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Reader Mail
Oct 28, 2007

Bureaucratic disaster all around

Regarding the Oct. 27 front-page article "Nova applies for court protection from creditors": Are we expected now to congratulate the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry for managing to crack an egg with a colossal steam hammer?
Reader Mail
Oct 28, 2007

Does decency go beyond the pale?

Debito Arudou's bruising critique of the government's "Public Survey on the Defense of Human Rights" (Oct. 23 Zeit Gist article, "Human rights survey stinks") leaves one question unanswered: If 59.3 percent of respondents agreed that foreigners should have the same human rights protection as Japanese,...
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 28, 2007

France suits up as European full-timer

PARIS — When Nicolas Sarkozy became president of France, he declared that his country was back in mainstream Europe. Since then, Sarkozy has thrown himself into the European political fray.
Reader Mail
Oct 28, 2007

Ebb and flow of discrimination

As for which minority groups face the worst discrimination, it depends on where you live. I live in Nagasaki, so a great many Japanese hate Americans. I have had kids throw rocks at me, two seniors spit in my face, and a note left in my mailbox that read "foreigner go home." Of course, not all Americans...
JAPAN
Oct 28, 2007

Six more women held in sect death

Six more women from a religious sect were arrested Saturday in connection with the slaying of a fellow member who was beaten to death last month, police said.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 28, 2007

Darvish, Seguignol key Hammies' win

SAPPORO — Yu Darvish is beginning to become a playoff legend.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Oct 28, 2007

Young, curious and adventurous: the 17th-century backpacker

The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo, translated from the Italian by Clara Bargellini; edited and annotated, with an introduction by Anthony Welch; with the original illustrations by G.J. Grelot; and maps. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007, 452 pp. $24.95 (paper) In the summer of 1671...
Reader Mail
Oct 28, 2007

A cakewalk compared to Africa

Regarding Martin Issott's Oct. 23 letter, "A month away to bigger hassles": Issott should appreciate the fact that his Western passport allows him to either obtain a visa easily or travel visa-free to many developed countries to conduct his business regardless of his financial status.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / ON THE ROAD
Oct 28, 2007

Design climbs into the driver's seat

Japanese automakers' attention to the style stakes is on display at the Tokyo Motor Show, but they still need to shift it up a gear.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
Oct 28, 2007

Lost in an Aegean dream

Herodotus, the so-called Father of History, made a few rather extravagant claims in his time (his time being the 5th century B.C., which is when he wrote the world's first history books).
Japan Times
LIFE
Oct 28, 2007

Masters of all they survey

"How do you get to the Seibu department store?"
EDITORIALS
Oct 28, 2007

A fresh defense scandal

The credibility of the nation's defense administration is at stake in the wake of a fresh scandal embroiling a former top bureaucrat of the Defense Ministry and a defense contractor. We welcome the nonpartisan decision, reached at a Lower House select committee last week, to summon former administrative...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 28, 2007

And the government says: Let them eat rice

When I tuned in to NHK's "Nihon Kore Kara (Japan From Now)" on Oct. 20 to watch a live citizens' debate about Japan's food-security crisis, I felt the issue was a no-brainer. Who could argue against the importance of food security, meaning the self-sufficiency of a country to feed itself? And given the...
CULTURE / Books
Oct 28, 2007

A friendship's influence across Asia

Another Asia: Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin, by Rustom Bharucha, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006, 236 pp., $35 (cloth) This book examines the friendship engendered between two significant thinkers — one Indian and the other Japanese — who were highly representative of their time...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Oct 28, 2007

Celebrity talk show, imperial family special, rice-shop drama

Television producers spend all their time trying to come up with new ways to get celebrities to reveal their most personal secrets on the air. On the new variety show "Ochanoma no Shinjitsu (Truth in the Parlor)" (TV Tokyo, Monday, 9 p.m.), which is subtitled "Moshikashite Watashi Dake (I guess I'm the...
EDITORIALS
Oct 28, 2007

Cabdrivers could get a lift

The government has given the green light to a hike in taxi fares in Tokyo, although it allowed a lower rate of increase than the industry sought because of concern that national price trends could be inflated. The rise will take effect in December and be followed by similar increases nationwide. Aimed...
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Oct 28, 2007

A rough guide to avoiding ethnocentric cloddery

Writing in The Guardian on Oct. 16, Mark McCrum listed 10 "hot tips to avoid social embarrassment" while traveling overseas. There were three among these travel faux pas that particularly caught my eye.
Haneda Airport security staff arrested over theft
Tokyo police have arrested a 21-year-old security inspector at Haneda Airport after he allegedly stole cash from a passenger during a baggage inspection.
Japan's elderly population down at around 36.2 million
The estimated number of people age 65 or older in Japan stands at 36.19 million as of Monday, accounting for record 29.4% of the country's total population, according to the internal affairs ministry.
SDF spots China’s biggest aircraft carrier for first time
The Fujian aircraft carrier is seen in Shanghai in May 2024 as it leaves for its first sea trial.
White House threatens broad crackdown on liberal groups
FBI Director Kash Patel (right) listens to senior White House adviser Stephen Miller speak in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Monday.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Pole vault rivals in awe after Duplantis has another historic night in Tokyo
Sweden's Armand Duplantis competes in the men's pole fault final during the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium in Tokyo on Monday.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
Tara Davis-Woodhall leaps to gold and finds redemption at world championships
Tara Davis-Woodhall celebrates after winning the women's long jump final at the World Athletics Championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Sunday night.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.

Podcast

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

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Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
Rethinking that second drink: Japan’s Gen Z gets ‘sober curious’
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