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JAPAN
Jan 26, 2009

Boosting CO 2 info from space

A newly launched Japanese satellite is the first ever designed to monitor greenhouse gases worldwide and should help scientists better judge where global warming emissions are coming from and how much is being absorbed by the oceans and forests.
Reader Mail
Jan 25, 2009

Teachers ready to use English

Regarding the Jan. 12 editorial "English taught in English" and Willie Taylor's Jan. 11 letter, "Education methods don't work": While I laud Taylor's efforts in espousing some (non-Japanese) views of Japanese teaching practices, I can't agree with either his or The Japan Times' view that Japanese teachers...
Reader Mail
Jan 25, 2009

Bathhouse a specious example

The main reason Gregory Clark's opinion has caused such a stir is the title, which is not an accurate indication of all that he has written. In addition, the particular example (Otaru bathhouse case) on which Clark has based his entire premise has little to do with the general nature of discrimination...
Reader Mail
Jan 25, 2009

The limits of discrimination

In commenting on the famous Otaru, Hokkaido, bathhouse case, Gregory Clark cops out when he says that barring drunken sailors and applying tests of drunkenness are not the answer. It's pretty clear when someone is over the limit. You throw out drunks by throwing them out!
Reader Mail
Jan 25, 2009

Companies don't see the value

The Jan. 12 editorial "English taught in English" is on point with the insight that individual schools around Japan are implementing very successful English-language programs. The article is also correct in that a change of attitude is necessary. However, it should have added that a change of attitude...
EDITORIALS
Jan 25, 2009

The cold of exams

This coldest time of the year brings the most difficult time of the year for students and parents — entrance exam season. The two-day unified college entrance exams for national and municipal universities ended on Jan. 18. Over a half a million young people took the unified exams, with even more taking...
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 25, 2009

Sarkozy's Western banner

PARIS — From the Caucasus in August 2008 to the Middle East in January 2009, is France under President Nicolas Sarkozy attempting to incarnate what might be called "the West by default," making maximum use of the window of opportunity opened by America's presidential transition?
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 25, 2009

Thai pendulum swings to the Establishment

BANGKOK — Thailand's political pendulum has now swung all the way back to an era that existed before the rise of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in 2001. What transpired under Thaksin during 2001-2005 is being undone and redone. Whether the new Democrat Party-led government of Prime Minister...
Reader Mail
Jan 25, 2009

Businesses can be persuaded

I have been to Japan and have never felt as if I was being discriminated against for any ill reasons. I found it quite nice to see a more closed society wanting only their serene ways. I speak Japanese pretty well and had no problems. It is not a racial or country-specific thing; it would be wrong if...
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jan 25, 2009

Buddhism: a religion for death

Japan is so successfully ecumenical, the various religions of Shinto, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam happily living side by side, that one is tempted to doubt Japanese belief in any of them.
Reader Mail
Jan 25, 2009

Outrages of the bullhorn kind

It is difficult to effectively catalog the outrages that Gregory Clark's article has presented. First, he justifies the racist Japanese belief that non-Japanese will cause greater damage to apartments than Japanese tenants, and then condemns non-Japanese for living in "gaijin ghettoes." Apparently Clark...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jan 25, 2009

Clock may be ticking for foreign managers in Japan

Hiroshima Carp manager Marty Brown is set for a return to Japan and his fourth season at the helm in what could be the final year for American managers here.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Jan 25, 2009

Iwakuma hopes to help Japan retain WBC title

In the midst of the greatest individual season of his career, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma was left off Japan's Olympic roster.
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jan 25, 2009

Can farmers keep tuna on the menu?

In December 2007, the Fisheries Laboratory fish farm of Kinki University in Wakayama Prefecture became the first facility in the world to "close the cycle" by breeding Pacific bluefin tuna (hon-maguro) from completely cultured sources. That is, a third generation of fish was bred from two generations...
JAPAN
Jan 25, 2009

'Gyoza' halted by Japan fed to Chinese workers

BEIJING (Kyodo) Chinese-made frozen dumplings recalled after the pesticide-tainted products caused food-poisoning cases in Japan apparently went on to sicken steelmakers in China's Hebei Province, who were given the contaminated "gyoza" for free, company sources and employees said Saturday.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jan 25, 2009

Poking fun at the ¥12,000 handout

The opposition parties' objections to the extra fiscal 2008 budget, which was put together to deal with the unexpected seriousness of the economic downturn, center on the ¥2 trillion in cash handouts originally conceived by the LDP's coalition partner, New Komeito, last summer during the final days...
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jan 25, 2009

Her poems speak sublimely of Akiko Yosano's life of many passions

Her hair at twenty Flowing long and black Through the teeth of her comb Oh beautiful spring Extravagant spring! My skin is so soft Fresh from my bath It pains me to see it covered By the fabric Of an everyday world
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Jan 25, 2009

Repercussions of war gone bad

NEW YORK — A young friend of mine, Rie Nakano, who did some archival research for a university professor, has given me a small batch of documents prepared by the Special Higher Police, known by the Japanese acronym Tokko. (I had told Rie that my father was an officer of the dreaded "thought police.")...
Reader Mail
Jan 25, 2009

Whitewash of xenophobia

I was with Gregory Clark through the first few paragraphs of his Jan. 15 article, "Antiforeigner discrimination is a right for Japanese people." Whingeing foreigners here often seem the norm and not the exception. Thus I understand his frustration with many of his fellow expatriates. I too have little...
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.
Ashfall warning in Japan as volcano erupts
View of Sakurajima from the mainland of Kagoshima Prefecture
Suspect on run after woman stabbed by stranger in Tokyo’s Akasaka area
Metropolitan Police Department investigators examine a poster put up at a building where a woman was stabbed, in the capital’s Minato Ward on Sunday.
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.
Stablecoins: Boring goes big, and now in Japan
Noritaka Okabe, CEO of JPYC, acknowledges a number of potential risks related to stablecoins.
Shohei Ohtani collects fourth MVP Award with 2025 NL honor
The Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani was named National League MVP for the second straight season on Thursday.
As Japan’s female leader rises, can she cross sumo’s sacred line?
Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku (front center) delivers a speech on the first day of the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament at the Fukuoka Kokusai Center on Sunday. Centuries of belief and tradition still underpin the all-male association's stance of excluding women.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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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
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