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EDITORIALS
Jan 31, 2010

To protect and enhance life

Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, whose administration is 4 1/2 months old, opened his policy speech for the coming year with words that bore his colors: "I want to protect people's lives. This is my wish. . . . I want to protect the lives of those who are born, of those who grow and mature."
CULTURE / Books
Jan 31, 2010

Entrap, exploit and repeat

WESTERN POWER IN ASIA: Its Slow Rise And Swift Fall 1415-1999, by Arthur Cotterell. John Wiley & Sons, 2009, 439 pp., $29.95 (paper)
JAPAN
Jan 30, 2010

Hatoyama sets agenda in Diet

Drawing on Gandhi quotes for inspiration, Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama called on his colleagues Friday to make 2010 "a new start for Japan" in his first administrative policy speech at the ordinary Diet session.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Jan 30, 2010

How to ship a bison omiyage

I have a confession: I've always wanted to be a bison.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 29, 2010

'The Private Lives of Pippa Lee'

What exactly does a woman want? Even a genius like Freud couldn't answer that one, but that doesn't stop Hollywood from gleefully pitching their own answers, time and time again. Sadly, they're almost always something routine and familiar, dribbling with prosaic food-court banality: a man, a family,...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 29, 2010

Creativity flourishes in 'No Man's Land'

Known for its quaint cafes and high-end high rises, the upscale neighborhood of Hiroo is home to many of Tokyo's local and ex-pat illuminati, as well as to several foreign embassies. The area is pristine, even by Tokyo standards, and it is this refined backdrop that makes arriving at the French embassy...
COMMENTARY
Jan 28, 2010

It's better to help arm Taiwan than defend it

The Obama administration is preparing a new arms package for Taiwan. Ironically, selling weapons to Taipei may be the best way for Washington to get out from the middle of one of the world's potentially most volatile relationships, between China and Taiwan. Relations between China and Taiwan are improving....
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Jan 27, 2010

Toshiba Blu-ray recorders, mCube90 make life more compact

Blu-ray recording: If you can't beat them, don't join them — just copy their ideas and improve them. Toshiba is endeavoring to do just that having abandoned its HD-DVD format and instead opted to craft versions of Sony's brainchild, Blu-ray. Nobody can accuse Toshiba of not doing a wholehearted about...
Japan Times
BASEBALL / SPORTS SCOPE
Jan 26, 2010

Buffaloes take big gamble by giving up on veteran slugger Tuffy Rhodes

The Orix Buffaloes' decision to reel in So Taguchi instead of working things out with Tuffy Rhodes will either go down as cheap or shrewd.
COMMUNITY / Voices / HAVE YOUR SAY
Jan 26, 2010

Haiti dispatch; an ARK defense

Japan resident Nithiananthan Veeravagu is working in Haiti for the NGO Association of Medical Doctors of Asia (www.amdainternational.com):
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jan 24, 2010

A 'stable' life for Ozawa, yakuza, sumo stars

In the Jan. 25 issue of Aera, show-business reporter Yoshiko Matsumoto, writing about the persistence of image, related an anecdote about Seiji Maehara. The land minister was traveling coach on a domestic JAL flight and after the airplane landed he helped other passengers remove their belongings from...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jan 24, 2010

Eschewing the cheerlessness of modern-market memoirs

Those who have read Donald Keene's 1996 memoir "On Familiar Terms" may wonder whether it was necessary for him to bring out another that covers much the same ground. One suspects that Keene published "Chronicles of My Life" simply because he had been asked to write a series of columns about his life...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jan 23, 2010

Technical support — how it ought to be

My house is stacked with gadgets — from computers to cameras to game machines to bathroom scales that voice my weight, and more.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jan 23, 2010

Big changes from life's small lessons

Naotaka Aoki, a black belt in tae kwon do, stands tall among his students. A few days later, he stands at ease while leading 160 service members from the U.S. Navy's Yokosuka base on a recent tour of Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. Fluent in English and Japanese, he laughs quickly in every language.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jan 22, 2010

Osaka events celebrate art that lies under the covers (of books)

The International Book Art Picnic will be held in Osaka until Jan. 31.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jan 22, 2010

Theater star brings new tricks to the stage

In the summer of 2008, a shockwave hit the world of Japanese theater when Keishi Nagatsuka announced he was taking a yearlong break from the stage to take a government-sponsored sabbatical in London.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 22, 2010

'Surrogates'/'The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus'

"Surrogates," the new Bruce Willis sci-fi flick directed by Jonathan Rostow, sketches out a brave new world where the plasticky digital-airbrush aesthetic of Photoshop and Ayumi Hamasaki album covers has triumphed over the imperfections of the meat body; humans lie in "Stim-chairs" all day plugged into...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / ONE-ON-ONE WITH ...
Jan 17, 2010

Sugawara steps up game for Golden Kings

The Japan Times will be featuring periodic interviews with players in the bj-league. The league's fifth season bean in October. Yosuke Sugawara of the Ryukyu Golden Kings is the subject of this week's profile.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jan 17, 2010

Clandestine campaign led to Valentine's demise

First in a four-part series
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Jan 17, 2010

Learning old ways to build for today

For lovers of traditional Japanese architecture, a visit to Akihisa Kitamori's laboratory at the Kyoto University Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere (RISH) would likely evoke similar emotions to those felt by an animal-rights activist in a cosmetics test lab full of tormented rabbits.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Jan 17, 2010

'Tigers' and naturalists of many stripes

I enter the forest and soon the rhythmic swish-swish of my skis over the snow mesmerizes me. This is my first foray of the new year in Hokkaido, making tracks in the lowland forest of Nopporo close to home just east of Sapporo.
JAPAN
Jan 16, 2010

Funds scandals risk DPJ Diet plans

The Democratic Party of Japan-led government kicks off its first ordinary Diet session Monday focusing primarily on fighting the recession, but Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama will also be forced to deal with DPJ money scandals.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / BY THE GLASS
Jan 15, 2010

Reinventing the classics

"In Italy I already had a job and family. If I had come to Japan and everything finished, I could have easily gone back to Italy because I had a place there. Coming here was a bit like a game and it still is for me," says TV celebrity Girolamo Panzetta.

Longform

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