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Reader Mail
Feb 24, 2008

Promo piece light on research

The Feb. 20 article "Dyson urges youths to take interest in engineering, science" was a sad piece of journalism. The real story on British-born James Dyson (the founder of Dyson Ltd. who was in Tokyo this month to promote a new vacuum cleaner) would require a more time-consuming article on the quality...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Feb 24, 2008

Rightwingers who scream the loudest allowed to win in Japan

Major media coverage of the legal standoff between the Japan Teachers Union (Nikkyoso) and the Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo had little effect on the standoff itself, mainly because coverage didn't really take off until everything was over.
Reader Mail
Feb 21, 2008

The root of national identity

Regarding the Feb. 16 article "(Tokyo Gov. Shintaro) Ishihara laments loss of national identity": Ishihara is quoted as saying that if North Korea launched a missile, "the Japanese would instantly change." When North Korea launched six missiles two years ago, did Japan change as a result of that?
Reader Mail
Feb 21, 2008

Students need various viewpoints

John Spiri's Feb. 19 Zeit Gist article, "Sitting out but standing tall," offers an excellent overview of the repression the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education employs against expressions of conscience with regard to the national anthem Kimigayo and the national flag Hinomaru. It is ironic that a country...
Reader Mail
Feb 19, 2008

Limit the numbers at fish market

Regarding the Feb. 7 article "Tsukiji looks to curb pesky glut of tourists": While having some sympathy for the fishmongers of Tsukiji market, the article presents the inescapable and, unfortunately, all-too-common whiff of xenophobia in Japanese institutions (however insignificant).
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 14, 2008

Chinese views on North Korea

In recent years, issues pertaining to North Korea have been hotly debated by Chinese institute researchers. The publication of conflicting views in authoritative media suggests that these debates are sanctioned by the Chinese leadership.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 7, 2008

Tsukiji looks to curb glut of pesky tourists

The Tsukiji Fish Market, one of Tokyo's most popular and well-known tourist draws, has adopted rules urging visitors to voluntarily "refrain from coming," because of sanitation concerns and the disruptions they pose to auctions.
JAPAN
Feb 7, 2008

Overriding vote passes '07 extra budget

The Lower House on Wednesday overrode the Upper House's rejection of a ¥1.78 trillion supplementary budget for fiscal 2007 and rammed it through the Diet, the first such move pertaining to an extra budget in 15 years.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 6, 2008

Handling the Taiwan issue

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Opinion polls indicate that one-third of Americans believe that China will "soon dominate the world," while nearly half view China's emergence as a "threat to world peace." In turn, many Chinese fear that the U.S. will not accept their "peaceful rise." Americans and Chinese must...
Reader Mail
Jan 29, 2008

Obsession blinds rational debate

The headline for bioethics professor Peter Singer's Jan. 17 article, "Hypocrisy weakens West's whaling protests," was misleading. Any number of other key points in Singer's article would have made for more appropriate titles, such as "Whales cannot be humanely killed." And that's just to start with!...
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 26, 2008

Hope for pacifying the strait

The following passage, which was not given wide press coverage, was included in a report that Chinese President Hu Jintao made to the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China last fall:
COMMENTARY
Jan 23, 2008

False choices for Tokyo

HONOLULU — A gloom is settling over Tokyo. A recent visit revealed deep and deepening frustration and anxiety as Japanese contemplate strategic options. Decision-makers in Tokyo have framed their choices in overly simple terms that do not reflect the range of possibilities in foreign and security policy....
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jan 21, 2008

Fukuda's house won't stand

It appears all but certain that the Japanese political landscape will undergo a drastic change this year as a result of general elections following the dissolution of the House of Representatives by Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda.
Reader Mail
Jan 17, 2008

Far-fetched claim to 'life force'

Regarding Angela Jeffs' Jan. 12 article, "Therapist brings healing through hypnosis": Just when I thought that Angela Jeffs had run out of faith healers and quacks, here comes one more. According to "The Skeptic's Dictionary" -- the practitioners of reiki (and other energy healers) believe that health...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 11, 2008

Billing Catch-22 traps patients

On Oct. 6, 2005, when Nobuhito Kiyosato went to the Kanagawa Cancer Center, where he had been treated for kidney cancer since 2001, he was told there would be a major change in his treatment.
JAPAN
Jan 11, 2008

Illness, not policies, ended my time in office: Abe

The abrupt and, at the time, inexplicable resignation of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in September stunned the nation, prompting criticism that he was an irresponsible and immature politician who couldn't even offer a convincing explanation as to why he quit the nation's top post.
Reader Mail
Jan 10, 2008

Looking forward to moving up

Regarding the Jan. 5 article "Assistant language teachers in trying times": Finally a realistic take on the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program and the subject of ALTs. I am finishing up working two years with Interac. Aside from the grievances listed in the article, add that I was made to change my...
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 10, 2008

Establish limits on naval support to U.S.

As the debate continues in Japan's Diet this month over a new Antiterrorism Special Measures Law (ASM Law) authorizing Japanese naval force activities in the Indian Ocean, serious attention must be paid to the issues of exactly how such activity is to be limited, and how the Diet can meaningfully monitor...
Reader Mail
Jan 8, 2008

Extortionist fees for insurance

Thank you for the Jan. 4 article "The doctor will see the moneyed and insured, but less fortunate also ail" -- about the plight of the uninsured and underinsured in Japan. One point that the article failed to mention is the difficulty of entering the Kokumin Insurance program even if you are a legal...
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 6, 2008

Food for oil: global version

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut — It has always been interesting to me how much of a role sheer coincidence has played in the history of the world.
Reader Mail
Jan 6, 2008

Real obligation under Kyoto pact

Concerning the Jan. 3 article "Japan lags as Kyoto pact's action period begins": This article is very misleading and is therefore consistent with the Japanese government's policy of double-speak on the issue of Japan's greenhouse-gas emissions.
Reader Mail
Jan 3, 2008

Challenge for Obama summed up

Regarding Dominique Moisi's Dec. 29 article, "Barak Obama's American revolution": I liked this article so much that I decided to read all of Moisi's essays. I also registered to read The Japan Times (online); I figured that a newspaper with such smart writers may be worth reading as well.
Reader Mail
Dec 27, 2007

Whom would Jesus have bombed?

Whom would Jesus have bombed?1111111111
Reader Mail
Dec 23, 2007

Certification trumps graduate skills

While I do not disagree with professor Takamitsu Sawa's opinions in his Dec. 11 article, "The graduate school fiasco" -- on the low quality of graduate education in Japan -- I was taken aback at the following passage so blithely sandwiched in the middle of the article: "Since Japanese universities give...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 14, 2007

In praise of Chinese women

Though novelist/filmmaker Sijie Dai resides in France and shot his latest movie in Vietnam, he says he will continue to make movies in China because, "I can't think of doing otherwise. It is after all, my country despite our differences."
Reader Mail
Dec 6, 2007

Unpopular solution politically

According to the article "Workforce may shrink by millions by 2030: study", the projected labor shortage in Japan in the next 20 years will be some 4.6 million people -- under a best-case scenario and if all available married women, seniors capable of working, and young workers are convinced to join...
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 3, 2007

Setting the record straight on Indonesia

BALI, Indonesia — Japan and India stand as beacons for democracy that surely inspire many of their Asian neighbors. For its part, Indonesia has been struggling with its own experiment with democracy that has enormous implications for the region and the rest of the world.
Reader Mail
Dec 2, 2007

Beautiful fruit that disappoints

Regarding Michael Hoffman's Nov. 25 article, "Taste buds of children destroyed by junk food" (a translation of a Sapio article): It's not just food additives that are destroying taste buds; Japan has a depressing lack of good produce available in stores.
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.”

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

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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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