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BASKETBALL
Apr 20, 2007

JABBA sets schedule

Even after the FIBA World Championship ended, there is not time to play hooky.
EDITORIALS
Apr 20, 2007

Tragedy in Nagasaki

A nightmare has descended upon the city of Nagasaki again. On Tuesday evening, a gangster shot and mortally wounded Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito. The mayor was campaigning for a fourth term in a Sunday election. Seventeen years ago, Mr. Ito's predecessor Hitoshi Motojima was seriously injured after being...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Apr 20, 2007

Rocky Balboa

Director: Sylvester Stallone Language: English
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CULTURE / Music
Apr 20, 2007

Don Caballero

If a singer can completely reform a band, yet keep the same name (see: Axl Rose and Guns N' Roses), then a drummer can, too. Considered among the best drummers of the 1990s American indie rock scene, Damon Che's frenetic, innovative style played a large role in the underground success of Don Caballero,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 20, 2007

'2:37'

A moment of stillness -- that's what "2:37" chooses for its opening shot, the camera pointed skyward, a canopy of green leaves framed against the gray sky beyond. It doesn't last long. Soon the camera moves earthward, and we enter an Australian high school where the calm is soon shattered when a student...
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LIFE / Travel
Apr 20, 2007

The wax and wane of Uchiko

To the enormous surprise of absolutely no one except the most irrepressible Pollyannas in or closely connected with the construction industry, the 19 years since the opening of the first of the gargantuan civil-engineering white elephants that go by the name of the Honshu-Shikoku bridges have not witnessed...
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BUSINESS
Apr 19, 2007

'Profile ads' riding back of SNS boom

If in recent days you happened to visit the Mobile Game Town community, a social networking site for cell phone users, you may well have bumped into a character named Fanta.
BUSINESS
Apr 19, 2007

JT completes Gallaher takeover

Japan Tobacco finished the takeover of Britain's Gallaher Group for $15 billion Wednesday, both sides said, in the biggest Japanese overseas acquisition ever.
EDITORIALS
Apr 19, 2007

A stark warning from the IPCC

The evidence of global climate change is impossible to dismiss or ignore. Growing in tandem are the consequences of continued indifference to this phenomenon. Governments and individuals must abandon their short-term thinking and start taking action now to head off the devastating effects that human...
CULTURE / Art
Apr 19, 2007

"Fiona Tan: News from the Near Future"

Wako Works of Art Closes in 23 days
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 18, 2007

Outlook not very promising for Knicks

NEW YORK -- A presence in the paint, Eddy Curry is even more of a presence at the plate. He's the only player I've ever seen gain weight on a break and I don't mean commercial.
Reader Mail
Apr 18, 2007

Can old issues be put to rest?

In her March 21 letter, "Is U.S. qualified to throw stones?," Noriko Yoshimoto exhibits the "we poor Japanese" attitude on display at places like Yasukuni Shrine and Chiran Peace Museum for kamikaze pilots. With regard to "comfort women," Yoshimoto asks if the United States "is qualified to poke its...
Reader Mail
Apr 18, 2007

In defense of the stock market

Contrary to what Peter Sidell says in his April 4 Letter, "Little sympathy for gamblers," buying stock in a company is an investment, as in most cases the value does increase over time. There are instances such as Livedoor, Enron, etc., where a large group of people have lost their life savings, but...
Reader Mail
Apr 18, 2007

America has its own atrocities

I have heard that Japan's attitude toward the "comfort women" problem caused by the Japanese Army during World War II is of big concern in America. Some say that Japan must take this issue seriously first -- before considering the past abduction of Japanese nationals by North Korea. Japan says there...
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Apr 17, 2007

SDF emerging as the military it truly is

The government has steadily expanded the activities of the Self-Defense Forces since the 1990s as the nation sought to play greater roles in international political and security affairs. Public perceptions toward the SDF have also changed in line with changes in the security environment, espe cially...
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LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Apr 17, 2007

Rooms, Tokyo Midtown, Terra Plana, Herchcovitch

Fashion for the filthy rich
Reader Mail
Apr 15, 2007

American whalers share the blame

An April 1, 2007, New York Times editorial took up Japanese whaling, faulting Japan on its obsession with the practice. Japanese tourists, however, don't have to go to Hawaii to watch "these wonderful, sociable mammals" breed and breathe in coastal waters. Whales are coming back to the Japanese coast...
EDITORIALS
Apr 15, 2007

To encourage kidney donations

Four medical science societies that studied diseased kidney transplants performed by Dr. Makoto Mannami of Uwajima Tokushukai Hospital in Ehime Prefecture have issued a report stating that, at present, such transplants have "no medical validity." Citing lack of informed consent and deliberation by an...
CULTURE / Books
Apr 15, 2007

Cop walks a tightrope in N. Korea

THE CORPSE IN THE KORYO by James Church. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2006, 280 pp., $23.95, (cloth) A lot of people get killed in "The Corpse in the Koryo," and nobody seems to miss them.
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LIFE / WEEK 3
Apr 15, 2007

Red rubber balls foster fun, motivation and life's sense of adventure

The red rubber ball soared over a wall, traced an arc against the springtime Tokyo sky and fell -- ker-plump! -- into the playground of Takanawadai Elementary School.
EDITORIALS
Apr 14, 2007

Rocky road to integration

South Asian leaders last week concluded their summit by adopting a declaration that emphasized trade liberalization, economic integration and the fight against poverty and terrorism. But the way to real achievement does not appear to be smooth, especially because of the rivalry between India and Pakistan...
COMMENTARY / World
Apr 14, 2007

Japan: Say no to India-U.S. nuclear deal

The Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) is hardly a household name. The proceedings of its meetings are secret and it doesn't even have its own web site, but in recent months it has become the focus of more attention than usual. The reason is that each of its 45 member countries, including Japan, has veto...
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Apr 14, 2007

Yura Alaiti Yusuf

This coming Wednesday from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. the annual Asia-Pacific Festival and Charity Bazaar is scheduled to be held in the ANA Hotel, Tokyo.

Longform

Mamoru Iwai, stationmaster of Keisei Ueno Station, says that, other than earthquake-proofing, the former Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen (Museum-Zoo) Station has remained untouched.
Inside Tokyo's 'phantom' stations — and the stories they tell