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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jan 25, 2011

Waiting for the WikiLeak dam to break

Like a giant dose of salts to a bloated and constipated patient, "Cablegate" has scoured its way through the post-9/11 United States empire, exposing its internal workings to merciless scrutiny: In Iraq, U.S. forces and their Iraqi subordinates kill civilians and journalists while their commanders turn...
COMMUNITY / Voices / HOTLINE TO NAGATACHO
Jan 25, 2011

So you want Japan to be a true Asian business hub?

Dear Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Banri Kaieda: Last month your ministry published "Current Policies to Make Japan Asia's Center for Business."
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 17, 2011

Film 'Peepli live' outstanding as a spotlight on shortcomings

HONG KONG — One of the hot topics among India's chattering classes is when their country will surpass China and become the fastest growing country in the world.
JAPAN
Jan 14, 2011

Kitazawa, Gates to speed talks on SM-3

Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa met with his U.S. counterpart, Robert Gates, Thursday in Tokyo, with the two agreeing to speed talks on the possibility of providing jointly developed sea-based missile-shield systems to other countries and the need to prevent North Korea from taking further provocative...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jan 9, 2011

Cheater exposed by tweeting ex

The micro-blogging service Twitter is an effective PR instrument, but one fraught with risk for celebrities who want to juice their notoriety by connecting directly and on their own terms with the public. Forgoing the filtering function of publicists, they may endear themselves to fans even more powerfully;...
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ENVIRONMENT
Jan 9, 2011

Are Japan's fish lovers eating tuna to extinction?

Pick up a newspaper in Japan these days and you'll almost always find a story in it about the state of bluefin tuna somewhere in the world.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 7, 2011

Baiting like revolutionaries

NEW YORK — Whenever I hear people on America's Republican right call themselves "conservative," I experience the mental equivalent of a slight electric shock.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Jan 7, 2011

Youth movement underway on bj-league sidelines

The bj-league's youth movement — essentially a cost-cutting measure for a league struggling to make money — brought in several new coaches for the 2010-11 season.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jan 7, 2011

Photojournalist group show off their best

All across Japan people are ringing in the new year with visits to hometowns, prayers at temples and bowls of soba. It's a good time to look ahead, but also a good time for looking back — that's where the Tokyo Press Photographers Association comes in.
BUSINESS
Jan 6, 2011

Big business comes out strong for TPP

Business leaders urged the government Wednesday to open up the nation's market by joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact by June so industries can benefit from the strong consumption power in the United States and emerging economies.
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JAPAN
Jan 6, 2011

Sengoku tries to get opposition to back off

Opposition parties shouldn't boycott Diet deliberations attended by two key ministers targeted by nonbinding censure motions in the Upper House in November, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshito Sengoku, one of those singled out, said Wednesday.
EDITORIALS
Jan 6, 2011

Rough ride awaiting Mr. Kan

Prime Minister Naoto Kan expressed his political hopes for 2011 at a news conference Tuesday, including his determination to end money-tainted politics and his wish to hold consultations with the opposition forces on reform of the social welfare system and reform of the tax system, which would include...
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jan 5, 2011

TV analysts lacking depth, guts

NEW YORK — TNT's studio savants were in peak blather last week after the Spurs outlasted the Dirk Nowitzki-less Mavericks. During probably the show's most coherent 5-minute segment, not one of the four could name the Thunder's best big man, because evidently they don't believe the team has a best big...
JAPAN / AT JAPAN'S EXPENSE
Jan 4, 2011

Emerging carmakers put mainstays in panic

Third in a series
EDITORIALS
Dec 30, 2010

MPD is slow on leak

On Oct. 28, what is believed to be 114 documents linked to the police's investigation efforts concerning international terrorism was posted on the Internet. Most of the documents are believed to have been prepared by the Metropolitan Police Department's Third Foreign Affairs Division in charge of investigation...
JAPAN
Dec 28, 2010

Kan's bid to woo small party flops

The small opposition force Tachiagare Nippon (Sunrise Party of Japan) on Monday snubbed Prime Minister Naoto Kan's overture to join the ruling bloc, undermining his administration's latest attempt to get past the divided Diet.
JAPAN / Media
Dec 26, 2010

Somehow we survived a very explosive 2010

In April, much of the world ground to a halt.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Dec 26, 2010

2010 Japanese baseball season featured many memorable moments

Every year, Japanese baseball produces some great stories, and some not-so-wonderful ones. During this last week of 2010, let's take a final look back at some of the good and bad events that occurred over the past 12 months.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Dec 12, 2010

Can Nissan start weaning the auto industry off petroleum?

On Dec. 3, BBC News reported that the prices of petroleum on both sides of the Atlantic hit their highest levels since the financial crisis, with Goldman Sachs forecasting an increase to $100 per barrel in 2011.
CULTURE / Stage
Dec 10, 2010

Class of 2010: Japan's playwrights head west

Japan's young dramatists are increasingly shrugging off their medium's long-standing, self-imposed national isolation and are setting sail in search of new audiences, and critical praise, overseas.
JAPAN
Dec 10, 2010

Mullen urges China to rein in 'reckless,' provocative North

The highest-ranking U.S. military officer urged China on Thursday to do more to prevent North Korea from taking provocative actions.

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