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WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 31, 2013

FBI program's lack of safeguards allows civil liberties violations: ACLU

An FBI program that collects reports about suspicious activity in the United States does not have adequate safeguards and leads to violations of privacy rights and to racial and religious profiling, the American Civil Liberties Union said Wednesday.
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BASEBALL
Oct 30, 2013

Aggressive-minded pitchers find success for Eagles

You've got to play aggressively — that's one of the cliches that has been used millions of times in sports.
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BUSINESS
Oct 30, 2013

Japan can learn from British experience on reform

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe can learn from Britain's experience of economic reform in order to ensure Abenomics takes Japan on a course to long-term growth, four journalists from British media organizations said at a recent symposium in Tokyo.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 29, 2013

Kokubo turns to youthful talent to carry Samurai Japan for Taiwan exhibition series

Recently introduced Japan baseball national team manager Hiroki Kokubo doesn't appear to impose victories on his players right away.
EDITORIALS
Oct 29, 2013

Nobel Peace Prize sends messages

In choosing this year's Peace Prize recipient, the Nobel Committee hoped to accelerate global efforts to eliminate chemical weapons, which are relatively cheap and easy to produce.
CULTURE / Music / STRANGE BOUTIQUE
Oct 29, 2013

Tokyo Boredom is blazing its own trail — and the first stop is Taiwan

Of all the cliches about Japanese music being bandied around, the one I find most baffling is the idea that bands here are "just copying Western music." It's a rehash of the old jibe, originally born from fear of Japan's rapid postwar industrial growth, about the Japanese being dedicated imitators but...
BASKETBALL
Oct 29, 2013

bj-league bans JT access

In an unprecedented move, the professional basketball bj-league has issued a ban on media access by The Japan Times for the entire 2013-14 season. The directive has been relayed to teams around the country by the league office, the newspaper has learned.
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BASEBALL
Oct 28, 2013

Flawless Tanaka wins Sawamura Award

Masahiro Tanaka followed up an amazing career first with something even more impressive the second time around.
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JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 28, 2013

Mizuho offers denials as heads roll over mob loans

Mizuho Bank announces it will punish 54 present and former executives for lending money to organized crime groups but denies it colluded with yakuza.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 28, 2013

Mining slump pinches 26% off Komatsu profits

Komatsu Ltd., the world's second-largest maker of construction equipment, cut its full-year profit forecast by 26 percent Monday after its commodity producing customers curtailed spending on new equipment.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 28, 2013

Turkey navigates a less exciting path to reform

Throughout his tenure, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been condemned parties for pursuing too much reform, and by Turkey's minorities for doing too little.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 28, 2013

Measure of mismeasure confounds free choice

It's important to help people think clearly about why they might choose something less desirable than what they now have to avoid the risk of getting something even worse next time.
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LIFE / Style & Design
Oct 28, 2013

Smashing ideas on future design and technology

While contemporary art is still transfixed by its own reflection, veteran Japanese curator Yuko Hasegawa has focused her cultural microscope on something quite different. "Bunny Smash Design to touch the world," the current group exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, is a hit-and-miss...
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CULTURE / Art / Japan Pulse
Oct 28, 2013

Tokyo Designers Week 2013

This year's Tokyo Designers Week gets its creative juices flowing with more markets, music and a festival vibe.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 27, 2013

Chemical weapons watchdog has tighter leash

The Nobel Committee's decision to honor the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons with this year's Peace Prize should compel world leaders to increase their support for it.
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BASKETBALL
Oct 26, 2013

Akita hammers Shinshu, raises record to 7-0

The Akita Northern Happinets extended their perfect start to the 2013-14 bj-league season on Saturday, trouncing the visiting Shinshu Brave Warriors 113-82.
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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Oct 26, 2013

Japan Inc.'s hurt pride may be behind bout of fresh phone fears

What's the explanation for the current surge in concern over the poor manners and inattention of addicted cellphone users — especially considering smart phones are arguably no more distracting than the previous generation of mobile gadgets
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BUSINESS / Japan Pulse
Oct 26, 2013

Flip a skirt a month in 2014

Kaori Kato's Skirt Flipping Calendar enters its second year, while sticky notes debut.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 25, 2013

What to do with banks that are 'too big to fail'?

The travails of JPMorgan Chase have reopened the debate about what to do with American and European banks that are 'too big to fail.' The result so far is an uneven playing field.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 25, 2013

A better way to end Syria's civil war

The political path to peace in Syria should give intimidated third-party groups a voice by bringing the many segments of society together, regardless of which side of the conflict they are on.
Events / KANSAI: WHO & WHAT
Oct 25, 2013

Pakistani activists to speak on women's rights

Amnesty International Japan will host a speech by Pakistani activist Rukhshanda Naz in Osaka on Nov. 3 between 2 and 4 p.m..
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BUSINESS / HOTEL SPECIAL 2013
Oct 24, 2013

Enjoy all the flavors of fall

To coincide with the time of year when nature demonstrates its beauty in a way that symbolizes harvest, prosperity and abundance, Grand Hyatt Tokyo in Roppongi, which is marking its 10th anniversary this year, has added some special fall promotions to its hotel-wide birthday celebrations.
COMMENTARY
Oct 24, 2013

New lever for reducing the U.S. nuclear arsenal

The threat of the continuing U.S. budget sequester could succeed in yielding rational changes to the U.S. nuclear weapons program — a goal that simple logic has failed to achieve.
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CULTURE / Art
Oct 24, 2013

Kawasaki has a plan for Tokyo Designers Week

Born in Toyama Prefecture in 1948, Kenji Kawasaki is the founder and producer of Tokyo Designers Week (TDW), as well as chairman of Design Association, an NPO seeking to create a new culture of “innovation” in Japan.
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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 24, 2013

A frightful day out in Kawasaki

Though not a traditionally Japanese event, you can still celebrate the West's spookiest time of the year at the 17th annual Kawasaki Halloween Parade. More than 3,000 revelers are expected to show up, dressed in their finest ghoulish attire, to march around the east side of JR Kawasaki Station and neighboring...

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