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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Oct 10, 2010

Weeklies, tabloids hawkish over China

On Saturday, Oct. 2, over 2,670 demonstrators carrying Hinomaru Japanese flags marched in Tokyo's Yoyogi Park to protest the Kan government's soft handling of a long-running territorial dispute with China over the Senkaku Islands (known in Chinese as Diaoyutai), which was rekindled on Sept. 7 when the...
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BUSINESS
Oct 8, 2010

Tough-job robots to be success stories

Of all the robots that end up supporting humans, those that carry out the dirty, dull and dangerous tasks will be the most commercially successful, the president of an American robot maker said Thursday in Tokyo.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 6, 2010

N.E. Asia needs a maritime code of conduct

KANEOHE, Hawaii — Japan and China have wisely stepped back from the political brink in the East China Sea. But if the past has anything to say about the future, there will be similar serious confrontations at sea disturbing not only relations between the disputants but the security regime in Asia....
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JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Oct 5, 2010

Homeopathy: cure or placebo?

Homeopathy recently came under the spotlight after Science Council of Japan President Ichiro Kanazawa urged medical workers to refrain from using the more than 200-year-old form of alternative medicine, calling it "ignorance of science" and "absurd."
EDITORIALS
Oct 3, 2010

Mr. Kan's to-do list trumps vision

As Japan faces serious domestic and diplomatic challenges, a 64-day extraordinary Diet session started Friday with Prime Minister Naoto Kan's policy speech. The speech drew particular public attention because it was his first policy speech following his re-election as head of the Democratic Party of...
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LIFE
Oct 3, 2010

Architect triumphs in defeat

Kengo Kuma might be the most self-effacing architect around. His trademarks are not large monumental forms or breathtaking sculptural shapes, but finely wrought details such as elegant stone cladding on a high-rise tower, an unlikely pitched roof or a superbly framed view on a garden.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Oct 3, 2010

Yokohama farm team will revert to using 'BayStars'

The current era of American managers in Japan has come to an end with Marty Brown out as skipper of the Rakuten Eagles, and another "era" is ending in Japanese baseball with the disbanding of the Shonan Searex.
EDITORIALS
Oct 2, 2010

Hard times ahead for firms

A Bank of Japan tankan survey shows that business sentiment measured by the diffusion index among big manufacturers in the three months through September was plus 8, a rise of seven points from the previous quarter, marking improvement for six consecutive quarters. The diffusion index (DI) represents...
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COMMUNITY
Oct 2, 2010

Living green, Venetia truly is at home in Kyoto

Venetia Stanley-Smith Kajiyama, or Venetia to her many fans, personifies natural, country living in her popular NHK program "Neko no Shippo, Kaeru no Te," but her first two months in Tokyo exemplified neon lights and city swing as a go-go dancer at a Shinjuku disco.
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JAPAN
Oct 1, 2010

Parties unite in demanding Senkaku video

The ruling and opposition parties agreed Thursday to ask the government to submit video footage documenting last month's collisions between a Chinese trawler and Japan Coast Guard cutters to the Diet.
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CULTURE / Music
Oct 1, 2010

For artist Tokumaru, music is but a dream

Shugo Tokumaru's music is a dream come true — literally.
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2010

Maehara hangs tough on Senkaku dispute

Newly appointed Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara repeated Wednesday that the recent collision between a Chinese trawler and Japan Coast Guard vessels occurred in Japanese territory and demanded China take measures to prevent a recurrence.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 30, 2010

'Friendly diplomacy' gaffe

The Sept. 7 collision between a Chinese fishing boat and the Japan Coast Guard patrol vessel Yonakuni in Japanese territorial waters near the Senkaku Islands resulted in the arrest and detention of the fishing boat captain on suspicion of obstructing the coast guard's official duty. He was released last...
COMMENTARY
Sep 30, 2010

Ebb and flow of hedging in Southeast Asia

HONG KONG — Last week, when the China-Japan dispute over the detention of the captain of a Chinese fishing trawler was hanging fire, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden said American efforts to improve relations with China must "go through Tokyo" because Japan was vital to the United States.
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JAPAN
Sep 29, 2010

Maehara again defends holding Chinese skipper

The arrest of a Chinese trawler captain involved in a collision with Japan Coast Guard patrol boats in disputed waters was appropriate, Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara firmly stated once again Tuesday.
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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Sep 28, 2010

Behind the facade of family law

Last in a two-part series In mid-April, 12-year-old Michiko Watanabe, as she was now being called, found herself in a precarious situation. Earlier, her mother had clearly let her child know that she would no longer consider herself Michiko's mother if Michiko ever attempted to return to her father....
Reader Mail
Sep 26, 2010

Export tack has run long enough

Regarding the Sept. 19 editorial "Long battle in currency markets": For at least 20 years we have heard the argument from Japan's government and media that Japan must be allowed to intervene in currency markets to cheapen the yen vis-a-vis other major currencies, such as the dollar and euro. The Japanese...
MULTIMEDIA
Sep 26, 2010

Recruit founder revisits a scandal that shook the nation

Remember the infamous Recruit scandal of the late 1980s that brought down a government, tarnished the reputations of Japan's movers and shakers and left the public convinced that the government was rotten to the core?
EDITORIALS
Sep 26, 2010

Sensible or weak-kneed decision?

The Naha District Public Prosecutors Office on Friday decided to release a Chinese fishing boat captain who had been arrested Sept. 8 following his boat's collision the previous day with two Japan Coast Guard patrol boats in Japanese territorial waters near the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea....
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Sep 26, 2010

Day of reckoning looming for Big Matsui, Little Matsui, Iwamura

Matsui, Matsui and Iwamura.
JAPAN
Sep 25, 2010

Ohata may take rare earths halt to WTO

Trade minister Akihiro Ohata said Friday the ministry has received some reports confirming imports of rare earths from China have been halted, saying Japan may file a complaint with the World Trade Organization if it is a retaliatory move by Beijing over the detention of a Chinese trawler captain.
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JAPAN
Sep 25, 2010

Friction cited in move to free Chinese skipper

Japan was set to release a Chinese fishing boat captain as early as late Friday because his detention over a territorial dispute has strained bilateral relations, the transport ministry said.
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COMMUNITY
Sep 25, 2010

English teacher brings joy to orphans

Young kids running amok, dancing crazily, jumping on adults' backs demanding piggyback rides.
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CULTURE / Art
Sep 24, 2010

The 'plucky pioneer' of photojournalism

At 96, Tsuneko Sasamoto, Japan's first female photojournalist, remains a remarkable force of energy, creativity and inspiration. Dubbed a "plucky pioneer" and "the Annie Liebovitz of her day," Sasamoto has photographed some of Japan's greatest personalities and historical moments during her 70-year career....

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