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Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jul 2, 2010

Seeing Tokyo through the eyes of its people

Tokyo.JapanTimes, a Web site connected to The Japan Times and created to spur conversation about the capital, will celebrate the photos and final winners of its first photo competition at an exhibition in Tokyo's Roppongi Hills district on July 2.
BUSINESS / ANALYSIS
Jul 2, 2010

Tax hike amid slump: Kan's Hashimoto dilemma

Japan's slowing recovery from its worst postwar recession is signaling the economy may be too weak to sustain the higher consumption taxes under consideration by Prime Minister Naoto Kan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 2, 2010

'Let the Right One In'

With the cinematic love story on the endangered species list (SATC has a lot to answer for), it's truly gratifying when something as romantic, lovely and sweetly satisfying as "Let the Right One In" appears on the horizon. It restores your faith in men. In dating. In the whole myth that someone special...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 2, 2010

The Royal Ballet pictured in style

A ballerina stands lightly en pointe in a monochrome photograph, feet arched to perfection and a hand stretched toward the sky. Another dancer mid-arabesque raises her back leg gracefully. A third is frozen leaping through the air with legs stretched into a perfect straight line.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 2, 2010

Vernacular photography — a means to avoid an end

A woman in a corseted, white-lace dress stares straight ahead as she unveils a framed funerary portrait of another young woman. This sepia-toned 19th-century photograph is historian and curator Geoffrey Batchen's choice for the very first image of "Suspending Time: Life - Photography - Death" at the...
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Jun 29, 2010

Streaking Fighters firing on all cylinders in Pacific League

Yu Darvish has been dominant, the pitching staff has followed his lead, and the offense is finding a way to drive in runs.
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2010

No regrets about exit: Fukushima

Social Democratic Party leader Mizuho Fukushima said she has no regrets about leaving the ruling coalition and will only consider returning if the Democratic Party of Japan rules out the Henoko coast as the relocation site for U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa.
COMMENTARY
Jun 29, 2010

Turkey warms to new role of daring to chastise Israel

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN — "Even despots, gangsters and pirates have specific sensitiveness, (and) follow some specific morals," said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a recent speech following the deadly commando raid on the humanitarian aid flotilla to Gaza on May 31.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Jun 28, 2010

Who will feed the Haruki Murakami fans online?

Author Haruki Murakami has 60,000 followers on one Twitter account. But where is the real Web presence of Murakami?
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jun 28, 2010

How cheap is your love? Diamond appraiser hit

Does love take a hit when diamond appraisers start shifting standards?
EDITORIALS
Jun 28, 2010

Deleting child pornography

The law against child prostitution and child pornography bans posting the posting of child pornography images on the Internet. In 2009, the police took action in more than 500 child pornography cases on the Internet, twice the corresponding figure for 2008.
Reader Mail
Jun 27, 2010

Suspicions about U.S. intentions

I was disappointed with how the Obama administration failed to deal with the relocation of U.S. Marine Corp Air Station Futenma in Okinawa Prefecture. That failure led to the resignation of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jun 27, 2010

What's in a name? Politics as usual

When the Democratic Party of Japan indicated in its political manifesto that it favored voting rights for foreign permanent residents, the reaction from some quarters of the media was visceral. In early April, publisher Takarajima-sha produced a 96-page "emergency publication" titled "Gaikokujin Sanseiken...
CULTURE / Books
Jun 27, 2010

Indomitable Karen of Burma

This is an impassioned book, the story of an insurgency in Burma drawn from interviews with those who experienced it. The narrative tells how the writer, Mac McClelland, traveled to Thailand to work as a volunteer with a group called Burma Action, and stayed for several weeks, teaching English.
LIFE
Jun 27, 2010

Predator-prey relationships play large part in zoo's setup

For animals in the wild, life is defined by the relationship between predator and prey — but incorporating that dynamic into zoos can be extremely difficult.
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Jun 27, 2010

BP oil disaster is one more chance to learn badly needed lesson

More than two months ago, BP's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in a ball of fire, killing 11 workers and leaving a crippled wellhead that continues to bleed millions of liters of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Jun 26, 2010

Aichi's Radio-i soon to just be static

The recent news Aichi International Broadcasting Co. will terminate its FM radio service at the end of September because of a large deficit has sent shock waves through the industry in the Tokai region.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 26, 2010

Global multitasking: it's in her DNA

Miho Natori can recite nursery rhymes in Thai, speak German fluently, converse over coffee in English and is native in Japanese. For this 40-year-old graphic designer, life kaleidoscopes world to world, from Japan, to the orphanage she helped start with her mother in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and to Germany,...
Truck cabin found in sewer pipe in Saitama sinkhole rescue operation
The sinkhole in Yashio, Saitama Prefecture, on Wednesday. It has expanded since the initial collapse on Jan 28.
Ohtani's ex-interpreter Mizuhara sentenced to nearly five years in prison
Ippei Mizuhara, former interpreter for Shohei Ohtani, leaves the courthouse in Santa Ana, California, on Thursday.
Concern over crime grows in Japan as cases rise for third straight year
Investigators pursue a criminal case in the town of Oshima in Tokyo in January.
Two ex-Japan Airlines pilots grounded after lying about drinking
A passenger plane for Japan Airlines sits on the tarmac at Tokyo International Airport at Haneda in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japanese rice fish detect UV rays with pituitary gland
Japanese rice fish detect ultraviolet rays from sunlight directly with the pituitary gland and turn their bodies black for protection, a team has found.
Making sense of Nintendo’s tight-lipped Switch 2 reveal
The bestselling Switch has a confirmed successor, but what little we know about the Switch 2 console so far raises some concerns about its longterm viability in a crowded gaming market.
Naomi Osaka on tennis, motherhood and being Japanese
Naomi Osaka celebrates winning her second round match at the Australian Open over the Czech Republic's Karolina Muchova on Jan. 15.
Philippines all in to get its own midrange missile system
Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro says Manila's moves to beef up deterrence — including continuing to have a powerful U.S. missile system deployed on its territory — “are for the protection of our territorial integrity and sovereignty."
No Paris Syndrome for Japan’s national sport
Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi (left) describes a detail of a mawashi presented as a gift to French President Jacques Chirac at the Elysee Palace in 1999.
Excitement for the Osaka Expo is low. Can organizers build hype?
The Osaka Expo site on Yumeshima island in December. A survey of 3,000 people from across Japan conducted in October by the Mitsubishi Research Institute showed that just 24% of respondents expressed an interest in attending the Osaka Expo.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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?
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