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Aug 27, 2007

Worlds notebook; Day 2

OSAKA — News and notes from Day 2 of the 2007 IAAF World Athletics Championships.
SPORTS / ODDS AND EVENS
Aug 27, 2007

Gay blows away Powell in 100 final

OSAKA — Muhammad Ali declared decades ago that he's The Greatest.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 27, 2007

Intolerance mars climate change debate

NEW DELHI — What's up with journalists in the mainstream media? In most cases, they tend to be unconditional supporters of free expression and strive to report on controversial views.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Aug 27, 2007

'Lucky bag' binge turns into Pandora's box

Japanese retailers like to offer "fukubukuro" (lucky bags) to customers as an added attraction. The bags, sold at a fixed price, are filled with an assortment of goods that are supposed to be worth more than what you paid for the bag.
COMMENTARY
Aug 27, 2007

Hope for peace in partition?

Why is the world so reluctant to accept partition as the answer to ethnic, religious or political conflicts? The Kosovo conflict may finally be moving in that direction, but only after all sides debased themselves by years of murderous conflict. In Iraq, too, the much-needed separation into three autonomous...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 27, 2007

Japan, China in a race to the moon with upcoming launches

Japan claims its project is the biggest since the Apollo missions put the first humans on the moon. China, hoping to pave the way for its own manned missions, says its probes will study the lunar surface to help plan a landing.
EDITORIALS
Aug 27, 2007

Rethinking power-supply strategy

The impact of the magnitude-6.8 earthquake July 16 off Niigata Prefecture on Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear power plant was clearly felt Aug. 22 when TEPCO, on short notice, requested that 23 large-lot industrial customers cut back on their use of electricity that afternoon.
COMMENTARY
Aug 27, 2007

Issues with U.S. hurt LDP

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party has been rocked by its humiliating defeat in the July 29 House of Councilors (Upper House) election. The LDP's loss was generally attributed to the government's long-standing mismanagement of public pension accounts, but in my opinion, two United States-related issues...
COMMENTARY
Aug 27, 2007

Alliance can't hide its anti-China intent

LONDON — When you are creating a military alliance aimed at a third party, it's always best to swear that you are doing no such thing, and that you simply share common values with your prospective allies.
EDITORIALS
Aug 27, 2007

Hesitation on interest rates

Since it ended its zero-interest-rate policy in July 2006, the Bank of Japan has sought to normalize interest rates up to a level that matches the nation's economic recovery. Recent increases in land prices also have given the BOJ cause to think that an interest-rate rise is necessary. But the central...
SPORTS / ODDS AND EVENS
Aug 26, 2007

Murofushi, Tamesue thrill, disappoint fans

OSAKA — Within a span of an hour on Saturday night, Japanese spectators enjoyed the excitement of watching Koji Murofushi, the 2004 Olympic gold medal hammer thrower, and Dai Tamesue, a two-time bronze medal winner at the IAAF World Athletics Championships, in action.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Aug 26, 2007

Greisinger brings back Yakult memories of Bross & Hodges

Every once in a while, the Yakult Swallows come up with an outstanding American pitcher who takes to Japan and Japanese baseball right away, becoming a league leader and an All-Star.
Reader Mail
Aug 26, 2007

Ainu-like people of Washington

There is a good possibility that the Makah Indians of northwest Washington state originated in Japan. They are a seafaring people who hunted whales. They are unique in many respects compared with neighboring Indian tribes.
MORE SPORTS
Aug 26, 2007

Worlds notebook; Day 1

OSAKA — News and notes from Day One of the 2007 IAAF World Athletics Championships:
Reader Mail
Aug 26, 2007

An offer Americans can refuse

Is Hiroaki Sato asking that I give up the gun that saved me from an attack by a knife-wielding robber several years ago? Is he asking my neighbor's wife to give up the gun that stopped an attempted rape in 1997? Is he asking tens of thousands of people who annually avoid death or serious injury because...
Reader Mail
Aug 26, 2007

The quest for U.N. membership

On July 23, the U.N. Secretariat rejected Taiwan's application for U.N. membership. Four days later, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said "the position of the United Nations is that the People's Republic of China (PRC) represents the whole of China as the sole and legitimate representative government...
Reader Mail
Aug 26, 2007

'Greatest evil' is not apparent

Despite preliminary testing in the New Mexican desert, I think it is fair to say that no one could possibly have fully understood the horror of an atomic blast -- especially a detonation over an urban area -- before it was actually done in August 1945. This undermines all anti-atomic bomb...
EDITORIALS
Aug 26, 2007

Eyes on the prize with India

Japan and India have very good reasons to forge closer ties. They are both democracies and share fundamental values. With proper attention, their economic relationship, which has been stunted, can grow to their mutual benefit. They share security concerns: stability in Central Asia and the Mideast, access...

Longform

Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell