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May 12, 2008

Deep Sky dazzles in NHK Mile Cup victory

Race favorite Deep Sky pocketed the first of the spring slew of Tokyo G1s Sunday at Fuchu as the Agnes Tachyon colt topped a full gate of 3-year-olds to win by a length-and-three-quarter margin over third choice Black Shell.
EDITORIALS
May 12, 2008

Smaller enterprises falling behind

The fiscal 2007 government white paper on small and medium-size enterprises points to hard times. While the expansion of the Japanese economy slowly pushes up their profitability, the gap between them and large enterprises is widening. Largely dependent on domestic demand and public works, they suffer...
SOCCER / J. League
May 12, 2008

Honda's strike leads S-Pulse past Kashima

SHIZUOKA (AP) Struggling Shimizu S-Pulse survived a late onslaught to stun fading Kashima Antlers 1-0 in the J. League on Sunday.
EDITORIALS
May 12, 2008

Legal services for everyone

On April 1, 2006, Nihon Shiho Shien Senta (Japan Legal Support Center) or Ho Terasu (Law Terrace) was established to offer people easy access to legal services. It began operation on Oct. 2 that year. Although two years have passed, only 22 percent of those recently polled know of Ho Terrace. More publicity...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
May 11, 2008

Aoki top Japanese player in bj-league

Cohey Aoki settled into a comfortable groove as the starting point guard of the Tokyo Apache.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
May 11, 2008

Veteran Nakamura says move to bj-league the right decision for ex-JBL club

Kazuo Nakamura never minces his words. And this characteristic doesn't change, even on a formal, introductory occasion.
BASKETBALL
May 11, 2008

Hatano files for free agency

Osaka Evessa small forward Kazuya Hatano has filed for free agency, the bj-league team announced on Saturday.
SOCCER / J. League
May 11, 2008

Edmilson lifts Reds over Frontale

KAWASAKI — A single moment of skill lit up an otherwise dreary game to give Urawa Reds a 1-0 win over Kawasaki Frontale on Saturday.
COMMENTARY / World
May 11, 2008

1968 French revolution left an elusive legacy

BRUSSELS — "Dany, you have been so successful. But don't let yourself be manipulated by those far-left forces that would lead you to destroy everything that could arise from what you are creating."
Reader Mail
May 11, 2008

The Japanese view of ending life

Regarding David Quintero's May 4 letter, "High Japanese suicide rate mystifies," and the question he poses (Why do so many Japanese people kill themselves?): I don't have a definitive answer, but I have come up with a few theories:
Reader Mail
May 11, 2008

Ignorance of foreign knowledge

Walt Gardner's May 4 letter, "Naming and shaming doesn't help," makes a significant prescription: "Japan is not Finland. But that's no reason to reject out of hand lessons learned from the other side of the globe." As an education consultant and business English instructor in Japan for 17 years, I have...
Reader Mail
May 11, 2008

East jump-started West's progress

Guy Sorman's May 1 article, "What exactly is the West," is the most confused piece of writing I ever read, displaying an amazing ignorance of the world and its history that only the French are capable of! Sorman claims the progress made in Europe in the last few centuries, including some progress in...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 11, 2008

Ramirez clubs game-winning hit

Alex Ramirez didn't get to do his home run dance against the Chunichi Dragons, so he gave Yomiuri Giants fans something to dance about instead.
Reader Mail
May 11, 2008

Forefront of humanitarian work

It was nice to see in the Pakistani newspaper Dawn (May 7) the photo of a Japanese young lady, a member of the Follow the Women Foundation, visiting a refugee camp in Damascus, Syria. She was part of a group of 300 women from 26 countries who took part in the event in pursuit of their campaign for peace...
Reader Mail
May 11, 2008

Measure of Christian influence

I read with great interest Florian Coulmas' May 4 article, "Japan as a land of many religions," which was a review of the book "Prophet Motive" -- about the important role played by Oomoto founder Deguchi Onisaburo, founder of the "highly successful syncretistic sect" Oomoto.
Reader Mail
May 11, 2008

Constitutional checks necessary

I too agree that we should keep whatever is necessary in Japan's Constitution to keep peace. If the efforts to change it are some kind of ploy by conflicting government parties to acquire and increase power, the results will be all the worse and meaningless. As so often is the case, gestures hide underlying...
Japan Times
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
May 11, 2008

Minchey comes back to Japan as scout for Indians

One-time Hiroshima Carp and Chiba Lotte Marines pitcher Nate Minchey was back in the country this week in his current capacity as a scout for the Cleveland Indians.
EDITORIALS
May 11, 2008

Coping with new strains of flu

The Diet has passed revisions to the Infectious Disease Law and the Quarantine Law to effectively cope with a possible outbreak of new types of influenza. There is fear that deadly new types of influenza will emerge, since the H5N1 bird flu is spreading mainly in Southeast Asia and bird-to-human infection...
Reader Mail
May 11, 2008

Winners in war remain hidden

The April 30 article about Raymond "Hap" Halloran, "War trauma leads to efforts to reconcile," brought tears to my eyes. Not so much the part about his being displayed as a war prisoner at Tokyo's Ueno Zoo in 1945, but the very end of the article, where Halloran declares that he has no answer as to what...

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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