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COMMENTARY
Dec 7, 2008

Four harsh truths about climatic change

LONDON — About two years ago, I realized that the military in various countries were starting to do climate-change scenarios in-house — scenarios that started with the scientific predictions about rising temperatures, falling crop yields and other physical effects, and examined what that would do...
JAPAN
Dec 7, 2008

Film on Taiji dolphin slaughters to compete at Sundance

It began on Nov. 30, 2005, as a full-page, award-winning Japan Times feature by Boyd Harnell, headlined "Secret dolphin slaughter defies protests."
Reader Mail
Dec 7, 2008

Fingerprinting law is unjust

Regarding the Nov. 29 article "Fingerprint screening stops 846": We're all glad that immigration authorities are stopping people from using fake passports, but that does little to change the fact that the fingerprinting law is fundamentally flawed.
Reader Mail
Dec 7, 2008

Arguments aren't good enough

I am afraid Paul de Vries has not done his homework; furthermore, he is comparing apples and oranges. For instance, you can't label women-only cars as a form of acceptable discrimination in an argument about whether xenophobic actions are justified.
Reader Mail
Dec 7, 2008

The burden of assimilation

Regarding the Dec. 2 Zeit Gist article, "Back to the baths: Otaru revisited": Kudos to Paul de Vries for an excellent article. While there will doubtless be a backlash from readers more supportive of the likes of activist Arudou Debito, I applaud The Japan Times for providing a platform to someone who...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Dec 7, 2008

Slugger Woods hoping for one more chance in Japan

The Chunichi Sports is reporting former Chunichi Dragons first baseman Tyrone Woods wants to continue playing in Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 7, 2008

LSO string quartet brightens up care facility with free concert

Members of the internationally acclaimed London Symphony Orchestra took time off from their tour of Japan to give a free concert at a Tokyo care facility Saturday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Dec 7, 2008

Tadao Ando: Icon and iconoclast

One of the first houses built by Japan's most famous architect, Tadao Ando, is centered around an open atrium. That sounds nice until you realize that the atrium forms the only "corridor" between each of the rooms. Fancy a hot cup of tea before bed on a rainy winter's night? You'll need an umbrella and...
Reader Mail
Dec 7, 2008

'Civilian control' misinterpreted

Regarding the Nov. 28 article "SDF's rise in '90s behind Tamogami's challenge": I'd like to point out that "civilian control" has been wrongly interpreted — by the media, government bureaucrats, politicians and the like in Japan — ever since the end of World War II to curtail the freedom of speech...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / ON THE ROAD
Dec 7, 2008

What's behind all the funny car names?

Over the years, Japanese car names have been a source of unending comedy, frivolity and perplexity in international motoring circles.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Dec 7, 2008

Past events' bloodstained light casts a long and lasting shadow

On Dec. 7, the day of the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941 in Hawaii, the thoughts of many turn to wars, how they begin and the course they take.
Reader Mail
Dec 7, 2008

Accountability must be narrowed

Every mountain has more than one slippery slope. While Paul de Vries ("Back to the baths: Otaru revisited") is concerned with the worrying precedent of Debito Arudou's onsen lawsuit, de Vries sets an equally worrying precedent by implying that restrictions on "group accountability as a social conditioner"...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Dec 7, 2008

Graduates' security goes to pot

Last week, a 25-year-old University of Tokyo graduate was arrested for allegedly posting death threats on his blog. The police say that the man, who has been unemployed since graduating from Japan's most prestigious university, had written that he would kill members of the education ministry for misleading...
Reader Mail
Dec 7, 2008

Former ASDF chief makes sense

While I have no knowledge of facts concerning prewar Japan-U.S. relations that might have played a role in World War II, I totally agree with retired ASDF Gen. Toshio Tamogami that, in this troubled world, Japan should not be naive but should build a strong defense force and show itself as a world power...
CULTURE / Books
Dec 7, 2008

A bend in time, disengagement and the life of the mind

BIRNBAUM: A Novel of Inner Space, by Michael Hoffman. Printed Matter Press, 2008, 321 pp., ¥2,000 (paper) In writing about the process involved in the creation of this novel, Michael Hoffman observed that "Often as I wrote, I had no idea where this was going." This sounds a little like the literary...
Reader Mail
Dec 7, 2008

Beware a nuclear boondoggle

Regarding the Nov. 27 article "Rokkasho plant too dangerous, costly: expert": I was surprised to read in the article that "On Oct. 16, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency announced plans to increase the share of nuclear power to 53 percent of (Japan's) total electricity supply by 2100 from the current 30...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Dec 7, 2008

Miura's decision to remain with struggling BayStars admirable

The Yokohama BayStars reached the Nippon Professional Baseball summit in 1998 behind 12-game winner Daisuke Miura.
Reader Mail
Dec 7, 2008

A notion dangerous at the core

Paul de Vries' attempt to defend group accountability behavior is rather bleak and ridiculous. Perhaps de Vries did not read The Japan Times enough, as he surely would've seen that quite a few men, both foreign and domestic, ridicule the women-only train cars. I also stand against the policy, as it hardly...
EDITORIALS
Dec 6, 2008

Prepping a new climate deal

A two-week meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), or COP14, is now under way in Poznan, Poland, with some 10,000 delegates and environmentalists from some 190 countries attending. The participants are supposed to discuss international efforts...
MORE SPORTS
Dec 6, 2008

Singh leads at Nippon Series Cup

India's Jeev Milkha Singh shot an even-par 70 Friday to take a one-stroke lead at the Nippon Series Cup.
JAPAN
Dec 6, 2008

Missing SMAPs lead to plane delay

A failure to count the members of pop group SMAP and their entourage as they boarded an All Nippon Airways plane caused a 48-minute delay on the tarmac in Sapporo, an ANA spokeswoman said Friday, laying the blame to a procedural error.
JAPAN
Dec 6, 2008

Revised law removes barrier to nationality

The revised Nationality Law cleared the Diet Friday but only after lawmakers at the last minute managed to have a clause inserted to prevent what they claimed would be a surge in bogus paternal recognition cases.
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
By Kathryn Wortley

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 6th annual Sustainable Japan Award.
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 6th annual Sustainable Japan Award.

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