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COMMENTARY
Oct 27, 2008

West ganging up on Russia

Western reports say Russia is in deep trouble because foreigners are fleeing its stock market following the recent conflict in Georgia. Maybe so. But none of this was very visible to me on a recent Moscow visit.
Reader Mail
Oct 26, 2008

Organic food looking better

The Oct. 22 article "Melamine-tainted dough spurs Saizeriya to give pizza refunds" stated that the restaurant chain served thousands of pizzas during the eight-day period (Sept. 25 to Oct. 2) for which pizza dough made in China may have been contaminated with "very small amounts" of the industrial chemical...
Reader Mail
Oct 26, 2008

Indian vs. Chinese progress

Regarding Brahma Chellaney's Oct. 23 article, "Remember the China lesson": Some questions remain unanswered in the author's comparison of the economic progress made by China and that made by India.
Reader Mail
Oct 26, 2008

Typical reaction of the vested

Regarding the Oct. 24 article "Aso gets riled when quizzed over swanky wining, dining": Isn't this how it goes? As long as the folks at the top have enough money to wine and dine in exclusive restaurants, why should they worry about "ordinary" people who have to check for special discounts and look for...
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Oct 26, 2008

A Japanese poet who found his true nature through nature itself

On Sept. 21 on this page, in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the death of the poet, scientist and religious thinker Kenji Miyazawa (1896-1933), I turned to him for inspired insight into the Japanese view of nature.
Reader Mail
Oct 26, 2008

Filmmakers' reality is legitimate

The Washington Post article by Andrew Klavan, "Myths about Tinseltown liberals," which ran in The Japan Times on Oct. 19, presents critical observations of leftwing filmmakers. In my "leftwing" view, Sen. Joe McCarthy did not serve the interests of the United States with his blunderbuss approach to ferreting...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / LIQUID CULTURE
Oct 24, 2008

Stir up memories in bars of yore

In hard times such as these you can always find solace in a drink; just make it one that reminds you of better days. Here are eight great Tokyo bars that ooze nostalgia. Some serve classic cocktails, some survived the war, and most of them seem to have served author Yukio Mishima.
Reader Mail
Oct 23, 2008

A more self-reliant Japan

Regarding Robert Dujarric's Oct. 18 article, "Japan in a post-U.S. world,": I agree that Japan needs to chart a more self-reliant path. The financial decline of the United States has been hyped a bit too much and too much of the U.S. gains in southwest Asia have been ignored by left-friendly reporters....
Reader Mail
Oct 23, 2008

Circumstances of bribe-taking

Regarding the Oct. 15 article "Moriya asks for leniency over bribes": I find it hard to understand why former Vice Defense Minister Takemasa Moriya believes he should receive a suspended sentence. He didn't seem to have any problem taking millions of yen in kickbacks from a defense equipment trader in...
Reader Mail
Oct 23, 2008

Changing worldview a good thing

Reading the first lines of the article "Japan in a post-U.S. world," I really wonder if the author seriously means this. What the United States is doing is trying to force everybody into the mind-set that it has. This can be seen in Japan.
COMMENTARY
Oct 21, 2008

Deterioration of public health in Zimbabwe

NEW YORK — Zimbabwe is a problematic state. Once the breadbasket of Africa, the country's population is now suffering the consequences of government policies that have seriously harmed their health and quality of life.
COMMUNITY
Oct 21, 2008

I 'abducted' my daughters

Following is a reader's response to Michael Hassett's Aug. 26 "Zeit Gist" article on parental abduction to Japan (" Coming out of the shadows.")
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Oct 20, 2008

Aso's curtailed prospects

Although Taro Aso won a landslide victory in the presidential election of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Sept. 22 and was elected prime minister two days later, his administration could conceivably become the shortest in history, shorter even than the record 54 days of Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni,...
COMMENTARY
Oct 20, 2008

North Korea: settling for half a loaf

The conventional wisdom is that the Bush administration, in its never-ending face-off with North Korea over its nuclear ambitions, has once again been the first to blink. President George W. Bush has been severely criticized for removing North Korea from the State Sponsors of Terrorism List prior to...
Reader Mail
Oct 19, 2008

Mothers are never 'abductors'

Regarding the Oct. 15 article " 'Institutional racism' lets Japan spouses abduct kids": I am in a similar situation. My wife left me and took our child secretly to Japan; there was a divorce and she remained in Japan.
Reader Mail
Oct 19, 2008

Lucky millennium celebration

The three articles Oct. 12 on the "1,000 years of 'Genji' " by Eriko Arita are absorbing and delightful. I've read Waley's, Seidensticker's, McCullough's and Tyler's versions -- the latter I don't know how many times. I've yet to tackle the very first version, and those by Jakucho Setouchi and Donald...
Reader Mail
Oct 19, 2008

The burden of bad choices

This past summer the campaign against smoking became a hot topic, and a recent article mentioned proposals to raise cigarette taxes in Japan. The average price for a pack of cigarettes is ¥300, but there is a movement to raise that to ¥1,000 yen. The reasoning behind this is that if tobacco were expensive,...
Reader Mail
Oct 19, 2008

A suspicious use of power

I'm not surprised by the contents of the Oct. 12 Associated Press article "Alaska inquiry finds Palin abused power." More than a decade ago, when U.S. Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was a mayor, she asked the city librarian if the librarian would be open to the suggestion that certain...
JAPAN
Oct 17, 2008

Japan's political snags seen thwarting Asia role

Japan has a key role to play in East Asia's peace and prosperity but must first demonstrate a greater sense of political stability, analysts from global think tanks said Thursday at a symposium in Tokyo.
Reader Mail
Oct 16, 2008

Motorcycling madness in Vietnam

Regarding the Oct. 8 article "Motorcycle makers battle it out in Vietnam": Indeed, the whole of Vietnam is now a traffic jam of honking cacophony. The makers have totally clogged the streets of Hanoi and Saigon, jam-packed the sidewalks and poisoned the air with millions of their machines. Kids risk...
Reader Mail
Oct 16, 2008

Re-entry ban should be rescinded

Regarding the Oct. 10 article "Held despite acquittal, now barred from re-entry, woman slams legal system": Since the legal system in Japan has, by banning her from re-entering Japan for five years, punished Klaudia Zaberl for the crime of overstaying her visa, the Chiba District Court, Immigration,...
BUSINESS / THE VIEW FROM EUROPE
Oct 13, 2008

Will Japan emerge from crisis as a real financial center?

The events of the past weeks and days have dominated headlines and are threatening the world economy. Like so many dominoes, share prices and banks, big and small, have fallen in the United States and Europe, wiping out massive amounts of capital — about $21 trillion as of the end of September.
Reader Mail
Oct 12, 2008

Lack of common sense on energy

The Sept. 26 article "Stores defend 24-hour operations" claims that some local government officials want to curb convenience stores' midnight operations to help combat global warming. Maybe there are more convenience stores than needed in Japan. But once again government officials prove their complete...
Reader Mail
Oct 12, 2008

Benefits for overseas hibakusha

Regarding the Oct. 7 article, "Overseas hibakusha file suit over benefits": I lived in Japan from 1977 to 2001, first in Tokyo then in Nishinomiya. As a retired professor of the Kwansei Gakuin University law department, I've been very concerned about issues related to the hibakusha (atomic bomb victims)....
EDITORIALS
Oct 11, 2008

A secret kind of control

The Defense Ministry on Oct. 2 dismissed a 50-year-old colonel of the Air Self-Defense Force for allegedly passing a "defense secret" to a Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper reporter more than three years ago. The information was about a Chinese submarine that had surfaced in the South China Sea and was adrift....
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 10, 2008

A sensitive grape for a superb wine

A delicate, thin skin, in constant need of attention, sensitive to extremes of climate: The Pinot Noir is the pampered princess of grape varieties.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 10, 2008

Potts' luck: the rise of a superstar

It's a cliche to say "don't take things for granted" or "you never know what's going to happen in life." But it sounds more convincing from the mouths of certain people.
Reader Mail
Oct 9, 2008

Absurd view of Obama's 'pals'

A recent article stated that U.S. Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has taken the "gloves off." But her accusation that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has been "palling around with terrorists" is absurd. It's something that might have been cooked up by the writers of...
Reader Mail
Oct 9, 2008

Bad day for deregulation pitch

Regarding the Oct. 5 article "City of London chief urges Japan deregulate": It seems strange that Lord Mayor of London David Lewis was in Japan attempting to sell the benefits of deregulation when all of the world is now becoming aware of the dangers and costs of creating a "laissez-faire" economy.
Reader Mail
Oct 9, 2008

Storied history of Hinomaru

Regarding the Oct. 1 article "(Shoichi) Nakagawa shakes up press with move to plant Hinomaru in (Finance Ministry's) briefing room": It should be noted that the Japanese flag's design dates back to at least Ashikaga Shigeuji (1434-1497), who used the sun's disk in his banner, but I'm sure the motive...
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.
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
Japan will spend ¥325 million in government funds on Princess Yuriko's funeral
Princess Yuriko waves during the New Year's public greeting at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in January 2019.
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.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.

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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