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BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
May 1, 2010

Hirose still seeking right formula for Albirex

Blessed with talent and depth, this season's Niigata Albirex BB squad has failed to live up to its potential.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 30, 2010

A cloud over airplane safety

PRINCETON, N.J. — When airports across Europe reopened after the closure caused by the eruption of Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano, it was not because the amount of ash in the atmosphere had dropped, but because the risk that the ash posed to airplane safety had been reassessed. Was it new scientific...
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 28, 2010

Ethics of citizenship tests

PRINCETON, N.J. — Can citizenship really be tested? An increasing number of countries — especially, but not only, in Europe — seem to think so.
JAPAN
Apr 28, 2010

Inquest: Ozawa merits indictment

The embattled Democratic Party of Japan-led government received another blow Tuesday when an inquest panel decided that DPJ Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa merits indictment over his funding management body's alleged false reporting of political donations from 2004 to 2007.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 27, 2010

Hatoyama's fate tied to Futenma

HONG KONG — Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama chose to use his 10 minutes with President Obama at a working dinner during the recent nuclear summit trying in vain to bend the president's ear on the increasingly vexing question of the relocation of U.S. military base facilities in Japan. He did this rather...
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 16, 2010

Cruelty of chance deals Poland another blow

MOSCOW — In Russia, somewhere behind every event lurks the question: Who is to blame? In the tragedy that claimed the lives of Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 other Polish leaders, we can answer that question with certainty in at least one respect: History is to blame.
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 9, 2010

Why do Jews succeed?

WASHINGTON — In recent decades, economists have been struggling to make use of the concept of human capital, often defined as the abilities, skills, knowledge and dispositions that make for economic success. Yet those who use the term often assume that to conceptualize a phenomenon is a first step...
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 7, 2010

It's the IMF to the rescue

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — With the International Monetary Fund playing a central role in the euro zone's blueprint for a bailout of Greece, the multilateral lender has come full circle. In its early days after World War II, the IMF's central task was to help Europe emerge from the ravages of the war. Once...
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Apr 4, 2010

70 times safer than the roads themselves

NEW YORK — The Toyota saga, though quiet for the moment, will continue. "Lawyers Vie for Lead Roles in Toyota Lawsuits," said a headline in The Wall Street Journal (March 15). The company's "legal bill for unintended-acceleration cases will be in the billions," predicted Jeremy Anwyl of Edmunds.com,...
EDITORIALS
Mar 30, 2010

Inherent conflict of interest

Calls from within the government for a revision of the Administrative Complaint Investigation Law — under which citizens can file complaints with administrative bodies or call for an investigation of their actions — deserve serious attention.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 21, 2010

Trial by crisis for future growth

WARSAW — Episodes like the current financial crisis seriously disrupt economic growth. But the question that we should be asking concerns such episodes' impact on longer-term development. And that question has attracted surprisingly little interest.
COMMENTARY
Mar 19, 2010

Revising the art of defense

LONDON — How much should a nation spend on defense and its armed forces?
Japan Times
Reference / SO WHAT THE HECK IS THAT
Mar 18, 2010

Dump-truck identification numbers

Dear Alice,
COMMENTARY
Mar 17, 2010

China's diplomacy suffering an identity crisis

Chinese diplomacy generally comes in all sizes and shapes, but until relatively recently the size was small and the shape a question mark.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 17, 2010

A crisis of understanding

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Few economists predicted the current economic crisis, and there is little agreement among them about its ultimate causes. So, not surprisingly, economists are not in a good position to forecast how quickly it will end, either.
BUSINESS
Mar 10, 2010

No easy solutions for U.S., Japan to revive economies

Even as Japan and the United States need deficit-funded stimulus now to stay on the recovery path, sustained large budget deficits will be a long-term problem that undermines their future growth prospects and must be addressed. But how?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 5, 2010

Bigelow sticks to her guns

HOLLYWOOD — Kathryn Bigelow is only the fourth woman ever to be nominated for the Best Director Academy Award — and only the second American female. The first two nominees were Italian Lina Wertmuller and Australian Jane Campion; the third was Sofia Coppola.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Feb 26, 2010

One of a kind

Theater programs the world over list the writer, director, cast members, designers, lighting specialists and such in their credits. Lately in Japan, though, a new role has begun to appear in among those credits — that of "dramaturge."
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Feb 20, 2010

Stuck in a not so hairy situation

One way I kill time on my monotonous commutes across municipal Tokyo is to scout out the hairpieces in the strap-hanger set.
EDITORIALS
Feb 19, 2010

Debates miss big picture

Liberal Democratic Party leader Sadakazu Tanigaki and Komeito leader Natsuo Yamaguchi had separate one-on-one debates with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in the Diet Wednesday, although the debates were a long time coming. Five months have already passed since the Hatoyama administration began. Such debates...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Feb 19, 2010

Shimizu takes sax to Bach's 'Goldberg'

In the center of a large practice room at Sumida Triphony Hall in Tokyo sits tenor saxophonist Yasuaki Shimizu, instrument at his lips, legs crossed, playing along with four other saxophonists. It looks like a scene from a music class: the graying, 55-year-old teacher instructing his younger students....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 12, 2010

Cyber Arts Japan: As interactive as they want to be

"What are silk screen prints doing in a show of media art?"
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / ART BRIEF
Feb 5, 2010

Tsuyoshi Tane: 'sur-impression,' Teppei KANEUJI: 'Post-Something'

Taka Ishii Gallery and ShugoArts, both in the Kiyosumi warehouse complex
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / JUST BE CAUSE
Feb 2, 2010

Non-Japanese suffrage and the racist element

On Jan. 17, Takeo Hiranuma made this statement about fellow Diet member Renho:
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 28, 2010

It doesn't pay to appease China

LONDON — When former Czech President Vaclav Havel knocked on the door of the Chinese Embassy in Prague to demand the release of the writer Liu Xiaobo, I had an eerie sense of deja vu. Thirty-three years ago, Havel helped initiate Charter 77, the landmark document that crystallized the ideals of all...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jan 20, 2010

New recruits quickly get reality checked

The reality of corporate work has a funny way of changing the views of fresh-faced college graduates.
EDITORIALS
Jan 20, 2010

DPJ drawn into Mr. Ozawa's pickle

A regular Diet session started Monday — less than a week after the chief secretary and two former secretaries of Mr. Ichiro Ozawa, the secretary general of the Democratic Party of Japan, were arrested. The Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office's special investigation squad arrested the three on...

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