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COMMENTARY / World
Sep 15, 2008

Bailout raises moral issues

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The United States government's takeover of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac constitutes a huge bailout of these institutions' creditors, whose losses have ballooned as house prices continue to plummet. With the government now fully guaranteeing Fannie's and Freddie's debts,...
EDITORIALS
Sep 15, 2008

Lessons from Libya

Ignored amid the feverish speculation over Japan's next prime minister and the rumored illness of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was a development of real significance: the visit of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Libya. Her stopover marks the highest-ranking U.S. visit there in over half...
EDITORIALS
Sep 14, 2008

Worrisome NSG agreement

India has won a significant victory in its efforts to claim an exception to rules designed to thwart the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Delhi did not accomplish this on its own: It got considerable help from Washington, which seeks to build a new relationship with the world's largest democracy.
BASKETBALL
Sep 14, 2008

Big changes across bj-league in offseason

The bj-league's offseason shakeup continues.
SOCCER / J. League
Sep 14, 2008

Oita's stifling defense frustrates host Reds

Oita Trinita frustrated Urawa Reds with a stifling defensive performance to earn a 0-0 draw and stay firmly in the J. League title hunt on Saturday.
COMMENTARY
Sep 14, 2008

Oily moves to compensate

LONDON — Libya was the diplomatic crossroads of the planet last weekend: Condoleezza Rice made the first visit by a U.S. secretary of State in 55 years (to discuss a murky deal involving payments to American victims of terrorist attacks allegedly sponsored by Libya); radical Bolivian President Evo...
Reader Mail
Sep 14, 2008

Same word for English, Spanish

The Sept. 10 article "JICA textbook project helps kids learn 'Guatematica' " states that matematica is the Spanish word for arithmetic. That is incorrect. Matematica means math (mathematics). In Spanish, arithmetic is aritmetica. The words in both English and Spanish have the same Latin and Greek origins....
Reader Mail
Sep 14, 2008

Sumo wrestlers judged too fast

The Sept. 10 editorial "Put sumo back on course" is itself way off course. First of all, for some reason, Japanese Sumo has not had any organized system for drug testing, although it is likely that steroids have been used.
Reader Mail
Sep 14, 2008

Flagging spirit dogged Fukuda

Regarding the Sept. 9 Views From the Street question "What do you make of Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's decision to quit?": Fukuda showed a lack of political spirit. He made an effort domestically to improve the nation's devastating finances and, internationally, to improve the cold relationship with...
Reader Mail
Sep 14, 2008

Escaping a swindler's clutches

The Sept. 8 editorial "Con artists calling" was a very important one for me, because a close friend of mine who retired two years ago had a similar experience. His case involved what the editorial refers to as a refund-type fraud.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 14, 2008

Abe lifts Giants over Swallows in slugfest

The Yomiuri Giants hit a home run in their first at-bat and the runs just kept on coming.
Reader Mail
Sep 14, 2008

Women-only train cars shameful

When I stayed in the United States, I realized how advanced public transportation is in Japan. But there is one thing about our train system that I am ashamed of: the women-only passenger car. India also has this system, but Indians adopted it for religious reasons. In Japan, it was adopted because of...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 14, 2008

Nepali 'democracy' unlikely to push peace

ATLANTA — Nepal's special assembly has chosen Maoist chief Prachanda as prime minister over Sher Bahadur Deuba, a three-time former prime minister from the Nepali Congress party.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Sep 14, 2008

Buffs flexing muscles as stretch run begins

The Big Boys have finally arrived in Kobe.
Reader Mail
Sep 14, 2008

'Foreign' baby born in Japan

Find out who wrote the Sept. 10 Kyodo brief "Foreign infant left at baby hatch." I'm sorry, but "foreign infant" is a very bad description. Was the baby abandoned at Jikei Hospital in Kumamoto half Japanese? Was it Caucasian? Is it "foreign" if it was born in Japan? As the baby will probably be raised...
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.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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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