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Reader Mail
Jul 21, 2011

Chinese lessons on Myanmar

Regarding Harsh V. Pant's July 18 article: "India trying to woo Myanmar from China": It should not be hard for India to woo the friendly, but fiercely independent, Burmese if it closely studies the foreign policy of the neutral Southeast Asian nation.
Reader Mail
Jul 21, 2011

PowerPoint method is no excuse

In his July 12 article, "Advantage of taking notes," professor Takamitsu Sawa has invented a strange explanation for the decline in the number of applicants for economics and business administration programs at Japanese universities.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League / J. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Jul 21, 2011

Marinos look to hold on after scratching five-year itch

The J. League has a new leader, and after more than five years away from the summit, Yokohama F. Marinos are not likely to give up first place without a fight.
COMMENTARY
Jul 20, 2011

Murdoch's moral rise and fall

Recent U.K. phone-hacking revelations have made the Australian-born media tycoon Rupert Murdoch a symbol of all that is wrong with U.K. tabloid media — scoop mania, rampant political bias, sex, sensationalism and trivia. But it was not always like that. The Rupert Murdoch whom I knew many years ago...
LIFE / Digital / TECH_JAPAN
Jul 20, 2011

Will Japan invite Google+ into its growing circle of social networks?

Despite only being in closed beta testing at the moment, Google's new social-network service, Google+, is rapidly proving to be huge, with more than 10 million users joining since it was announced on June 28. And thanks to their international connections, Net-savvy Japanese too were soon getting invitations...
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jul 18, 2011

Nadeshiko Japan obviously doesn't do it for the money

Will victory mean more money for women's soccer in Japan?
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jul 18, 2011

Don't fall ill in a nuke crisis

The residents of Minami Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, are still being denied full medical services even though more than four months have passed since radiation leaks started from the nearby Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power station in the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and...
Reader Mail
Jul 17, 2011

Bold renewable energy initiative

Regarding the July 14 Kyodo article "Son starts national energy initiative": I, for one, welcome the brave and very timely action of Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son to promote the production of renewable energy on Japan's idle farmland.
Reader Mail
Jul 17, 2011

Mindful of pesky value judgments

The Japan Times runs opinion articles written by current and retired Japanese bureaucrats. Professor Takamitsu Sawa's July 12 article, "Advantage of taking notes," was a waste of space even though Sawa sounds more like a journalist than a bureaucrat.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jul 17, 2011

It seems Japan has literally gone to the dogs

Japan has found an answer to loneliness, despair, fear, disgust and uncertainty. Hint: It's alive, stands on four legs and barks. Well, so much the better if the gloom weighing us down can be so easily dispelled. Or is it?
CULTURE / Books
Jul 17, 2011

Erasing the bloody wounds of war

IMAG(IN)ING THE WAR IN JAPAN: Representing and Responding to Trauma in Postwar Literature and Film, edited by David Stahl and Mark Williams. Brill, 2010, 375 pp., $179 (hardcover) This anthology is as incisive and demanding of consideration as any that I have read. The central question reframed again...
Reader Mail
Jul 17, 2011

Shed all trappings to cool down

Regarding the July 10 Kyodo article "Heatstroke surge feared as people save power": I live in a house that feels like a sauna during the summer. But when the heat and humidity become unbearable — no air conditioner — I place myself in an empty bathtub and fill it slowly with cold water. A plastic...
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Jul 16, 2011

Suzuki not waiting for Tokai quake to make for high ground

At a shareholders' meeting June 29 of Suzuki Motor Corp., the major manufacturer of cars and motorcycles based in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, an investor asked what measures the company is taking against the Tokai earthquake, the long-predicted killer temblor that could hit the region in the near...
Reader Mail
Jul 14, 2011

Politico's resignation should hurt

Regarding the July 6 front-page article "Reconstruction minister quits after week": Nearly every Cabinet of the former ruling Liberal Democratic Party bore hallmarks similar to those of (Democratic Party of Japan) reconstruction minister Ryu Matsumoto, who resigned following his insensitive bluster (against...
Reader Mail
Jul 14, 2011

Overdue step for English teaching

Regarding the July 8 Kyodo article "Japanese English teachers leave for U.S. looking to broaden horizons": This half-year teacher training program is an encouraging, and ridiculously long overdue, development in the course of English-language education in Japan.
Reader Mail
Jul 14, 2011

Shameful neglect of students

Regarding the July 9 Kyodo article "Students from Taiwan denied disaster funds": When the tragic quake and tsunami struck Japan (March 11), my wife and I immediately wrote a check and donated money to the relief effort. Many foreign people donated money like this, including many people from Taiwan.
Reader Mail
Jul 14, 2011

Of course, stress tests are needed

Regarding the July 9 front-page article "Kan under fire from his own team": Perhaps I'm missing something, but I see no reason why Prime Minister Naoto Kan should apologize to anybody, least of all the nuclear industry, for requiring stress tests of nuclear reactors. It is now a matter of public record...
Reader Mail
Jul 14, 2011

Volunteers get wrong message

Regarding Tomoko Otake's July 10 Timeout article, "Company team helps fill Tohoku gap": I am a "long-term" volunteer who has been in Ishinomaki (Miyagi Prefecture) for almost a month, and have no plans to return to my home in Osaka in the near future.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jul 14, 2011

Fighting for change the Fuji Rock way

Faced with the nation's worst disaster since World War II, Fuji Rock Festival founder Masahiro Hidaka had to make a choice back in March — whether to hold Japan's biggest summer music festival this year or not. He decided that the show must go on.
COMMUNITY / Voices / HOTLINE TO NAGATACHO
Jul 12, 2011

Boycott sumo, a sport tainted by racist rules

To the Japan Sumo Association:
Reader Mail
Jul 10, 2011

Believe in human relationships

Thank you for Michael Hoffman's excellent July 3 article, "Japan needs to do more than simply 'cope' with stress." Hoffman expresses what I have felt for many years while living in Tokyo. Many people in this straitjacket society either have to put up with humiliation and daily insults at work, or risk...
Reader Mail
Jul 10, 2011

Reasons to remain in Japan

The June 26 Counterpoint article by Roger Pulvers, titled "Hearn the Western misfit finally found himself at home in Mejij Japan," prompted me to write. I was in Japan between 1946 and 1954, and have continued to be at home here since 1980.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Jul 10, 2011

Up close and personal with MIT robots

I'm in a lab surrounded by computer and video equipment, toys, and robots. Lots of robots. I'm like a kid in a candy shop. It's the modern equivalent of an Aladdin's cave for otaku (geeks).
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jul 9, 2011

Don Morton raises a mug to bicycles and cold beer

Film buffs may know American Don Morton for the reviews he writes for Metropolis magazine. During a recent interview in his apartment, though, he mostly talked about bicycles. In fact the 67-year-old native of San Francisco is the founder of the Tokyo-based Half-Fast cycling club.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Jul 9, 2011

Nagoya assistance for disaster-hit city a bit rocky at times

More than two months have passed since Nagoya started sending its officials to support the understaffed municipal government in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, where 68 out of its 295 employees were killed in the March quake and tsunami or remain missing.
Reader Mail
Jul 7, 2011

Manufacturing shift doesn't save

Regarding the July 3 Kyodo article "Toyota plants start weekend operations": I really wish the media would stop referring to what the auto manufacturers are doing as "saving energy." This is inaccurate, misleading, and gives them credit for something they are simply NOT doing.
Reader Mail
Jul 7, 2011

Politicians neglect the obvious

Regarding Natsuko Fukue's July 5 article, "Matsumoto rips Tohoku governors": Newly appointed reconstruction minister Ryu Matsumoto (who resigned this post Tuesday because of his reported remarks) needs to understand some things:
Reader Mail
Jul 7, 2011

Japan's accountability for fallout

Regarding the June 29 article "Elderly volunteers to help Fukushima nuclear cleanup": It's good that Japan is using the elderly to clean up the radioactive disaster at Fukushima. It might also consider using the mentally disabled, prisoners and orphaned children to clean up Fukushima.
BUSINESS
Jul 6, 2011

Underwater mining of rare earths economically not viable: expert says

Underwater mining for rare earths, used in hybrid cars and plasma televisions, is economically and possibly environmentally not viable, an academic from the independent think tank Council on Foreign Relations said.
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.
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.
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.
'Kohaku' still matters for J-pop bragging rights
Emerging Gen Z J-pop group ME:I will perform on this year's "Kohaku Uta Gassen," national broadcaster NHK’s New Year's Eve spectacle.
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.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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