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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 5, 2007

Marines hammer Nippon Ham's Kanemura in runaway win

CHIBA — Before Saturday's game against the Chiba Lotte Marines, Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters manager Trey Hillman said he wanted a better performance out of Satoru Kanemura than he had seen in the pitcher's last two starts.
Reader Mail
Aug 5, 2007

Fujimori had duel nationality

Some Japan Times articles on former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori (who unsuccessfully ran for an Upper House seat in last Sunday's election) have said he was "granted Japanese nationality" in 2000. But this is not true.
Reader Mail
Aug 5, 2007

An apology from one American

Regarding Kiroku Hanai's July 23 article, "U.S. owes A-bomb apology": I find the article sincere and having merit after living in Japan and learning for myself more of what was behind World War II and the colonization of Asia by Britain, France, the United States and other countries.
Reader Mail
Aug 5, 2007

Unlimited self-righteousness

Regarding Robert Harte's July 29 letter, "Brazen demand for apology," in response to Kiroku Hanai's article: Whose demand is brazen? Harte's comment is a typical example of American self-righteousness and hubris.
Reader Mail
Aug 5, 2007

Burden should rest on the state

Having been called and served on juries several times during my life, including one case of homicide, I cannot understand all the anguish that is taking place over the new lay judge/jury system set to begin in Japan in a couple years.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 5, 2007

Conversion in France's Foreign Ministry

PRAGUE — French President Nicolas Sarkozy's appointment of Bernard Kouchner as France's foreign minister was a brilliant political stroke. Having beaten his Socialist rival, Segolene Royal, Sarkozy decided to compound the Socialists' crisis by appointing to his government several political figures...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Aug 5, 2007

Coolbaugh's death reminds everyone to stay alert at ballpark

You read about the recent tragedy involving Mike Coolbaugh, the minor league Tulsa Drillers first coach who died after being hit by a line drive off the bat of one of his players. I never met Mike but knew his brother Scott, who played third base for the Hanshin Tigers in 1995.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Aug 5, 2007

Keeping the horror of Hiroshima alive

Masako's Story: Surviving the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima, by Kikuko Otake, edited by Dr. Jesse Glass. Tokyo/Toronto: Ahadada Books, 2007, 94 pp. with photos and maps, $15 (paper) The cenotaph for the Hiroshima victims reads "Let all the souls here rest in peace, for we shall not repeat the evil," but...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Aug 5, 2007

Celeb candidates stung by real election hero

TV Tokyo began its summary coverage of last Sunday's Upper House election later than the other stations, and included some genuine theater: A short dramatization of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's "crushing defeat."
CULTURE / Books
Aug 5, 2007

Japan's war memories, so often misrepresented

JAPAN'S CONTESTED WAR MEMORIES: The "Memory Rifts" in Historical Consciousness of WWII, by Philip A. Seaton. Routledge, 2007, 258 pp., £75 (cloth) Stereotypical images of Japanese collectively in denial about the atrocities committed by the Imperial armed forces are grossly misleading and overlook...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Aug 5, 2007

Superstar fortuneteller, Nuremberg trials special, manga dramatization of WWII

Superstar fortuneteller Kazuko Hosoki usually works her caustic consultations on pliable, willing celebrities, most of whom take her harsh criticisms to heart. It will be interesting to see how her style goes down in Hollywood.
Japan Times
LIFE
Aug 5, 2007

Nuclear hell revisited

Two years ago, Michel Pomarede, a French journalist working for France Culture, a French national radio station, visited Japan for the first time. He came with the aim of making a mammoth, 17-hour program about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Aug. 6 and 9, 1945, to accompany the 60th-anniversary...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Aug 5, 2007

Antiwar activist Steven L. Leeper

In a sense, it is the ultimate irony: The man appointed to oversee the memorial to victims of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945 by an American B-29 aircraft is . . . an American.
EDITORIALS
Aug 5, 2007

A special relationship endures

The departure of British Prime Minister Tony Blair raised questions in London and Washington about the future of trans-Atlantic relations. At their summit last weekend, U.S. President George W. Bush and his new British counterpart, Prime Minister Gordon Brown, made it clear that the personnel change...
Reader Mail
Aug 5, 2007

Conflicting habits on health

As a retired doctor of internal medicine and hematology -- and a strong advocate of the Japanese -- I have noted, while visiting from the United States, the conflicting habits of wearing a mask for a cold or respiratory illness for the safety of others, and then ignoring the potential of spreading...
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Aug 5, 2007

Tojo and Bush: Trumpeting delusion on their way to defeat

Writing in the New York Times on July 17, the newspaper's well-known columnist David Brooks reported on a White House press conference he attended on July 13. "[Pres.] Bush was assertive and good-humored," Brooks noted.
BASKETBALL
Aug 4, 2007

Golden Kings appoint Yasunaga

The Ryukyu Golden Kings, one of the two expansion teams for the 2007-08 bj-league season, announced the appointment of former New Jersey Nets executive Junichi Yasunaga as a director of the Okinawa-based club. The 40-year-old Yasunaga was hired by the Nets in 1995 and has worked mainly in the team's...
Foreign nationals' presence in Japan emerges as key issue in Upper House poll
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a campaign speech next to a Liberal Democratic Party candidate for the Upper House (top center left) in Yokohama on Sunday.
Trump announces new tariff rate on Japan — and extension of deadline to Aug. 1
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a trade letter sent by the White House to Japan during a news conference at the White House in Washington on Monday.
China’s housing crisis is worse than it seems
Residential buildings under construction in Shanghai in July 2022. The Chinese government risks long-term decline by repeating Japan’s policy mistakes in handling its real estate and demographic crises.
Japan braces for more quakes as authorities dismiss doomsday hype
Evacuees from Akuseki Island, located in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecuture, arrive at Kagoshima Port on Friday.
Japan stands its ground after Trump letter delivers 25% U.S. tariff shock
U.S. President Donald Trump (left) and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick at Morristown Airport, New Jersey, on Sunday. Trump on Monday sent letters to 12 countries notifying them of new "reciprocal" tariff rates effective Aug. 1.
From the Abes to the Ohtanis: How siblings shape athletic development
Olympic judoka Uta Abe (second from left) and Hifumi Abe (second from right) with their brother Yuichiro (center) and their parents. “I’m always consciously trying to be a good older brother,” Yuichiro said.
Foreign nationals' presence in Japan emerges as key issue in Upper House poll
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a campaign speech next to a Liberal Democratic Party candidate for the Upper House (top center left) in Yokohama on Sunday.
Scams involving police impersonation surge
A video by the National Police Agency warns about fake scams.
Lawson to let visitors use larger parking lots as paid car campsites
A Lawson convenience store in Yachiyo, Chiba Prefecture. A new service from the company comes amid the rise in inbound tourists, making hotels and inns harder to book and more expensive.
The future is bright inside the visionary mind of architect Sou Fujimoto
The exhibition of Fujimoto’s architecture surveys his career to date, as well as looks ahead as shown in his proposal of a future floating city designed in collaboration with data scientist Hiroaki Miyata.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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