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Jun 4, 2007

Japan runners sweep 57th Yasuda Kinen

Daiwa Major beat the jinx and the field Sunday at Tokyo Racecourse as he nudged out Kongo Rikishi O by a neck for the win at the Yasuda Memorial's 57th running.
Rugby
Jun 3, 2007

Japan edges Tonga in Pacific Nations Cup

COFFS HARBOUR, Australia — In a tight and physical game, Japan beat Tonga 20-17 in the country's second-round affair in the Pacific Nations Cup.
Reader Mail
Jun 3, 2007

Old image of Serbia sells

The May 24 article "Appeasing Serbia hurts EU," by Natasa Kandic and Mabel Van Oranje, is one-sided in the sense that it focuses on Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica without making single mention of the more democratic President Boris Tadic, who is far more dedicated to turning former Bosnian...
Reader Mail
Jun 3, 2007

North Korea can never satisfy Abe

The May 25 article by Ralph Cossa, "Fears of new Nixon shock," seems to take seriously the claims by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his ideological brethren that North Koreans must do more to assuage the Japanese belief that they have not yet "come clean" on the abduction issue if there is to be progress...
EDITORIALS
Jun 3, 2007

Let Japanese film out of the forest

Naomi Kawase's Grand Prix at the 60th Cannes Film festival last week for "Mogari no Mori" put the Japanese film industry once again on the front page. Kawase's honor is another in a series of reminders about how rich and rewarding Japanese films can be. But at the same time, it is a reminder of how little...
Reader Mail
Jun 3, 2007

Marriage not needed for family

Regarding Geoff Botting's May 20 translation (" 'Done it' marriages multiply") of a Shukan Post article: To my mind, the meaning of "dekikon" wasn't properly explained in the article. . . . Technicalities aside, in this day and age, pregnancies occurring among unmarried couples should not really be...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jun 3, 2007

Yamasaki comes off the 'scrap heap' to lead Rakuten surge

Break up the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 3, 2007

Religion: prop or antidote to capitalism?

PRINCETON, New Jersey — A provocative book written by a Japanese mathematician has reignited the debate about whether there are specifically "Asian" values.
Reader Mail
Jun 3, 2007

Western values have made a mess

I was wondering about recent headlines involving a decapitation, baby deaths, etc., in Japan, and my mother said she knew why this degradation of Japanese society was happening: the integration of Western ideas and culture into Japanese society. I agreed with her. Think about it: Japanese thought with...
JAPAN
Jun 3, 2007

Education reform proposals draw praise, criticism

Recommendations by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's advisory panel on education reform has drawn praise from some quarters, but other experts are questioning whether the proposals will be effective in improving the quality of public education.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming
Jun 3, 2007

Hollywood celebrities interviewed in Japan, women's talk show, drama of starting a new life

Foreign celebrities don't mind coming to Japan to do PR because they know reporters won't ask them embarrassing questions about their DUI arrests or religious beliefs.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jun 3, 2007

Class rifts widen as Japan's flag-wavers wax patriotic

Why can't Japan cope with poverty?
CULTURE / Books
Jun 3, 2007

The 'common sense' of a centrist

THE POLITICS OF NANJING: An Impartial Investigation, by Minoru Kitamura. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2007, 173 pp., $28 (paper) Professor Minoru Kitamura of Ritsumeikan University raises important questions about Japan's rampage in Nanjing in 1937-38, but sadly comes up with misleading,...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 3, 2007

Swallows edge Marines

CHIBA — The Tokyo Yakult Swallows came into Saturday's interleague matchup in the Central League cellar, while the Chiba Lotte Marines entered atop the Pacific League. None of that accounted for much over the next three hours.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Jun 3, 2007

Oishi Seinosuke: the trial and its outcome

THE LIFE OF SEINOSUKE: Dr. Oishi and the High Treason Incident, by Joseph Cronin. Kyoto: White Tiger Press, 2007, 128 pp., with photographs and drawings, 1,800 yen (paper) The High Treason Incident (Taigyaku Jiken) was an anarchist plot to assassinate the Meiji emperor, one that led to the 1910 mass...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jun 3, 2007

Another countryside 'renaissance' mired in foggy politics

A few weeks ago I traveled around the Noto Peninsula to see how the area was recovering from the 7.1-magnitude earthquake that struck March 25. Some buildings had already been razed in the small, picturesque town of Monzen, though the coastal city of Wajima, which on the day I arrived was receiving a...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Jun 3, 2007

Thinking beyond the brain

Kenichiro Mogi would be the ideal person to find sitting next to you at a dinner party, or one bleary post-sake morning over breakfast in a Japanese mountain inn.
Reader Mail
Jun 3, 2007

Suggested recipes bizarre

Regarding the May 24 article "Appeasing Serbia hurts EU": All those who are familiar and informed are well aware that Serbia was subjected to unprecedented international sanctions during the long rule of Slobodan Milosevic. Serbia was eventually bombed in 1999 without the approval of the U.N. Security...
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Jun 3, 2007

Planells envisions bj-league becoming one of best in the world

When you've worked as a head varsity coach at high schools in Arizona and California, served as a collegiate assistant at a community college and a major Division I university, earned a paycheck as a basketball choreographer for major motion pictures, toiled as a head coach in something known as the...
BASKETBALL
Jun 2, 2007

Planells prepared for life in Okinawa with Golden Kings

The NBA Finals is about to begin in a few days. The Spurs' Tim "The Big Fundamental" Duncan will be shooting for his fourth championship ring. His legacy is already set. He is one of the greatest big men to ever play the game.
Rugby
Jun 2, 2007

Japan's Loamanu set to line up against native Tonga in PNC

COFFS HARBOUR, Australia — Japan is preparing for its second-round match in the Pacific Nations Cup against Tonga this Saturday with the Brave Blossoms having much to prove.

Longform

Mount Fuji is considered one of Japan's most iconic symbols and is a major draw for tourists. It's still a mountain, though, and potential hikers need to properly prepare for any climb.
What it takes to save lives on Mount Fuji