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JAPAN
Feb 5, 2009

North using missile ploy to grab U.S. attention

North Korea's apparent preparation to test a long-range ballistic missile is merely a ploy to bring Washington back to the negotiating table, a leading expert on the Korean Peninsula said Wednesday in Tokyo.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Feb 5, 2009

Creative dialogue

While it's not unknown for practitioners of the fine arts to gain fame and fortune almost overnight these days, (even through notoriety rather than talent), only a handful of artists in the graphic design field have gained worldwide recognition. Britain's Neville Brody is one.
Reader Mail
Feb 5, 2009

Simple logic for getting ahead

Regarding the Jan. 31 article "Cabinet Office to aid foreigners caught in recession trap": I am an American who came to Japan over 10 years ago without speaking a word of Japanese. I consequently studied on my own, with the help of a language program, and got myself into a dental school in Japan after...
BUSINESS
Feb 5, 2009

MMC to lose ¥60 billion; Mazda ¥13 billion in red

Mazda Motor Corp. and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. forecast losses for this business year as the global recession dampens demand for cars.
SOCCER / World cup
Feb 4, 2009

Japan faces quality tuneup match against Finland

National team manager Takeshi Okada is confident his side will be in fighting shape for next week's World Cup-qualifying showdown with Australia, starting with a sparring match against Finland on Wednesday night.
BUSINESS / Q&A
Feb 4, 2009

Postal hotel 'fire sale' draws flak

Orix Corp.'s purchase of 70 Kampo no Yado hotels from Japan Post Holdings Co. for the fire sale price of ¥10.9 billion has been making headlines for the past month and drawing the scorn of internal affairs minister Kunio Hatoyama.
COMMENTARY
Feb 4, 2009

Guantanamo closure raises key issues for U.S.

The Obama administration has moved swiftly to end controversial practices that tarnished America's international reputation and undermined its moral authority. But in doing so, it has raised new questions about how the United States will prosecute and punish terrorists in future, and where and under...
BASKETBALL
Feb 4, 2009

Davis sidelined

Tokyo Apache center Nick Davis sprained his left ankle last weekend and will be sidelined for two weeks, the team announced on Tuesday.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL: KEYES' POINT
Feb 4, 2009

Offensive compliments: A drinker's sober lesson

Of all the stupid, idiotic . . . sumimasen. Stuart Keyes is my name. I'm not in the best of moods, though you mustn't judge me by that. I'm good-humored enough most of the time, but . . .
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 4, 2009

Moving Tsukiji to new site raises fears of toxic seafood

Tokyo's Tsukiji, dubbed "the fish market at the center of the world" for its influence on the global seafood trade, is being forced to move to a site laced with benzene and cancer-causing chemicals.
EDITORIALS
Feb 4, 2009

Japanese thinker from the Gulag

On Aug. 9, 1945, the Soviet Army started invading Manchukuo, a puppet state of the Japanese military in today's Northeast China, violating the Japan-Soviet Neutrality Pact. Many Japanese, both civilians and soldiers, perished there and the Soviet Union took many Japanese to labor camps in Siberia and...
COMMENTARY
Feb 4, 2009

Will Afghanistan turn into Obama's Vietnam?

You aren't really the U.S. president until you've ordered an airstrike on somebody, so Barack Obama is certainly president now: two in his first week in office. But now that he has been bloodied, can we talk a little about this expanded war he's planning to fight in Afghanistan?
JAPAN
Feb 4, 2009

No Okinawa clause for textbooks

The government officially decided Tuesday not to insert a special Battle of Okinawa clause into textbook screening guidelines that would give "special consideration" to passages about the history of Okinawa.
COMMENTARY
Feb 4, 2009

Protectionism not the answer

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has rejected protectionist measures to mitigate the effects of the present world economic crisis and has condemned the anti-globalization lobby as ignorant and misguided. He and Lord Mandelson, the minister responsible for business affairs and a former EU commissioner,...
JAPAN
Feb 4, 2009

Japan falls as aid donor but Africa still the focus

Fiscal constraints continued to push down Japan's official development assistance, leaving the country in fifth place in 2007, according to the white paper on ODA submitted Tuesday to the Cabinet.
JAPAN / History
Feb 4, 2009

Red Cross group back in Japan after 60 years

The Swiss-based International Committee of the Red Cross opened on Tuesday its first office here in 60 years, aiming to drum up Japanese support for humanitarian assistance for victims of war around the world.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
China warns citizens not to visit Japan as row over Taiwan heats up
Chinese tourists wear kimonos as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Saturday.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Kyoto gets its own teamLab installation, the largest in Japan
Visitors wearing kimonos look at digital artwork at the newly opened teamLab Biovortex in Kyoto.
Ashfall warning in Japan as volcano erupts
View of Sakurajima from the mainland of Kagoshima Prefecture
Good fortune, wrapped in fried tofu
Golden "age-fukuburo," a culinary take on Japan's new year "lucky bags," can be served on their own.
Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan celebrates 80 years at the forefront of press freedom
Located near the Imperial Palace, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan prides itself on the accessibility of its events and the support it offers to budding and established journalists. The club is currently headed by Dan Sloan, a former reporter for Reuters.
The challenges awaiting Japan’s new finance minister
Finance minister Satsuki Katayama answers questions from reporters in a group interview on Oct. 24.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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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
By Kathryn Wortley

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