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Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Sep 9, 2008

Tackling the 'Zainichi' experience

Sitting across from best-selling New York author Min Jin Lee in a Tokyo expat cafe, I can't help thinking that the heroine of her debut novel "Free Food For Millionaires" is the one sipping ice tea and talking sex. Like Lee, protagonist Casey Han is unusually tall, refined in speech, and deeply interested...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2008

Foreign health officials tour facility

Thirteen foreign health care officials taking part in a training program in Japan took a tour Monday of Kaikaya, a day-care center operated by game maker Namco Ltd.in Yokohama, to experience entertainment-oriented care.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 9, 2008

Powell wins but misses Bolt's mark

RIETI, Italy (AP) Asafa Powell won the 100 meters at the Rieti Grand Prix in 9.82 seconds on Sunday, failing to reprise his world-record effort at the meet last year.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Sep 9, 2008

What do you make of Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda's decision to quit?

BUSINESS
Sep 9, 2008

Bank lending growth stalls as bankruptcies rise

Lending growth at banks failed to accelerate for the second straight month in August as the economy moved closer to a recession and rising bankruptcies among real-estate companies forced banks to cut earnings forecasts, Bank of Japan data showed Monday.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Sep 9, 2008

The withered middle-aged guy becomes a hot item in Japan's dating market

If you happen to be an over-45 male, looking a little tired, inclined to decline party invitations because you can't stand the hassle, comfortable in your own company and not really caring what other people think — so, the news is ALL good, at least in urban Japan. You are, or are extremely close...
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2008

Chongryon chief says Japan must compensate North Korea

Japan needs to compensate North Korea for its wartime aggression before ties with Pyongyang can be normalized, Ho Jong Man, head of the Chongryon group of North Korean residents in Japan, said Monday.
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2008

Japanese and Chinese differ on diplomatic ties

More than 80 percent of Chinese are optimistic about future ties with Japan, while only 32 percent of Japanese feel likewise, a bilateral survey released Monday shows.
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2008

Fukuda comes out of hiding at last, speaks to reporters

Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda, who refused to speak to reporters since suddenly announcing his resignation Sept. 1, finally came out of hiding Monday evening, claiming he has not been avoiding the media.
JAPAN
Sep 9, 2008

Ozawa given a new DPJ mandate

Ichiro Ozawa's third term as president of the Democratic Party of Japan was effectively confirmed Monday when no one chose to run against him.
EDITORIALS
Sep 8, 2008

¥30 trillion in cash

The Bank of Japan estimated in late August that ¥30 trillion worth of ¥10,000 bills are tucked away inside households throughout the country. This staggering amount of money may not seem much compared to the financial asset total of Japanese households, estimated at ¥1,500 trillion, but it is a serious...
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 8, 2008

Russia must change course

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, it has seemed that new rules were being established for the conduct of international relations in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The watchwords were independence and interdependence; sovereignty and mutual responsibility; cooperation and common interests....
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 8, 2008

The next crisis could take place in Ukraine

PRAGUE — The Russian invasion of Georgia has sent shock waves throughout the West and the former Soviet space — especially Ukraine. Indeed, Ukraine could be the next potential crisis.
COMMENTARY
Sep 8, 2008

Why Japan's leaders matter to Americans

CALIF. — These days, when a Japanese prime minister resigns, the temptation is to say just two things. One is "ho," and the other is "hum."
EDITORIALS
Sep 8, 2008

Con artists calling

Remittance scams ("furikome sagi") in which swindlers dupe people into sending them money, appear to be rapidly rising in number. The National Police Agency reported 11,755 cases of remittance fraud involving ¥16.69 billion from January to June, for the worst first half-year period since 2004, when...
MORE SPORTS
Sep 8, 2008

Toddler golfer notches hole-in-one

BELLEVILLE, Ill. (AP) Look out Tiger Woods, 5-year-old Drew Gray's got game.
COMMENTARY
Sep 8, 2008

Finding accord in the fight

On July 7, when leaders of the Group of Eight industrialized nations gathered at Toyako Lake, Hokkaido, for their annual summit, I happened to be in Istanbul for the opening session of the multinational Global Conference on Global Warming.
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
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.
Chinese national sentenced for hit-and-run that injured four children in Saitama
A Saitama district court sentenced Deng Hongpeng, a Chinese national and demolition worker, to two years and six months in prison, suspended for four years, for hitting a group of elementary school children with his car and fleeing the scene while driving under the influence.
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 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.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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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
By Yukana Inoue

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