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COMMENTARY / World
Apr 19, 2014
NCAA shamed into feeding their athletes
The debate over paying American college athletes ramped up with basketball's March Madness ,giving the press a perfect opportunity to harp on the unfairness of a billion-dollar business built on the backs of unpaid labor.
EDITORIALS
Mar 22, 2014
Kyoto University's bold hiring move
The recent news that Kyoto University will publicly seek candidates for its next president from abroad, as well as from Japan, may come as a shock to some in academia.
BASKETBALL / MAN ABOUT SPORTS
Dec 17, 2013
NCAA's hoop hype not such an easy sell in December
If Howard Cosell were still with us, he would probably say this about NCAA basketball (you supply the nasal tone and staccato pace): There now exists annually a veritable plethora of enthralling inter-conference hardwood encounters between traditionally proficient American institutions of higher academia....
JAPAN
Oct 18, 2013
Job hunt stressing students, making them suicidal: poll
Tormented by the difficulty of landing a position and unfair practices by prospective employers, 1 in 5 college students contemplate suicide during the job-hunting process, a poll of 122 students finds.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 26, 2013
Don't scapegoat schools over economic ills
American education reformers charge that companies can't find enough qualified workers in science and technology. But these workers are here — in the form of unemployed college grads.
MORE SPORTS / MAN ABOUT SPORTS
Sep 10, 2013
'Small' schools deserve bigger respect
The headline of a recent story on ESPN.com read: "Small School QBs Have Big Talent."
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Mar 28, 2010
Our man, Mr. Pound
On May 15, 1939, readers of The Japan Times were introduced to a new correspondent — although, in literary circles, at least, he needed no introduction. He was Ezra Pound, then a 53-year-old American Modernist poet who could boast accomplishments that included having launched the career of T.S. Eliot....
Reader Mail
Feb 25, 2007
Freedom to dislike anything
Regarding the Feb. 17 article "NBA sanctions ex-star Hardaway following anti-gay tirade": The recent trouble that American basketball player Hardaway has found himself in gives us lots to consider. First, since when does a single sentence ("I hate gay people") amount to a "tirade"? By definition, a tirade...

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Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
Rethinking that second drink: Japan’s Gen Z gets ‘sober curious’