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EDITORIALS
Mar 23, 2009

Stay out of the classroom

The Tokyo District Court earlier this month ruled that three metropolitan assembly members in 2003 unduly interfered with sex education at a school for students with special needs. It also ruled that the punishment the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education meted out to teachers at the school for conducting...
BASKETBALL
Mar 23, 2009

Sea Horses take 2-1 series lead

J.R. Sakuragi scored 20 points and pulled down 10 rebounds to lead five players in double figures as the Aisin Sea Horses defeated the Hitachi Sunrockers 81-71 in Game 3 of the Japan Basketball League finals on Sunday in Tokyo.
EDITORIALS
Mar 23, 2009

Getting the record straight

The resignation March 16 of Mr. Shintaro Kubo as president of Nippon Television Network Corp., who took responsibility for an erroneous news report, underlines the importance of mass media people following the basics of journalism — obtaining evidence to support remarks made by news sources. The report...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 23, 2009

Perseverance pays off for Kurihara

His humble, positive attitude paid off — in the final minutes.
BASKETBALL
Mar 23, 2009

Sparks' clutch basket powers Five Arrows

Rasheed Sparks nailed a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to lift the Takamatsu Five Arrows to an 86-84 road win over the Saitama Broncos on Sunday afternoon.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 23, 2009

S. Korea earns spot in final

LOS ANGELES — Kim Tae Kyun and his South Korean teammates didn't have much time to be intimidated by all the major league talent in the Venezuelan dugout.
JAPAN
Mar 23, 2009

Famous Yoshida home gutted

A fire early Sunday destroyed the residence of the late Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida in Oiso, Kanagawa Prefecture, one of the most prominent venues in modern Japanese politics and a place where Prime Minister Taro Aso spent some of his youth.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 23, 2009

Japan ready to do whatever it takes to reach final

Japan's main objective in the 2009 World Baseball Classic is to repeat as WBC champions.
BUSINESS / THE VIEW FROM EUROPE
Mar 23, 2009

Crisis forces rethink: What makes name brands valuable?

Forbes recently published its annual list of the world's billionaires for 2008. The list has shrunk considerably since 2007, when 1,125 people were deemed to have a net worth above $1 billion. This time only around 793 made the cut.
JAPAN
Mar 23, 2009

Yosano says aggressive public spending needed

Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano said Sunday that aggressive public spending on a scale of possibly ¥20 trillion will be needed to wrest the economy out of recession.
COMMENTARY
Mar 23, 2009

Costly transfer to Guam

PARIS — It was welcome news for the struggling government of Prime Minister Taro Aso that the Obama administration has given Japan a high priority in its foreign policy agenda. In mid-February, Hillary Rodham Clinton chose Japan as the first country to visit as U.S. secretary of state, and later that...
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Mar 23, 2009

WBC needs variety to provide more spice

The World Baseball Classic may involve 16 nations, but this year's tournament has looked more like a Japan-South Korea invitational.
Reader Mail
Mar 22, 2009

Mixed feelings regarding Ireland

Roger Pulvers' March 15 Counterpoint article, "Now that the Celtic tiger's turned tail, whither the Emerald Isle," leaves me, as one who is part English and part Irish, with mixed feelings of shame and satisfaction. I cannot but feel shame at the way the English for so long kept the Irish in misery until...
Reader Mail
Mar 22, 2009

Useless engineering achievement

Humanoid robots really bug me. The unveiling of the humanoid robot HRP-4C (shown in the March 17 photo titled "MODEL OF TECHNOLOGY"), accompanied by an all too predictably maudlin caption describing how "its face can exhibit expressions of surprise via 42 actuators," and news that it will debut at a...
Reader Mail
Mar 22, 2009

Apologies instead of posturing

Tomoko Otake's March 8 article, "U.S. shows way to medical apologies," describes an important reform long overdue. Other professional fields could gain from this approach as well, particularly police forces. Few things are more likely to undermine public trust and support for the police than contrived...
Reader Mail
Mar 22, 2009

Glaring exceptions to the 'law'

Regarding the March 17 article "Calderon girl gets year stay": It is no wonder that the issue of deporting (back to the Philippines) the parents of 13-year-old Noriko Calderon causes so much controversy. While the law seems clear, it is more than unreasonable. If Japan was not an aging society on the...
CULTURE / Books
Mar 22, 2009

Tale of a fallen woman and other intrigues

Since his literary debut in 1992, Vincent "Vinnie" Calvino, an expat Italian-Jewish attorney from New York, has been pursuing investigations on behalf of mostly foreign clients in Bangkok.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Mar 22, 2009

The cowardly whisper of politics

A few weeks ago I watched "All The President's Men" for the first time in more than 20 years. Set in the early 1970s, it was a potent blast from the past, but what struck me wasn't the relative youth of Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman or the pre-Internet drudge work that their real-life characters,...
Reader Mail
Mar 22, 2009

Questions remain in murky case

Regarding a reader's response to my March 3 article, "Rape victim fights for justice against U.S. military, Japan": It's generally a bad idea to get involved in spats with anonymous letter writers, but the March 12 letter "Questions about an alleged rape" contains such a litany of accusations, I feel...

Longform

An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo