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WORLD / Politics
Feb 4, 2013

Under fire

The video would be viewed more than 23 million times, making it perhaps the most watched footage of the Afghan war. It began last April when U.S. Army Pfc. Ted Daniels pressed the record button on his helmet camera.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Feb 4, 2013

Russians cast wary eye on volunteerism

A country doctor, a tiny, dilapidated village hospital, an indifferent health bureaucracy — and now, coming to the rescue, volunteers from distant Moscow, bringing furniture, equipment, money and, maybe most important, good cheer.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Feb 3, 2013

Woodford details scandal, but vengeance is not his

Why then did the Englishman who had it all decide to throw away his successful 30-year career at the Japanese corporate icon to blow the whistle on his fellow directors?
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Feb 3, 2013

All aglow with the 'water of life'

In 1983, I talked myself into a marvelous job with a Japanese magazine. I set off in the early summer, when the days would be long and the nights short, to tour around Scotland with cameraman Moriyama Touru.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Feb 3, 2013

Escaping one's demons through an epic trek

WILD: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheryl Strayed. Knopf, 2012, 336 pp., $25.95 (hardcover) In this hugely entertaining book, Cheryl Strayed takes the redemptive nature of travel — a theme as old as literature itself — and makes it her own. For three months she hiked 1,100 miles...
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 1, 2013

A futile fight against nature

Let the 'amateur' majority enjoy their 'clean' sports, but is it fair that the most resolute athletes are robbed of the chance to perform at their best?
EDITORIALS
Feb 1, 2013

Give a little on wages

To help ensure a better future for Japan's economy, labor and management leaders should strive to agree on some improvement in workers' wages.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 1, 2013

Abe can expect little sympathy from nominal allies during Okinawa visit

When Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits Okinawa for a meeting Saturday with Gov. Hirokazu Nakaima and other local politicians, he'll be sitting down mostly with fellow Liberal Democratic Party members or those who won with LDP support.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 31, 2013

A question of Chinese sovereignty

China's 'historic rights' claims in the South China Sea have prompted Southeast Asian nations to argue that China is flouting international law.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 31, 2013

The up- and downside for the biggest economy

'Is America in decline?' may be the wrong question, as most of the affluent world — including U.S., Europe and Japan — faces similar threats.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 30, 2013

Rhetoric won't solve problems

For Asia, it is potentially bad news that the U.S. president seems to have little room for seriously considering the delicate balances between nations.
LIFE / Digital
Jan 30, 2013

Why the Apple and Facebook empires are destined to collapse

Nothing lasts forever: if history has any lesson for us, it is this. It's a thought that comes from rereading Paul Kennedy's magisterial tome, "The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers," in which he shows that none of the great nation-states or empires of history — Rome; imperial Spain in 1600; France...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2013

South Africa envoy says Japan needs to reinvent itself

Mohau Pheko, South Africa's ambassador to Japan since January 2012, said Japan is a "technologically blessed" country that has been an important international trend-setter but now "faces the big challenge of elevating itself to the next level."

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Mount Fuji is considered one of Japan's most iconic symbols and is a major draw for tourists. It's still a mountain, though, and potential hikers need to properly prepare for any climb.
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