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COMMENTARY / World
Jan 7, 2014

Time to relegate 'moral laws' to history's dustbin

Nothing lasts forever — especially in the U.S. with its 50 percent divorce rate — and it's clear that same-sex marriage will eventually be the law of the land.
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JAPAN / GENERATIONAL CHANGE
Jan 5, 2014

Rebuilding hope, one stitch at a time

Most of the 19 women from the tsunami-hit city of Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, who work for Tamako Mitarai's knitwear company had no professional experience as knitters.
Reader Mail
Nov 23, 2013

A profoundly tense, sad time for Americans

Because I've been getting The Japan Times since they added it to the New York Times International edition, I was able to read Mark Schreiber's Nov. 17 piece, "The day JFK died." It was a great summary, extremely nostalgic, if that is a good word (painful is closer). I was 12 (in 6th grade) when that...
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BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 11, 2013

Dow reshuffles ranks for first time since '04

Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Visa Inc. and Nike Inc. will be added to the Dow Jones Industrial Average, replacing Bank of America Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co. and Alcoa Inc. in the biggest reshuffling since April 2004.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 3, 2013

China's population time bomb

China's one-child policy, implemented to prevent overpopulation and raise living standards, will likely negatively impact China's future economic growth.
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CULTURE / Books
Aug 24, 2013

Deft campus romance between aloof professor and one-time mentor

Professor Elizabeth Stone, the heroine of Grace McCleen's incandescent second novel, is a classic campus contradiction: both quite brilliant and utterly clueless. Despite having a lauded book on Milton and a stack of learned articles to her name, her fellow human beings — indeed, her own self — remain...
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 15, 2013

Time running out for South Korean POWs still in North

Sixty years ago this month, a 21-year-old South Korean soldier named Lee Jae-won wrote a letter to his mother. He was somewhere in the middle of the peninsula, he wrote, and bullets were coming down like "raindrops." He said he was scared.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 24, 2013

Rowhani victory buys time for Iran

Hassan Rowhani's presidential election win has exposed a rift among Iran's democratic forces, yet has bought Tehran time on the nuclear issue.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 2, 2013

Severe sports training methods became taibatsu in time

The martial arts were the inspiration for the famous baseball team at the First Higher School of Tokyo, a late 19th century powerhouse that helped make yakyu, as baseball came to be known, the national sport of Japan.
Reader Mail
May 30, 2013

The power of ideas over time

In his May 23 letter, "Watching what the church does," Barry Ward cannot refute Jennifer Kim's comments (May 16 letter, "Catholic link to human rights"), which show the debt owed by modern human rights conventions to Judeo-Christian teaching. So, instead, Ward fumes over historical wrongs committed by...
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WEEK 3
Apr 21, 2013

Closing time for an old-style watchmaker winding up his career

As cotton-thick snow falls on St. Catherine Street in the heart of the province of Quebec's largest city, Iwao Tsumura works away in his dingy second-floor shop.
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LIFE / Travel
Apr 14, 2013

The Oki Islands: where time seems to have stood still

Before he left Japan after several years spent in Hiroshima, the multi-award-winning English novelist David Mitchell advised me: "If you only make one trip while you are here, make sure it's to the Oki Islands." They were, he assured me (in not quite so many words), little patches of ye olde Nihon as...
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BASKETBALL
Mar 24, 2013

Shimane reaches 30 victories for first time in franchise history

Shimane Susanoo Magic coach Zeljko Pavlicevic's club reached the 30-win plateau for the first time in franchise history on Saturday, beating the visiting Toyama Grouses 90-78.
BASEBALL / MLB / MAN ABOUT SPORTS
Mar 13, 2013

Collins reflects on time with Buffaloes

Terry Collins' second year as skipper of the New York Mets promises to go a lot smoother than his soph season at the helm of the Orix Buffaloes back in 2008.
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LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Feb 18, 2013

Can-can dancers, tea-time snacks and katakana confusion

In last month's column, I looked at the origins of several famous Japanese product brands. Thinking back, perhaps the very first brand I noticed here was a confectioner named 文明堂 (Bunmeido). The company, a 老舗 (shinise, well-established shop), was founded in Nagasaki in 1900, taking its name...
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BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Dec 30, 2012

Time for 2013 resolutions for bj-league

It's time to look ahead to 2013 as each of the bj-league's 21 teams search for ways to improve.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 26, 2012

A time to reflect on pressing economic challenges

Sir John Templeton was a legend in his own lifetime who made billions of dollars from the sensible and wise way he invested money. In these difficult times it is apposite to quote Rule No. 12 of Templeton's legendary golden rules for investment success: "Begin with a prayer," he advised.
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 14, 2012

Fed links actions to economic markers for first time

The Federal Reserve will take steps to bolster the economy until the jobless rate falls to 6.5 percent or inflation looks likely to exceed 2.5 percent, the central bank said Wednesday in a historic move that for the first time specifies the Fed's goals for the economy.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Dec 12, 2012

Knicks may live up to hype this time

There's an old question you hear around the NBA sometimes. It goes like this: What's the definition of a dynasty?
COMMUNITY / How-tos / HOME TRUTHS
Dec 4, 2012

Japan's part-time landlords are overestimating single-tenant needs

In an effort to cut costs, electronics maker Sharp has announced that it is transferring its struggling liquid crystal display business from factories in Kameyama, Mie Prefecture, to factories in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture. In 2004, the Kameyama facility started making large LCD screens for TVs and more...
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COMMUNITY / How-tos / HOME TRUTHS
Dec 4, 2012

Japan's part-time landowners are overestimating single-tenant needs

In an effort to cut costs, electronics maker Sharp has announced that it is transferring its struggling liquid crystal display business from factories in Kameyama, Mie Prefecture, to factories in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture. In 2004, the Kameyama facility started making large LCD screens for TVs and more...

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past