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BASKETBALL
Feb 10, 2008

Lottich leads Evessa to 20th win

Matt Lottich and the Osaka Evessa won their 20th game of the season on Saturday, beating the visiting Saitama Broncos 81-70.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 10, 2008

War rages against 'elites' of tolerance

AMSTERDAM — When "tolerance" becomes a term of abuse in a place like the Netherlands, you know that something has gone seriously wrong. The Dutch always took pride in being the most tolerant people on Earth.
COMMENTARY
Feb 10, 2008

The least bad option outside U.N. rules

LONDON — The Serbian presidential election last Sunday was a near-run thing, but in the end the good guy won. Not that President Boris Tadic is all that wonderful, but he positively glows with virtue in contrast to his opponent Tomislav Nikolic, an ultra-nationalist who served as a government minister...
Reader Mail
Feb 10, 2008

Cut the hype about Indian students

As an Indian national, I am asked almost routinely by Japanese friends and others how it is that Indian children can do two-digit calculations in their head, and whether that makes them superior to Japanese. Let me shed some light on this:
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Feb 10, 2008

Ruling in Powell case latest example of NPB ineptitude

"Only in Japan."
Reader Mail
Feb 10, 2008

Whale photos incite moral outrage

On Thursday morning I woke to see photographs taken by an Australian customs vessel in the whale sanctuary in the waters of Antarctica. A dead female minke whale, with its dead calf by its side, was being hauled into a Japanese whaling ship.
Japan Times
LIFE
Feb 10, 2008

A 'Wonderland' where monks call for foreign air strikes

Burma is a topsy-turvy sort of place, where surprises lurk and suddenly jump out at you.
Japan Times
LIFE
Feb 10, 2008

Eyewitness: Burma from the inside

Burma's Bloody September came home to people in Japan with the slaying of veteran freelance photojournalist Kenji Nagai on Sept. 27, 2007 in Yangon during a mass demonstration. The video clip showing him being gunned down by a Burmese soldier at point-blank range was repeatedly aired, arousing public...
Reader Mail
Feb 10, 2008

More pressing than sports patrol

Regarding the Feb. 3 Associated Press article "Goodell having trouble shedding Spygate controversy": I would like to thank U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter (a Pennsylvania Republican) for his interest in keeping the National Football League free of rule-breakers. It's nice to see our elected officials working...
Japan Times
LIFE
Feb 10, 2008

Stricken land of soldiers and slaves

The Saffron Revolution is Burma's 9/11; much will never be the same again after the killing, arrest and torture of monks by the government.
Reader Mail
Feb 10, 2008

Let the Crown Princess breathe

Regarding the Feb. 7 Associated Press article "Crown Princess panned for living high": The Crown Princess's free-time activities make up one of the biggest nonstories I think I've ever read. Going riding and dining at a Mexican restaurant are hardly indulgences that are going to tip the country back...
Reader Mail
Feb 10, 2008

Patriotic love can't be compelled

Regarding the Feb. 5 article "Kanagawa to keep tracking anti-anthem instructors": Any country that attempts to compel anyone, for any reason, to stand and sing a patriotic song should stop and ask itself why it would be necessary to do this.
EDITORIALS
Feb 10, 2008

Entrance exam blues

Entrance exam season is here again. All over the country, students hoping to enter universities are showing their ID cards, sitting down at desks and answering question after question. The hope and anxiety of many young people and their families, not to mention that of their teachers and principals,...
EDITORIALS
Feb 10, 2008

Research in and out of Japan

A recent survey by the Education, Science and Technology Ministry revealed that a record 140,000 researchers went abroad in fiscal 2005. This is the largest number of Japanese scholars and scientists ever sent abroad to investigate the world outside Japan. These researchers, 10 percent more than in 2004,...
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Feb 10, 2008

Kurosawa cohort tells illuminating Showa tails

Alongside great artists are those who witness their triumphs and setbacks, recording behind-the-scenes episodes that illuminate the processes of art.
Japan Times
LIFE
Feb 10, 2008

Film focuses on 'the other Burma'

Here, in Irene Marty's film titled "In the Shadow of the Pagodas — The Other Burma," we encounter the wretched of the Earth. This haunting documentary gives a voice to Burma's traumatized ethnic nationalities, taking us to the war-ravaged border regions where internally displaced people struggle to...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Feb 10, 2008

Chinese women striving through history, hero cop docu-drama, African history game show

Chinese women get respect in the two-hour Nihon TV special "Onnatachi no Chugoku (Women's China)" (Monday, 9 p.m.), which looks at the country's female citizens and 4,000 years of history.
JAPAN
Feb 10, 2008

Russian bomber detected violating Japanese airspace

A Russian air force bomber briefly violated Japanese airspace over the uninhabited island of Sofugan just south of Tokyo on Saturday, the Foreign Ministry said.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Feb 10, 2008

Tickets for Red Sox-A's openers not expected to last long

The posters are up on the trains and ads in the Japanese sports papers are ballyhooing the sale of tickets to the Boston Red Sox vs. Oakland Athletics openers and the preceding exhibition games at Tokyo Dome March 22-26.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 10, 2008

G7 finance chiefs vow to help markets

The Group of Seven finance ministers and central bank chiefs vowed Saturday to help stabilize volatile situations in financial markets but stopped short of proposing concrete measures, including unified interest rate cuts, to fend off a global recession.
BUSINESS
Feb 10, 2008

FSF urges financial firms to reveal bottom lines

The Financial Stability Forum, an advisory panel to the G7 composed of central bankers and regulators, urged financial institutions Saturday to spit out the bottom line on the losses they've taken from the U.S. subprime mortgage loan crisis.
Reader Mail
Feb 10, 2008

It's called justice, not revenge

Regarding Henri Huysegoms Feb. 7 letter, "No place for official revenge" (about the execution of three condemned convicts in December): I agree with Huysegoms that life must be valued and that there was no death penalty in Japan during the Heian Period (eighth through 12th century).
Reader Mail
Feb 10, 2008

Coach is gone and good riddance

Bobby Knight has retired as coach of the Texas Tech basketball team ("Legendary Knight steps aside," The Japan Times, Feb. 6). Thank God I won't have to hear about him anymore. Being the winningest coach in U.S. college basketball history saved him from his just deserts as an awful human being. The...

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