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Reader Mail
Feb 14, 2008

Overcoming biofuel drawbacks

Regarding the Los Angeles Times article published in The Japan Times on Feb. 7, "Studies say gas emissions raised by biofuel farming": Current discussions remind me of early discussions in Europe about reusable glass bottles and plastic bottles. The logic then was that glass could be reused (good) while...
Japan Times
LIFE
Feb 10, 2008

Eyewitness: Burma from the inside

Burma's Bloody September came home to people in Japan with the slaying of veteran freelance photojournalist Kenji Nagai on Sept. 27, 2007 in Yangon during a mass demonstration. The video clip showing him being gunned down by a Burmese soldier at point-blank range was repeatedly aired, arousing public...
Reader Mail
Feb 10, 2008

More pressing than sports patrol

Regarding the Feb. 3 Associated Press article "Goodell having trouble shedding Spygate controversy": I would like to thank U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (a Pennsylvania Republican) for his interest in keeping the National Football League free of rule-breakers. It's nice to see our elected officials working...
Reader Mail
Feb 10, 2008

Let the Crown Princess breathe

Regarding the Feb. 7 Associated Press article "Crown Princess panned for living high": The Crown Princess's free-time activities make up one of the biggest nonstories I think I've ever read. Going riding and dining at a Mexican restaurant are hardly indulgences that are going to tip the country back...
Reader Mail
Feb 10, 2008

Patriotic love can't be compelled

Regarding the Feb. 5 article "Kanagawa to keep tracking anti-anthem instructors": Any country that attempts to compel anyone, for any reason, to stand and sing a patriotic song should stop and ask itself why it would be necessary to do this.
CULTURE / Books
Feb 10, 2008

Risk-taking 'Cure' for J-Horror

THE FILMS OF KIYOSHI KUROSAWA: Master of Fear, by Jerry White. Berkeley, CA: Stonebridge Press, 2007, $19.95 (paper) Kiyoshi Kurosawa has been an international cult favorite since the release of "Cure," his breakthrough film, in 1997. Telling the strange tale of a blanked-out young man who hypnotizes...
JAPAN
Feb 9, 2008

Japan losing place on world stage, business leaders warn

KYOTO — Kansai's annual gathering of business leaders closed Friday in Kyoto, wrapping up two days of warnings that Japan is losing its place on the world stage due to the country's political situation and because its people have become too inward-looking.
Reader Mail
Feb 7, 2008

Overseas duty has its perks

Kiroku Hanai, as a journalist, should have done a better background check for his Jan. 28 article, "Haves and have-nots in golf." The reason that U.S. military personnel have lower golfing fees at their bases in Japan is simple: They are ordered to serve their country overseas and, as such, receive...
Reader Mail
Feb 7, 2008

Money wasted on road projects

Shimane Prefecture assemblyman Yuzo Sasaki's comments in the Feb. 2 article "Gas levy vital for maintaining rural roads" really struck a nerve. He said "those roads are not unnecessary" and "there are still many roads that need to be built."
Reader Mail
Feb 7, 2008

Sources of mercury-tainted tuna

According to a recent article, Japanese say the best tuna comes from off the coasts of Japan. It is known that Japanese ships are present in the Mediterranean, off the coasts of Sicily, catching many tuna that are flown to Japan daily. The other day, in Italy, information came out that "Sicilian" tuna,...
Reader Mail
Feb 5, 2008

The full story on food safety

Regarding the Feb. 1 front-page article "Poisonings from tainted Chinese 'gyoza' ": Admittedly Tianyang Food and its ilk (along with the Chinese government) have miles to go in terms of ensuring product safety and accepting responsibility once something goes awry. But it takes two to tango, as they...
Reader Mail
Feb 5, 2008

U.S. naval actions provocative

Regarding the Jan. 30 article "Asia's high stake in Persian Gulf Stability": In writing about the Jan. 6 Strait of Hormuz incident, Michael Richardson states that "challenges to the right of unimpeded transit passage by warships . . . are inherently dangerous." While that is true, the fault lies with...
Reader Mail
Feb 5, 2008

View from newsstand on a clear day

Regarding the Jan. 30 Kyodo article "Wrapping comes off Japan's second-tallest condo complex": Don't you think that citing the tallest condo is important? Or was that not mentioned in the press release? The latest quake-resistant technology? Do tell.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Feb 3, 2008

'Pimp' my road — For bureaucrats, it's business as usual

It's that time of year again, when the highways and byways of Japan are suddenly filled with construction crews tearing up asphalt for repair and maintenance work. That's because the annual budgets of the crews' public-sector employers must be used up before the end of the fiscal year in March, regardless...
Reader Mail
Feb 3, 2008

Feeding on the fear of failure

Regarding the Jan. 25 article "Cram school in public junior high gets metro nod": Just like the defunct Nova language-instruction chain, juku organizations are private businesses that specialize in academic instruction primarily for money. If people think that paying more is better and decide to spend...
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 31, 2008

Japan-China relations: Building a creative partnership requires creative approaches

"When Fukuda comes, Fuku ('fortune' in Japanese and Chinese) has arrived!"
Reader Mail
Jan 31, 2008

Waste should figure into tax debate

Regarding the Jan. 24 article "Prefectural lawmakers rally in praise of gas taxes": Why haven't specific numbers been presented in the news covering the gasoline-tax debate? On average, how much money does the government receive from gasoline taxes (including diesel, etc.), road taxes and car inspection...
Reader Mail
Jan 31, 2008

Justice minister's cultural brains

David McNeill's Jan. 27 article, "Justice minister talks in death-penalty riddles," cites a clunky and faulty translation of an interview with Justice Minister Kunio Hatoyama. However one may disagree with Hatoyama's civilization theories, his arguments are clear. According to the interview, as published...
Reader Mail
Jan 31, 2008

Domestic coverage could be better

As a reader for nearly 30 years, I recently switched my subscription from one of the other English-language dailies because I felt The Japan Times' coverage of domestic news was far superior. That said, there is always room for improvement, and I would like to offer two examples. In the Jan. 25 issue,...
Reader Mail
Jan 31, 2008

Fukuda knows what comes first

Brad Glosserman asserts in his Jan. 23 article, "False choices for Tokyo," that "the unblinking focus on domestic politics" under Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's administration is severely hampering the U.S.-Japan alliance. If this seems true to Glosserman, the reason is probably that once again an...
Reader Mail
Jan 31, 2008

Beyond the political profit principle

As a son of a local lawmaker, I was very interested in the Jan. 25 article "Dynasty politics: Birthright, not dynamism." Behind the seshuugiin (hereditary lawmakers), Japan's centuries of feudalism, especially the Edo Period, appear to have led to thinking in terms of shi-nou-kou-shou (warriors,...
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jan 29, 2008

Fukuda girds to stick it out till after Hokkaido summit

Akihiro Ota, head of Komeito, was all smiles when he came out of a two-hour, one-on-one meeting with Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, not necessarily because of the good wine that was served but rather because the prime minister reportedly assured him that there would be no general elections anytime soon....
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jan 29, 2008

Law schools come under friendly fire

With its first crop of graduates just entering the legal profession, Japan's new law school system is in trouble. The schools, most of which opened their doors in 2004, are already struggling with the mismatch between the number of law students, which is unregulated, and the number of people who are...
Reader Mail
Jan 27, 2008

'Cram school' sounds pejorative

Regarding the Jan. 25 article "Cram school in public junior high gets metro nod": The term "cram school" is ethnocentric, possibly even "racist." Private instruction to supplement the public or state school curriculum or to prepare students for entrance examinations has long been a part of the education...
Reader Mail
Jan 27, 2008

A society at ease with itself

David Howell's Jan. 22 article on multiculturalism, "An idea whose time has gone," is a very mixed bag of half-truth and exaggeration. The fact is that immigration into Britain and other wealthy nations was simply a way of guaranteeing a supply of cheap labor.
LIFE
Jan 27, 2008

Citizens routinely denied legal rights

The contrasts between constitutional provisions for crime suspects in Japan and their actual treatment are stark, say critics of the system.
Japan Times
JAPAN / MIXED MATCHES
Jan 26, 2008

Pair mutually strive to broaden their horizon, perspective

Alexander Bright and Akiko Yamada first met at Cambridge University in 1999, when Bright was a graduate student majoring in materials science and Yamada, then a high school teacher, was taking a year off to study education in England.
Reader Mail
Jan 24, 2008

Raising the bar for foreigners

Regarding the Jan. 16 article "Long-term residents may face language test": The government seems to be intent on keeping new foreigners out of this country and making life increasingly harder for those already living here. Only weeks after the law subjecting us to fingerprinting on each re-entry took...
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 Uotsuri island, 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.
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.
Emperor emeritus diagnosed with silent myocardial ischemia
Emperor Emeritus Akihito, 91, rides in a car with Empress Emerita Michiko, 90, after he was discharged from the University of Tokyo Hospital on Saturday following an examination for suspected myocardial ischemia.
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.
SusHi Tech Tokyo 2025 expands to become one of Asia's largest startup events
SusHi Tech Tokyo 2025 was bustling with participants of various nationalities Thursday, and multiple languages could be heard around the room as many engaged in conversations throughout the day.
Celebrating Japan’s defeat at Shimoda’s Black Ship Festival
Tatsumi Onose (right), who plays the part of Commodore Matthew Perry in Shimoda's Black Ship Festival, says the historical episode the event is based on should be remembered for its positives more than its negatives.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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