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COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Oct 31, 2005

Is the American dream now a mirage?

NEW YORK -- Is the American dream just a mirage now? Earlier this year the Wall Street Journal ran a series called "Challenges to the American Dream," casting into doubt the "staple of America's self-portrait" that "a child born in poverty isn't trapped there." If that was putting the matter delicately,...
JAPAN
Oct 31, 2005

Ishihara plan for Yokota gets nowhere

Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara expressed disappointment Sunday over a bilateral accord on the realignment of U.S. forces as it does not address his proposal on military-civilian use of Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo.
SOCCER / J. League
Oct 31, 2005

Gamba falls again

Gamba Osaka tumbled to their second defeat in as many weeks and had their lead at the top of the J. League table cut to one point after a 2-1 loss at FC Tokyo on Sunday.
COMMENTARY
Oct 31, 2005

Students need analytical skills

One characteristic of Japanese universities is that they provide highly specialized education for undergraduate students. This is partly because high-school students receive a high level of science education. In fact, their knowledge level in math and physics is one of the highest in the world. Thus,...
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Oct 31, 2005

Why should Japan's Pharaohs fear the locusts of change?

"God said to Moses, 'Extend your hand over Egypt to bring the locusts, and they will emerge on Egypt. They will eat all the foliage in the land . . . " (Exodus 10:12)
MORE SPORTS
Oct 31, 2005

Kapranova wins Aeon Cup all-around title

Newly crowned world champion Olga Kapranova of Russia won the individual all-around title at the Aeon Cup world club rhythmic gymnastics championships Sunday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 31, 2005

Rengo's uphill battle

The process that saw Mr. Tsuyoshi Takagi elected to the presidency of Rengo (the Japanese Trade Union Confederation), Japan's largest labor organization, symbolizes the current situation that Japanese workers and labor unions find themselves in.
COMMENTARY
Oct 31, 2005

EU must win grassroots trust

LONDON, PARIS and ROME-- European leaders have been holding a special meeting at the invitation of British Prime Minister Tony Blair to discuss what he calls "the strategic issues facing Europe in the years ahead."
JAPAN
Oct 31, 2005

Koizumi wants legal basis for military

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi voiced hope Sunday that the Constitution will be revised to clearly stipulate the nation's possession of military forces for self-defense.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Oct 30, 2005

Series wins surprisingly easy for Marines, White Sox

Are you surprised at how easily the Chiba Lotte Marines and Chicago White Sox won, respectively, the Japan Series and World Series?
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Oct 30, 2005

Marinos cruises past Verdy

Yokohama F. Marinos missed a string of chances against relegation-haunted Tokyo Verdy 1969 before Japan international defender Yuji Nakazawa's late header gave the boys in blue a deserved 1-0 win at Tokyo's National Stadium on Saturday.
JAPAN
Oct 30, 2005

Electricity and gas bills will be higher in January-March

The nation's 10 power utilities and four major gas utilities plan to raise monthly energy prices for the January-March quarter by up to 196 yen for an average household of four people.
JAPAN
Oct 30, 2005

Narita activists to pay old debt

poses no legal or social problem, and we could be subject to criticism if we did not seek payments." The former activists turned to the Internet in July to begin raising funds after some of them were told by their employers to quit their jobs, they said.
JAPAN
Oct 30, 2005

Bureaucrat gets suspended term for insider trading

An official of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has been sentenced to 18 months in prison, suspended for three years, for engaging in insider trading.
JAPAN
Oct 30, 2005

Hijackers' kin in N. Korea plan to come to Japan

A group of Japanese airplane hijackers now living in North Korea have decided to return their wives and children to Japan in the light of deteriorating ties between Tokyo and Pyongyang, informed sources said Saturday.
EDITORIALS
Oct 30, 2005

Archimedes' mirror

A pparently the Japanese were not the only people in olden times utilizing exotic weapons to destroy invaders' fleets. Almost 1,500 years before the kamikaze, or divinely opportune typhoon winds, helped Japan rout a force sent by Kubla Khan, the ancient Greeks torched an invading Roman flotilla at Syracuse...
JAPAN
Oct 30, 2005

English test to gauge education level

About 1,000 junior high school students will be tested in November on their ability to speak English as part of the government's efforts to ascertain the situation of English education in Japan.

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