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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 / CUSTODY OR ABDUCTION
May 14, 2010

Returning to Japan with kids was only safe option, two mothers say

It was a typical love story for Kyoko Yamaguchi. The couple met in Europe, fell in love, married and later had a son.
Reader Mail
May 13, 2010

Patrols are curbing pirate attacks

Regarding the April 27 article "Piracy prompts Japan to open first overseas military base" as well as recent comments from readers about the article: I would like to bring out further information on this matter while clarifying some misleading arguments about the role of the international forces patrolling...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
May 7, 2010

New Wave icons Plastics plan summer gigs

For artists in the late 1970s and early 1980s, New York was definitely where it was at and Japanese band the Plastics were among those who found themselves right at the heart of that heady scene.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Apr 25, 2010

Japan needs united opinion on Futenma's fate

In the middle of March, the Chunichi Shimbun published a survey of average people's opinions of the U.S.-Japan defense alliance. Seventy-eight percent of the respondents said they thought the alliance was either very important or mostly necessary. In addition, 59 percent felt the alliance was OK the...
Reader Mail
Apr 22, 2010

Fact is stranger than fiction

The April 14 article "Ex-justice taps body for easy loan, raise" reports that retired Supreme Court Justice Yasukazu Kagawa helped himself to a non-repayable "loan" of ¥15 million (of taxpayers' money) and doubled his monthly salary to ¥1 million (of taxpayers' money). The official verdict of the Justice...
COMMENTARY
Apr 21, 2010

Hong Kong treads the democracy tightrope

The Hong Kong government announced earlier this month that it had nominated a leading jurist, Justice Geoffrey Ma, to be the next head of the judiciary, succeeding Chief Justice Andrew Li, who served in that post since the former British colony became a special administrative region of China in 1997....
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Apr 19, 2010

The knock-on effect of Murakami’s “1Q84” series

The third installation of Haruki Murakami's '1Q84' is bound produce another ripple effect in the book/music biz.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Apr 9, 2010

Kings of comedy yuck it up on April Fools

While satire isn't a staple among Japanese humorists, two kings of comedy are leading the way.
COMMENTARY
Apr 5, 2010

No fast-track education in Japan

It's back to school in Japan, and back to the perennial questions:
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Apr 4, 2010

Japan, please don't go grabbing Ethiopians' land

On March 15 just gone, this newspaper carried an excellent but disturbing article by John Vidal, environment editor of the London-based Guardian newspaper. He wrote about food shortages and land-grabbing in Africa, and I was particularly troubled to read about deals going on to sell Ethiopian land to...
COMMENTARY
Apr 3, 2010

Did China trash a treaty?

The high profile case of Rio Tinto executive Stern Hu closed with the three-judge court sentencing the Australian citizen to 10 years in prison on charges of corruption and stealing commercial secrets.
Reader Mail
Apr 1, 2010

Media rush aimed at tarring pope

There is no doubt that many bishops in the Catholic Church have failed miserably in their duty to protect children and should be removed. However, the orchestrated media rush to tar the pope with these offenses — of which Gwynne Dyer's March 26 article, "Pedophile-priest coverup transcends 'secular'...
Reader Mail
Mar 28, 2010

The limits of artistic expression

As a 28-year-old Indian, I take strong exception to the publication of Gautaman Bhaskaran's March 9 article, "Intolerance in India putting artists to flight."
JAPAN
Mar 18, 2010

DPJ rule raises Hague treaty-signing hope

It has been over five years since Murray Wood's two children left their home in Canada with his Japanese ex-wife for a supposed visit with their ill grandfather in Japan.
COMMENTARY
Mar 11, 2010

U.S. base problem drags on

The loud dispute over the future of the U.S. Marine Air Station at Futenma, Okinawa, is puzzling. Even U.S. officialdom agrees that this base causes enormous inconvenience to the residents of Ginowan city who are forced to live alongside. Plans to have it moved have been around for years. But to where?...
JAPAN
Mar 9, 2010

Yosano faults Tanigaki rule, eyes LDP exit

Ex-Finance Minister Kaoru Yosano indicated Monday he may leave the Liberal Democratic Party and form a new party, saying LDP President Sadakazu Tanigaki "is not qualified" to lead since he has failed to attack the current administration's shortcomings and thus hasn't attracted voters.
Reader Mail
Mar 4, 2010

Great piece on drinking glasses

Regarding the Feb. 26 Weekend Scene article "A receptacle for the respectable": In this attention-deficit, Twitter-addled age, it takes a lot to make me read a full-page of text. Writer Nicholas Coldicott is one writer who manages it. This article about drinking glasses was his best so far. Keep it...
Reader Mail
Feb 14, 2010

Rights activists deserve more space

Thank you for the Feb. 10 article "NGOs air concerns over strife in Gaza Strip," which mentions the U.N. Human Rights Council resolution criticizing Israel for its human rights record in Gaza. Regrettably, Foreign Ministry official Mitsuko Shino is being disingenuous when she asserts that Japan did not...
Reader Mail
Feb 7, 2010

Japan must quicken relief efforts

The Jan. 31 article "GSDF engineers await Haiti duty" states that the United Nations would request that Japan send a Ground Self-Defense Force unit (350 members) to help with peacekeeping operations in quake-stricken Haiti. The article mentions that Japan would send an advance team to Haiti by Feb. 6...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Feb 6, 2010

Journalist gives voice to voiceless

Shin Yamaaki is not familiar with the story of David and Goliath, but she has long understood the plight of the underdog. A chance experience in her 20s forged Yamaaki, 38, into who she is today: a woman who takes on global issues by giving voice to people who might go unheard.
COMMENTARY
Jan 31, 2010

Stronger alliance is on the way

The relationship of trust between Japan and the United States is in its worst state ever. After U.S. President Barack Obama refused to see Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in Copenhagen and listen to his excuse over his mishandling of bilateral ties, the latter talked with U.S. Secretary of State...
Reader Mail
Jan 28, 2010

Americans won't sweat changes

Regarding the Jan. 25 article reprinted from Sentaku magazine, "Japan could pay big price for hurting American pride": As an American living in the United States, I could not disagree more with the assumption made in the article that American pride would be hurt by changes in the defense agreement or...
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jan 26, 2010

No solution in sight for fight over whales

A Japanese whaling ship's Jan. 6 collision with antiwhaling group Sea Shepherd's high-speed boat made headlines in Japan, Australia and other countries, illustrating the keen global interest in the issue.
EDITORIALS
Jan 26, 2010

Religious sites on public land

The Supreme Court's grand bench on Jan. 20 ruled that the city government of Sunagawa in Hokkaido has violated the Constitution through its longtime practice of letting a Shinto shrine use a city-owned plot of land without charge. The top court's precedent-setting ruling should serve as a warning to...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jan 26, 2010

Judges fill the gaps in Japan's family law

First in a two-part series
COMMENTARY
Jan 24, 2010

Media gang up on Iran for Latam outreach

SEATTLE — Should the United States be concerned about Iran's determined efforts to reach out to Latin America or, as was suggestively described in the Economist, about the ayatollahs' strategy of cozying up to Latin America?
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Jan 24, 2010

Valentine's philosophy brought Marines glory, money

Second in a four-part series
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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