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EDITORIALS
May 7, 2010

Long live the next Kabukiza

Kabukiza Theater in Tokyo's Ginza, the center of the traditional performing art that is on UNESCO's list of intangible cultural heritages, was closed on April 30. It will revive in the spring of 2013 with new buildings. Toward the end of the 16-month long Kabukiza Farewell Performances, which started...
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
May 1, 2010

Hirose still seeking right formula for Albirex

Blessed with talent and depth, this season's Niigata Albirex BB squad has failed to live up to its potential.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Apr 29, 2010

Crash test dummies agree: Legacy is the one!

Subaru's Legacy won top marks in the 2009-2010 New Car Assessment Program but will that translate into higher sales?
SOCCER / SOCCER SCENE
Apr 29, 2010

World Cup squad taking shape ahead of May 10 decision

With national team manager Takeshi Okada set to name his World Cup squad on May 10, Soccer Scene takes a look at the candidates. Names in bold are those predicted to make the final 23-man roster:
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 28, 2010

Durant not backing down in duel with Kobe

NEW YORK — A casual acquaintance e-mailed me a couple days ago to complain about the Eastern Conference playoff mismatches, as if I had something to do with the short supply of competition.
LIFE / Digital / JAPAN TIMES BLOGROLL
Apr 28, 2010

Hikosaemon

New Zealand-born Hikosaemon (who prefers to go by his YouTube moniker) was raised an army brat. His father's overseas postings allowed him to see a bit of the world at an early age, and a two-year stay in Singapore when he was 7 years old helped spark his interest in Asian cultures. After returning to...
EDITORIALS
Apr 27, 2010

More than a popularity contest

Former health, welfare and labor minister Yoichi Masuzoe on Friday launched a new party, Shinto Kaikaku (literally "new party for reform"). In opinions polls, the former Liberal Democratic Party member was most preferred option for prime minister from among a list of politicians. The six-member party...
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Apr 26, 2010

Transforming the judiciary

An epoch-making event in the Japanese judiciary system took place Jan. 27, when, for the first time in Japanese legal history, the prosecution's decision not to indict a suspect was reversed by votes of a panel composed of citizens.
JAPAN
Apr 23, 2010

Ex-Hatoyama fund manager found guilty

The Tokyo District Court on Thursday handed a suspended two-year prison term to a former government-paid secretary to Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama for falsely reporting the sources of political donations made to the prime minister's fundraising body.
JAPAN
Apr 23, 2010

Tokunoshima is a risky gambit

TOKUNOSHIMA, Kagoshima Pref. — When Tokunoshima, an island with about 26,000 residents officially governed by Kagoshima Prefecture but counted as part of the Satsunan Islands that lie closer to Okinawa than Kyushu, first emerged as a candidate host for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, local reaction...
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Apr 21, 2010

New JLPT format: boon for some, bane for most

For students trying to leap the cavernous divide between Level 3 and Level 2 of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) (日本語能力試験), a new test being held for the first time on July 4 breaks the task into two smaller, more manageable hops. Other students, though, might find that progress...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Apr 17, 2010

How I lost my wife to the B-Boys

I suppose it had to happen some day. I am a regular sort of joe and my wife is a honey. I couldn't tie her down forever; I should have known.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Apr 16, 2010

Rowsom's role in Oita's turnaround worthy of honors

Brian Rowsom deserves to be on the short list of candidates for the bj-league's coach of the year honors.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 16, 2010

'Moon'/'An Education'

If hell is other people, as existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre famously put it, then Sam Bell has the best job in the world: He leads a solitary existence on a lunar base, where he's the only human employee in charge of a mostly robotic-controlled installation that mines fusion energy from beneath...
Japan Times
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Apr 11, 2010

Death of Giants coach Kimura shocks NPB

He seemed fine two weeks ago, but, on Wednesday Yomiuri Giants infield and running coach Takuya Kimura died at a hospital in Hiroshima of a brain hemorrhage at the age of 37. He was pronounced dead five days after collapsing on the field at Mazda Zoom Zoom Stadium as he was about to fulfill his pre-game...
CULTURE / Books
Apr 11, 2010

Enduring effects of social class

This is a great collection of essays by sociologists and anthropologists who have convincingly brought class back into our understanding of contemporary Japan. In doing so they expose the myth of the ubiquitous middle class popularized by Ezra Vogel and also reject Chie Nakane's argument that workers'...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Apr 9, 2010

Kings of comedy yuck it up on April Fools

While satire isn't a staple among Japanese humorists, two kings of comedy are leading the way.

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