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COMMENTARY / World
Jul 4, 2011

The risks of 'disaster nationalism'

A common sight seen throughout Japan these days are signs that read Ganbaro Nippon (translated "Don't give up Japan").
Reader Mail
Jul 3, 2011

Opportunity for Hiraizumi area

Regarding the June 27 article "Hiraizumi gets listed as Heritage site": It is glad news that the temples and landscape of Hiraizumi (Iwate Prefecture) have won UNESCO approval as a World Heritage cultural site. The news comes amid the aftereffects of the horrific March 11 earthquake and tsunami. Although...
Reader Mail
Jul 3, 2011

Grief not the same as mourning

When tragedy and loss occur, when people vent their sad emotions, we cannot say that we are witnessing their grief. That is what we commonly say, what is written and spoken in the media, and even what professionals loosely say.
Reader Mail
Jul 3, 2011

Try telecommuting and flex-time

Regarding the June 28 article "Daylight saving: Is it finally time to convert?": While a conversion to daylight saving time would have some advantages, what is really needed is an aggressive push to promote telecommuting and flex-time in Tokyo, thus giving both employees and employers more options on...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jul 3, 2011

Have a hideously good time in Tono's past and present

The professor's snoring had kept me up until the wee hours of the morning. When I awoke, the reading light in the hostel's upper bunk was still on and a copy of "The Legends of Tono" lay open at the page where I had dozed off. With that book being full of hobgoblins, ravaging wolf packs and rural satyrs,...
Reader Mail
Jun 30, 2011

Better trip for Japanese retirees

Regarding the June 26 Kyodo article "Ogasawara Islands join World Heritage family": Last year I was part of a delegation of foreigners sent by the Japan Tourism Agency to assess the overseas tourist potential of the Ogasawara Islands.
Reader Mail
Jun 30, 2011

Differences in experiencing grief

In his June 12 Counterpoint article, "Barber's cutting comment denies others' humanity — and hers, too," Roger Pulvers lamented his young Korean barber's stereotypical and dehumanizing view of the Japanese and her inability to see other cultures from any viewpoint other than her own.
Reader Mail
Jun 30, 2011

A suicide trigger everywhere

One paragraph of The June 23 article "Suicides upping casualties from Tohoku catastrophe" states that "The link between depression and suicide is well documented, particularly in Japan, where depression has been shown to be a major suicide trigger."
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jun 27, 2011

Power industry's chokehold

The electric power industry in Japan has such strong political clout that nobody, not even the government, seems capable of liberalizing the generation and distribution of electricity, let alone making a dent in the regional monopoly currently enjoyed by each of the 10 utilities.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 27, 2011

Rethinking the myth that we cannot make energy independence financially feasible

Human beings' inalienable fascination with fossil fuels and their lack of political confidence in driving the nation through a careful energy transition process have often put the energy independence dream in the backseat among national priorities.
COMMENTARY
Jun 27, 2011

Woman poet signifies defiance in Bahrain

Ayat al-Qarmezi, a 20-year-old woman poet in Bahrain, recently condemned to one year in prison, has become the human face of defiance against the regime ruling the country. Her crime, to have spoken at a pro-reform rally in Manama's Pearl Roundabout in February.
Reader Mail
Jun 26, 2011

Spare the cut and save the shade

The June 16 Bloomberg article titled "'Green curtains' surge in face of power shortage" offers many ideas on how to cope with the impending summer heat — from gardening to buying cooler outfits and losing weight.
Reader Mail
Jun 26, 2011

Dosimeters offer peace of mind

I fail to see the reasoning behind at least two negative reader responses to the June 15 Kyodo article "34,000 children in Fukushima to get dosimeters."
EDITORIALS
Jun 26, 2011

Post 3/11 Japan: war literature

One's immediate reaction to the start this month of a new collection of war literature to mark publisher Shueisha's 85th anniversary might well be puzzlement. Why now, after more than half a century of peace in Japan, are we offered 20 volumes on literature related to war?
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Jun 25, 2011

Parts makers at mercy of recovery's pace

Kokune Ltd. President Yasushi Kogune is not sure his 55-worker die-casting company will be able to survive until the slump brought on by the March 11 earthquake ends.
Reader Mail
Jun 23, 2011

Core problems with nuclear fuel

After reading Shinji Fukukawa's June 17 article, "Triple disaster proves need for an industrial revolution," I feel compelled to comment. There is no such thing as "safe" nuclear generation of power. Starting and containing nuclear fission reactions with concentrated fissile material is inherently dangerous....
Reader Mail
Jun 23, 2011

Tax money for homes, not arenas

Regarding the June 18 article "Ishihara eyes another Olympics bid, this time 2020": I see that once again Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara intends to waste taxpayer money, this time by bidding for the 2020 Summer Olympics. Tokyo used ¥15 billion in taxpayer money for the campaign to host the 2016 Summer...
Reader Mail
Jun 23, 2011

Fukushima 'risk' was avoidable

I agree to some extent with Grant Piper's June 19 letter, "Impossible to live without risks." Yes, we do face risks every day and even "getting out of bed in the morning is dangerous." If Piper has come to the conclusion that the possibility of radiation sickness and death is a part of his life, fine,...
Reader Mail
Jun 23, 2011

Kan deserves more support

Regarding the Dec. 16 front-page article "DPJ to seek 'substantial' Diet extension": We hear once again that the opposition Liberal Democratic Party is working against the prime minister at every turn. Now it is opposing an extension of the current Diet session. If a Diet session ever needed extending,...
Reader Mail
Jun 23, 2011

West wants China at its disposal

Regarding Michael Richardson's June 20 article, "South China Sea is not Shangri-La": If you imagine the world in the image of the white man, you will naturally come to the conclusion that China is out to conquer the world. But this is the white man's way.
Reader Mail
Jun 23, 2011

Coverage leaves others behind

Regarding the June 18 article "Tepco begins work to clean coolant water": I would like to thank The Japan Times for the best website in covering the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster. Followups in this crisis are virtually blacked out in the United States; you might get a passing report on television...
Reader Mail
Jun 23, 2011

Unhealthy promotion of sports

Regarding the June 18 Kyodo article "First sports law since '61 enacted": How will promoting sports cut medical spending? Some of the worst injuries are caused by sports. If there was an incentive to exercise safely, that might help reduce unnecessary spending, but to suggest that pushing sports down...
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jun 21, 2011

Reported epidemic of elder shoplifting may not be what it seems

Media may be missing the point when it reports on rise in crime among retirees.
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Jun 21, 2011

Sharing Tepco's bill; family's tough choice

People must share Tepco burden Re: "A victim of Tepco's yakuza-style extortion" (Have Your Say, June 14) by Blues Bowman:
Reader Mail
Jun 19, 2011

Backing a methodical phaseout

Michael Hoffman's columns are always a great read, but his June 6 article, "What will Japan learn from the Fukushima meltdowns," is clearly one of his weaker ones.
Reader Mail
Jun 19, 2011

When those who should can't

Regarding the June 16 article reprinted from Sentaku magazine, "Yakuza eye cleanup profits": Can Japan's gangsters get the job (of cleaning up parts of the devastated Tohoku-Pacific region) done? So far, the government has been unable to do much or even agree on how the job should be done.
Reader Mail
Jun 19, 2011

How will having dosimeters help?

The June 15 Kyodo article "34,000 children in Fukushima to get dosimeters" is absurd. What facilities does the prefecture have available to read these 34,000 dosimeters? None.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jun 18, 2011

Annals of Cheap: 32-inch flat screen TVs

Prices of TV sets, especially smaller models, are now as low as they'll ever be.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Jun 18, 2011

Chubu Electric urges power-saving after Kepco snub

When Kansai Electric Power Co. announced it would ask its customers to cut back on electricity usage this summer, fearing supply shortages, it also dashed Chubu Electric Power Co.'s hopes of receiving electricity from the that utility.
COMMENTARY
Jun 17, 2011

Novel approach to treating cancer

The discovery that two new drugs can control melanoma could revolutionize the treatment not only of melanoma but also of other cancers as well.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
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.
Tokyo police care for lost umbrellas, keys and flying squirrels
An employee at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Lost and Found Center in the Iidabashi area of central Tokyo bags, tags and organizes thousands of items.
Japan to aid introduction of multilingual ride-hailing apps
A Nihon Kotsu Co. taxi departs one of the company's service offices in Tokyo.
Seven & I founding family sounded out KKR and others about buyout: report
A 7-Eleven convenience store in Tokyo
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.”

Podcast

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

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
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