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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Sep 6, 2008

Land of the Great Pumpkin

The last time I went to Naoshima was in June of 2001, when it was just an island with a museum, a hotel and some tents. It was called Bunkamura (culture village). The museum was Mr. Fukutake's own private art collection of mostly modern art. In 2004 came Claude, Walter and James (Monet, De Maria, and...
BUSINESS
Sep 6, 2008

Electricity consumption drops 5.4%

Electricity consumption dipped 5.4 percent in August from a year earlier because lower-than-average temperatures cut demand.
Japan Times
JAPAN / MIXED MATCHES
Sep 6, 2008

Change of study location proves fateful

It is not unusual for young Japanese to go abroad to study English. But where they choose to go for their studies can change their destiny.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Sep 6, 2008

A dog by any other name

OK, I admit it. For humor's sake, I do on occasion stretch the truth.
TENNIS
Sep 5, 2008

WTA approves on-court coaching

NEW YORK — Women tennis players will be able to consult with their coaches during matches starting next year, though the WTA Tour's motivation for the move seems to be aiding fans as much as competitors.
JAPAN
Sep 5, 2008

Yosano, Ishihara eye run for LDP's helm

Two more names surfaced Thursday as candidates for the Liberal Democratic Party presidential election as economy minister Kaoru Yosano and former LDP policy chief Nobuteru Ishihara both indicated they were willing to run.
Japan Times
JAPAN / LETTERS FROM KOBE
Sep 5, 2008

'Life keeps right on moving'

Ashes and rubble covered the devastated land as far as the eye could see.
EDITORIALS
Sep 5, 2008

Undoing a recruitment knot

The Oita prefectural board of education, rocked by a corruption scandal centering on teacher recruitment, has decided to have 21 teachers quit "voluntarily" after their recruitment test scores were found to have been artificially boosted. While the decision appears to be a correct one, it leaves some...

Longform

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