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Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jul 1, 2006

Palestinians need a book as good as 'The Israelis'

Donna Rosenthal heads the pack across Shibuya's famed pedestrian crossing, grinning from ear to ear and arms waving hello. In Tokyo to meet with her agent about a possible Japanese edition of her book "The Israelis," she's more than happy to meet up in old territory.
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2006

Successor inherits ever-unpopular deficit mess

Most banks have shed their burden of bad loans. The Nikkei 225 average has recovered from rock bottom and the economy is finally picking up. But what about Japan's debt-ridden finances?
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 19, 2006

The radicalization of Western Muslims

LONDON -- What is it that makes young Muslims in the West susceptible to radicalism? What is it about the experience of the West's rising generation of Muslims that leads a small minority to see violence as a solution to their economic and political dilemmas, and suicide as their reward and salvation?...
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 10, 2006

Intolerance to the arts is growing in India

MADRAS, India -- The recent anger against director Ron Howard's latest film, "The Da Vinci Code," reminds us that intolerance against artistic freedom is growing in a world that we thought was past caring about such issues.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Jun 10, 2006

Stephen Salyer

The headquarters of the Salzburg Seminar are in Salzburg, Austria. Many of its year-round meetings take place in the 18th century castle Schloss Leopoldskron, known to moviegoers for its impressive presence in "The Sound of Music." "It is a very beautiful place," said Stephen Salyer, the Salzburg Seminar...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 9, 2006

BOJ member Suda wants public to know finance

Miyako Suda doesn't think of her job on the Bank of Japan's Policy Board as only talking to economists and crunching numbers.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 4, 2006

France's weak incentive to earn income

LONDON -- France's chronic malaise is marked by periodic explosions of protest. The two most recent episodes -- the rioting and arson in French cities last autumn and the successful student campaign earlier this year against a new law governing young labor-market entrants -- seem to have little in common....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 25, 2006

Writing a challenge in clay for his proteges

When asked "What kind of ware do you make?," ceramic artist Kimpei Nakamura's tongue-in-cheek response is "Tokyo yaki (Tokyo Ware)." It's a label of his own invention that pokes fun at the traditional system of classifying ceramics by their ties to ancient kiln sites that existed long before the city...
JAPAN
May 23, 2006

Academic society on games establishes Japan chapter

The Digital Games Research Association Japan has been launched to develop digital technology and educational digital software.
COMMENTARY / World
May 18, 2006

Redefining the Middle East

SARAWAK, Malaysia -- It may be convenient to perceive the Middle East as a politically charged, fractious region, rife with conflicts and disputes, void of many prospects, save those leading to even further uncertainty and turmoil.
Japan Times
Reference / SO WHAT THE HECK IS THAT
May 16, 2006

Kishagasa

Dear Alice,
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
May 5, 2006

Shakespeare with a smile

The International Theatre Company London (ITCL) returns to Japan this month with its production of Shakespeare's early comedy "The Taming of the Shrew," a politically incorrect ode to the achievement of hierarchical social harmony as portrayed through men's efforts to control the passions of feisty heroine...
BUSINESS
Apr 26, 2006

Job picture brightens for grads

Companies are expected to offer 825,000 jobs to new graduates of universities and graduate schools in 2007, close to the 840,000 in 1991 when the economic bubble was peaking, the employment and labor research division of Recruit Co. said Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Apr 15, 2006

Abduction issue not resolved

The Japanese government has announced DNA analysis results that indicate that the daughter of Ms. Megumi Yokota, a Japanese abducted by North Korean agents in 1977, was very likely fathered by a South Korean man also abducted by the Pyongyang regime in the 1970s, a Mr. Kim Young Nam. There is now a strong...
JAPAN
Apr 12, 2006

Tokyo U. 13th in essay citations

The University of Tokyo was listed 13th in a world ranking of citations from research essays covering the 11 years to 2005, the Japan office of Thomson Corp. of the U.S. said Monday.
LIFE / Language
Mar 28, 2006

Modern teaching tools capitalize on 'Japan cool'

Enter a British school and Japanese is likely to have been left outside the classroom. According to statistics from the United Kingdom's National Centre for Languages (CILT), last year 978 students took Japanese at GCSE level, the public exams taken at 16 after which students can leave school or continue...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Mar 28, 2006

Times get tough for teachers

English teaching in Japan is not what it used to be. Conditions are changing; the work is harder to come by, wages are falling, and staff are increasingly taking their employers to court.
JAPAN
Mar 26, 2006

Lawmakers reveal global cultural heritage preservation bill

A nonpartisan group of lawmakers will draft a bill to help restore cultural heritage lost in Afghanistan, Iraq and other war-torn areas, the lawmakers said Saturday.
Japan Times
LIFE
Mar 12, 2006

Pointers to progress and inertia

This story is part of a package on women in Japan. The introduction is here.
BUSINESS
Mar 11, 2006

Bill targets pension premium refusers

The Cabinet OK'd legislation Friday for presentation to the Diet the same day to establish a new pension services agency in 2008 to replace the Social Insurance Agency and enhance collection of pension premiums.
COMMENTARY
Mar 8, 2006

Can monarchical systems survive?

LONDON -- Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, has recently claimed that his copyright was infringed by a popular newspaper that printed extracts from his diary about the handover of power in Hong Kong in 1998. The diary revealed the prince' distaste for the Chinese leaders whom he described as...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Feb 25, 2006

Software aids communication in cultural context

Nils Plett, president and CEO of QE Tech, is tall. While angling my camera skyward to get his picture, walking alongside requires two steps to his every stride.
EDITORIALS
Feb 5, 2006

Soldier for human rights

He was there, in court most of the time, when the human rights of Korean residents in Japan were at issue -- denial of pension rights, forced fingerprinting of foreign residents for immigration registration, and blocked promotions of Korean nationals working for local governments. He also served in a...
JAPAN
Jan 31, 2006

Campaign waged to pitch Japan as brand

Leading businesses, including Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. and Toyota Motor Corp., along with universities and designers have launched a three-year campaign to heighten Japan's brand image based on its traditional culture.

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