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COMMENTARY
Feb 20, 2007

Knocked back in Beijing

Tokyo tries to keep a brave face on the agreements reached at last week's six-nation talks in Beijing aimed at putting an end to North Korea's nuclear development plans. But no amount of strong talk about refusing any direct participation in aid or other concessions to North Korea unless Pyongyang accepts...
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COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Feb 20, 2007

What's your opinion on the comment made by the health minister?

COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Feb 20, 2007

Healthy eating and divorce

Food therapist? M. wonders if we know someone who does food therapy in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2007

Two years down the road, Nepali cyclist wheels solo through Japan

country and to the public," Chhetri said. "I have no academic skills, but I was confident in my physical strength. . . . So I did what I could do -- ride my bicycle to tell the world about Nepal, and to learn about the world from other countries." Why a bicycle? Chhetri said he couldn't afford a car...
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 20, 2007

Cotton prices wrecking Indian farmers

MADRAS, India -- The western Indian state of Maharashtra, whose capital is the nation's financial capital Bombay, has made great strides in lifting cotton production. Land dedicated to growing cotton increased from 92,000 hectares in 2003 to 480,000 hectares in 2004, according to government sources....
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BUSINESS
Feb 20, 2007

Japanese manufacturers look to cash in on solar power boom

With the global-warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" hot at the box office and a recent report by the U.N. laying the blame for climate change and rising sea levels at humanity's feet, renewable energy sources are getting a fresh look.
EDITORIALS
Feb 20, 2007

New hearts for dying cities

The current economic recovery in Japan has been marred by imbalances. One imbalance is between the corporate and household sectors. While the corporate sector is prospering, much of the household sector is missing out on the fruit of the nation's longest postwar economic expansion. Stagnant wage growth...
JAPAN
Feb 20, 2007

Sexually abused intern wins settlement

A former foreign intern reached an out-of-court settlement Monday with her host company in Japan and a male executive at the firm whom she had accused of repeatedly sexually abusing her while she was in a trainee program.
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Feb 20, 2007

Assessing IRCJ, the government's bailout body

The government-backed bailout agency Industrial Revitalization Corp. of Japan will finish its work and close its doors as early as next month, a year earlier than planned. Since it was established in April 2003, the bailout body has helped debt-ridden companies, including major supermarket chain Daiei...
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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Feb 20, 2007

Upping the fear factor

The government and media would have you believe that Japan has lost its mantle as a safe country. Apparently we live amidst a spree of heinous crimes. Accurate? Not very, according to a new academic study. But before we get to that, let's take stock of one alleged cause of this "crime wave," this decade's...
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Reference / SO WHAT THE HECK IS THAT
Feb 20, 2007

Tree bondage

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LIFE / Lifestyle
Feb 20, 2007

TV shows spur 'health' food fads

How many people would believe a doctor who says eating two packages of natto fermented soybeans every day helps you lose weight?
BASKETBALL
Feb 19, 2007

89ers ride free throws in rout

If he had occupied the tiny speck of real estate known as the free-throw line any longer, the authorities would've demanded that Mamadou Diouf start paying rent, and rightfully so.
Rugby
Feb 19, 2007

Toyota gets revenge, lands place in final

OSAKA -- It was a year in waiting, but Eiji Kutsuki's revenge finally arrived.
BASKETBALL
Feb 19, 2007

Five Arrows on target for split

The Takamatsu Five Arrows earned a weekend split against the Niigata Albirex BB on Sunday, closing out the two-game series with a 90-82 victory on the road. The Five Arrows and Albirex, who share identical 17-11 records, remain two games behind the league-leading Osaka Evessa (19-9), who beat the Saitama...
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 19, 2007

Palestinians need more than unity to heal

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The reconciliation between the leaders of the two major Palestinian groups, Hamas and Fatah, that has just been negotiated in Saudi Arabia is being hailed as a major political breakthrough. But the national unity government created as a result of this agreement faces many daunting...
BUSINESS / THE VIEW FROM EUROPE
Feb 19, 2007

Idle talk of 'unbundling' highlights EU's energy dependency woes

The EU Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council met in Brussels Feb. 15, and the chief item on the agenda was the "unbundling" of power networks.
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2007

Rainy Tokyo Marathon draws 30,000 from around the world

time limit of seven hours. I wish I could run." The participants were picked by lot after 95,000 people applied for one of the largest marathons in Asia.

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight