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LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Sep 23, 2008

In Japanese, flattery will get you everywhere

In directing plays over the years, it has always struck me how clever actors are at producing insulting dialogue in the early stages of rehearsals. From the first day of rehearsal, they have the invective of their characters virtually down pat. When their character is called upon to say something nice...
JAPAN
Sep 23, 2008

Self-styled hawk Aso displays a dovish side on foreign policy

Following back-to-back prime ministerial resignations by conservative star Shinzo Abe and political dove Yasuo Fukuda, where does the new president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party rate on the hawk-dove scale?
TENNIS
Sep 22, 2008

Awesome Safina breezes to Toray Pan Pacific win

Russia's Dinara Safina hailed her "best ever tennis" as she swept past compatriot Svetlana Kuznetsova to win the Toray Pan Pacific Open final in straight sets on Sunday.
COMMENTARY
Sep 22, 2008

Brace for Bush's last hurrah

The good news is that U.S. President George W. Bush is not going to invade Iran before he leaves office. The bad news is that he is attacking Pakistan instead.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2008

Time for 'people power' in the Caucasus

PRAGUE — For the past month, women in Georgia who were displaced from Abkhazia during the 1993 conflict have witnessed history moving backward; everything they lived through 15 years ago is repeating itself. These women are now hosting a new flood of displaced civilians from Abkhazia and South Ossetia...
COMMENTARY
Sep 22, 2008

The road to Yasukuni's survival

On Aug. 15, Japanese newspapers carried the obituary of an American citizen by the name of William Kenneth Bunce, who died in Chestertown, Md., at the age of 100.
EDITORIALS
Sep 22, 2008

Trail of tainted rice

Although the scandal in which tainted rice was resold to some 380 companies in 24 prefectures highlights outrageous behavior on the part of an Osaka rice-flour processor, the resignation of farm minister Mr. Seiichi Ota indicates that the farm ministry was also to blame. The ministry should determine...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 22, 2008

Indonesia's miraculous 'free' democracy

JAKARTA — Modern miracles do happen. Ten years ago, as the Asian financial crisis savaged Indonesia's economy, many experts predicted that the country would become unstable, if not splinter. Instead, Indonesia, the world's most populous Islamic country, has emerged as a beacon of freedom and democracy...
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 22, 2008

Rays reach playoffs

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) The playoffs beckoned, and just as they've handled other challenges this season, the Tampa Bay Rays took a leap forward.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 22, 2008

Maritim wins Sydney Marathon

SYDNEY (AP) Julius Maritim won his fourth straight Sydney Marathon on Sunday, finishing five minutes ahead of fellow Kenyan Benson Mbithi in mostly ideal running conditions.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 22, 2008

Giants muscle in on Tigers' lead

The Hanshin Tigers have spent virtually the entire season alone in first place in the Central League
JAPAN
Sep 22, 2008

Ozawa gets third term at DPJ helm

Pledging to wrest control of the government in the looming general election, Ichiro Ozawa was officially given a third term as president of the Democratic Party of Japan at a party convention Sunday in Tokyo.
SOCCER
Sep 22, 2008

Arsenal goes top as Reds stumble

LONDON (AP) Arsenal beat Bolton 3-1 to jump to the top of the Premier League on Saturday after Liverpool was held 0-0 at home by Stoke.
EDITORIALS
Sep 22, 2008

A nuclear-powered presence

The George Washington, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the U.S. Navy, will arrive at Yokosuka on Thursday to replace the oil-powered Kitty Hawk. This will be the first time that a Japanese port serves as a home port for a nuclear-powered carrier. As the situation will be equivalent to installing...
JAPAN
Sep 22, 2008

Ozawa, DPJ have to prove they can govern

Now that Ichiro Ozawa has officially been handed a third term as president of the Democratic Party of Japan, the DPJ is gearing up for the upcoming general election in hopes of taking control of the government under Ozawa's leadership.
JAPAN
Sep 22, 2008

Shirakawa's BOJ finally joins coordinated action

When the subprime crisis ran riot and U.S. and European central banks launched a series of coordinated assaults earlier this year, Bank of Japan Gov. Masaaki Shirakawa stood aside and merely released statements hailing his peers' efforts.
COMMENTARY
Sep 21, 2008

The Japanese knack for choking in a slump

Japan used to be held up in the United States as a model example, both of efficient economic management and efficient enterprise management. That economic management image disappeared with the "bubble" burst of the early 1990s.
EDITORIALS
Sep 21, 2008

New, centenarian society

This year's Respect for the Aged Day, last Monday, found a lot more aged to respect than ever before. According to Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry statistics, over 36,000 people in Japan are now over 100 years old. Many others are close behind. Over 28 million people were aged 65 and over, one-quarter...
Reader Mail
Sep 21, 2008

No substitute for Japanese rice

Since moving here to the other side of the planet, I have never ceased wondering what it would be like to live in any number of other places in the world, because it's fascinating that human beings live everywhere. I am entertained by the notion that every little village I can find in my atlas supports...
BASKETBALL
Sep 21, 2008

KBL champion defeats Evessa

The Korean Basketball League's Wonju Dongbu Promy defeated the host Osaka Evessa 85-71 on Friday in the first game of the 2008 bj-league/KBL series before 5,850 fans.
Reader Mail
Sep 21, 2008

That missing native quality

In his Sept. 2 article, "Once a 'gaijin,' always a 'gaijin,' " Debito Arudou seems beside himself with the prospect that he, a naturalized Japanese who adopted Japan as his home and who made efforts to learn the language and customs, will likely never be fully accepted by the Japanese as a Japanese....
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.
Descendants in Philippines denied Japanese citizenship
As attacks surge, who can cull bears in Japan?
Police cars leave the Akita Prefectural Police headquarters to cull bears, in the city of Akita on Thursday.
Japan may triple departure tax to tackle overtourism
A plane takes off from Haneda Airport.
What would a ‘backup capital’ look like for Japan?
The Japan Innovation Party has long sought to get Osaka designated as Japan's backup capital.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.
Tatsuya Nakadai: A masterful leading man and postwar icon
Tatsuya Nakadai had the look of a leading man in his youth, but his large and searching eyes suggested the pain and loneliness of an old soul.
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.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Longform

Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
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