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Jul 2, 2007

U.S. dethrones Japan in title game

Japan's quest for a three-peat came to an end after falling 3-1 to Team USA in the final game at the International Softball Federation's VIII Junior Women's World Championship (U-19, fast pitch) in Enschede, the Netherlands. Japan took an early 1-0 lead with a run in the top of the first inning of the...
JAPAN
Jul 2, 2007

Ozawa hits Abe over Kyuma remarks

Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma's remarks on the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were an easy target for Democratic Party of Japan President Ichiro Ozawa during a policy debate Sunday in Tokyo with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Reader Mail
Jul 1, 2007

Ground fighting in the last days

Some recent stories about Okinawa have followed the same faulty manual. At least two articles have made the claim that "Okinawa was the only inhabited part of Japan where ground fighting took place in the closing days of World War II."
EDITORIALS
Jul 1, 2007

Resolution on servitude

The U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee has passed, by a 39-2 vote, a nonbinding resolution that says "the government of Japan should formally acknowledge, apologize and accept historical responsibility in a clear and unequivocal manner for its Imperial Armed Forces' coercion of young...
EDITORIALS
Jul 1, 2007

Passing of a statesman

Former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa was a leader of postwar Japan's mainstream conservatism who strove to rebuild Japan while preventing it from retracing the militarist path. He died Thursday at 87.
MORE SPORTS
Jun 30, 2007

WWE hysteria all McMahon's doing

NEW YORK — Hucksters make their living ahead of the curve, or at the very least, by selling that illusion.
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2007

H.K. man wins first 'Manga Nobel' for cartoonists abroad

A Hong Kong artist has won Japan's first "Nobel Prize of Manga" for artists working in the comic book genre abroad, the Foreign Ministry said Friday.
EDITORIALS
Jun 30, 2007

A new era for Britain

In physical terms, Mr. Gordon Brown has not gone far this week: He moved his office one door down, from No. 11 to No. 10 on Downing Street in London. He did not even have to move his family, which already lives at the private quarters at No. 10. But the change in jobs from chancellor of the Exchequer...
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2007

U.S. beef back on Ito-Yokado shelves

Major supermarket chain Ito-Yokado Co. brought American beef back to its shelves Friday, about 3 1/2 years after sales were halted in the wake of the first U.S. case of mad cow disease, a parent company spokesman said.
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2007

Mitsukoshi turns profit but sales fall

Mitsukoshi Ltd., Japan's third-largest department store chain, said Friday it returned to profit in the first quarter from the year before, when it posted a loss because of a revaluation of its real estate holdings.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Jun 30, 2007

Jorge Ferreras

Those who know him well agree that Jorge Ferreras is unusually talented and highly original. With his whimsies, his art and piano he has a gift for lighting up the space he occupies. He is an architect and artist, NHK radio man and university lecturer who came from Argentina to study and live in Japan....
BUSINESS
Jun 30, 2007

Oil imports decline for 13th month

Crude oil imports fell 11 percent in May from a year earlier, declining for a 13th month.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2007

The Dutch trick: flextime and shorter workweek

AMSTERDAM — Trying to figure out a Dutch work schedule is a little like solving a Sudoku puzzle: You bog down in numbers.
CULTURE / Music
Jun 29, 2007

Malajube "Trompe L'oeil"

If the first you hear of Malajube is the single "Montreal -40 C," you may dismiss them as an undistinguished, shiny-happy Euro-pop rock act thrown together in homage to The Cardigans. This would be a tragic, but understandable, error, since it's not until the fourth track of "Trompe L'oeil" that the...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 29, 2007

'Live Free or Die Hard'

Dear John:
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2007

Office weighs less in the work-life balance

After his son was born last April, Hyogo Prefecture civil servant Akira Hirabayashi decided to cut back on overtime at work. He yearned for more time with little Susumu and also wanted to give his wife, Chie, a chance to return to her teaching job at an elementary school.
CULTURE / Film
Jun 29, 2007

Steel sells hard story

Eric Steel is a Yale graduate who's been active in publishing and producing for some 20 years now, but has only just made his own feature debut as director with "The Bridge." Inspired by an article in The New Yorker ("Jumpers," by Tad Friend), Steel set out to record the phenomenon of suicide at the...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 29, 2007

'The Bridge'

On a trip to San Francisco last month, I drove out to Marin County with a friend. We parked our car in the Vista Point parking lot, got out, and there, towering over a rise in the ground, was the Golden Gate Bridge. The bridge's two, 230-meter-high towers loomed majestically, wrapped in a shroud of drifting...
BUSINESS
Jun 29, 2007

Toyota, Honda lead rise in May domestic auto output

Toyota Motor Corp. and Honda Motor Co. led Japanese automakers in raising domestic output last month, because of increased exports and an extra day of production compared with last year.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 28, 2007

Einsteins of anime

Headquartered in a nondescript office building in Kichijoji, a Tokyo suburb with a bohemian flavor, Studio 4°C hardly looks, from the outside, like the epicenter of anything. Yet this animation production house, founded in 1986 by Eiko Tanaka, Koji Morimoto and Yoshiharu Sato, has made some of the most...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 28, 2007

Toyota releases new Noah, Voxy

Toyota Motor Corp. started selling Wednesday new versions of the Noah and Voxy minivans to lure buyers as the domestic market contracts.

Longform

Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
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