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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.
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2007

Inmates claim doctor abused them, sparking riot

A doctor at a prison in Tokushima Prefecture regularly abused inmates physically, sparking a riot last month in which several guards were injured, lawyers for the inmates said Tuesday.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Dec 5, 2007

Wizards finally recognize 'Earl the Pearl'

NEW YORK — There's so much I had forgotten I never knew about Earl Monroe, I'm sorry to admit.
BUSINESS
Dec 5, 2007

Yahoo Japan, eBay team up on auctions

Yahoo Japan Corp. and eBay Inc. agreed Tuesday to team up on online auctions and plan to launch services next year that will make it easier to make purchases via the Internet from the United States and Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 5, 2007

Hepatitis disaster another warning ignored

Ikuko Kuno gave birth to her first son at a maternity hospital in Ise, Mie Prefecture, in May 1988. The only thing different from when she gave birth to her daughter in 1986 was that the obstetrician gave her a blood-clotting agent to stop her hemorrhaging.

Longform

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