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BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Dec 27, 2009

Wendy's decision triggers memories of a unique pre-game tradition

A brief news article on Page 1 of the Dec. 12 edition of The Japan Times reminded me of former Yakult Swallows and Rakuten Eagles pitcher Kevin Hodges. "Wendy's pulling out of Japan by end of month," read the headline above the story about the U.S. hamburger chain ending its operations in this country....
Reader Mail
Dec 27, 2009

Opinion could use greater diversity

I was shocked by the opinions expressed in the Dec. 22 article "Level playing field for immigrants: responses" — except by the opinion from the person whose name was withheld, who possibly suffered real discrimination.
Reader Mail
Dec 27, 2009

Civil rights and immigration issues

Regarding the Dec. 22 article "Level playing field for immigrants: responses": I am not surprised to see that the people who kindly told columnist Debito Arudou to mind his own business and let Japan do as it wishes have given up on Japan and left, will do so soon, or do not even live here. Maybe the...
Japan Times
LIFE
Dec 27, 2009

Koza remembered

It's October 2009, and I'm sitting in the parking lot of a convenience store in Koza city, taking photographs of the sidewalk. I've been here for close to an hour — surrounded by a dozen old photographs, four maps and reams of photocopies all weighed down with chunks of brick to stop them blowing away...
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 26, 2009

Will Russia save the West?

MOSCOW — Rapid changes in the global economy and international politics are raising, once more, an eternal issue in Russia: the country's relations with Europe, and with the Euro-Atlantic region as a whole. Of course, Russia partly belongs to this region. Yet it cannot and does not want to join the...
Reader Mail
Dec 24, 2009

Copenhagen dissenters silenced

Regarding the Dec. 19 article "China, India snag emissions deal": In the Readers' Form of Dec. 13 I commended The Japan Times for standing up for freedom of expression in the case of a Buddhist monk whose rights had been trampled on by the police and Supreme Court. I also suggested that people are apathetic...
Reader Mail
Dec 24, 2009

Valuable investment for students

Regarding the Dec. 18 article "Students give job-hunting system a big F": Aside from the current economic situation, which may or may not affect Japanese students' likelihood of securing a job when they graduate — seemingly not if 95 percent are expected to be hired by the time they graduate — I...
Reader Mail
Dec 24, 2009

Flawed 'power structure thinking'

In his Dec. 20 article, "Wake up a friend about China at Christmas," Tom Plate recommends that readers give their friends a book about the Middle Kingdom for the holidays, specifically one with the scary title "When China Rules the World." Everyone, East and West, seems to agree that China is the emerging...
Reader Mail
Dec 24, 2009

Child allowance wasted on rich

Regarding the Dec. 22 article "Hatoyama one out of two on policy views": To be quite honest, why does a family with a monthly income of roughly ¥700,000 or more need a special child allowance? Again, it shows that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. Didn't we have something...
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Dec 21, 2009

Hatoyama girds to review security alliance with U.S.

Only people in their late 60s and older remember the turmoil that raged in Japan in 1960 between the proponents and opponents of ratifying the revised security treaty with the United States. As these generations have aged, the security alliance between the two nations itself has grown somewhat antiquated...
Reader Mail
Dec 20, 2009

Sperm donors as 'money trees'

Regarding the Dec. 3 article "Child custody division set up": I take exception to generalizations about parents who have had their children illegally kidnapped by Japanese spouses. Many of these women were abusive before fleeing to Japan. Almost all of them have stolen money that the working spouse brought...
Reader Mail
Dec 20, 2009

Best customer service in the world

Regarding Amy Chavez's Dec. 12 article, "Is service with a smile too much to ask for?": My wife recently flew back from the United States (on an American airline). My wife is an American and we have been living in Japan for 1Łyears now.
Reader Mail
Dec 20, 2009

Option of pulling out of Japan

Regarding the Dec. 16 article "What does Japan want from Washington?": Because of the juvenile behavior of the new Japanese government toward the United States, I am losing faith in it as a trustworthy ally and would recommend that the U.S. start playing hardball to test the motives of the new government....
JAPAN / Media
Dec 20, 2009

New Year's Eve party, anyone? Nah, put your feet up and enjoy a Japanese tradition on the TV

Sport, sex, thrills: It was back in 1945 that radio producer Tsumoru Kondo declared that these were the three essential ingredients for successful entertainment. He called them the "three S's," even though they were two S's and a T. The producer obviously knew more about entertainment than he did about...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Dec 20, 2009

Those same old jokes aren't funny anymore

In October, a Colorado couple fooled the American media into believing that their 6-year-old son had possibly taken off in a homemade helium balloon, setting off a police search that received nationwide coverage. By the time the little boy was "discovered" hiding in the couple's attic, a Japanese TV...
EDITORIALS
Dec 19, 2009

Toward fewer nuclear arms

The United States and Russia failed to reach a new arms control agreement as the START 1 pact expired earlier this month. The two governments remain committed to a new agreement; reportedly only a few issues kept negotiators from meeting the Dec. 5 deadline.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Dec 19, 2009

Restaurateur's passion is aiding others

Christmas is a time of prayers, dreams and wishes, of children waiting for a gift from their parents and for an appearance by Santa Claus. But about 150 poor children on Smoky Mountain in Manila have a special Santa to wait for.
Reader Mail
Dec 17, 2009

Hard to view Tokyo as a model

In his Nov. 27 article, "Tokyo's urban design role," Jared Braiterman paints a very glowing and cheery picture of the integration of urbanism and nature in Tokyo. While I agree that many Tokyo residents show ingenuity in their use of mostly tiny available spaces for propagation of plants, projects such...
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 15, 2009

Ozawa's pride of place vs. policy

Ichiro Ozawa, secretary general of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan, is theoretically subordinate to Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, who is also the DPJ president. Ozawa has even stated that all policy matters must be decided by the government, not by the party. Yet, in reality, he has established...
Reader Mail
Dec 13, 2009

Swiss vote was not anti-Muslim

In his Dec. 6 article, "The Swiss and Iranian agents of provocation," Gwynne Dyer commits at least two mistakes — sadly so for one claiming to be an expert in international politics: (1) He compares the referendum in which the Swiss people took responsibility to voice their opinion with the actions...
Reader Mail
Dec 13, 2009

Helpful 'ambassador' appreciated

Regarding the Nov. 15 article "Opening a 'window' to Japan": It's refreshing to see that Japan has such helpful personnel as Yuka Tsujimura at the Narita Airport Tourist Information Center. Especially in a recession, when people travel less, it is more important that the first impression be pleasant...
Reader Mail
Dec 13, 2009

Okinawans must challenge Tokyo

Regarding the Dec. 7 article "Okada's inconclusive visit irks Okinawans": It is very clear that Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada and the new Democratic Party of Japan represent more of the same old baloney that Japan has had in power for years, just under a different name. As an American who feels strongly...
Reader Mail
Dec 13, 2009

Food self-sufficiency comes first

I agree with Takamitsu Sawa's remarks in his Dec. 7 article, "Agriculture must be rebuilt ahead of oil's 'noble' limits." Japan's industrialization in the 1960s had a crucial flaw: Mild areas where farmers could cultivate crops year-round were industrialized while farming continued in areas that had...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Dec 11, 2009

(Near) death of a salesman

Amit started downloading music when he was 16 years old in India.
Reader Mail
Dec 10, 2009

Paying the price for an evil war

Regarding the Dec. 7 article "Okada's inconclusive visit irks Okinawans": I am not American and don't much like America, but the Okinawan people are paying the price for an evil war that their country started and they defended. I don't care how they feel and hope the American military bases stay in Okinawa...
Reader Mail
Dec 10, 2009

Okinawans must step up to fight

Regarding the Dec. 6 article "No Kadena switch for Futenma, Okada says": What does Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada mean when he says options (for relocating the U.S. Futenma air station in Okinawa) are running out and that the U.S. side thinks the time for negotiating is over?
Reader Mail
Dec 6, 2009

U.S. doesn't need a higher yuan

In his Dec. 3 article, "Time to get tough on China," Gregory Clark makes a ludicrous argument for the revaluation of the Chinese yuan. If the yuan appreciated, the U.S. dollar would weaken further, completely contradicting Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's claim about the need for a stronger dollar....
Reader Mail
Dec 6, 2009

Immigration buoys the economy

Regarding Hiroaki Sato's Nov. 29 article, "The warring mind-sets on U.S. immigration": Thanks to immigration, the population of the United States continues to grow, and due to the influx of young and not-so-young blood, the economy is more dynamic than stagnant.
COMMENTARY
Dec 6, 2009

Disgusting surfeit of anti-Obama remarks

LOS ANGELES — Some necessary context for President Barack Obama's long-awaited Afghanistan policy speech: Foreign policy performance is anything but the total measure of a president's worth. America's domestic politics, not to mention its elections, are more often than not driven by the forces, and...
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
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.
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.
Japan approves ¥21.9 trillion stimulus plan
The policy chiefs of the Democratic Party for the People, Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito — Makoto Hamaguchi (left), Itsunori Onodera (center) and Mitsunari Okamoto — shake hands after reaching an agreement on an economic stimulus package on Wednesday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
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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Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
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