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Reader Mail
Mar 24, 2011

Comprehending the devastation

I just read Rob Gilhooly's March 20 article, " 'Nothing can prepare you to witness this.' " From the far off United States, it is hard to comprehend the scale of the devastation. From Miyagi Prefecture, Gilhooly has provided small touches of perspective that help me understand a little more the suffering...
Reader Mail
Mar 20, 2011

Stick with the same radiation unit

Regarding the March 16 article "Radiation fears grow after blasts": In the map-box for this article, radiation levels are stated in "millisieverts" for one time Tuesday morning (March 15), then in "microsieverts" for another time the same morning, thus rendering the information practically useless at...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Mar 18, 2011

Power to the people: TEPCO at economic cross-purposes with blackout strategy

If the current energy crisis is not a more convincing argument for the development of the so-called smart-grid system, we don't know what is.
Reader Mail
Mar 10, 2011

Abolishing nuclear weapons use

Regarding Hirotaka Yamauchi's March 2 article, " A call for philosophical thinking": Excellent article. I tend to agree with everything Yamauchi wrote with one exception, the abolition of nuclear weapons. Yamauchi says we can never abolish nuclear weapons because someone will always want to make them....
Reader Mail
Mar 6, 2011

Socking away national treasures

Regarding the March 2 Kyodo article "Yakushiji pagoda (in Nara) open first time in 1,300 years": As a long-term resident of Japan, I have a very strong passion for Japanese history, arts and places of significant historical interest. I have found, though, on numerous occasions that historical places...
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):
Reader Mail
Feb 27, 2011

A threat despite economic travail

Regarding Michael Richardson's Feb. 23 article, "Economy is key to security": Richardson's vapid regurgitation of economic facts and figures is all predicated on Minister in Charge of National Policy Koichiro Genba's assertion — presumably supported by Richardson — that there is a link between the...
Reader Mail
Feb 27, 2011

Just look at India's nuclear record

The Feb. 21 Kyodo article "We want nuke tech, too" — in which Pakistan demands to be treated the same as India vis-a-vis nuclear technology — rightly mentions the reluctance of Japan to transfer sensitive technology. I suggest that the nuclear records of India and Pakistan would shed more light on...
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Feb 27, 2011

Indefensible costs of military one-upmanship

NEW YORK — I was recently surprised to learn that Singapore has 72,500 troops on active duty and plans to double the number of "combat-ready aircraft" to more than 200. It also plans to have 10 more submarines to add to the four it has today. Or so the Wall Street Journal reported ("Asia's New Arms...
Reader Mail
Feb 24, 2011

Challenges of a smaller population

Regarding Shinji Fukukawa's Feb. 13 article, "How does Japan start to cope with fewer births, longer lives?": The notion that Japan would face a decline in population is nothing new. I learned it in Japanese elementary school back in the 1980s. The politicians use these key words in their manifestos...
Reader Mail
Feb 17, 2011

Adults feed that 'shoganai' feeling

Regarding Kevin Rafferty's Feb. 9 article, " 'Shoganai' won't save Japan": I know Japan's economic situation is difficult. But I don't buy the Osaka endodontologist's claim, cited in the article, that this "shoganai" attitude is somehow connected with teenagers' taking to wearing flu masks. How many...
Reader Mail
Feb 13, 2011

Financial priorities of brides

I found Kaori Shoji's Feb. 9 Bilingual page article, "Marriage has little to do with romantic love," quite interesting. However, what Shoji forgot to mention is that Japanese women are often more than ready to trade romance, love and even sex for a husband with a high and steady income.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Feb 12, 2011

How 'bout that sumo?

The March Grand Sumo Tournament has been canceled due to bout-rigging. The May tournament is now in doubt as well. Who knows, sumo may be the world's first canceled sport.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Q&A
Feb 4, 2011

Match-throwing final nail in sumo coffin?

The sumo world has had its share of scandals in recent years but the latest one — text messages indicating match-fixing — is rocking the "dohyo" ring hard.
Reader Mail
Feb 3, 2011

North Vietnam was a huge threat

Regarding Gwynne Dyer's Jan. 30 article, "Vietnam delusion endures": Nice article, but Dyer fails to mention Laos, which is now communist and under the heel of Vietnam. Dyer also fails to mention the writings of Vietnamese military and political leader Vo Nguyen Giap, who outlined communist expansion...
Reader Mail
Feb 3, 2011

Educational reforms too slow

It was heartening to read — in the Jan. 27 Kyodo article "Job drive by firms to be delayed (until well into a student's senior year)" — that university organizations recognize that the job-hunting system in Japan has negative long-term effects on Japan's economic competitiveness. Unfortunately, the...
Reader Mail
Feb 3, 2011

Housing inflation hits sex drive

Regarding Michael Hoffman's Jan. 30 Timeout article, "The decline and fall of Japan and its sex drive": As an American biology student, I am amazed to see another article blaming Japanese families for not having enough children. Throughout history, all animals have made sensible decisions about how many...
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Feb 1, 2011

Rural alien attacks 'insult' in Arudou almanac; 'Love it/leave it' lacks logic

Following are responses to "Arudou's Alien Almanac" by Debito Arudou (Just Be Cause, Jan. 4):
Reader Mail
Jan 27, 2011

Leadership crisis delays solutions

It is with a frustrated and sinking feeling that I read the comments of the Liberal Democratic Party chief in the Jan. 24 article "LDP pledges to send ruling party packing." With all the problems facing Japan, what Japanese politics doesn't need is more of the same tribal mentality, greed and power faction...
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jan 23, 2011

Is 'Galapagos-thinking' Japan back at its evolutionary dead end?

There are expressions that buzz like busy little bees and ones that don't buzz anymore. One of the dead-bee buzzwords in Japan is shimaguni konjo, meaning "island mentality." As for a buzzword for 2011, you'd be hard put to find one more busily doing the rounds than garapagosu, which references the Galapagos...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jan 16, 2011

Japan's tribe of lonely people continues to grow

Results from Japan's national census last year are dribbling in and the reaction in the media often focuses on one pair of statistics: The number of households is increasing while population is declining, which means that there are a lot more single-person households than there were 10 years ago and...
Reader Mail
Jan 9, 2011

The heat of anti-Christian passion

The tone of the letter responses to Kevin Rafferty's Dec. 24 Op-Ed article about the religious meaning of Christmas — from Usman Makhdoom (Dec. 30) and Name Withheld ("Spare the monotheistic arrogance," Jan. 6) — is hair-raising.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 6, 2011

Seniors' wisdom recorded

Surrounded by record players and speakers that he designed and built on his own, Takeshi Teragaki, 86, a renowned sound system engineer, began to talk about how he first became intrigued by audio players.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jan 4, 2011

The basics of being a lawmaker at the Diet

Diet members are often addressed as "sensei" (teacher) and seem to enjoy privileges ranging from high salaries and chauffeur-driven cars to free first-class flights and luxury "green car" seats in bullet trains.
Reader Mail
Dec 5, 2010

Why stick up for North Korea?

Why folks wish to apologize for the actions of North Korea is bewildering. Gregory Clark again, in his Dec. 1 article "The N. Korean conundrum," takes up the North Korean mantle as if to disguise the true brutality of this regime.
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Nov 30, 2010

High praise for piazzas; Japan not so clean, friendly

A must for societal well-being I read your article on public space ("Plans for public space need public's input," Hotline to Nagatacho, Oct. 26), and I couldn't agree more.
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Nov 26, 2010

Highhanded prosecutors get judicial pat on the back

The arrogance and self-complacence of public prosecutors have been exposed with the acquittal of a high-ranking former welfare ministry official who had been indicted on a charge of forgery, and the subsequent arrest and indictment of two prosecutors accused of hiding evidence of data tampering. The...
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Nov 20, 2010

Edo Period farmhouse gets new life in Paris

A traditional farmhouse built 150 years ago in what is now Kisomachi, Nagano Prefecture, has been open to the public since Nov. 15 after being relocated to an amusement park in Paris a dozen years ago.
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Nov 16, 2010

The final word on JET, for now

Arudou misses the mark Debito Arudou's recent article on the JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching) Programme (Just Be Cause, Sept. 7) and many of the responses which followed (Have Your Say, Oct. 12):
COMMENTARY
Nov 10, 2010

Revenge, Australian style

Australia at times does some contradictory things in its foreign affairs. It says it seeks a global role, yet it recently dismissed a prime minister, Kevin Rudd, partly because he had been too prominent in seeking a global role. It says it is proud of its role in creating the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation...
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Tokyo police care for lost umbrellas, keys and flying squirrels
An employee at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Lost and Found Center in the Iidabashi area of central Tokyo bags, tags and organizes thousands of items.
Japan to aid introduction of multilingual ride-hailing apps
A Nihon Kotsu Co. taxi departs one of the company's service offices in Tokyo.
Seven & I founding family sounded out KKR and others about buyout: report
A 7-Eleven convenience store in Tokyo
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
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