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Reader Mail
Apr 3, 2008

Domesticate effort to save dolphins

Regarding the March 30 article "Secret film will show slaughter to the world": I applaud the recent heroic actions of the Oceanic Preservation Society, among other groups, in their efforts to prevent the pointless slaughter of dolphins and whales -- by certain parties -- in Japan. However, the thing...
Reader Mail
Apr 3, 2008

Piece captures spirit of Ireland

I am a 17-year-old student from Ireland. While on the Internet, I stumbled across the March 30 article by Roger Pulvers titled "Ireland -- from the quintessence of reaction -- to what." I have never read an article that has captured my imagination so greatly. Never has my nation's soul and the identity...
Reader Mail
Apr 3, 2008

Data seem to contradict argument

I read the March 30 letter "What soldiers' criminal acts convey" with great interest as it was from a Japanese Okinawan. This is what I retain from the statistics offered by the author:
CULTURE / Art
Apr 3, 2008

Orphan and the Old Single

Yamamoto Gendai, Tokyo's Shirokane
CULTURE / Art
Apr 3, 2008

Kazunori Kumagai: Tap Secret

Tokyo's Aoyama Round Theater
Reader Mail
Apr 3, 2008

At the pleasure of the citizens

In his March 16 letter, "Homogeneity no excuse for profiling," Nick Wood claims that by virtue of his re-entry visa, he has just as much "right" to enter Japan as Japanese citizens, and as such, fingerprinting should be applied to "all" or "none at all."
BASKETBALL
Apr 2, 2008

DeWitz, Davis nab accolades

Big men have played a prominent roles for the Sendai 89ers and Tokyo Apache this season.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 2, 2008

Where will Next Town Brown resurface?

NEW YORK — Why would even the disseminators of fabrication sense Rick Carlisle is a consequential candidate to replace Isiah Thomas as Knicks coach?
COMMENTARY
Apr 2, 2008

U.K.'s ongoing EU headache

LONDON — What is a constitution? The question may seem to be a rarefied and abstruse one for lawyers and academics, but just at the moment it lies at the very heart of British politics and strategy.
BUSINESS
Apr 2, 2008

Outlook bleak, businesses say

Business sentiment among major manufacturers dropped by 8 points to 11, marking the biggest drop in three years, according to the latest Bank of Japan "tankan" survey released Tuesday.

Longform

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