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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 11, 2007

Marines' Fukuura opts to re-sign

Chiba Lotte Marines infielder Kazuya Fukuura has decided not to exercise his right to free agency and will re-sign with the Pacific League club, baseball sources said Saturday. The 31-year-old Fukuura will make ¥30 million less than this year on a one-year deal worth an estimated ¥150 million plus...
Reader Mail
Nov 11, 2007

The 'British' know what they want

Regarding David Howell's Nov. 3 article, "End of the United Kingdom?": Howell's comment that "Scotland was never a lesser nation annexed unwillingly by the British (not English)" is just the sort of comment made by those who choose to be "English" or "British" when it suits them.
Reader Mail
Nov 11, 2007

Burning the daylights out of energy

In their own homes, few people would burn lights in unused rooms, but the same individuals seem to pay no mind to a huge waste of electric lighting in public settings: train stations, shopping centers, etc. That's because, except for the rare breed of the environmentally principled, most people are...
MORE SPORTS
Nov 11, 2007

Suguri perseveres as rivals grow younger

Sometimes in life we tend to take things that endure for granted.
JAPAN
Nov 11, 2007

Nakasone-Reagan summit venue now memorial hall

in Tokyo on Saturday where he and then U.S. President Ronald Reagan once held summit talks. The memorial house used to be his private mountain retreat when he was prime minister. KYODO PHOTO
Reader Mail
Nov 11, 2007

Education, business don't mix

Regarding the Nov. 4 editorial "Nova burns out": While it's tempting to believe that what happened to students and teachers in the Nova fiasco is an aberration, the truth is that as long as education is run as a business similar disasters will occur. That's because entrepreneurs are interested solely...
CULTURE / Books
Nov 11, 2007

Trapped between borders

Frontier Mosaic: Voices of Burma from the Lands In Between, by Richard Humphries. Orchid Press, 2007, 180 pp., $29.95 (paper) "A man on a motorbike comes by and we then follow him through the streets of Mae Sot." So begins one of the narrative vignettes from "Frontier Mosaic." Based on extensive travel...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Nov 11, 2007

Cambodia's jungle treasure still stuns the senses

These days any number of people will delight in ruefully declaring how such and such a place has been ruined — overrun by tourists and commercialism — and, as if to rub salt into the wound, they'll tell you that if you'd only visited it when they first did, you too could have savored Paradise.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2007

Should we study race-intelligence links?

PRINCETON, New Jersey — The intersection of genetics and intelligence is an intellectual minefield. Harvard's former President Larry Summers touched off one explosion in 2005 when he tentatively suggested a genetic explanation for the difficulty his university had in recruiting female professors in...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Nov 11, 2007

Kroon's agent pessimistic over BayStars contract negotiations

You read here a couple of days ago what the Yokohama BayStars have to say about contract negotiations with ace closer Marc Kroon. Now, here's a word from the other side: Kroon's agent, Tony Cabral, says it is not looking good for the fire-balling right-hander to remain with the Central League club.
Reader Mail
Nov 11, 2007

Look for Ozawa to clean house

Regarding the Nov. 7 (early edition) editorial, "Bizarre offer to quit": I think that Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) leader Ichiro Ozawa's offer to resign was a brilliant political maneuver. Ozawa knew that his resignation would send the DPJ into a state of frenzy as there is no one in the party capable...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Nov 11, 2007

Employment issues special, weight loss special, Vermeer art special

Japan's employment situation is discussed in depth on "Nippon no Shukuzu: Sennin ni Kiku Haken no Honne (Japan in a Nutshell: A Thousand People Tell Their Real Feelings About Contract Work)" (NHK-G, Monday, 10 p.m.). About one-third of all workers in Japan are either part-timers, contract employees or...
BASKETBALL
Nov 11, 2007

Newton sparks unbeaten Evessa

Center Jeff Newton scored 32 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to lead the host Osaka Evessa to an 88-76 victory over the Takamatsu Five Arrows in their home opener.
Reader Mail
Nov 11, 2007

Why exempt Korean residents?

According to Jun Hongo's Nov. 8 article, "Will entry checks cross the line?," The new law requiring non-Japanese to submit to fingerprinting and photographing upon entering the country exempts "special permanent residents of Korean and Taiwanese descent" from this humiliating procedure.
Reader Mail
Nov 11, 2007

Logic behind Estrada's pardon

Regarding the Oct. 31 editorial, "A deal in Manila": The Embassy of the Philippines would like to stress that serving the national interest -- not political expediency -- guided President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's decision to grant executive clemency to former President Joseph Estrada.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Nov 11, 2007

Why trust the self-serving United States anymore?

I began by asking myself the question linked inevitably to the survival of the United States as a trusted nation in the 21st century: Why can't America admit defeat?

Longform

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