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Reader Mail
Apr 3, 2008

Domesticate effort to save dolphins

Regarding the March 30 article "Secret film will show slaughter to the world": I applaud the recent heroic actions of the Oceanic Preservation Society, among other groups, in their efforts to prevent the pointless slaughter of dolphins and whales -- by certain parties -- in Japan. However, the thing...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Apr 1, 2008

'Half-alien' group foresees disaster, Japan UFO landing

In December, Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura caused quite a stir with his bold statement that "UFOs definitely exist." In subsequent clarifications, the government claimed that there have been no confirmed sightings, but if a UFO was to appear, "fighter jets would be scrambled to attempt...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 1, 2008

'Extinct' bird on ¥10,000 note makes dramatic reappearance

It looks like an oversize, long-necked chicken with a piercingly loud squawk and impressive yellow-gold tail plumage.
COMMUNITY / Issues / JUST BE CAUSE
Apr 1, 2008

Public forums, spinning wheels

A friend sent me a Yomiuri article (Feb. 10) about a neighborhood forum in Kanazawa. Its title: "Citizens consider how to live together with foreigners."
JAPAN
Apr 1, 2008

Cost at pump to drop until April-end vote

Gasoline prices are set to fall by ¥25 per liter after the ruling bloc and opposition camp failed to agree Monday on extending provisional extra levies on gas and other auto-related taxes.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Mar 31, 2008

Oxymoronic sustenance and sustainability

NEW YORK — Earlier this month there was held, in a midtown hotel, an International Conference on Climate Change. Yet another one? you might ask. But, no, this one was to make the case that Al Gore, with his argument in "An Inconvenient Truth" is a fraud, a swindler. One of the conferees' premises was...
Reader Mail
Mar 30, 2008

'Better services' claim rings hollow

Regarding the March 27 front-page article "Report urges closer watch on foreigners": It seems that neither the reporter nor the government panel involved in the story is aware of how the foreigner registration system currently works.
Reader Mail
Mar 30, 2008

Paths of Japan, China, India differ

Regarding Kazuo Ogoura's March 28 article, "Bringing in China and India": The circumstances under which China and India are emerging as global powers are totally different from what Japan faced before and after World War II.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Mar 30, 2008

Flying in the face of common sense in building new airports

Several weeks ago while walking through Tokyo's Ueno Station a friend and I passed a poster advertising the new Ibaraki airport. After we boarded our train, we started talking about the poster. Neither of us were aware that Ibaraki had an airport and we wondered why the prefecture needed one.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Mar 29, 2008

Welcome to Milkland

There is something Bovinian in the air. I am in Hokkaido and I can see farms all around, but no animals. As a matter of fact, you'd think all these farmers were farming snow, because that is all you can see — deep, deep snow behind the fences.
EDITORIALS
Mar 27, 2008

Seeding the nuclear renaissance

The world is on the brink of a second nuclear renaissance. Prodded by rising oil prices and concerns about global warming, nations are reconsidering the nuclear energy option and finding it attractive. A significant increase in the number of nuclear reactors worldwide, however, also increases the risk...
Reader Mail
Mar 27, 2008

Unilateral bias hurts Japan

Professor Teruhiko Mano begins his March 24 article, "Chinese frozen food and frigid bilateral relations," by stating that he sees problems with the responses from both the Chinese and the Japanese sides in the poisoned-gyoza case. However, it turns out that Mano one-sidedly slams the Chinese side for...
Reader Mail
Mar 27, 2008

A look back at the Elizabethan Era

I wholeheartedly sympathize with Erin Aubry Kaplan's righteous response in his March 23 article, "American black anger and the pulpit," just as I wholeheartedly sympathize with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright for his forthright remarks on the subject, and as I similarly sympathize with U.S. Democratic presidential...
Reader Mail
Mar 27, 2008

Smiling faces at trial troubling

Regarding the March 20 article "Akita woman who killed daughter, boy gets life term": I was surprised that 3,000 people turned up for the 26 seats available at the trial of the accused, Suzuka Hatakeyama. She was accused of murdering her daughter, and later a young boy from her neighborhood, and was...
COMMENTARY
Mar 26, 2008

Why this foreigner supports Obama

WATERLOO, Canada — Barack Obama's speech on race and politics on March 18 came from and spoke to the heart. It was brutally, searingly honest. Nothing he said or could have said will appease the detractors and the naysayers. But their sniping and carping will diminish them and betray their smallness...
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Mar 26, 2008

Can three experts all be wrong on looming disaster?

If you ask British scientist James Lovelock about the future of humanity, be prepared for a shock.
COMMENTARY
Mar 24, 2008

Japan peers into the abyss

HONOLULU — It is an item of faith for many Japanese — and many Japan watchers — that their country will never build or acquire nuclear weapons. Japan's nonnuclear status, a product of both the searing experience of August 1945 and a calculation of the strategic value of nuclear weapons, has been...
Reader Mail
Mar 23, 2008

Video of murder suspect too late

I was completely underwhelmed by the March 19 article " 'Wanted' video to go up on Web site," which stated that the Japanese police have just posted a video on their Web site relating to the suspect in the murder of 22-year-old Briton Lindsay Ann Hawker -- a whole year after the murder.
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Mar 23, 2008

Columbia's Matsui aims to be a leader

Just days after his junior season concluded, K.J. Matsui has already set big targets for his final college basketball season at Columbia University.
COMMENTARY
Mar 21, 2008

Tibet and Olympic Games

Events in Tibet have turned ugly. Once again we see the harm caused by Beijing's heavy-handed bureaucracy, and its panicky, untrained soldiers used for crowd control. But even when combined with all of Beijing's other alleged sins — Darfur, pollution, human rights and other issues — does Tibet justify...
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 21, 2008

Deterrence fails in a prison with no key

PRINCETON, New Jersey — Every day in the Gaza Strip, strategic deterrence — the inhibition of attack by fear of punishment from superior military power — is being put to the test. The escalating spiral of violence by Israel and Gazan militants indicates not only that deterrence is failing, but...
Reader Mail
Mar 20, 2008

Syndrome of victimhood

I couldn't help but laugh as I read the March 16 article on "Metabolic Syndrome" by Tomoko Otake. "Metabo" has been getting a lot of undue attention in Japan these days without people really understanding what it is. Maybe it's just me, but at one time we had a different name for people who carried...
Reader Mail
Mar 20, 2008

Few details in American's death

Even though I don't know all the facts pertaining to the case described in the March 13 article "Death of American in bar fight likely to draw leniency," I hope it is treated fairly. When I read that the individual responsible for the death of another may receive a lighter penalty, it made me question...
JAPAN
Mar 20, 2008

Fukui's term ends on sour note

What would have been a cheerful sayonara news conference Wednesday evening for departing BOJ Gov. Toshihiko Fukui instead turned into an uncomfortable interrogation as he was peppered with questions about the Diet's failure to endorse his successor.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Mar 18, 2008

Hey grandma, thanks for all your genmai grub

'Shoku wa inochi! (Food is life itself)' was one of my grandmother's maxims, which when I was growing up, I was never able to fathom.
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Mar 17, 2008

Ozawa's troops are restless

Political insiders have begun suspecting that Ichiro Ozawa may be losing his grip on the Democratic Party of Japan after a head-on collision between the DPJ and the governing coalition was averted during 11th-hour mediation by the Lower House speaker and the Upper House president.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 16, 2008

Dancing with bears in Putin's shadow

Perhaps more than any other capital in the world, Beijing has closely observed the changing of the guard in the Kremlin. There are many reasons for Beijing's concerns: Russia's revival as a major power, its petro-politics approach to foreign relations, its management of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization...
Reader Mail
Mar 16, 2008

A Japan that can say 'no' to Ishihara

Regarding the March 9 article "Shinginko loan defaults hit 28.5 billion": There's more than a hint of irony in the name of the failed bank, the creation of which Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara virtually forced Tokyo taxpayers to cough up for.
Global militaries to study India-Pakistan fighter jet battle
The Indian Air Force's Rafale fighter jets. India and Pakistan aircraft engaged in a dogfight on Wednesday.
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.
'Treasure hunt': Tourists boost sales at Japan's Don Quijote stores
The entrance to the discount retailer Don Quijote in Tokyo’s Shibuya district, known as Don Don Donki outside the country
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.
As prices soar, Zen-Noh ships just 32% of government-stockpiled rice
A customer walks past a display of rice, with a sign apologizing to shoppers they must be limited to one bag each due to market conditions, at a branch of Japanese discount retailer Don Quijote in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on April 21.
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.
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.
Kazuki Nagasawa's sustainable designs are rooted in tradition
For centuries, artisans have unraveled strands of the fibrous bark of "shuro" trees to create a medley of everyday objects. Designer Kazuki Nagasawa is now transforming the traditional material into ethereal contemporary pieces.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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What comes after 100?
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