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HAVE YOUR SAY

COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Oct 18, 2011
Sexless marriages, ineffective police
Some readers' responses to Debito Arudou's Sept. 6 Just Be Cause column, " 'Sexlessness' wrecks marriages, threatens nation's future":
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Oct 4, 2011
Mascot menagerie: from the practical to the satirical
In the Aug. 30 Light Gist column, headlined "Mascots on a mission to explain the mundane," Colin P. A. Jones explored the marvellous menagerie of mascots deployed by Japanese authorities to educate adults and children alike about the law and the workings of government.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Sep 13, 2011
The loneliness — or otherwise — of the long-distance foreigner
The Japan Times received a large number of readers' emails in response to Debito Arudou's Just Be Cause column published Aug. 2, headlined "The loneliness of the long-distance foreigner." Here, belatedly, are a selection.
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Aug 30, 2011
Winning: 'The Alien': readers remember life in '90s Japan
The following are a selection of the winning submissions in response to last month's Zeit Gist competition to win copies of "The Very Best of Neil Garscadden's Alien Humor," a collection of many of the pieces Garscadden wrote while editor of the humor section of The Alien magazine.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Aug 16, 2011
Post-3/11 meeting leaves group of strangers weeping in Bath
Here at our home in Louisiana in March, my daughters and I were so touched by the news of the Japanese earthquakes and tsunami that we decided to fold 1,000 origami cranes — a senbazuru — to send to Japan.
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Aug 2, 2011
World needs lessons in dealing with difference; Japan needs an education in attracting students
Following are three more readers' mails in response to both Gerry McLellan's May 24 Hotline to Nagatacho column "Japanese adults need an education in dealing with difference" and other letters published on the subject on June 28.
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Jul 5, 2011
Disunited 'English-speaking diaspora' bites back
The Community Page received a large number of emails in response to Debito Arudou's June 7 Just Be Cause column, headlined " 'English-speaking diaspora' should unite, not backbite."
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Jun 28, 2011
Does Japan need an education in dealing with difference?
The Community Page received a large number of emails in response to Gerry McLellan's May 24 Hotline to Nagatacho column "Japanese adults need an education in dealing with difference." The following is a selection of readers' views.
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Jun 21, 2011
Sharing Tepco's bill; family's tough choice
People must share Tepco burden Re: "A victim of Tepco's yakuza-style extortion" (Have Your Say, June 14) by Blues Bowman:
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Jun 14, 2011
A victim of TEPCO's yakuza-style extortion
As a former subscriber I have nowhere else to turn but to you.
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Jun 7, 2011
'Flyjin,' 'sheeple,' angry people: readers' views
Debito Arudou's May 3 Just Be Cause column, headlined " Better to be branded a 'flyjin' than a man of the 'sheeple,'" provoked an online skirmish between contributors to the columnist's blog, Debito.org, and its self-proclaimed "debunker" site. Here are just some of the mails received at The Japan Times in response to the column.
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
May 10, 2011
Japan's education system failing on all levels
The article "Students choose failure over uncertainty" by Chris Burgess (Zeit Gist, April 19) is truly reflective of the state of education, employment and Japanese society. I am glad to know that someone has finally voiced his or her concern over a very broken system.
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Apr 26, 2011
Memories of Agent Orange; Fukushima folly
I am a victim of Agent Orange Thanks for your story on AO in Okinawa ("Evidence for Agent Orange on Okinawa" by Jon Mitchell, Zeit Gist, April 12).
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Apr 19, 2011
'Nuclear plants on tofu,' 'Debito's drivel': readers respond
Some readers' responses to our stories and letters on Japan's nuclear crisis and Debito Arudou's "Letting radiation leak, but never information" (April 5):
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Apr 12, 2011
'Judge not,' 'fly-jin' and saving electricity: views from readers
Some readers' responses to Roberto De Vido's "Judge not, lest you be judged" (March 22), Darek Gondor's " 'Fly-jin' face fallout from decision to go" (April 5), and Darryl Magree's March 29 letter:
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Apr 5, 2011
'Charisma Men' and temps: readers' views
Some readers' responses to last month's Just Be Cause column by Debito Arudou, headlined " Charisma Men, unite against the identity enforcers" (March 1):
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Mar 8, 2011
Declaring pot peccadillo was naive
Re: "Barred from Japan for a teenage pot conviction" (Hotline to Nagatacho, Feb. 1):
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Mar 1, 2011
Foreignness, nationality and naturalization: readers' views
A selection of responses to "Naturalized Japanese: foreigners no more" by Debito Arudou (Just Be Cause, Feb. 1):
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Feb 15, 2011
Remembering a supporter of refugees; discrimination a part of human nature
In memoriam: Father Kasuya Beloved Catholic priest Father John Koichi Kasuya passed away on Feb. 9 at a house for retired Catholic clergy in Japan, aged 87.
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Feb 8, 2011
Hooked on U.S., Japan risks going down with it: responses
Following are responses to "Hooked on U.S., Japan risks going down with it" by Brian Victoria (Hotline to Nagatacho, Jan. 4):
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Raising kids in Japan as a single parent? It takes a village.
Making things work as a foreign, single mother in Japan isn't easy, but these tips and tricks can help you through the hardest parts.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
In Japan, regional revitalization fails to halt population decline
Sakiyama elementary school in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, in March .Over the past decade, the government has directed efforts toward policies designed to give young people incentives to base themselves in rural areas.
Putin’s war will soon reach Russians’ tax bills
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting in St. Petersburg on Friday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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