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JAPAN
Aug 13, 2010

Mikimoto clues kids in on pearl cultivation

MISAKI, Kanagawa Pref. — It was a long way from the high-class jewelry showrooms of Paris, London or Tokyo's Ginza, but on Thursday at Misaki, on the windswept tip of Kanagawa Prefecture's Miura Peninsula, 20 elementary school children were treated to a rare, hands-on look at pearls and how they form....
EDITORIALS
Aug 13, 2010

WikiLeaks makes a splash

Mr. Julian Assange is a child of the Internet age. A former hacker and software programmer, he helped found WikiLeaks in 2006, a Web site that publishes otherwise unavailable documents provided by anonymous sources. It calls itself "an uncensorable system for untraceable mass document leaking." WikiLeaks...
BUSINESS
Aug 13, 2010

Goldman, Morgan, Nomura units face increased scrutiny over risk

The Financial Services Agency picked Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and Nomura Holdings Inc. as initial subjects of a new unit to scrutinize risk-taking among investment banks, a source said this week.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 13, 2010

Finding fun in Summer Sonic's odd lineup

In May, Japanese Web site Netallica reported that advance tickets for two of the big rock festivals, Fuji and Summer Sonic, were not moving. Both feature foreign artists, and Netallica implied that the latter added the grand old man of Japanese rock, Eikichi Yazawa, and best-selling J-pop hip-hop group...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / BY THE GLASS
Aug 13, 2010

East meets West at the dining table

Matching wine with Japanese food can be fraught with difficulty. A refined, oak-aged Bordeaux paired with a cool plate of sashimi, for example, can come across as brash and overbearing, completely drowning out the subtle spectrum of seafood flavors. But that's not to say great matches are impossible....
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / ART BRIEF
Aug 13, 2010

'Innocence — Art Towards Life'

Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts
JAPAN
Aug 12, 2010

Utada hits tabloid spin on timeout

Pop star Hikaru Utada, who announced Monday she will suspend musical activities for an indefinite period starting next year, complained in her blog Wednesday that a tabloid paper got wrong her reason for taking time off.
Reader Mail
Aug 12, 2010

America can atone for its mistake

I am dumbfounded by what Gene Tibbets (the son of the pilot of the B-29 aircraft that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945) says about the Hiroshima memorial ceremony in the Aug. 7 Kyodo article "Fox News: Tibbets' son likens U.S. presence to apology." He is quoted as saying: "I don't know what...
EDITORIALS
Aug 12, 2010

Organ transplants under new law

Under the revised Organ Transplant Law, which went into force July 17, organ transplants are now possible from a brain-dead person of any age if the person has not openly rejected becoming a donor and if his or her family members approve. Before the revision, organs could be taken, with family approval,...
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2010

Kan apologizes for colonial rule of Korea

Prime Minister Naoto Kan issued a statement Tuesday apologizing to South Korea for Japan's colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.
EDITORIALS
Aug 11, 2010

Nagano election gives DPJ respite

The victory of a candidate backed by the Democratic Party of Japan in the gubernatorial election in Nagano Prefecture on Sunday must have come as relief to Prime Minister Naoto Kan and the leadership of the DPJ, because it represents the DPJ's first major local election victory since the July 11 Upper...
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 10, 2010

Go tickle yourself and get a financial clue

TOULOUSE, France — If history punishes those who fail to learn from it, financial history also punishes those who learn from it too enthusiastically.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Aug 8, 2010

Getting high in the highlands

High in the Northern Alps of Japan there are snowfields in August. Up above the tree line, wherever the bare geology dips into cirques, thick blankets of dirty white stretch out between the peaks and jagged ridges like caught clouds.

Longform

Eme-Ima Kitchen is one of over 10,000 kodomo shokudō in Japan. A term first used in 2012 to describe makeshift eateries offering free or cheap meals to disadvantaged kids, it now refers to a diverse range of individuals, groups and organizations working to provide not only food but a sense of belonging to both children and adults.
Japan’s ‘children’s cafeterias’ are booming — but is that a good thing?