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LIFE OF PI

Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 21, 2013
Opinion divided on life term without parole
A 44-year-old man serving a life sentence in a prison in the Chugoku region believes that continuing to live a respectable life is the only atonement he can make for the families of the two people he killed.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 11, 2013
Consequences of teens' living for the camera
Growing up in front of a camera has planted the seeds of some seriously scary consequences for kids with regard to what they want most in life today.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 25, 2013
'Life of Pi'
Director Ang Lee's adaptation of author Yann Martel's Man Booker Prize-winning "Life of Pi" feels almost like two films sandwiched into one. In the core, you have the succulent special-effects-driven story of a young Indian survivor of a shipwreck who's adrift in a lifeboat with a man-eating Bengal tiger. Yet wrapped around that is a deeply fried New Age-y/spiritual parable about "finding God."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 24, 2013
'Pi' among 'unfilmable' books conquered at last on the screen
There are certain novels they say just can't be filmed, but guess what? Most of them have been. "Dune"? "Naked Lunch"? "The Virgin Suicides"? "The 120 Days of Sodom"? "Ulysses"? All done — "Ulysses" twice, even.
Reader Mail
Dec 18, 2011
Shame on the whale killers
Regarding David McNeill's Dec. 11 article, "Tohoku ¥ for whales?": I was in tears for the Japanese tsunami victims, and I donated a large amount of money that I could not really afford because their suffering was unbearable.
Reader Mail
Nov 20, 2011
For whom the student toils
This is an open letter to education minister Masaharu Nakagawa:
Reader Mail
Nov 6, 2011
Challenge of population growth
How appropriate it felt to read United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon's clarion call for action in the Oct. 31 front-page article, "Global population's 7 billion mark could be a year off the symbolic date."
EDITORIALS / NOTES ON A SCORECARD
Apr 12, 2011
Reconstruction after the disaster
A month has passed since the massive quake and tsunami on March 11 devastated the pacific coastal area of the Tohoku region. Some 13,000 people perished and about 14,500 people are missing. Some 148,000 evacuees remain at temporary shelters. It is unlikely that the crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co's Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant will end in the foreseeable future.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Japan Pulse
May 14, 2010
No Konbini No Life: instant maze-soba
Maze-soba is the latest ramen trend to make it to konbeni shelves. If you're desperate, it might hit the spot but there's nothing like the real thing.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Japan Pulse
Feb 25, 2010
Baum cake blitz
Baumkuchen, known as the 'king of cakes,' can be had for pittance at Muji, and its konbeni partner, Family Mart.
Reader Mail
Dec 20, 2009
No outlet for youthful aggression
Regarding the Dec. 13 editorial, "An education in violence": It doesn't take a Harvard economist to know that the peak of physical strength begins in middle school and much of this has no outlet for release. A highly regimented society like Japan only forces everyone to come out like straitjacketed sausages. If Japan had a history of true pacifism, I would suggest a two- or three-year conscription period starting in middle school, but because of Japan's war atrocities and perceived lack of remorse for them, that would only invite suspicion from neighbors. . . . Not even Bushido, the tea ceremony or traditional arts can contain this (youthful) aggression. shui bin chen
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / Japan Pulse
Oct 13, 2009
All the leaves are brown . . . and the chips are purple
Japanese food is about the seasonal freshness, even when it comes to convenience store snacks such as Calbee's Jagabee purple potato snacks.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 6, 2009
Price of centralized power
MOSCOW — The emergence of a Kremlin leader, President Dmitry Medvedev, without a KGB background, combined with the economic crisis, has inspired talk that when Barack Obama visits Moscow this week, America's president will be seeing a country on the verge of a new political thaw, a revived perestroika. But pushing the "reset button" on U.S.-Russia relations may be harder than Obama and his team imagined.
EDITORIALS
Feb 3, 2009
For a stronger safety net
As economic conditions worsen and an increasing number of workers, especially irregularly employed workers, lose their jobs, it is becoming urgent that the government strengthen the social safety net.
Reader Mail
Jun 26, 2008
A name for indentured servitude
Why are letters like Brian Clacey's on June 22, "Give guest workers a set contract," even published? Xenophobe Clacey does not live in Japan and his ideas are appallingly ignorant and selfish. Why not just call "fixed contracts" indentured servitude coupled with expulsion — should the foreign worker become injured or ill, demand that the law uphold their legal rights, or threaten to sully the pure Yamato bloodline? These are not reasonable opinions, but unwanted, intrusive rants. bruce collins
Reader Mail
Apr 13, 2008
Critical issue is free speech
The author of the letter "Better to stay home than dis the flag" obviously does not understand the foremost point of the protest by teachers in Tokyo and the rest of Japan.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Saudi Arabia steps up Gaza-related arrests as Israel ties edge closer
The arrests for Gaza-related posts indicate Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s regime will take a hard line against citizens not toeing the line when it comes to normalizing ties with Israel.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
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.

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