful friendship, perhaps even a tipping point in global finance — the overture...
Reader Mail
Jun 4, 2009

Attendance not used for grading

Regarding the May 30 article "University to use iPhones on truants": College students in Japan cannot be "truant" because college is not part of compulsory education. This is also the case for high school. Furthermore, the institution in question, Aoyama Gakuin University, is private, making the term...
Reader Mail
Jun 4, 2009

Careful whom you call 'Chinese'

Regarding Gregory Clark's May 27 article "Cross-strait gap narrows": Clark's knowledge of Taiwan is sadly out of date. Moreover, he appears to accept unquestionably what he was told in Beijing. Contrary to his assertion that "the Taiwan people are Chinese, think Chinese, and speak Chinese just like any...
Reader Mail
Jun 4, 2009

Typically apprehensive actress

Regarding Edan Corkill's May 29 article, "Looking for love, and an English teacher": Wow. Thanks for informing us about another bad television series (five-part NHK drama about a couple who work together at the Tokyo office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees) that, thanks to its Saturday night...
COMMUNITY / Issues / JUST BE CAUSE
Jun 2, 2009

The issue that dares not speak its name

A few columns ago ("Toadies, Vultures, and Zombie Debates," March 3), I discussed how foreign apologists resuscitate dead-end discussions on racial discrimination. Promoting cultural relativity for their own ends, they peddle bigoted and obsolescent ideologies now impossible to justify in their societies...
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 2, 2009

The impossible idealist of Seoul

HONOLULU — The death of Roh Moo Hyun, the 16th president of the Republic of Korea (2003-2008), is a huge shock to South Korea's political world. A human rights lawyer with no college degree, Roh campaigned to revolutionize Korean politics and society by promoting clean politics, fighting corruption...
Reader Mail
May 31, 2009

Motivations that drive people

In his May 20 article, "France's economy shines," William Pfaff argues for the "centralized, interventionist" French model of the capitalist economy. The neo-Gaullist Nicolas Sarkozy's France has produced better results than the so-called Anglo-Saxon model, he says.
Reader Mail
May 31, 2009

Necessary evil in dangerous times

The May 15 AP article "Britain overzealous in terrorism arrests" was critical of the fact that Britons of South Asian descent are more likely to be detained in antiterrorism raids than any other ethnic groups. I agree that this is unfortunate and discriminatory, but it is nevertheless necessary.
Reader Mail
May 31, 2009

A notion that feeds hypocrisy

Regarding Paul de Vries' May 26 article, "Expat life in Japan: the good, the bad and the meaningful": It's rather interesting that de Vries, instead of realizing the errors of his ways, continues to defend his ideal of "group accountability."
Reader Mail
May 31, 2009

Hold the mantra on uniqueness

In " 'Manga': heart of pop culture" (May 26), manga critic Haruyuki Nakano is quoted as saying that "the established styles of drawing — the use of lines — to express a character's movements and emotions have become so engrained in Japanese readers that it is not easy for foreigners to 'crack the...
Reader Mail
May 31, 2009

Revised Japan strategy suggested

I am a 37-year-old Caucasian male who has lived in Japan for four years. My attitude with regard to posturing "standout" assimilators would be accepted as the norm in my native Australia. I would say to Paul de Vries that if he came to Japan more to learn than to preach, then he should stop doing exactly...
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
May 31, 2009

Japan's wartime sentiment toward China

NEW YORK — What were the Japanese saying when their country plunged into a war in 1937 that would last eight years and end in utter defeat?
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.
Ishiba vows Japan will stand its ground, demanding U.S. lift auto tariffs
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks during a Lower House committee meeting on Friday.
U.S. and China agree to lower tariffs in 90-day cooling-off period
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent attend a news conference after trade talks with China, in Geneva on Monday.
'Treasure hunt': Tourists boost sales at Japan's Don Quijote stores
The entrance to discount retailer Don Quijote's store in Tokyo's Shibuya district, known as Don Don Donki outside the country
High school student arrested over deaths of his grandparents
A high school student was arrested Saturday on suspicion of killing his grandparents at their home in Tahara, Aichi Prefecture.
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.
Escalation fears rise in Japan following Chinese moves near Senkakus
A Japan Coast Guard vessel sails in front of the Uotsuri islet, one of the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands. Concerns are growing in Tokyo after a Chinese government helicopter violated Japan's airspace around the uninhabited islets.

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