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Japan Times
Reference / Special Presentations / WITNESS TO WAR
Nov 19, 2009

Demons still haunt Christian soldier

26th in a series
EDITORIALS
Nov 18, 2009

APEC goes through the motions

The annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit is roundly dismissed — like so many other top-level multilateral meetings — as a glorified photo-op. But there was more hope than usual that this year's meeting would break the pattern and even produce concrete results. The positive role...
EDITORIALS
Nov 17, 2009

Strengthen budget scrutiny

The Board of Audit has found that government offices and central government-funded corporations improperly spent or handled ¥236.45 billion in public money in 717 cases in fiscal 2008 — a record amount and nearly double the ¥125.36 billion in fiscal 2007. Some ¥12.3 billion in 593 cases was spent...
COMMENTARY
Nov 17, 2009

Obama, Dalai Lama figure in Indo-China rift

CHENNAI, India — New Delhi recently allowed Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to visit the Buddhist monastery town of Tawang in India's northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh. This region, which lies on the Indo-Tibetan border, has long been claimed by China as its own — or at least parts...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHO'S WHO
Nov 17, 2009

Showbiz means to an end, not goal

Chuck Wilson, 63, is a fitness trainer. But he was — and arguably still is — far more famous as a funny foreigner who speaks in a defiantly casual and blunt manner to TV personality bigwigs.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 16, 2009

U.S. must keep trading system from coming unglued: economist

The dollar's continued fall will pose a serious threat to the multilateral trading system, and the absence of a globally viable alternative means the United States bears an enormous responsibility to maintain confidence in the currency, a senior U.S. economist warned at a seminar in Tokyo.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Nov 15, 2009

Will Segway sci-fi ever be everyday fact?

When the Segway first appeared, in 2001, it seemed like science fiction had sprung to life. Quiet, compact, efficient, and utterly mesmerizing with its ability to self-balance on two wheels, the U.S.-made "personal mobility device" promised to revolutionize transportation as we knew it.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Nov 15, 2009

Father-and-son drama, hommage to Date Masumune and a mysterious TV mystery

TBS's drama special, "Chichi yo, Anata wa erakatta — 1969-nen no oyaji to boku" (Dad! You were great: Father and me in 1969; Mon., 9 p.m.), makes a clever play for two generations of TV viewers by featuring Shigeaki Kato of the idol group News in a time travel story that sends him to 1969, where he...
CULTURE / Books
Nov 15, 2009

No defense for policy born of prejudice

THE TRAGEDY OF DEMOCRACY: Japanese Confinement in North America, by Greg Robinson. Columbia University Press, 2009, 408 pp., $29.95 (hardcover) This is a superb history about one of the more shameful chapters in U.S. history. Given all the books and articles about the internment of over 120,000 Japanese...
LIFE / Travel / WEEK 3
Nov 15, 2009

Opening a 'window' to Japan

As a seven-year veteran at the Narita Airport Tourist Information Center, Yuka Tsujimura is at ease handling all kinds of questions and requests for help from inbound tourists who have just set foot in Japan.
EDITORIALS
Nov 15, 2009

Knitting the alliance

Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and U.S. President Barack Obama held a summit and a joint news conference Friday in Tokyo, their second meeting following their first in September on the fringes of the United Nations General Assembly meetings. They reaffirmed that the Japan-U.S. alliance is the basis for...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2009

JAL lost ¥131 billion in half, skips forecast

Battered by the global financial crisis and the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, Japan Airlines Corp. on Friday posted a hefty group net loss of ¥131.2 billion for the April-September half and said it has applied for out-of-court debt restructuring as a stopgap measure to stay aloft.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Nov 14, 2009

Time for Albirex to consider replacing Hirose as coach

When should a team fire a head coach?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 13, 2009

Hollywood fails to take the Chinese out of Wayne's world

Wayne Wang has a special position in American cinema — though drawing story and characters with the compassionate warmth that has become his trademark he remains an outside observer, perched on the periphery of many screen lives.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Nov 12, 2009

Discount Comme de Garcons, thermo threads, extreme styles and bohemian flair

Back to black
BUSINESS
Nov 11, 2009

Softbank's new lineup heavy on fast Wi-Fi

Softbank Corp. unveiled 22 new mobile phone models for its winter-spring lineup Tuesday with a special focus on Wi-Fi and a new service that uses the wireless system to access the Internet.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2009

Yet another 'Battle of Okinawa'

CANBERRA — Elections in August gave Japan a new government, headed by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. In electing him and his Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the Japanese people, like the American people less than a year earlier, were opting for change. Remarkably, however, what followed on the part...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Nov 8, 2009

Freedoms on the outer limit

There's something special about places on the outer limits of great nations or continents; a sort of liberated and reflective space, away from it all, yet still connected to it. Think Alaska, Vancouver Island, the Koh Chang islands in Thailand, Xining in far western China or the pearl of Sri Lanka hanging...
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 8, 2009

No alternative to a new world architecture

NEW YORK — Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism, the world faces another stark choice between two fundamentally different forms of organization: international capitalism and state capitalism.
Japan Times
LIFE
Nov 8, 2009

Fashion fantasy meets form

With Japan Fashion Week shows now running concurrently with the Tokyo International Film Festival, it was hard sometimes not to liken the collections to films.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Nov 8, 2009

Brown confident of success in new role as manager of Golden Eagles

Japanese baseball will have at least one American manager for the eighth consecutive year in 2010, as Marty Brown takes over as field boss of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles after four years managing the Hiroshima Carp.
Funeral held for Princess Yuriko at Tokyo cemetery
Crown Prince Akishino and Crown Princess Kiko, followed by Princess Aiko and Princess Kako, prepare to attend a funeral service for Princess Yuriko at Toshimagaoka Cemetery in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan investigating Amazon for allegedly bullying other businesses
Packages move along a conveyor belt at an Amazon warehouse
Trump team weighs direct talks with North Korea's Kim
Then-U.S. President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea, in June 2019.
Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
According to Similarweb, average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October.
Israel-Hezbollah cease-fire, brokered by U.S. and France, takes effect
People near Martyrs Square in Beirut watch as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces a cease-fire on television on Tuesday.
‘What Divides Us’ producer honors grandfather’s Hiroshima reportage
“What Divides Us" producer Cannon Hersey says his grandfather, who wrote about the aftermath of nuclear destruction in Hiroshima, never spoke about what he had seen while working with Japanese minister Kiyoshi Tanimoto to preserve the stories of survivors.
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
According to Similarweb, average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October.
China defense minister being investigated for corruption, report says
Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun attends the opening ceremony of the Xiangshan Forum at the Beijing International Convention Center on Sept. 13. Dong is the third consecutive incumbent or former defense chief to be probed over alleged corruption.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.

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