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WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 25, 2013

Earth's slowdown messing with human tech

Don't forget to set your clocks ahead two thousandths of a second before you go to sleep tonight. Same thing goes for bedtime tomorrow. And every day after that, because that is how much slower the Earth turns on its axis each day now than it did a century ago.
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BUSINESS
Aug 25, 2013

Time of reckoning approaching, Legarde warns

The world's central banks have spent the past several years propping up the global economy and rescuing the world from crisis. Now, argues the head of the International Monetary Fund, it is time to grapple with the consequences.
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BUSINESS
Aug 25, 2013

FDIC races against time to prosecute bank debacle suspects

As the clock runs out on a three-year statute of limitations, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has filed a flurry of lawsuits to recoup losses tied to the largest wave of bank failures during the financial crisis.
EDITORIALS
Aug 23, 2013

Less Diet time by prime minister

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party wants to reduce the amount of time that the prime minister and Cabinet members are required to Diet committee sessions.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Aug 22, 2013

Time to salute Ichiro's amazing feat, leave debate aside

Ichiro Suzuki took off his helmet to reveal a head a little more salt than pepper as he bowed in appreciation of the reception he was receiving after joining an exclusive club with the 4,000th professional hit of his career between Japan and the U.S. at Yankee Stadium.
Reader Mail
Aug 7, 2013

Time for collective self-defense

Hisahiko Okazaki's well-reasoned July 30 article "Japan could soften U.S. cuts" should stimulate discussion on the rights or wrongs of amending Article 9 of Japan's Constitution.
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CULTURE / Music
Jul 24, 2013

Supergroup Muddy Apes get album out just in time to rock Fuji

From the beginning, rock act Muddy Apes set a lofty goal for themselves.
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SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Jul 22, 2013

Hakuho moves past Asashoryu to third on the all-time greatest list

On July 21, yokozuna Hakuho became the third most successful rikishi in the modern era, even if his 26th yusho victory since first holding aloft the Emperor's Cup 42 tournaments ago came with something of a bittersweet aftertaste.
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WORLD
Jul 11, 2013

U.S. Navy lands drone on aircraft carrier for first time

A bat-winged experimental navy drone executed landings on an aircraft carrier for the first time, marking a major advance in robotic aviation.
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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Jul 8, 2013

Driven by regret over neighbor's death, first-time filmmaker declares war on suicide

Rene Duignan is passionate about life — so much so that he made an award-winning film about it. Yet Duignan, 42, is not a professional filmmaker; he's an Irish economist working for the European Union delegation to Japan. The documentary, titled "Saving 10,000 — Winning a War on Suicide in Japan,"...
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Events / Events In Tokyo
Jun 21, 2013

Turn the lights out for a piece of 'me' time

"Turn off the lights, and take it slow tonight": If this reads like advice on how to pamper yourself at the end of a long work week, that isn't entirely off the mark.
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CULTURE / Art
Jun 15, 2013

Time for a fresh look at the life and art of L.S. Lowry

In a somewhat stark meeting room at Tate Britain, the curators of its forthcoming L.S. Lowry show, T.J. Clark and Anne M. Wagner, are attempting, at my request, to extol the artist's virtues to me. It's a complicated business. For one thing, I have the impression that they regard enthusiasm as infra...
Reader Mail
May 26, 2013

Break-time habits tell the score

Around 25 years ago, when Japan was enjoying the "bubble economy," ordinary company workers would eat out for lunch quite often and then have a cup of coffee in a "traditional" coffee shop. Company workers, who were called "corporate warriors" at the time, rarely ate instant noodles from a cup in their...
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JAPAN / Politics
May 18, 2013

As LDP rides high, are factions biding time?

In late April at an upscale hotel in Tokyo, more than 100 people thronged to have their photo taken with Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso.
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CULTURE / Art
Apr 18, 2013

Early photos of northern Japan capture a time of change

Although photography entered Japan in the mid-19th century, it took time to spread beyond the few port cities permitted to engage in trade with the West at that time. As a result, it was several decades before this imported Western technology reached outlying districts, and by then the Japanese concept...
Figure Skating
Apr 13, 2013

Takahashi triumphs in men's singles competition

Daisuke Takahashi came from behind to win the men's singles on Friday night to keep Japan in the hunt for a medal at the World Team Trophy.
SOCCER / J. League / J. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Apr 4, 2013

Marinos turn back time with perfect start to new season

Yokohama F. Marinos may have one of the oldest teams in the J. League, but the three-time champions are aiming to have a vintage year after winning their first four games of the season.
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WORLD / Politics
Feb 25, 2013

Who is the real John McCain?

John McCain was excited. It was late January, and the following day, he and a group of bipartisan senators were set to announce their framework for comprehensive immigration reform. He picked up the phone and called an old friend in Arizona.
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JAPAN
Dec 28, 2012

Time for Japan to let go of the status quo, U.S. leadership expert counsels

Japan isn't going to end decades of economic malaise, nor will its corporations meet the challenge of overseas rivals, unless bold changes are made, warns an expert on leadership from Harvard University who was in Japan recently to give a series of lectures.
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ENVIRONMENT
Sep 30, 2012

Time seems to slow as Joei-ji Garden comes alive

"The whole countryside was full of snakes sunning themselves along the roads and swimming in the ditches and newly flooded rice-fields. ... Out in Sesshu's old garden behind the temple, the pond was starred with tiny twinkling water-lilies." Such was, in part, how Glenn W. Shaw described the rural outskirts...
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LIFE / Food & Drink / JAPANESE KITCHEN
Sep 28, 2012

Fall harvest means it's time for new rice

Fall is in the air! With the return of cooler weather, your appetite may be making a comeback too. Luckily, fall is a great time for gourmets to indulge in Japan. There's an abundance of fresh produce in season, and some of the tastiest fish are returning to the colder waters up north. Most of all, it's...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 5, 2012

'Sho Time' delivers Fighters past Eagles

The Hokkaido Nippon Fighters nearly broke through against Manabu Mima after a double by Sho Nakata in the sixth inning.
EDITORIALS
Aug 27, 2012

The greatest film of all time

The 1953 masterpiece "Tokyo Story," by director Yasujiro Ozu, has been voted the greatest film of all time by 358 directors around the world, in a poll released earlier this month by Sight and Sound magazine.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Aug 26, 2012

Stalling tactics being abused in time-limit games

Japanese pro baseball has stayed with the three-and-a-half-hour game time limit rule in 2012 and, while this may be helping to save energy and shorten the length of games, there are signs teams are abusing the rule, playing for a tie rather than a win. This is disappointing.
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JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Aug 12, 2012

Excuse this proud new father — it's time to indulge in some baby talk

I'll preface this column by admitting that it is fairly common, among journalists on the science and health beats, that after they personally reproduce they experience a burning desire to write about the science of childbirth. Seasoned editors know to expect that postnatal reporters will start pitching...
OLYMPICS / LONDON POSTCARD
Aug 6, 2012

No time to make noise in rapid-fire badminton

Why is it that there's less grunting in badminton than tennis?
OLYMPICS
Aug 3, 2012

Winning marks fall as time marches on

In 1908, King Edward VII reigned supreme over England, the ball dropped in New York City's Times Square for the first time to usher in the new year and John Philip Sousa's "The Fairest of the Fair," a march, was a hit tune. The year also marked the first time London hosted the Summer Olympics.

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