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Jan 5, 2009

Germany claims Nordic success

SCHONACH, Germany (AP) Germany won the team competition of the Nordic combined World Cup event Saturday.
EDITORIALS
Jan 5, 2009

Open book on screening

The Textbook Authorization Council has submitted to education minister Ryu Shionoya proposals designed to make the textbook screening process more transparent. The proposals are inadequate and may pose the danger of increasing the secretiveness of the process.
EDITORIALS
Jan 5, 2009

Voice of local assemblies

Local assemblies are an important part of local autonomy. But they often just rubber-stamp proposals made by governors or mayors. The local government system research committee, an advisory body to the prime minister, has been discussing how to make local assemblies responsive to the real needs and wishes...
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 5, 2009

When Iran meets Obama

WASHINGTON — Since its Islamist revolution of 1979, Iran's hardline leadership has relentlessly painted America as a racist, bloodthirsty power bent on oppressing Muslims worldwide.
JAPAN
Jan 5, 2009

Trying to brush away any doubts

Prime Minister Taro Aso, who over the past year drew criticism for repeatedly misreading kanji characters, may have showed Sunday he is a man of culture after all.
JAPAN
Jan 5, 2009

Aso: No election until budget passes

Prime Minister Taro Aso said Sunday that the fiscal 2009 budget is his top priority and he won't dissolve the Diet until the budget and related bills make it through the Diet.
Japan Times
JAPAN / THE MANY FACES OF CITIZENSHIP
Jan 5, 2009

A convenience in peace becomes matter of conflict in war

Last in a series
JAPAN
Jan 5, 2009

Disgraced DPJ member dies in apparent suicide

Former Democratic Party of Japan lawmaker Hisayasu Nagata, 39, died in a hospital after falling from an apartment building in Kitakyushu in an apparent suicide, a local police source said Sunday.
BASKETBALL
Jan 5, 2009

Shimizu seizes the moment as feisty Broncos stampede past 89ers

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. — The energized Saitama Broncos got hot at the right time on Sunday evening.
Reader Mail
Jan 4, 2009

Hunt whales in home waters

Regarding the Dec. 14 letter "Contradictions from Greenpeace": If Japan wishes to prolong its whaling slaughter under the guise of research or traditional hunting, I ask that it please do so in its own waters. The theft of these protected animals from our waters dishonors Japan greatly in most New Zealanders'...
Reader Mail
Jan 4, 2009

A precious good night's sleep

There has recently been a number of letters by foreigners in Japan telling stories about how they have been rejected as tenants simply because they are foreigners. Most see it as racism. After living almost 13 years in Japan, I moved to New Zealand six months ago. I rented an apartment and had to sign...
Reader Mail
Jan 4, 2009

Learning to live with each other

A couple of months ago a letter writer stated that she agrees with a government policy under consideration to raise cigarette prices. She thinks smokers are selfish; therefore, the policy seems rational and good for smokers' health. I don't agree with her.
Reader Mail
Jan 4, 2009

Terms suggestive of racism

Regarding Brian Clacey's Jan. 1 letter, "On the lookout for a slight": I took up Clacey's suggestion and asked myself why "Jap" is considered racist while "Brit" is not. While perhaps not answering his question completely, I think looking at who uses these labels offers a partial answer.
Reader Mail
Jan 4, 2009

Let the sun shine on transactions

The Dec. 30 editorial, "American capitalism, battered," is a well-written piece bringing out very clearly and persuasively the events/reasons that led to the present turmoil in the world economy. But it is not very heartening to note that the U.S. governmental actions are still not well thought out and...
Reader Mail
Jan 4, 2009

Lasting effects of waterboarding

When I was growing up in Britain in 1975, "The Bridge on the River Kwai" remained a popular film, regularly screened on television — to the victors belong the war stories, I suppose.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jan 4, 2009

Rounding up 2008's media

Media Figure of the Year: Tomohiro Kato
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jan 4, 2009

Yomiuri Giants prepare to commemorate 75th anniversary in 2009

A Happy New Year to all readers of the Baseball Bullet-In.
CULTURE / Books
Jan 4, 2009

The beauty of imperfection and much more

"Wabi-sabi," which is two words combined, represents in abbreviated form an elusive concept that is key to the understanding of traditional Japanese aesthetics. Indeed, rather than a single concept, it is a cluster of ideas that permeate artistic practice in Japan, or at least did so in the past. Now,...

Longform

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