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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 25, 2012

A plan for a healthy TV diet

The world is going to pieces. I know because the television told me so. Global warming, economic meltdown, regional conflicts, partisan politics, Justin Bieber. Is there anything good happening? Anywhere?
EDITORIALS
Aug 25, 2012

Lawbreaking cops among us

The National Police Agency issued a report Aug. 16 showing that police departments nationwide have been plagued by a series of irregularities involving police officers and workers. When you take into account the nearly 300,000 people working for the police force, the known irregularities are probably...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 24, 2012

Asakusa Samba Carnival offers a Brazilian alternative to Bon festivals

Traditional dancing at various festivals around the capital won't be the only way to shake your booty this weekend as Tokyo's Asakusa district swaps the Awa and Bon dancing of the season for some Brazilian samba.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 24, 2012

Chips and Art Garden make art accessible to everyone

It's not easy for young artists to show their work to the public and get feedback, or for the public to find artworks that they can easily afford.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Aug 24, 2012

Ashby makes Rizing Fukuoka fifth team in Japan career

Another season, another team for Julius Ashby.
EDITORIALS
Aug 24, 2012

Death of an experienced journalist

Ms. Mika Yamamoto, a video journalist belonging to the Tokyo-based independent media group The Japan Press, was killed on Monday while covering the conflict in Syria between government and rebel forces in Aleppo.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 23, 2012

Preference should go to real, rational women

In the Dominican Republic last month, a pregnant teenager suffering from leukemia had her chemotherapy delayed, because doctors feared that the treatment could terminate her pregnancy and therefore violate the nation's strict anti-abortion law. After consultations between doctors, lawyers, and the girl's...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 23, 2012

Art director Hideki Nakajima throws down the gauntlet of design

In Hiroshima the sun is setting on a large retrospective exhibition by one of Japan's leading graphic designers, who for the past 20 years has been working at the edge of his discipline, carving out a unique niche for himself within a very prescribed industry.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 23, 2012

Exploring themes of dimensions and time, Japan's contemporary art scene is a cosmos of its own

"The Cosmos as Metaphor' at Taka Ishii Gallery and Hotel Anteroom Kyoto is almost entirely engaging. Bringing together many diverse artists, the expectation is that the exhibition concept is spread wide. Indeed "Multi-dimensional and magical time spaces" along with "untouched civilizations" and "other...
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / TECH_JAPAN
Aug 22, 2012

Japanese companies aspire to take a bite out of the e-reader apple

With so many competitors in the tablet and e-reader market these days, it's getting harder and harder for manufacturers to differentiate themselves from similar offerings. Apple's iPad held 68 percent of the worldwide market share in the second quarter according to Massachusetts-based research firm IDC,...
JAPAN
Aug 22, 2012

What if no-benefit 'retirement' age is set at 40?

When a government panel's proposal that companies set their "retirement" age at 40 was released in early July, it made headlines and triggered hot debate on the Internet.
JAPAN
Aug 21, 2012

China's gripe over tit-for-tat landing nixed

The government will not accept complaints lodged by China over the 10 Japanese nationalists who landed on the Senkaku Islands, Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura said Monday, while also trying to defuse bilateral strains by criticizing the unauthorized trip.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 21, 2012

Whose future is it anyway?

Singapore's paternalistic government is unappealing to many Americans — media restrictions, one-party rule, harsh penalties for gum-chewing.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Aug 20, 2012

Nishioka fired up for unification bout against Donaire

As super bantamweight champion Toshiaki Nishioka prepares to square off against Nonito Donaire of the Philippines in a unification title match, the 36-year-old is as psyched up as he's ever been in his storied career.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Aug 19, 2012

Monster parents make matters worse for their children and teachers

In the West they hover and swoop. In Japan they stalk and are known to strike. We all have them and some of us have been them. And in recent years the media, both social and antisocial, have put them under the magnifying glass of criticism.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Aug 19, 2012

Politics taint Ahn Sehong's 'comfort women' photo exhibition

Visitors to a photo exhibition would not typically be asked to open their bags or walk through a metal detector before entering the exhibition site. Nor would they expect to catch the inquisitive gazes of various plainclothes police officers lurking in the crowd once inside.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 17, 2012

'Wallace & Gromit' creator Peter Lord to play major role at animation festival in Hiroshima

The Hiroshima 2012: International Animation Festival has done pretty well for itself since its debut in 1985. It is now considered one of the four most respected animation festivals in the world.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 17, 2012

Director Ruthie Shatz to visit documentary film festival in Tokyo

The Documentary Dream Show has gotten a taste of reality — reality television to be more precise.
Reader Mail
Aug 16, 2012

Tepco must reveal everything

Regarding the Aug. 10 front-page Jiji Press article "Seawater option for meltdown galled execs": Over the ages, we humans have made small mistakes, big mistakes and very big mistakes. It is human to err. To learn from the mistakes and take effective steps not to repeat them is what set humans apart from...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / INSIDE ART
Aug 16, 2012

New MoMA show promises to put Tokyo, and Japan, on the world art map

Local commentators have long bemoaned Japanese art historians' apparent inability to contextualize their country's artistic output within the global art-history narrative. Thank goodness for MoMA.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Aug 12, 2012

"Court Martial in the Field of Battle"; Why didn't Japan Surrender?; CM of the week: Meiji Bono Cheese

Commercial stations normally broadcast specials about the end of the war at this time of the year, but apparently they spent too much money on Olympic coverage, and a large portion of air time this week is devoted to recaps.
Events / KANSAI: WHO & WHAT
Aug 11, 2012

Prize-winning kid's books on display in Hyogo

The Otani Memorial Art Museum in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, will display original paintings from children's picture books that won prizes in a competition in Bologna, Italy.
OLYMPICS / LONDON POSTCARD
Aug 10, 2012

A journalist's dilemma

There's so many events going on at the same time, that the only consistent thought swirling through my head on the topic is this: I wish I could be going to (fill in the blank), too.

Longform

Atsuyoshi Koike, the president and CEO of Rapidus, says there is a “sense of urgency” when it comes to Japan’s efforts in manufacturing semiconductors. “We have to make sure we are successful,” he says.
Atsuyoshi Koike’s big game: Fourth down and 2 nanometers to go