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COMMENTARY
Aug 22, 2012

Remembering Japan's 'deserters'

The Obon festival celebrated on Aug. 15 in many parts of Japan marks the alleged release of ghosts from past mythical sufferings. The Aug. 15 anniversary of Japan's 1945 defeat also gives Japan's dwindling band of progressive TV program producers freedom to confront the ghosts of Japan's militaristic...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LABOR PAINS
Aug 21, 2012

Tepco liable for contract workers' safety in Fukushima

'Usually I spend New Year's Eve eating New Year's soba and go with my whole family to listen to the watch-night bell. But this year, I will spend Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 working. I will see the first sunrise of the year looking out over the sea driving along the highway toward the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear...
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / JAPAN TIMES BLOGROLL
Aug 21, 2012

Meet Loco: blogger, author — and racist?

A glance of distrust on the sidewalk. A seemingly harmless question. An empty seat on an otherwise packed train.
COMMENTARY
Aug 20, 2012

Measuring a society's value

Guan Zhong, an ancient Chinese savant, once stated that people learn to behave with good manners only when they have sufficient clothing and food.
Reader Mail
Aug 19, 2012

Mutations have many causes

Regarding the Aug. 12 Jiji Press article "Radioactive fallout from Fukushima nuclear meltdowns (in 2011) caused abnormalities in Japan's butterflies": And they could only find nuclear sins in innocent butterflies?
Reader Mail
Aug 19, 2012

India should not look to NATO

Ramesh Thakur's Aug. 15 article, "India and Pakistan: Come and dream with me," is great. But I think one of the big problems (with Thakur's economic dream for South Asia) is that Israel would like to use India to help it fight future wars against Muslims.
Reader Mail
Aug 19, 2012

Why shame Truman's grandson?

Masami Ito's Aug. 11 article, "Moment of truth for kin of A-bomb decision" was most interesting for the questions not asked:
Reader Mail
Aug 19, 2012

Noda tempts economic disaster

Regarding the Aug. 11 front-page article "Upper House passes bill to hike sales levy": As someone who lives in Japan, I think raising the consumption tax at this time is an ill-conceived idea and one that could very well be the impetus for economic disaster.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Aug 18, 2012

Chubu sees solid future in sunlight

The Chubu region, which boasts more hours of sunlight than average in Japan, is increasingly being targeted for new solar plants by companies wanting to tap into the new feed-in tariff system that guarantees an attractive price for electricity produced from renewable energy.
Reader Mail
Aug 16, 2012

Standing up for Japan's farmers

The Aug. 9 Bloomberg article "JA farm co-op behemoth puts self first, free trade last" was right on the mark about special interests' preventing Japan's comparatively inefficient agricultural system from evolving. However, some issues deserve greater emphasis.
Reader Mail
Aug 16, 2012

Why give geothermal short shrift?

Regarding the Aug. 13 article "The power reform charade" (reprinted from Sentaku magazine): The debate about supplying electricity for Japan's future and present needs focuses on the current "accepted" forms of generation — oil, gas, nuclear and coal — but not on renewables such as wind, waves and...
Reader Mail
Aug 16, 2012

Tepco must reveal everything

Regarding the Aug. 10 front-page Jiji Press article "Seawater option for meltdown galled execs": Over the ages, we humans have made small mistakes, big mistakes and very big mistakes. It is human to err. To learn from the mistakes and take effective steps not to repeat them is what set humans apart from...
COMMENTARY
Aug 15, 2012

Economics of austerity don't add up

Do Europe's budget-cutting austerity-minded planners understand simple math? They say they have to embrace austerity policies to reduce excessive national debt. But those policies inevitably cut tax revenues more than they cut spending. National debt increases rather than decreases. Worse, recovery from...
COMMENTARY
Aug 14, 2012

China betting on wrong side in Syrian conflict

On the weekend before last, the United Nations General Assembly voted, 133 to 12, for a resolution that condemned the violence in Syria and called for a "political transition that meets the aspirations of the Syrian people."
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Aug 13, 2012

The power reform charade

On July 13, "Basic Policies for Reforming the Electric Power System" was released by a panel of experts organized by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). It was subtitled "Aiming for an Power System Open to All Citizens."
Reader Mail
Aug 12, 2012

Leadership or authoritarianism?

Regarding Ralph Cossa's Aug. 3 article, "Pushing Seoul-Tokyo Forward": Cossa finally reveals his fundamental political inclinations. In the context of the South Korea-Japan military relationship, Cossa quotes the reply of an unnamed former U.S. president who was asked if he knew what the American people...
Reader Mail
Aug 12, 2012

Alternative to quasi-legal herbs

Regarding the Aug. 7 article "Curbs afoot as narcotic quasi-legal herbs slip through regulatory cracks": The increased use of synthetic cannabinoids is an unintended side effect of the war on natural marijuana. Consumers are turning to potentially toxic drugs made in China and sold as research chemicals...
Reader Mail
Aug 12, 2012

Tyranny of the global unelected

Shinji Fukukawa posits a very dangerous definition of a politician in his Aug. 9 article, "Populism is destroying globalism." According to Fukukawa, "Politicians are primarily required to present a vision of their country's future course and call for tough policy choices for the sake of security and...
Japan Times
LIFE
Aug 12, 2012

Professor aspires toward the perfect prosthetic design

"Functionality and aesthetics can co-exist."
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Aug 11, 2012

Since 3/11, fears of Fuji eruption have grown

The Great East Japan Earthquake and Fukushima nuclear crisis were unparalled disasters, but people in and around Shizuoka Prefecture fear the ultimate catastrophe — the eruption of Mount Fuji — may be looming.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives
Aug 11, 2012

Import club caters to need for home comfort

The blonde man in shorts and a baseball cap, sporting a lopsided grin and a dangling backpack and parking a rusty bicycle, looked less like a captain of industry than a superannuated college student. Yet American Chuck Grafft, 50, is founder and CEO of Foreign Buyers Club, one of the largest importers...
Reader Mail
Aug 9, 2012

Sure way to kill economic growth

Regarding the July 31 front-page Kyodo article "New growth strategy to focus on autos, FTAs": It's fine for the government to have a growth strategy, but the best one is just to get out of the way and let Japan's many innovative people and entrepreneurs lead the way.
SPORTS / ODDS AND EVENS
Aug 9, 2012

Coe a great spokesman for sport

What if the Soviet Union didn't invade Afghanistan in 1979?
Reader Mail
Aug 9, 2012

The threat of nuclear armament

Regarding the Aug. 3 AP article "Nuclear arms advocates get bolder amid energy debate": The specter of a Japan with nuclear weapons is no more threatening than is a litany of other countries with them.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2012

Hashimoto reeling after students' names leaked

Osaka Ishin no Kai (One Osaka) officials were reeling with embarrassment and threatening to file a police complaint this week after a weekly tabloid magazine published the names of the 888 students studying at an academy set up by the local political group and its founder, Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto....
Reader Mail
Aug 9, 2012

Response from the Philippines

In his Aug. 2 letter, "Clarification from Cambodia," my colleague Ambassador Hor Monirath sought to explain the 45th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting's (AMM) lamentable and unprecedented nonissuance of the traditional Joint Communique.
OLYMPICS / LONDON POSTCARD
Aug 8, 2012

Bolt's growing legend makes for good reading

My maternal great-grandmother used to wash the linens every Monday. She considered it a good tone-setter for the week.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Aug 7, 2012

Poisons in the Pacific: Guam, Okinawa and Agent Orange

The day after 19-year-old Sgt. Leroy Foster arrived on Guam's Andersen Air Force Base, one of America's largest Pacific military installations, in 1968, he was assigned to what his superior officers called "vegetation control duties."
Reader Mail
Aug 5, 2012

Living in a drought of 'fun'

Regarding the Aug. 1 Kyodo article from Osaka, "Police crackdown has the club set up in arms": Basically, as everyone knows, in Japan, fun must be stopped. There should be no fun had here, except the type approved by old men, which really leaves drinking alone, smoking cigarettes, or undertaking some...
Taiwan stuns Samurai Japan to capture Premier12 title
Japan starter Shosei Togo reacts after allowing a three-run home run against Taiwan in the fifth inning of the Premier12 final on Sunday.
Ishiba shelves proposal for liaison offices with North Korea amid rising tensions
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks on Saturday in Tokyo at a rally that was held by a group of families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago to demand the immediate return of all abductees.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
Japan beats Taiwan ahead of rematch in Premier12 final
Keita Sano celebrates with his teammates after scoring on Kotaro Kiyomiya's two-run triple against Taiwan during their Premier12 game at Tokyo Dome on Saturday.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.
An iconic 32-foot doughnut might give Randy’s an edge in Japan
Randy's Donuts in Inglewood, California. Replicas of the giant doughnut sculpture will be installed, where possible, at shops in Japan.
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.

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