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BUSINESS
Dec 30, 2008

Three insurers plan merger amid fall in auto policies

Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Group Holdings Inc., Aioi Insurance Co. and Nissay Dowa General Insurance Co. are in talks to create Japan's largest nonlife insurer, two sources said Monday.
EDITORIALS
Dec 29, 2008

An oddly familiar year

Historians like to say that "history doesn't repeat itself, it rhymes." That would explain the feeling of familiarity that many experienced throughout 2008. While there was one truly unprecedented event — the election of Mr. Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States — there was also...
COMMENTARY
Dec 29, 2008

New Afghan strategy will compound U.S. problem

Even before U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has been sworn in, the contours of his new strategy on Afghanistan have become known: A "surge" of U.S. forces, not to militarily rout the Taliban but to strike a political deal with the enemy from a position of strength.
BASKETBALL
Dec 29, 2008

Winning Apache give Bryant sweet dreams

Losing can cause insomnia.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 29, 2008

Deng legacy after 30 years

SINGAPORE — The approaching close of 2008 should remind us of the day 30 years ago that marked the onset of a chain of events that was to alter the course of Asian — and human — history.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Dec 29, 2008

Ritsumeikan prepared to go through former hero to win national title

Quarterback Tetsuo Takata is talked about as if he's a historical figure for Ritsumeikan University's football program.
MORE SPORTS
Dec 29, 2008

Daiwa Scarlet claims Arima Kinen victory

FUNABASHI, Chiba Pref. — Daiwa Scarlet went wire to wire Sunday in a tremendous show of strength to top the Arima Kinen at Nakayama Racecourse by a length and three-quarters and become the first filly in 37 years to capture the yearend grand finale.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Dec 29, 2008

Suppressing more than free speech

I recently read a book that, a decade ago, created a controversy in Japan about homosexuality. In it the prize-winning writer Jiro Fukushima described his sexual relationship with Yukio Mishima dating from 1951.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 29, 2008

Will Europe rise to the Obama opportunity?

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Will 2009 and the beginning of Barack Obama's U.S. presidency mark the beginning of a new era in trans-Atlantic relations, or will the old divisions linger, nurtured by the depth and gravity of the economic crisis? Will the crisis lead to nationalistic and selfish attitudes on both...
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Dec 29, 2008

Finance, goods must reconcile to restore economic partnership

Crises come and crises go, but this one seems to be in a class of its own. And now that it has arrived, it doesn't look like it's going away anytime soon.
JAPAN
Dec 29, 2008

Sumitomo Life seeking to raise ¥100 billion in capital next month

Sumitomo Life Insurance Co. plans to raise about ¥100 billion in capital as early as next month to strengthen its financial base, a spokesman said Sunday.
COMMENTARY
Dec 28, 2008

China destined to be America's best friend

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. — When the holiday season ends and Barack Obama takes the U.S. presidential oath of office next month, will he notice that life has become less merry and more naughty and un-nice? This brilliant American politician will soon become aware that suddenly everyone wants to be his...
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 28, 2008

Hope for Thai democracy

HONG KONG — Abhisit Vejjajiva seems the least likely person to rescue Thailand from what commentators claim are the death throes of democracy. He is boyish-looking, physically slight, has no commanding military or police connections, no reputation for wheeling and dealing, and was foreign born and...
BASKETBALL / INSIDE LOOK
Dec 28, 2008

Matsui flourishes in his role as a backup

NEW YORK — Team update: Columbia University shooting guard K.J. Matsui has started five of his team's 10 games this season. The senior is averaging 7.7 points per game.
BASKETBALL
Dec 28, 2008

Webb, Kabaya lead Grouses to win

Rodney Webb and Masayuki Kabaya provided a stellar one-two scoring punch for the Toyama Grouses in their first game after Christmas.
Reader Mail
Dec 28, 2008

Apartment hunt shows the score

I am an American who has lived in Japan for the past eight years — five years in Osaka and three years in Tokyo. For the most part it has been a positive experience, but recent events have shown me Japan's underlying legalized racism toward foreigners living in Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 28, 2008

More parents send kids to Indian, Chinese schools

As China and India increasingly flex their muscles as economic powerhouses, many Japanese parents are beginning to send their children to international schools run by Chinese and Indian educators with hopes of churning out more competitive kids.
EDITORIALS
Dec 28, 2008

China's miracle at middle age

It has been 30 years since China embarked on the greatest economic experiment in human history. In that time, the country has emerged from poverty and chaos to become one of the leading economic powers. It is tempting to call China's astounding growth an economic miracle, but the trajectory of the last...
Reader Mail
Dec 28, 2008

Boosting confidence in English

Regarding the Dec. 23 article "English classes face a shakeup": This is a rather welcome move by the education ministry. I wonder, though, why a four-year delay before implementation is sought, since the move does not mandate bringing in bilingual teachers — Japanese teachers with native-level English-speaking...
Reader Mail
Dec 28, 2008

Beware Pyrrhic victories on tests

Regarding the Dec. 23 editorial "Scoring the ability to think": The debate over the relationship between rankings on tests of international competition and the ability to apply knowledge and skills to real-life situations is not limited to Japan. It is an ongoing issue in the United States as well, particularly...
Reader Mail
Dec 28, 2008

Pronunciation has many sources

In his Dec. 21 letter, "Amazing world of word integration," Gary Meyers writes: "Being a longtime student of Japan and Japanese, I have often wondered about the official process by which foreign words are integrated into the language, or rather how the kana pronunciations come about. Is there an office...
Reader Mail
Dec 28, 2008

Be prepared to save yourself

Even as an economist it happened to me: I got stuck in Japan during a serious endaka (high-yen) recession. I managed to scrape by teaching, but when work came to the end, I made the terrible and serious mistake of not leaving Japan. I went through terrible stress and somehow found a job at a firm for...
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.
China warns of military response if Japan intervenes in Taiwan contingency
Representatives from the Japan Innovation Party hand over a proposal to designate Xue Jian, the Chinese consul-general in Osaka, as persona no grata, to a staff of the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo on Wednesday.
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 may triple departure tax to tackle overtourism
A plane takes off from Haneda Airport.
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.

Podcast

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

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
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