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Reader Mail
Nov 24, 2011

Uphill trek to train a teacher

Regarding the Nov. 20 editorial, "Teachers leaving jobs": One central problem with teacher training in Japan is that it tends to take place while those in training are undergraduates. This has several side effects.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Nov 24, 2011

Beatmakers just wanna have fun

British magazine DJ Mag caused some ripples among critics this month when it released its list of the most popular DJs from around the world and there wasn't one woman among the 100-strong pick. Though the magazine points out that its editors don't decide the list, which is comprised of write-in ballots...
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 23, 2011

Time to stop worshipping stirrers of stone soup

Last month I was in Kiev, speaking at a conference focused on entrepreneurs. I wanted to give a talk that would be of general interest but also concrete. So I started with one of my favorite parables.
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Nov 23, 2011

Coach K's winning formula is a lesson for all sports teams

What leads to long-term team success in team sports?
JAPAN
Nov 22, 2011

Aum may be gone in name but guru still has following

Judicial proceedings for Aum Shinrikyo figures effectively came to an end Monday as Seiichi Endo became the 13th member of the doomsday cult to have his death sentence finalized by the Supreme Court.
EDITORIALS
Nov 22, 2011

Organization for reconstruction

The Diet deliberations on the third supplementary budget for fiscal 2011 to finance reconstruction from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear crisis and related bills are proceeding rather smoothly. But the ruling and opposition forces have a schism over a bill to establish a...
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Nov 21, 2011

Primer for decontamination

The potentially lucrative business of decontaminating areas of radioactive substances released from Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station may well go to companies handpicked by a government organization that has long played a leading role in promoting the construction of nuclear...
COMMENTARY
Nov 21, 2011

As the Egyptian military takes off its mask

The killing under torture in a maximum security prison in Cairo of Essam Ali Atta Ali, a 24-year-old Egyptian, raises concern on the role of the Egyptian military in the "New Egypt." His death was likened to that of Khalid Said, who was beaten to death by the police in Alexandria last year.
CULTURE / Books
Nov 20, 2011

'1Q84': What I write about when I write about writing

1Q84: Books One and Two, by Haruki Murakami. Translated by Jay Rubin. Harvill Secker, 2011, 624 pp., £20.00 (hardcover). 1Q84: Book Three, by Haruki Murakami. Translated by Philip Gabriel, Harvill Secker, 2011, 368 pp., £14.99 (hardcover) Haruki Murakami's new novel may triangulate three pieces of...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Nov 20, 2011

The B-class-food boom reveals true Japanese cuisine

Two weeks ago, an advisory panel to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries recommended it apply to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization for recognition of Japanese cuisine as an intangible cultural asset. The panel made its suggestion after UNESCO granted...
JAPAN
Nov 19, 2011

Kano hints rethink in testing rice for cesium

The ban on shipping rice from a district in the city of Fukushima due to high levels of radioactive cesium shows the need to amend the two-phase test currently performed to check the grain for radiation, farm minister Michihiko Kano indicated Friday.
LIFE / Lifestyle / Japan Pulse
Nov 18, 2011

Virtual games in a real sports club

With the new unveiled e-Sports Ground, fitness hounds and video game freaks can play on the same virtual/real playing field.
EDITORIALS
Nov 17, 2011

Elections in disaster-hit areas

Local elections were held Nov. 13 in Miyagi Prefecture and will be held Nov. 20 in Fukushima Prefecture. In Iwate Prefecture, local elections, including the gubernatorial and prefectural assembly elections, were held in September.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Nov 17, 2011

Bending the rules with architecture

German-born, Tokyo-based architect Florian Busch says that witnessing a building rise from an open plot of land is like watching a plant grow.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 17, 2011

Simple advice pays off for Hawks' Tamura

Obviously, all eyes are on the remaining two teams as they vie for the 2011 Japan Series titles. That makes this a different stage than any other.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music / IN THE RECORD
Nov 17, 2011

P.O.L. Style

DJ P.O.L. Style (Paul Beveridge) moved to Tokyo from Glasgow in 2003. He created the Numbers Tokyo party series and produces his own beats under the T&A Records, Tiger Bass and Nightshifters imprints. Ahead of this week's Yume Fest, The Japan Times looks in his record bag.
BUSINESS
Nov 17, 2011

Olympus investigated by U.K. prosecutors

U.K. prosecutors started a formal probe into accounting irregularities at Olympus Corp. after the company said last week that three executives colluded to hide losses from investors, a source said.
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Nov 15, 2011

Corporate brands drawn to anime's selling power

Care for some Pepsi and Cup Noodles with your anime?
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 15, 2011

The upper hand on post-U.S. Afghan stability

All regional players are struggling to come to terms with the withdrawal of NATO-led Western forces from Afghanistan by the end of 2014. Early this month, Istanbul became the latest venue where 12 regional states and the Afghan government came together to try again to agree on ways of bringing some semblance...
BUSINESS
Nov 15, 2011

Singapore sold stock at scandal's outset

Government of Singapore Investment Corp. (GIC), manager of more than $100 billion of the city's reserves, sold almost all of its 2 percent stake in Olympus Corp., the camera maker that said it hid losses with inflated fees.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 14, 2011

Dragons take Game 2, halfway to the series title

The Chunichi Dragons just don't know how to do anything the easy way. Which is a bit ironic, since their path to the Japan Series title just got a whole lot clearer.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Nov 13, 2011

Will trickle-down class discrimination rob Britain of what's so great?

Britain may be broken, but London is hot. A recent trip to the city exhilarated me.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Nov 13, 2011

Taking it easy on Tokashiki

In the days of the Ryukyu Kingdom, from the 14th to 19th centuries, Chinese envoys would come to Shuri Castle on the island of Okinawa to officiate at the coronation of the Ryukyu kings. When their ships were spotted from the 227-meter peak of Mount Akama on the northeast coast of outlying Tokashiki...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 13, 2011

Dragons' Koike smacks game-winning blast in 10th

Masaaki Koike didn't get all of Takahiro Mahara's forkball in the 10th inning, but he got enough it. And that's all the Chunichi Dragons needed.

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