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Reader Mail
Nov 2, 2008

India is little cause for concern

There are a few facts to consider before calling the U.S.-India nuclear deal a concern: India has never invaded another country in its 10,000-year history; India is committed to a "no first use" policy on nuclear weapons; and nuclear power is mandatory if one of the world's largest democracies is to...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Nov 2, 2008

Probing the real Japan with Kenneth Pyle

Kenneth Pyle says his first memories of Japan were of watching war films when he was a child — "all the dogfights with Zero fighters and all that."
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 2, 2008

Wakui tosses gem for Lions in opener

If the Japan Series was supposed to be an offensive showcase, Seibu Lions pitcher Hideaki Wakui sure didn't get the memo.
EDITORIALS
Nov 2, 2008

Handling info in the MSDF

The Yokohama District Court on Oct. 28 gave a suspended 2 1/2-year prison term to a lieutenant commander of the Maritime Self-Defense Force for passing information on the U.S.-developed Aegis weapons system to another lieutenant commander, an instructor at an MSDF school in Etajima, Hiroshima Prefecture....
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Nov 2, 2008

Some 19th-century blood and gore

THE STRAW SANDAL OR THE SCROLL OF THE HUNDRED CRABS by Santo Kyoden, translated by Carmen Blacker, introduction by P.F. Kornicki. Global Oriental, 2008, 116 pp., 28 b/w illustrations by Utagawa Toyokuni, £35 (cloth) Santo Kyoden (pen name Iwase Samuru, 1761-1816) was among the most popular authors of...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / ON THE ROAD
Nov 2, 2008

EVs lead the charge on Paris stage

Gather a bunch of Japanese car journalists or engineers together for a chat on the current state of the industry and you will hear heated debate about design, downsizing, performance, safety and maybe even fuel economy. But for some strange reason, few seem to talk about carbon dioxide (CO2). You know,...
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 1, 2008

Bridging the China-India gap

DELHI — The sooner that India and China accept their inevitable strategic competitiveness but limit it through tactical cooperation, the better. Two tactical areas needing immediate Chinese and Indian intervention are a fix for the world economy and overcoming terrorism from Afghanistan and Pakistan....
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 1, 2008

Rich in geothermal fields? Then exploit them

SINGAPORE — In their quest for energy security, Indonesia and the Philippines are planning to develop nuclear power to buttress a key part of their electricity generating systems. This provides the near constant, or base load, electricity needed by industries and households. However, the possibility...
EDITORIALS
Nov 1, 2008

Economic damage control

Prime Minister Taro Aso on Thursday evening announced a ¥26.9 trillion economic stimulus package in an effort to minimize damage to the Japanese economy from the global financial crisis. The current economic turmoil could have a devastating effect on people's lives. As Mr. Aso said, "The economy is...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 1, 2008

Skippers Hara, Watanabe ready to match wits on diamond

It was a business-like atmosphere at Tokyo Dome on Friday afternoon as the Seibu Lions and Yomiuri Giants went through their final preparations for Game 1 of the Japan Series.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Nov 1, 2008

Redknapp's magic transforms Spurs overnight

LONDON — Just when you think there is nothing left in football to surprise you, along comes Harry Redknapp.
JAPAN
Nov 1, 2008

U.S. candidates vow to 're-engage' Japan

OSAKA — Eight years ago, on the eve of the 2000 U.S. presidential election, a bipartisan group of Washington experts released the Armitage Report, named after Richard Armitage, one of the main authors and an eventual deputy secretary of state under President George W. Bush.
BUSINESS
Nov 1, 2008

Boosting liquidity key: Shirakawa

The Bank of Japan's cut Friday in the benchmark interest rate by 0.2 percentage point to 0.3 percent is aimed at increasing liquidity in the money market amid the global financial turmoil, BOJ Gov. Masaaki Shirakawa said.
BUSINESS
Nov 1, 2008

Japan, Hong Kong to boost tourism

Japan and Hong Kong will launch the Hong Kong-Japan Tourism Exchange Year campaign to boost bilateral tourism in 2009, tourism promotion bodies of the two economies announced Friday in Tokyo.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 1, 2008

Japan Series features high-octane offenses

Offense was the name of the game for both the Seibu Lions and Yomiuri Giants this season.
BUSINESS
Nov 1, 2008

BOJ lowers its key lending rate to 0.3%

The Bank of Japan cut its benchmark interest rate Friday to 0.3 percent from 0.5 percent, joining other central banks in moving to limit further damage from the global financial crisis.
JAPAN
Nov 1, 2008

Nakasone raps report on North

Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone on Friday denied media reports that North Korea has no plan to reinvestigate its abductions of Japanese nationals.

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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers