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JAPAN
Nov 14, 2012

Ishihara, Hiranuma unveil new party

Former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara launched his new political party Tuesday along with five lawmakers, vowing to create a "stronger and tougher Japan" by tying up with other small parties before the next Lower House election.
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BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2012

Consumers batten down their wallets

Consumers are closing their wallets as the economy's outlook darkens, making it harder for Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda to stave off the nation's third recession in four years.
Reader Mail
Nov 11, 2012

Safeguarding territorial integrity

Regarding the Nov. 7 Kyodo article "Japan, China engage in war of words at ASEM summit": It is disgusting that Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda talked about honoring international law. Did Japan care about international law when its soldiers massacred millions of Chinese civilians during its occupation...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Nov 11, 2012

Carp rely on scouting expertise of Schullstrom, McClain

The Hiroshima Carp again failed to make the Central League Climax Series this time, but manager Kenjiro Nomura has been given another year — his fourth at the helm — to try to get the team into the postseason for the first time.
Reader Mail
Nov 11, 2012

Own version of history and law

In the article "Japan, China engage in war of words at ASEM summit," Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda is quoted as telling Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi: "Historically speaking and in line with international law, there is no doubt that the Senkakus are an integral part of our territory and Japan...
CULTURE / Books
Nov 11, 2012

Giving voice to the survivors of the unprecedented 3/11 disaster

STRONG IN THE RAIN: Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, by Lucy Birmingham and David McNeill. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, 256 pp., $27 (hardcover) This is a riveting story about Japan's March 11 cataclysm told uncommonly well by two veteran Japan-based journalists who...
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LIFE
Nov 11, 2012

The war legacy that binds Okinawa and Vietnam

As the motorbike taxi I'm aboard zigzags through the traffic in Da Nang, Vietnam's fourth-largest city, a bus pulls out of nowhere, causing my driver to brake, swerve and slam us into a sidewalk stack of bamboo cages packed with soft plump ducklings.
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2012

Once bond bill clears, poll may soon follow

With passage of the bond-issuance bill coming into sight, speculation was spreading Friday that Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda may dissolve the Lower House for an election before year's end.
BUSINESS
Nov 10, 2012

Mizuho China fund to bank on new leaders

Mizuho Asset Management Co. is opening a China fund, betting new leaders in the world's No. 2 economy will boost growth and quell the Senkaku territorial dispute that has prompted other banks to cancel planned funds.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Nov 8, 2012

Annals of cheap: bananas

Bananas haven't been this cheap in Japan since 1979.
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CULTURE / Art
Nov 8, 2012

Kyoto painting schools pushed nihonga to the limit

Japan, as elsewhere, has never had a singular art world but a plurality of formations. This is as true of pre-modern art as it is for Modernism and contemporary art — think of Takashi Murakami, his "factory" Kaikai Kiki and Geisai the art fair he founded. Individuals could, as now, constitute worlds...
EDITORIALS
Nov 7, 2012

Stoking Okinawan anger

With the alleged rape of an Okinawa City woman by two U.S. servicemen on Oct. 16 fresh in people's minds, another U.S. serviceman allegedly broke into an Okinawan residence and struck a boy on Nov. 2.
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BUSINESS
Nov 6, 2012

Loss forecast may send Sharp to government purse

Sharp Corp. may turn to the last resort for Japanese companies facing potential bankruptcy — the government.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 5, 2012

Title gives Abe perfect ending to 2012

After the season Shinnosuke Abe had, any other ending would've a felt a little empty.
JAPAN / Media
Nov 4, 2012

Symposium looks at the disturbing rise of online nationalism

While the territorial disputes between Japan and China, and that with South Korea, seem to have quietened down recently, some people remain frustrated by the issue.
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LIFE / Travel
Nov 4, 2012

Lake Shikotsu: a Hokkaido wonderland awaits

I have spent the last four hours perspiring under the summer sun, moving slowly and photographing wildflowers. Having hiked the circuitous, twin-peaked route around the caldera of constantly active 1,041-meter Mount Tarumae, I then loped up and down a small peak known only as Kyu-san-ni (its height,...
JAPAN
Nov 3, 2012

Hashimoto likens weekly's slur to hate speak

The clash between Toru Hashimoto and the weekly magazine Shukan Asahi over an article on the Osaka mayor's lineage has raised a question that Japan still refuses to directly confront: What kinds of comments cross the line from criticism into hate speech that should be legally banned?
JAPAN
Nov 3, 2012

Abe, DPJ to discuss bond bill passage

After months of hardball with the ruling camp, Liberal Democratic Party President Shinzo Abe hinted he will cooperate with the Democratic Party of Japan in passing a critical bond-issuance bill.
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BUSINESS / JAPAN-U.S. SEMINAR
Nov 3, 2012

Steady growth in Brazil brings in more foreign direct investment

Despite the recent economic slowdown, Brazil continues to attract steady foreign direct investments (FDI), and Japanese firms are advised to consider the medium- to longer-term importance of the Latin American market and competition with Chinese and South Korean rivals when making business decisions,...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Nov 3, 2012

Time stands still on Amami Oshima

We had already been on Amami Oshima for a week waiting for Typhoon No. 21 to pass. But the typhoon was meandering around the Pacific like a drunken sailor, zigzagging a path north-west, once making a U-turn then righting itself, and another time its path taking a complete pirouette.
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CULTURE / Film
Nov 2, 2012

Madonna finds kindred spirit in Wallis Simpson

"At dinners and parties," Madonna recalls, "I found that whenever I brought up the topic of Wallis Simpson, the Duchess of Windsor, it was like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the conversation." Of course, the same story could be told about the speaker herself.

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