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COMMENTARY / World
Dec 6, 2007

Time to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq

The American people no longer support the war in Iraq. The war is being carried on by a stubborn president who, like Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon during the Vietnam War, does not want to lose. But from the beginning this has been an ill-considered and poorly prosecuted war that, like the Vietnam...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 6, 2007

"Kami no Benki/Kami no Koku"

Setagaya Public Theatre Dec. 13-16/Dec. 20-23
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 6, 2007

Picking up where science slips

When it comes to giving us a handle on the world we live in, science no longer cuts it. In its latest incarnations — superstring and M-theory — it postulates 10, 11 or even more dimensions, only three or four of which we can perceive. Science's explanation of matter is equally unsatisfying. Since...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 6, 2007

Wal-Mart raises Seiyu stake to 95% to speed up retailer's turnaround

Wal-Mart Stores has raised its stake in supermarket chain Seiyu to 95.1 percent, Seiyu said Wednesday, marking the U.S. retailer's latest attempt to solidify its foothold in the difficult Japanese market.
BUSINESS
Dec 6, 2007

Suzuki shifts into overdrive in Indian car market

Despite intensifying competition, Suzuki Motor Corp. won't give up its 55 percent share of the market in India without a fight, company Chairman and CEO Osamu Suzuki vowed Wednesday.
Reader Mail
Dec 6, 2007

Japan risks becoming extinct

Regarding the Nov. 29 article "Workforce may shrink by millions by 2030: study": I was surprised to read that among the various methods for increasing the workforce, such as expanded use of women, immigration was not mentioned. For Japan, immigration is the future and a necessity. It is not a "luxury"...
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 6, 2007

Put production of food ahead of biofuel

PRAGUE — When United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon recently visited Antarctica, he was impressed by the melting ice he saw there. Then he was in Brazil, where he was impressed by the country's use of biofuel to power a quarter of its automotive traffic. Oil pressed from rapeseed can be used...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Dec 6, 2007

Out from under noh's shadow

'F or kyogen actors, Japan losing the war in 1945 was a wonderful event as it liberated kyogen from its long subjugation to noh," actor Shigeyama Sennojo says. "For the first time in 400 years, kyogen was recognized as an independent form of theater."
COMMENTARY
Dec 6, 2007

Israel's ticking time bomb

LONDON — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was just back from the Annapolis summit where U.S. President George W. Bush tried to reboot the moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. More importantly, last week was also the 60th anniversary of the United Nations vote that divided British-ruled Palestine...
JAPAN
Dec 6, 2007

Lawmakers agree to bare their expenses

After a month of discussion, the ruling and opposition camps reached a working-level accord Wednesday to improve transparency in political spending by requiring political bodies to keep receipts for all expenditures exceeding ¥1.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 6, 2007

Look back in anger

One way to learn what happened in one of history's most noxious but disputed episodes is to ask Satoru Mizushima. After what he calls "exhaustive research" on the seizure of the then Chinese capital Nanjing by Japanese troops in 1937, estimated to have cost anywhere from 20,000 to 300,000 lives, Mizushima...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Dec 6, 2007

"Norbert Schwontkowski: My Face in My Next Life"

Gallery Side 2
BUSINESS
Dec 6, 2007

Japan may limit airport privatization

The government may set limits on airport privatization after Macquarie Airports bought 20 percent of the terminal operator at Haneda, Tokyo's main domestic hub.
EDITORIALS
Dec 6, 2007

Time for action

Delegates from some 190 nations have gathered in Bali, Indonesia, to negotiate a new framework to combat global warming. The Bali conference only represents the first round of negotiations that may continue into 2009. But at stake is the sustainability of the Earth itself, which is facing the danger...
Reader Mail
Dec 6, 2007

Terrorists often have clean records

Regarding the Nov. 27 Views From the Street question, "Does fingerprinting foreign arrivals help Japan in its 'war on terror'?": One respondent says, "I don't think it really helps fight terrorism." This is quite correct. Extremist organizations often, if not usually, employ young people without criminal...
BASKETBALL
Dec 5, 2007

Albirex's Ikeda, Evessa's Hatano lead voting for bj-league All-Star Game

Niigata Albirex BB forward Yuichi Ikeda and Osaka Evessa forward Kazuya Hatano are the leading vote-getters for the 2007-08 bj-league All-Star Game, the league announced on Tuesday.
Tokyo emerges as a top market for global tech talent
Tokyo ranks among the world's top tech talent hubs alongside Beijing, the San Francisco Bay Area, Bengaluru, Paris, New York and Dublin, according to Colliers' newly released global tech markets report.
JSA’s 100th anniversary event is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for sumo fans
Egyptian wrestler Osunaarashi has some fun with children during a special Japan Sumo Association event in 2017.
Tens of millions of yen found at home of Aum Shinrikyo founder's wife
The house of the wife of the late Chizuo Matsumoto, the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult's founder, in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, in July
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs
Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say a new type of gut bacteria named YB328 could help unlock the potential of cancer immunotherapy.
Living conditions index hits lowest level in 15 years in Japan
The share of respondents to a Bank of Japan quarterly survey in June who said they have become worse off came to 61.0%, up 5.1 percentage points from the previous survey.
Kawaii Lab redefines idol pop for the TikTok generation
Misa Kimura is the main producer for Kawaii Lab, a project by entertainment agency Asobisystem whose groups have found success by pairing a social media-first strategy with a fresh perspective on traditional idol-pop tropes.
Craig Mod's life in motion in a disappearing Japan
Mod's memoir “Things Become Other Things” chronicles his walking trips across the Kii Peninsula, surveying “a graceful end to a certain life cycle.”
With China and Trump, Japan defense report says world entering ‘new era of crisis’
A senior member of a Self-Defense Forces honor guard inspects a formation before the arrival of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for a visit to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 30.
Tokyo stocks hit by a perfect storm of tariffs, politics and budget worries
Tokyo stocks are underperforming shares in other large markets globally.
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs
Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say a new type of gut bacteria named YB328 could help unlock the potential of cancer immunotherapy.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan
By Megha Wadhwa

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