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BASKETBALL
Apr 22, 2013

Golden Kings warm up for championship tilt with easy win over Cinq Reves

The Ryukyu Golden Kings are gearing up for a run at another title. The Tokyo Cinq Reves are closing out their inaugural season.
EDITORIALS
Apr 22, 2013

Wider Minamata relief needed

The Supreme Court upholds the recognition of a Minamata disease victim who showed only a single symptom of the disease before she died 36 years ago at 77.
WORLD
Apr 22, 2013

Brothers' bond may have played key role in plot

By all accounts, the paths traveled by the Tsarnaev brothers in their new American lives had begun to diverge. Tamerlan, 26, the elder brother, turned more deeply to his Muslim faith as once-promising boxing prospects faded. Dzhokhar, seven years his junior, won a college scholarship, gained U.S. citizenship...
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 22, 2013

Why making Europe 'German' won't fix crisis

It's now common to hear analysts say Europe must become 'German' to exit from its crisis, adopting Teutonic approaches to policy. This is a wrongheaded idea.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Apr 21, 2013

Saving Japan: promoting women's role in the workforce would help

Christine Lagarde, director of the International Monetary Fund, believes women can save Japan. Some would argue they already are, taking on as they do all sorts of responsibilities ranging from mother, wife and caregiver for elderly relatives to employee, volunteer and household finance minister.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Apr 21, 2013

Views of Japan through Western films

Most readers encountering a book called 'Under Foreign Eyes: Western Cinematic Adaptations of Postwar Japan' will expect it to contain an interesting claim or claims about these Western representations of Japan, and that the claim or claims will be buttressed by sophisticated analysis of the films.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Apr 21, 2013

Local media must play a bigger role in alerting public on product recalls

Last week, four Japanese carmakers announced a worldwide recall for vehicles with faulty airbags. According to USA Today, "Toyota, Honda and Nissan need to track down 3 million vehicles around the globe," and with Mazda later added to the roster, the number rises to almost 3.4 million. The defect has...
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Apr 21, 2013

Fearing the worst if Japan joins the TPP

Here is Shukan Josei magazine's nightmare scenario of a typical Japanese salaryman's TPP future, if in fact Japan joins the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade agreement currently being negotiated among 12 countries. After a genetically-engineered, chemical-drenched breakfast, he hops into his American-made...
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Apr 20, 2013

Gifu opens women-only dorm for drug addicts

A month has passed since drug rehabilitation center Gifu Darc opened the first dormitory in the Tokai region for female addicts.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 20, 2013

Egypt's fragile democracy needs boost from West

Unless Egypt builds a broad consensus that includes ruling Islamists and the secular opposition, its problems will jeopardize its future democratic prospects.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Apr 19, 2013

Kyoto's Hamaguchi proving again he is an elite coach

For Honoo Hamaguchi and Dai Oketani, longevity is one part of their success story as the bj-league's longest-tenured coaches. What's more, their quality teams are always competitive year after year.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 19, 2013

High schoolers dream of Ivy League

One March afternoon in Shibuya Ward, a group of high schoolers earnestly listened as students from Harvard University described life on their campus.
Japan Times
Events / Events In Tokyo
Apr 19, 2013

ZZZ's continue a great year

It's a new year that other indie bands could only dream of. Steady gigs, new releases and collaborations with established artists, they've all been on ZZZ's schedule for the past few months.
BUSINESS
Apr 18, 2013

METI chief urges Gazprom to keep LNG plant's spigot open, reasonable

Trade minister Toshimitsu Motegi on Wednesday called on the president of Russia-owned Gazprom to provide Japan with liquefied natural gas from its plant to be built near Vladivostok at a “reasonable price” and in a “timely manner” after it starts up.
EDITORIALS
Apr 18, 2013

Ms. Suu Kyi visits Japan

As a result of Aung San Suu Kyi's first visit to Japan in nearly 27 years, the government should work out a basic principle for providing assistance to Myanmar.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Apr 18, 2013

Playwright imprint focuses on newer jazz acts

At a time when stories about declining music sales are frequent and major labels aren't investing in new talent, hearing about an indie label like Playwright is music to the ears.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Apr 18, 2013

Extruders have a rock epiphany

"Before the gig, we were quite intimidated: a lowly rock band performing in front of a god. After, we found we could do it, and that was the turning point for us."
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 17, 2013

MUFG plans to boost U.S. energy industry loans: CEO

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. plans to increase loans to energy and utility industries in the U.S. to capitalize on a recovery there, President Nobuyuki Hirano said.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Apr 17, 2013

Uncomfortable truth laid bare in Boston: not every plot will be spotted

After nearly a dozen years of foiled plots, the United States on Monday suffered the first large-scale bombing since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, opened an era of heightened security affecting nearly every aspect of American life.
EDITORIALS
Apr 17, 2013

Japan's depopulation time bomb

The government must take steps to ameliorate the impact of Japan's shrinking population, which is forecast to decrease by 20 million by 2040.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 17, 2013

If Thatcher saved Britain, why is it in such a mess?

Britain has been weakened, rather than strengthened, by the revolution that Margaret Thatcher wreaked.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 17, 2013

Obama's timid budget evades basic choices

There is something profoundly timid about U.S. President Barack Obama's proposed budget for 2014. He's evading basic choices while claiming he's bold and brave.
LIFE / Digital / ON: TECH
Apr 16, 2013

Can we talk?

LG's Optimus G Pro gets a Japan release

Longform

Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.
Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.