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BUSINESS
Jun 11, 2009

Penalties urged for opaque capital-raising moves

Japan should enhance corporate governance standards by penalizing publicly listed companies that fail to be transparent when they raise capital, a government research committee said Wednesday.
BUSINESS
Jun 11, 2009

Producer price fall is fastest since '87

Japan's wholesale prices fell at the fastest pace in more than 22 years in May, adding to signs that deflation may again take root.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jun 10, 2009

'Random' drug tests make JSA look bad

What a joke.
Japan Times
Events / WHERE IT'S AT
Jun 9, 2009

Golf group puts spontaneous socializing back into game

Most Japanese golfers would probably agree with Tor Dahlstrom, a Norwegian diplomat and longtime Japan resident, when he says that "golf is a social game." They might disagree, however, on the way that golf is social.
BUSINESS
Jun 9, 2009

Goldman's Accordia Golf to spend ¥20 billion buying several course operators

Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s Japanese golf business unit plans to buy more courses as the recession forces companies to sell off assets unrelated to their main business.
BASKETBALL
Jun 7, 2009

Oita decides not to renew Ogawa

After an atrocious 8-44 season, the Oita HeatDevils have decided not to offer head coach Tadaharu Ogawa a contract for the 2009-10 season.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jun 7, 2009

What price heroism for indoctrinated fighters in unjust wars?

What makes a hero in war? If that war is unjust, do the soldiers involved deserve to be treated as heroes? And what is the civilian role in these heroics?
COMMENTARY
Jun 6, 2009

Dodging a CO2 hangover

Officials from Japan and other parts of the world are meeting in Bonn, Germany, until June 12 for more negotiations on a new set of global arrangements to prevent runaway climate change. The deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which ends in 2012, is supposed to be clinched at a climate summit convened...
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Jun 3, 2009

Creative Commons fights for new copyright

On April 17, the district court of Stockholm issued its verdict in the copyright infringement case of the torrent tracking Web site The Pirate Bay, whose managers and another associate were accused of facilitating the illegal downloading of music, movie and video-game files. The four defendants were...
Japan Times
Events / WHERE IT'S AT
Jun 2, 2009

Group offers healthy change of pace

Not many people would argue that sports aren't a great way of connecting people. The proof can be found at Namban Rengo, an international running club that meets every Wednesday near Tokyo's Yoyogi Park.
COMMUNITY / Issues / JUST BE CAUSE
Jun 2, 2009

The issue that dares not speak its name

A few columns ago ("Toadies, Vultures, and Zombie Debates," March 3), I discussed how foreign apologists resuscitate dead-end discussions on racial discrimination. Promoting cultural relativity for their own ends, they peddle bigoted and obsolescent ideologies now impossible to justify in their societies...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 1, 2009

Hillman relied on intensity, goofball antics during time with Fighters

Last in a two-part excerpt of updated "You Gotta Have Wa"
COMMENTARY
May 31, 2009

Why isolate a global pariah even further?

LOS ANGELES — On the question of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, better known as (a) North Korea, (b) notorious charter member of former U.S. President George W. Bush's "axis of evil" and (c) pain-in-the-neck threat to world peace and stability, here are a few humble observations in light...
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LIFE / Travel / BACKSTREET STORIES
May 31, 2009

Where whimsy meets wonder

Antiques tell tales of values, past and present. It's a good guess that whatever survives for a century or so in the tight confines of a Japanese home is either a work of art, a tool of cunning design, or an item of great sentimental value.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 29, 2009

Dissecting the cave on canvas

One of the greatest mysteries of art is what exactly the flat two-dimensional surface of the canvas is, and what it is for. The mundane answer, of course, is that it's a convenient rectangular surface on which to place and display aesthetically pleasing colors and lines. But this does not really explain...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
May 29, 2009

Classical music lovers get set for Matsumoto

"Sending out high-quality Western classical music from Japan" was the goal for renowned cellist and conductor Hideo Saito (1902-74), who studied in Germany. In 1955, he cofounded the Toho Gakuen School of Music in Tokyo, where he devoted the latter half of his life to music education and taught many...
Reader Mail
May 28, 2009

Different take on universities

Regarding Dipak Basu's May 17 letter, "Higher education going to seed": I beg to disagree with the economics professor in Nagasaki. He should remember that there is a difference between national and private universities in Japan. I taught at a private university for 34 years and found so much extra money...
COMMENTARY
May 28, 2009

West resembles Mrs. Jellyby

There is a character in the works of Charles Dickens who is increasingly coming to symbolize the spirit of the age in which we now live.

Longform

After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.
How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic