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COMMENTARY / World
Sep 14, 2013

The desperate search for online privacy is over

Privacy in the traditional sense is most certainly dead. But the killer isn't the NSA. It's the Internet itself — or, more to the point, our entire reliance on it
Reader Mail
Sep 14, 2013

Make use of chemical conventions

Regarding the Sept. 12 article "Obama gives Syria diplomatic option to avoid U.S. strike": In a plan jointly developed just over a week ago with Dr. Gordon Thompson, who directs the Institute for Resource and Security Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts (before U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's door-opening...
JAPAN
Sep 14, 2013

Idling of Oi No. 4 unit to again halt all atomic power

With Sunday's shutdown of Kansai Electric Power Co.'s Oi No. 4 reactor for regular safety inspections, Japan will be without nuclear power for the first time since July 2012.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 13, 2013

Carriers start taking iPhone pre-orders

Competition for mobile phone vendors spikes as Japan's three top players begin taking pre-orders for Apple's latest iPhone, including NTT DoCoMo.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Sep 13, 2013

The dysfunctional family of Mother Nature

"From now on, I will carry my own water bottle," I promised Mother Nature. She had just scolded me as I came around the corner by presenting me with an angry beach covered with garbage. And this was not the first time she has told me off. Hundreds of beaches in the Seto Inland Sea are inundated with...
Events / KANSAI: WHO & WHAT
Sep 13, 2013

'Rakugo' show, shamisen workshop in English

A "rakugo" comic storytelling performance and a shamisen workshop, both in English, will be held for free Sept. 23 in Osaka as part of the Kansai Music Conference.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Sep 13, 2013

Giant camera hunts for dark energy

With the whir of a giant digital camera, the biggest mystery in the universe is about to become a bit less mysterious.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Sep 12, 2013

East-West sweets are a favorite fusion feast

In Japan, single-flavored foods are sometimes just too monotonous to attract new customers, and so snack companies are constantly going back to the planning board to come up with a hot new flavor of potato chips and chocolate. Often their inspiration comes not only from the Western origins of those snacks...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 12, 2013

'Tomogui (Backwater)'

In 1971 the Nikkatsu studio, desperate to stave off bankruptcy, switched production to the then-burgeoning genre of softcore pornography. Made mostly by young directors promoted after their elders fled, the films were hardly intended as high art. Instead their main selling point was simulated sex, often...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / KANPAI CULTURE
Sep 12, 2013

Tasting Kirin's beer of many colors

Morbid curiosity had prompted me to order a Two-Tone beer cocktail at the branch of Kirin Ichiban Shibori Garden in Tokyo's Akasaka district. I had read, with no small measure of disbelief, that Tokyo's latest summer beer fad was lager mixed with fruit juice or sweet syrup, and I had to see it with my...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 12, 2013

Tanks, not leak, main problem at Fukushima

The radioactive water tainting the sea from the Fukushima No. 1 plant may be generating headlines, but an expert says its storage tanks pose a greater danger.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Sep 12, 2013

Renewed Prince Sakura Tower Tokyo opens; fresh porcini at Hotel New Otani Tokyo; sweet buffet at Sheraton Yokohama

Renovated Prince Sakura Tower opens The Prince Sakura Tower Tokyo in Shinagawa will reopen on Sept. 14, after undergoing renovations through an ¥840 million investment.
JAPAN
Sep 12, 2013

Japan to protest Fukushima-Olympics cartoons in French weekly

Japan plans to complain to the French satirical newspaper Le Canard Enchaine after it published cartoons poking fun at Tokyo hosting the 2020 Olympics in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 12, 2013

'Paranorman'

Directors: Chris Butler, Sam Fell
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 12, 2013

Cute craving a cash cow for Hello Kitty creator

Tanya Stanich, a 43-year-old lawyer, clutched a handful of pink and black Hello Kitty notebooks at Sanrio Co.'s store in Manhattan's Times Square and touched a sequined bag adorned with the face of a cartoon cat.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Sep 12, 2013

Long-term imports still rare in ever-changing league

With each passing season, perpetual change on team rosters means dozens of foreign players come and go. And it's become quite rare for foreign players to spend a large chunk of their careers in the bj-league.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 11, 2013

Kansai not overly enthusiastic about Tokyo landing Olympics

As Tokyo continues to celebrate landing the 2020 Summer Olympics, some in Osaka are making noises about a future bid from the Kansai region.
CULTURE / Music / TOKYO JAZZ FESTIVAL
Sep 11, 2013

Elephant9

So is this your first trip to Japan?
CULTURE / Music / TOKYO JAZZ FESTIVAL
Sep 11, 2013

Eric Vloeimans

This is your first time at Tokyo Jazz Festival, but not your first visit to Japan. What's your overall impression?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 11, 2013

'Soul of Meiji: Edward Sylvester Morse, His Day by Day With Kindhearted People'

American zoologist Edward Sylvester Morse was one of the leading figures in the popularization of Japanese ceramic art overseas. While on a science research trip to Japan in 1877, Morse amassed a collection of more than 5,000 pieces of pottery. For his service and academic contributions to Japan, he...
Reader Mail
Sep 11, 2013

The rise and fall of Naoto Kan

Regarding the Aug. 31 interview "Naoto Kan speaks out": I have mixed feelings. During the time that the Liberal Democratic Party was dominating the politics of Japan until it lost power in 2009 and "the traditional triangular network" — or extremely strong ties with vested politicians, bureaucrats...
Reader Mail
Sep 11, 2013

America's love of war

Regarding the Sept. 5 commentary by Henry Allen titled "Tragedy of America's 'good and virtuous wars' ": All wars are tragic, perhaps none more so than those fought in the name of civic virtue. The U.S. Navy's new recruiting slogan boasts that it's a global force for good! The American writer historian...
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Sep 11, 2013

Securing Assad's chemical arsenal would be daunting task

As diplomats wrangled over competing plans for securing Syria's chemical weapons, arms-control experts warned Tuesday of the formidable challenges involved in carrying out such a complex and risky operation in the midst of a raging civil war.

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