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COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2013

Leadership vacuum begs for a Sino-U.S. accord

A comprehensive Sino-U.S. economic partnership — which is what the world really needs — will be impossible unless the U.S. recognizes China as an equal partner.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2013

Does China's left turn indicate reforms ahead?

Some analysts believe that China's turn to the left and its crackdown on democratic ideas are tactical moves that foreshadow the launch of major reforms later this fall.
BUSINESS / Markets
Oct 6, 2013

World's biggest pension fund readies powder for new Japan growth stock index

Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund plans to boost investment in growth stocks to increase returns and may eventually allocate several trillion yen to such equities, the Nikkei newspaper said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 6, 2013

Navy SEALs target top Somali terrorist leader

U.S. Navy SEALs raid the Somali home of a leader in the terrorist group al-Shabab but fail to catch him.
Japan Times
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Oct 5, 2013

Kim's injury could open door for Mao at Sochi Games

It is amazing how quickly the dynamic can change in skating.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Oct 5, 2013

Canadian sojourn helps to shake off Japan malaise

It was really good to escape the summer heat in Japan and spend two weeks in British Columbia with three of my grown offspring and five grandchildren, as well as with lots of friends both old and new.
EDITORIALS
Oct 5, 2013

The danger of social isolation

The terrible results of social isolation are evident in a new study by the Justice Ministry of 52 of the most violent attacks that occurred in Japan between 2000 and 2009.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Oct 5, 2013

A history of Judaism

First the derision and the sorrows, then the years of exile. Kicked out of anti-Semitic Spain in the 1490s, Jews were among the first to arrive in the New World. They were Iberian immigrants or Sephardim (after Sefarad, Hebrew for Spain) in search of refuge.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Oct 5, 2013

Trouble is brewing on tracks up north

Last week the Fuji TV variety show "Real Scope" covered Japanese railroads. Most of the celebrities in the studio were densha otaku (train geeks), so it was one big love-in for railways and the people who operate them. However, the entire two-hour program focused on only two systems: the super express...
JAPAN
Oct 5, 2013

Ikebana group hopes to bloom under new chairwoman

Members of Ikebana International on Friday welcomed new Chairwoman Anja N. Siebold Bucher, the wife of Switzerland's ambassador to Japan, at a meeting in Tokyo.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 4, 2013

India's wealthy must open gates and fight chaos

Even well-to-do Indians, whose disengagement has made the erosion of public institutions possible, can no longer escape the extortion and lawlessness that the less lucky have always faced.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 4, 2013

Payment processor fined for illegal fees

One of the largest payment-processing companies helped debt-relief firms impose illegal up-front fees on struggling consumers, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The agency fined the firm, Meracord, $1.3 million on Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Oct 4, 2013

Rural exchange program for city kids draws down

Amid a rapidly aging and declining population in rural areas of Aichi Prefecture, an exchange program to send young students from cities to the Tomiyama district in the village of Toyone will be terminated in March 2015, along with the closure of the district's only elementary and junior high school....
EDITORIALS
Oct 3, 2013

Outlook dims for a greater Osaka

The defeat of an Osaka Ishin no Kai candidate in a mayoral election Sunday has dimmed the outlook for Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto's idea of creating a greater Osaka administrative area.
CULTURE / Film
Oct 3, 2013

'Hafu'

Around one in 49 babies born in Japan today are of mixed heritage. That's a surprising figure considering that the country was closed off to foreigners for close to three centuries, way back when.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 3, 2013

'R100'

The world premiere of Hitoshi Matsumoto's "R100" in the Toronto International Film Festival's Midnight Madness section must be frustrating for all those Japanese auteurs out there who got rejection letters from North America's most important festival.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 3, 2013

'Red Dawn'

One day we'll wake up and the sky will be green, the grass will be blue and dogs will walk humans on leashes as gleeful gnomes burble in frothy rivers of chocolate. If all that seems like a reasonable proposition, then maybe you're ready for "Red Dawn," which asks us to believe that one morning we'll...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 3, 2013

'L'Ecume des Jours'

Lovingly crafted by Michel Gondry ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"), modern cinema's DIY auteur, "L'Ecume des Jours" is a celebration of the nicely weird. Gondry has always loved and nurtured society's attractive misfits, wonderful people who happen to be allergic to office cubicles or one-night...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Oct 3, 2013

Sonoma flavors come to Four Seasons; Lawry's beef on the bone; Hungarian fair at Royal Park Hotel

Sonoma flavors come to Four Seasons
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 3, 2013

High-def 4K taking center stage this year

Electronics makers are promoting their 4K, or ultra-high-definition, display technology in a big way at Japan's biggest electronics fair with the aim of stimulating some demand.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Society / ANALYSIS
Oct 3, 2013

As Xi tightens grip, hopes for China reforms vanish

After Xi Jinping took over as head of China's Communist Party in December, some liberals dared to hope that change was in store for the world's most populous nation.
WORLD
Oct 3, 2013

Russia charges 14 Greenpeace 'pirates'

Russian authorities turned their informal descriptions of Greenpeace activists as pirates into legal charges Wednesday, a chilling evolution in a saga that began as a protest against drilling in the Arctic.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 2, 2013

Kohfukuji Temple: under divine protection

Tucked away behind the main museums in Ueno, the Tokyo University Art Museum may not be on most people's radar, but it is definitely one of the city's top museums in terms of curatorial quality.

Longform

The building of new high-rise residential buildings has some alarmed that they could empty and fall into disrepair as Japan's population shrinks.
The high cost of letting Japan's condos crumble