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JAPAN
Nov 11, 2006

ElBaradei sets visit to discuss North

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency will visit Japan later this month to discuss the North Korean and Iranian nuclear standoffs as well as the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, the Foreign Ministry announced Friday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Nov 11, 2006

U.S. lawyer gets the impossible done in Japan

Legal beagle Tim Langley is both blessed and dogged with an interesting surname. "When I worked inside the Diet as a blue-eyed, moustachioed, Japanese-fluent American fresh out of Japanese law school, the CIA in Langley, Va., naturally came up. Some thought my name was a joke."
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Nov 11, 2006

Mary Ishin Sung Katayama

Educated in Japan and the U.S., and each year making frequent official trips to Europe, Mary Ishin Sung Katayama says that she thinks of herself as borderless. "I love to travel and feel a need to be on the go every month or two," she said.
BUSINESS
Nov 11, 2006

Inverted Treasury yield doesn't signal U.S. slowdown: Fukui

Bank of Japan Gov. Toshihiko Fukui said Friday that the inverted yield curve in the U.S. Treasury market doesn't mean the United States economy is headed for a recession.
EDITORIALS
Nov 11, 2006

On cue with the ministry's script

The recent revelation that the government has manipulated the process of promoting education reform raises the basic question of whether the government is morally qualified for education-related administration at a time when the Diet is discussing a bill to revise the Fundamental Law of Education.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Nov 11, 2006

The overrated and the underrated

Several months ago I devoted a column to aspects of Japanese life that I felt received too much or too little attention in the eyes of foreign visitors.
JAPAN
Nov 11, 2006

Sanctions pain or nuclear confidence?

Reports from Pyongyang say North Korea has recently put up banners across the capital hailing its arrival as a nuclear state, following its declared underground atomic explosion on Oct. 9
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Nov 11, 2006

The mysterious red light heeded by few

Big news for our island: They've put in a traffic light! Now, I've always been under the impression that there must be oncoming traffic to justify a traffic light. But hey, this is Japan, maybe they drive differently here.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 10, 2006

Fighters off to flyer in Asia Series

Two times were enough for Atsunori Inaba and the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters.
JAPAN
Nov 10, 2006

Aso should be axed for nuke comments: opposition

The Democratic Party of Japan, the Japanese Communist Party, the Social Democratic Party of Japan and the People's New Party sent a letter to the prime minister Thursday demanding that Foreign Minister Taro Aso be dismissed for saying Japan must debate whether to go nuclear.

Longform

An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo