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SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jun 10, 2007

Shiraishi credits sailing career to mentor Tada

"Ask yourself when you last spent a single day with no human contact — then multiply this by 100!" — VELUX 5 OCEANS pre-race press release.
Reader Mail
Jun 10, 2007

Weakening the spiritual fabric

I take strong exception to David Blecken's statements in his June 3 letter, "Marriage not needed for family," that "pregnancies occurring among unmarried couples should not really be an issue at all" and that "you cannot truly be in love with someone until you have had sex with them."
Reader Mail
Jun 10, 2007

Japan had an ugly side, too

Regarding Paula Bame's June 3 letter, "Western values have made a mess": As a Canadian who lived in Japan, I was shocked and saddened as well to read about the recent tragedies in Japan concerning the decapitation of a mother, parents abandoning their babies, and so on.
JAPAN
Jun 10, 2007

Lee raps China, South Korea over Yasukuni

Former Taiwan President Lee Teng-hui said Saturday in Tokyo that China and South Korea have lashed out at Japanese leaders over Yasukuni Shrine mainly because of their own domestic political problems, and Japan should not let other countries intervene in honoring its war dead.
Reader Mail
Jun 10, 2007

Whale proposal lacks credibility

Late last month Japan asked the International Whaling Commission to allow small-scale coastal whaling and to treat the activity the same as subsistence whaling by aboriginal peoples in the Northern Hemisphere.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 10, 2007

Mock trial provides look at judicial system's future

Second of two parts
Reader Mail
Jun 10, 2007

Movie depicted actual events

Regarding the June 1 review of the film "300": I disagree on several points. This movie depicted actual events, including many that had been recorded at the time by such men as Herodotus and others.
Japan Times
LIFE
Jun 10, 2007

Here comes the sun . . .

Some may shudder at the very thought of it, but more and more people are flinging off their duvets with glee and bounding into action-packed days that start when even larks are still lounging in their nests
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jun 10, 2007

In Japan, show reverence where it's due (or not)

Japan is the country that I feel most at home in. Yet, despite having arrived in 1967, and living here for the better part of the intervening 40 years, I still see myself as the odd man out in one particular aspect. I just can't "act Japanese" — if you will excuse the generalization — when it comes...
EDITORIALS
Jun 10, 2007

Another frustrating G8 summit

One step forward, one step back. That's likely to be the verdict on the just-ended summit of the Group of Eight industrial powers. Progress came on climate change; the retreat was on AIDS. Yet the trimming of ambitions regarding AIDS policy should shape perceptions of the historic deal on greenhouse-gas...
CULTURE / Books
Jun 10, 2007

Japan and Germany: worlds apart and yet so similar

CULTURE AND POWER IN GERMANY AND JAPAN: The Spirit of Renewal, by Nils-Johan Jorgensen. Global Oriental, 318 pp., 2006, £50 (cloth) The author of this interesting and thought-provoking study was a Norwegian diplomat who served in both Germany and Japan. He acquired a good knowledge of both countries...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jun 10, 2007

High school teen sitcom, JR conductor melodrama and dream-house design

Some high schools are famous for producing star athletes, while graduation from others practically guarantees entrance to a prestigious university. The fictitious Sakurazaki Gakuen is known for one thing and one thing only: cute boys.
Reader Mail
Jun 10, 2007

Baby hatch beats alternative

Krishna Haksar's May 30 letter, "Baby hatch is not the answer," about the baby hatch facility recently opened at Kumamoto's Jikei hospital, fails to acknowledge those babies born to women in circumstances in which they cannot share their plight with anyone else.
Reader Mail
Jun 10, 2007

Not intended as a documentary

I do respect the reviewer's challenge of the historical facts suggested in the movie "300." However, his anti-American ranting is a bit much. Why didn't he just stick to the movie? I have seen the movie and it wasn't a history documentary; it was an action-packed story about an army that stood up...
Japan Times
LIFE
Jun 10, 2007

In praise of morning's glory

Hima Furuta sits across the table from me in a cafe in the Marunouchi business district of central Tokyo. It's only 10 a.m., and although he looks fresh and full of life, he's almost finished his main work for the day.
LIFE
Jun 10, 2007

When and how you slumber is not as simple as it may seem

Getting up early is one of those things that people older and wiser always say is "good for you.''
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jun 10, 2007

Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door — but no answer

Two deaths made headlines on May 28. Izumi Sakai, the lead singer of the pop group ZARD, was found at the bottom of an outdoor staircase at Keio University Hospital, where she was undergoing treatment for cancer. Her management quickly released a statement to pre-empt media speculation that the death...

Longform

Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes