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EDITORIALS
Oct 28, 2010
Lay judges weigh death penalty
In August 2009 the first trial under the lay judge system was held. So far, more than 1,000 rulings have been handed down in lay judge trials. There has always been the possibility that lay judges would have to consider the prosecution's demand for a death sentence. For the first time in a lay judge...
EDITORIALS
Oct 28, 2010
India, Japan lift economic ties
Prime Minister Naoto Kan and visiting Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh agreed Monday to activate a comprehensive economic partnership. If the CEPA goes into effect, probably next year, it will accelerate Japan's exports to and investment in India and thus raise bilateral economic relations to a new...
EDITORIALS
Oct 27, 2010
By-election triumph for LDP
Former Chief Cabinet Secretary and Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura of the Liberal Democratic Party Sunday defeated a Democratic Party of Japan candidate in a Lower House by-election in Hokkaido's No. 5 constituency. The DPJ's defeat in the first Diet-level election since the inauguration of the Kan...
EDITORIALS
Oct 27, 2010
No one wins devaluation race
In their meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, last week, finance ministers and central bank governors from the G20 developed and emerging economies agreed to "move toward more market-determined exchange rate systems that reflect underlying economic fundamentals and refrain from competitive devaluation of...
EDITORIALS
Oct 26, 2010
Maintain ban on weapons exports
Recent remarks by Japanese defense officials raise cause for concern. In a meeting with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates in Hanoi on Oct. 11, Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa said that his ministry thinks that Japan's long-standing ban on weapons exports should be revised. He also expressed hope...
EDITORIALS
Oct 26, 2010
Law revision boosts transplants
The revised Organ Transplant Law, which went into force July 17, permits organ transplants from brain-dead people if there is no record that they had ever objected to such a procedure and if their family approves. Since the revision, organ transplants from brain-dead people have been taking place at...
EDITORIALS
Oct 25, 2010
Reason for hope in Afghanistan
Nearly one-quarter of the ballots cast in parliamentary elections held last month in Afghanistan have been thrown out because of fraud. Remarkably, that is a good thing. While the scale of the attempt to manipulate the elections is depressing, the fact that election officials still take their jobs seriously...
EDITORIALS
Oct 25, 2010
Haneda airport goes international
A new, five-story international terminal building and a fourth (2,500-meter) runway opened Oct. 21 at Tokyo's Haneda airport. On Oct. 31, regular international flights will resume there for the first time since 2002.
EDITORIALS
Oct 24, 2010
Hard times for bookstores
Will traditional bookstores be able to survive in an age of e-publishing and book distribution, when young people are increasingly turning away from books in favor of other forms of information and entertainment? The Japanese e-book market is expected to grow dramatically in the next few years. In distribution,...
EDITORIALS
Oct 24, 2010
Still a closed country?
At the end of September a first group of 18 refugees from Myanmar arrived in Japan as part of a commendable government initiative to take in roughly 90 such immigrants over the next three years. These members of the Karen ethnic group have been living for many years in a refugee camp in Thailand after...
EDITORIALS / GENERATIONAL CHANGE
Oct 23, 2010
Examine prosecution process
Following the Oct. 11 indictment of Mr. Tsunehiko Maeda, a former prosecutor with the Osaka District Public Prosecutors' special investigation squad, on a charge of tampering with data on a floppy disk confiscated in a case of alleged abuse of the postage discount system for the disabled, the Supreme...
EDITORIALS
Oct 22, 2010
Grassroot eco-consciousness
The COP10 biodiversity conference now being held in Nagoya has called attention to the preservation of plant and animal species worldwide, but closer to home a grassroot eco-consciousness has been quietly growing in Japan.
Investigators seek to salvage aircraft after deadly Washington crash
Debris at the site of a deadly plane crash in the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Thursday.
In meat- and fish-loving Japan, veganism is making a comeback
Though vegan restaurants have been on the upswing since 2017, Japanese vegans still lack a wide variety of options.
North Korean troops no longer seen on front lines fighting Ukraine
Ukrainian military vehicles close to the border with Russia’s Kursk region, in Ukraine on Jan. 9.
74-year-old truck driver trapped in Saitama sinkhole for third day
Efforts continued Thursday to rescue a 74-year-old truck driver trapped in a massive sinkhole in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture.
LDP gets a taste of life with an opposition-led budget committee
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba answers questions during a Lower House budget committee meeting on Friday.
Two decades of unparalleled access into the world of Hayao Miyazaki
Documentary director Kaku Arakawa’s filming style — naturalistic, intimate and unobtrusive — proved essential to portraying anime powerhouse Hayao Miyazaki as a man as flawed and human as he is a visionary artist in “Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron.”
For two weeks only, cold-water yellowtail can give you chills
Yellowtail caught during the coldest period of the year is delicious enough — but paired with a classic method of marinade and pan-searing, it's divine.
In meat- and fish-loving Japan, veganism is making a comeback
Though vegan restaurants have been on the upswing since 2017, Japanese vegans still lack a wide variety of options.
Who are the key figures involved in the growing Fuji TV scandal?
Fuji TV adviser Hisashi Hieda in 2005
What we learned at Fuji TV's marathon Nakai scandal news conference
Members of the media raise their hands for questions as outgoing Fuji TV President Koichi Minato attends a news conference in Tokyo on Monday.

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