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COMMENTARY / World
Aug 18, 2008

Heading for global recession

The probability is growing that the global economy — not just the United States — will experience a serious recession. Recent developments suggest that all Group of Seven economies are already in recession or are close to tipping into one. Other advanced economies or emerging markets (the rest of...
EDITORIALS
Aug 18, 2008

Reining in abuse of temps

The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has started discussions that will eventually lead to stronger controls over the dispatch and use of temporary workers. The move will reverse the direction of the nation's basic labor policy. Labor market liberalization has progressed since the law on dispatched...
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 18, 2008

Free trade system is in danger of extinction

In July, the Doha negotiations, promising freer trade, broke down, ostensibly over a small technicality in safeguard rules. In reality, the talks collapsed because nobody was willing to take the political short-term hit by offending inefficient farmers and coddled domestic industries in order to create...
EDITORIALS
Aug 18, 2008

Unpersuasive economic advice

The Cabinet Office's 2008 report on the Japanese economy and public finances says the economy is now at a stalemate. To help invigorate the economy, the report urges enterprises and households to take more risks.
COMMENTARY
Aug 18, 2008

Natural enemy of warming

Severe drought reduced wheat production in Australia by as much as 60 percent in 2006. Other forms of climate change led to lower harvests of other farm products throughout the world. In a market economy, a decline in crop output results in excessive demand and spiraling prices, which in turn causes...
JAPAN
Aug 18, 2008

Fire damages Imperial Hotel second floor

A fire broke out Sunday night on the second floor of the main building of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, prompting hundreds of guests to evacuate, police said.
SPORTS / ODDS AND EVENS
Aug 18, 2008

Rivals heap praise on fastest man Bolt

BEIJING — The Los Angeles Times billed it as the "clash of the dash."
Japan Times
OLYMPICS / 2008 BEIJING OLYMPICS: SWIMMING
Aug 17, 2008

Phelps wins fly, ties Spitz with 7th gold

BEIJING — Michael Phelps has obliterated swimming records left and right during the 2008 Beijing Games.
OLYMPICS
Aug 17, 2008

Entering uncharted waters

BEIJING — Countless media reports have reminded readers that Michael Phelps will probably make millions of dollars in endorsement deals after the Summer Olympics.
Reader Mail
Aug 17, 2008

Sparing trees for the future

I was impressed with Victoria Oyama's Aug. 4 letter, "Bamboo wood best for chopsticks." In the early 1950s, bamboo was used for many purposes in cooking, farming and fishing. However, in the 1960s, Japan took up industrialization, and substitutes were used for bamboo products. So chopsticks are expensive...
Reader Mail
Aug 17, 2008

Assailed by mindless violence

One day last week, at 9:30 a.m., I was sitting in a theater filled with little kids and mamas. It was my 4-year old son's big day out with papa. My wife and I had been talking it up for a week and he was eager to see a delightful animation, "Ponyo." He was a little nervous sitting in the strange theater,...
EDITORIALS
Aug 17, 2008

Mr. Mugabe's maneuvers

Never count Mr. Robert Mugabe out. That is surely the lesson of events of the last few months. Despite losing presidential and parliamentary elections, facing regional and international criticism and potential isolation, Zimbabwe's president remains determined to maintain his grip on power.
SPORTS / ODDS AND EVENS
Aug 17, 2008

Opening week creates stories the world over

BEIJING — More than a week has rapidly gone by since the Beijing Olympics started, and in that time dozens of heart-warming stories have filled up space in newspapers from Swaziland to Saitama.
OLYMPICS / 2008 BEIJING OLYMPICS: TRACK AND FIELD
Aug 17, 2008

Bolt cruises to 100m Olympic gold

BEIJING — And the winner is — Usain "Lightning" Bolt!
Reader Mail
Aug 17, 2008

Victor's privileges to present day

In his Aug. 7 letter, "Prosecution hurdles needed," Jeffrey Snow argues that since "the Japanese police have a horrible track record of maintaining the rights of those under arrest," U.S. service members suspected of crimes must be protected from this defective justice system by all means.
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’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Government and bad actors are at the root of the foreign national issue
A maiko walks down a street crowded with tourists in Kyoto. Challenges that come with a massive influx of overseas visitors and foreign nationals buying up real estate are just some of the immigration problems that have become hot-button political issues in Japan.
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.
China delivers warning to U.S. and Japan with third aircraft carrier
The Fujian, China's third aircraft carrier, carries out sea trials at an unknown location in May last year.

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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
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