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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 14, 2008

Abe lifts Giants over Swallows in slugfest

The Yomiuri Giants hit a home run in their first at-bat and the runs just kept on coming.
Reader Mail
Sep 14, 2008

Women-only train cars shameful

When I stayed in the United States, I realized how advanced public transportation is in Japan. But there is one thing about our train system that I am ashamed of: the women-only passenger car. India also has this system, but Indians adopted it for religious reasons. In Japan, it was adopted because of...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 14, 2008

Nepali 'democracy' unlikely to push peace

ATLANTA — Nepal's special assembly has chosen Maoist chief Prachanda as prime minister over Sher Bahadur Deuba, a three-time former prime minister from the Nepali Congress party.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Sep 14, 2008

Buffs flexing muscles as stretch run begins

The Big Boys have finally arrived in Kobe.
Reader Mail
Sep 14, 2008

'Foreign' baby born in Japan

Find out who wrote the Sept. 10 Kyodo brief "Foreign infant left at baby hatch." I'm sorry, but "foreign infant" is a very bad description. Was the baby abandoned at Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto half Japanese? Was it Caucasian? Is it "foreign" if it was born in Japan? As the baby will probably be raised...
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Sep 14, 2008

Kitanoumi epitomizes all that is wrong with sumo

Every time I hear somebody refer to sumo as "Japan's national sport," I just have to shake my head in amazement.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Sep 14, 2008

Tokyo's catwalks at last purr with pizazz

"Is Tokyo really the world's fifth fashion capital after Paris, New York, Milan and London?"
Reader Mail
Sep 14, 2008

Temp era in higher education

The temp-worker era is gaining steam in the education sector. Education ministry rules allowing (and even encouraging) colleges and universities to hire ninkitsuki instructors on a three- or five-year basis have simply allowed the trend of hiring teachers on a "limited-term contract" to become more or...
CULTURE / Books
Sep 14, 2008

Troubled by ghosts of East Asia

EAST ASIA'S HAUNTED PRESENT: Historical Memories and the Resurgence of Nationalism, edited by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa and Kazuhiko Togo. Westport, CT., Praeger Security International, 2008, 265 pp., $75 (cloth) Arguments over the past among nations are a sure sign of anxieties about the future. East Asia's...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Sep 14, 2008

Feed, don't fight, Afghanistan

The circumstances surrounding the kidnapping and killing of Japanese aid worker Kazuya Ito in Afghanistan last month remain unclear. In the web journal Japan Focus, Michael Penn conjectures that Ito's death resulted from a "botched effort to abduct him, not . . . premeditated murder." The gunshot wounds...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Sep 14, 2008

Closer Kroon counts on pizza to spice up his game

Practice, sign some autographs, attend the pregame team meeting, eat a pizza, take a nap in the clubhouse oxygen tank, then get ready to save the game.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Sep 14, 2008

Tokyo's fashion menu gets more appetizing

The Michelin Guide top-starred Tokyo as the world's gastronomic capital this year, but the city's sartorial scene may now be just as appetizing as it gradually garners more and more global attention with its fashion menu extending from streetwear avant-garde to "quirky-cute" confections and a veritable...
SOCCER / J. League
Sep 14, 2008

Bosnar confident JEF United can avoid relegation

JEF United Chiba defender Eddy Bosnar is adamant his side can escape relegation from J. League Division 1, despite lying eight points adrift of safety with just 11 games of the season left to play.
Reader Mail
Sep 14, 2008

Commitment to Mindanao peace

Regarding the Sept. 1 editorial, "Stab at peace comes up short" -- about the Philippine government's peace initiative in Mindanao: Notwithstanding recent acts of violence perpetrated by lawless elements and constitutional issues cited by the Supreme Court of the Philippines that prevented the peace agreement...
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Sep 14, 2008

Japan Fashion Week: It's tough for men

Japan Fashion Week (JFW), now in its seventh season, has never put much emphasis on menswear. This year, it appeared merely as an afterthought.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Sep 14, 2008

Atelier Bravo, 'What's So Bad About Dictatorship' and 'Shanghai Typhoon'

Atelier Bravo is an artists collective based in Fukuoka whose eight members are developmentally disabled.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Sep 14, 2008

Japan Fashion Week: New stars are a-rising

Fashion is sometimes like soccer, in that you can't always rely on older players and expensive foreign imports. Until recently, Japan Fashion Week tended to bank on the same names from season to season. However, to keep the progression of new talent and new faces you eventually need to invest in young...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / ON THE ROAD
Sep 14, 2008

'American Graffiti,' Japanese style

First of two parts
BASKETBALL
Sep 13, 2008

Broncos, Warren agree to deal

The Saitama Broncos have agreed to terms with standout power forward Reggie Warren, the bj-league announced Thursday. The muscular, hard-nosed veteran played the previous two seasons for the Takamatsu Five Arrows.
EDITORIALS
Sep 13, 2008

Takeover to stem the tide?

The decision to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac signals an unprecedented intervention in U.S. financial markets. The move, by a conservative administration no less, is an indication of the concern surrounding the two mortgage companies and the impact of continuing uncertainty on global financial...
BASKETBALL
Sep 13, 2008

Swallows, Apache in ticket promo

The Tokyo Yakult Swallows and Tokyo Apache have teamed up to give fans a special discount.
Japan's inheritance tax is high, unforgiving and sometimes avoidable
The National Tax Agency at the Ministry of Finance, Kasumigaseki, Tokyo. Japanese tax authorities can bill foreign residents in Japan for assets inherited globally.
The United States imposes 15% 'reciprocal' tariff on most Japanese goods
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the White House on Wednesday.
U.S. backtracks on Japan tariff calculation, taking effective rate lower
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's chief tariff negotiator, said the U.S. made a clerical error in not including a “reciprocal” tariff rate ceiling for Japan in the trade deal.
How Pakistan shot down India's cutting-edge fighter using Chinese gear
An Indian Air Force pilot gets out of a Rafale fighter jet during its induction ceremony at an air force station in Ambala, India, September 2020.
Biggest drop in Japanese nationals seen alongside record high in foreign residents
A street in Tokyo's Shinjuku district on Wednesday
Cheer with caution: Expert advises sports fans have game plan for extreme heat
A Cardinals fan fans himself during the seventh inning of a game against the Pirates in St. Louis, Missouri, in June 2022.
Australia's warship selection signals Japanese defense industry's arrival
The Maritime Self-Defense Force's Mogami-class frigate. Australia's selection of an upgraded version of the Mogami-class warship for its next frigate class could prove to be a watershed moment for Japan’s defense industry.
Japan's inheritance tax is high, unforgiving and sometimes avoidable
The National Tax Agency at the Ministry of Finance, Kasumigaseki, Tokyo. Japanese tax authorities can bill foreign residents in Japan for assets inherited globally.
Will the movement seeking Ishiba’s resignation succeed?
Liberal Democratic Party youth division head Yasutaka Nakasone (center) and other members speak to reporters in Tokyo on July 25.
Photographer Bleg Bayraktar is winning social media with politeness
A video on Bayraktar's Instagram account of the Belgian photographer approaching an elderly worker in Tokyo's Shibuya has gone viral, garnering almost 9 million views.

Podcast

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

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Koichi Tagawa’s diary entry from Aug. 9, 1945, describes the day of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
The horrors of Nagasaki, in first person
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