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OLYMPICS
Mar 6, 2013

Tokyo support for 2020 Olympics now at 70 percent: IOC

Support is rising nationwide for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic bid, according to International Olympic Committee officials, and support is now at 70 percent in Tokyo, it was announced.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 6, 2013

Somali not pirate, just needed help: lawyers

A Somali man accused of attempting to hijack a Bahamian-registered oil tanker off Oman in March 2011 — the final of the four men brought to Japan to be tried under the 2009 antipiracy law — pleaded not guilty Tuesday before the Tokyo District Court.
EDITORIALS
Mar 6, 2013

Italy's opera buffa

If the potential consequences of the Italian national election were not so severe, the outcome would be the stuff of great comedy. After all, one quarter of the votes were taken by a party formed by a standup comedian, while former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has again climbed to center stage and...
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 6, 2013

U.S. headed toward Italian-style politics

Since Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, a recurring theme of our political discourse has been how crazy Republicans appear to have become. Birthers, death panels, shariah law, legitimate rape: The heretofore successfully repressed tendencies of the Reagan coalition blossomed like a noxious flower...
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JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 5, 2013

Minor denies slaying woman after Tokyo concert

A U.S. minor pleads not guilty to charges of murdering an Irish exchange student in a Tokyo hotel last May as his Tokyo District Court trial starts.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 5, 2013

Rift-plagued Nippon Ishin eyes 200 for poll

Although more than 200 people nationwide have expressed interest in running as Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) candidates in the July Upper House election, internal tensions have once again raised questions about the party's stability.
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WORLD / Politics
Mar 4, 2013

Mrs. Obama's Oscar cameo raises questions about first lady's role

Is this what Michelle Obama looks like untethered to the pressure of a campaign? Is she free to follow her whims without worries about political backlash?
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COMMENTARY / World
Mar 4, 2013

Park's challenge: Advancing South by rising above father's, Lee's legacies

The life of Park Geun Hye, South Korea's just-inaugurated first female president, has so far been bookended by two larger-than-life men of debatable success.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Mar 4, 2013

Green turns black as Europe burns up cheap U.S. coal

Green-friendly Europe has a dirty secret: It is burning a lot more coal. Europe's use of the fossil fuel spiked last year after a long decline, powered by a surge of cheap U.S. coal on global markets and by the unintended consequences of ambitious climate policies that capped emissions and reduced reliance...
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Mar 3, 2013

Yukari Horie: Making life easier for working moms

Yukari Horie, 30, is managing director of Arrow Arrow, a Tokyo-based NPO that offers consulting to companies with female workers who are in the later stages of their pregnancy or who have just become moms and are wondering how to adjust their work styles to accommodate their life needs. Horie's group,...
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 2, 2013

Japan to join F-35 parts output, export strategy

Japan plans to join the global parts-sharing system for F-35 stealth jet production, in an exception to its long-held principle of not exporting weapons or their components.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 2, 2013

Virtual autopsy: Does it spell the end of the scalpel?

Anyone who has spent any time in a courtroom knows how easy it is for a skilled defense lawyer to plant doubt in the mind of a jury. Even in a relatively straightforward case, such as a hit and run, jurors are frequently presented with such a confusing array of photographic and forensic evidence that...
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives
Mar 2, 2013

Teacher cultivates more bilingual education opportunities for children

As international marriages rose in Japan in recent years, the number of bicultural families increased, and many children of such families are being raised to speak the languages of both parents. American Mary Nobuoka, director of the Bilingual Special Interest Group (B-SIG) and parent of a bicultural son, devotes much of her time and energy to helping other families in their journey of language and discovery.
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CULTURE / Film
Mar 1, 2013

'Su-chan Mai-chan Sawako-san'

Yonkoma manga, or four-cell gag comics, are popular here with both sexes and all ages, but they account for relatively few of the many hit live-action films made from manga. For one thing, it's not so easy to string all those gags together into a three-act story. Doable, yes. Done well? Not so often....
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CULTURE / Film
Mar 1, 2013

'Shadow Dancer'

If you'll excuse the pun, Andrea Riseborough is a star on the rise. In her home ground of Great Britain she's famed for her role in 2010's "Brighton Rock," and in the U.S. she turned heads last year with her performance in Madonna's "W.E." In her face you see a wealth of what many psychiatrists have...
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CULTURE / Art
Feb 28, 2013

In New York, the Guggenheim goes Gutai

By now, the looks, character and history of Gutai, the post-World War II Japanese art movement born in 1954 in Ashiya, between Osaka and Kobe, are familiar to regular viewers of modern-art exhibitions in Japan. Last summer's "Gutai: The Spirit of an Era," a survey of the movement's evolution and its...
BUSINESS
Feb 28, 2013

Horse-meat scandal dents Europe's culinary esteem

According to folklore, Europeans have always treated their food with reverence, eating grandma's slow-cooked stews concocted with farm-fresh ingredients while Americans wolfed down the genetically modified, chemically preserved junk symbolized by burgers and fries.
Reader Mail
Feb 28, 2013

A long way to gender parity

Regarding Joseph Jaworski's Feb. 21 letter, "Cut the irrelevant gender data": While the treatment of female pop stars is not specifically a factor in Japan's low ranking of 101 out of 135 nations in The World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap report, the low ranking is not irrelevant. The ranking and...
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BUSINESS
Feb 27, 2013

Currency veteran offers BOJ credibility on reflation

The Bank of Japan may pack a bigger punch under Haruhiko Kuroda, an opponent of deflation who ran the nation's currency policy and then built an international reputation leading the Asian Development Bank.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 27, 2013

Ex-top U.S. doctor Koop dies at 96

C. Everett Koop, the former surgeon general of the United States who started the government's public discussion of AIDS during the administration of Ronald Reagan, died Monday at his home in Hanover, New Hampshire. He was 96.

Longform

Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes