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HANS NIEMAN

Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Sep 24, 2022
The chess world isn’t ready for a cheating scandal
Magnus Carlsen, the World Chess Championship winner, withdrew from the Sinquefield Cup after losing to Hans Niemann.
EDITORIALS
Jan 15, 2010
Population decline worsening
The population dynamics estimate of the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry indicates that Japan's population decline is accelerating. The report, based on birth and death registers submitted from January 2009 to October 2009, estimates the number of births in Japan in that year at 1,069,000, or 22,000...
Reader Mail
Jun 27, 2007
Profiting off a soft target
Regarding the June 17 article "Sony apologizes for using cathedral in violent video game": As a longtime resident of Japan and a one-time Sony investor, I would like to ask the responsible people at Sony Computer Entertainment to consider the consequences if they had used another place besides Manchester...
Reader Mail
Jun 24, 2007
Review missed half of the joke
Regarding Giovanni Fazio's May 25 review of the comedy hit film "Borat": Fazio claims that the backbone of this farce lies in its "cultural misunderstandings" and sight gags. Fair enough, but the longest-running joke in this masterpiece of absurdity, one that Fazio should have elicited, is that the two...
Reader Mail
Jun 13, 2007
Make high school exams relevant
Proposed education reforms reported in recent articles do not address the most glaring, fundamental problems in the school system. Most crucially, no mention is made of the fact that it is too hard to enter university and too easy to graduate.
Reader Mail
May 20, 2007
Do the poor dream of nationalism?
Regarding Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the Liberal Democratic Party's repeated pushes to re-militarize Japan, I think it is useful to consider this in the wider social context of what is happening in this country right now.
Reader Mail
Apr 22, 2007
Hardly a utopia for criminals
In his April 11 letter, "Reduction in crime is relative," James Holland misunderstands the purpose of my original letter ("Migrants are to be welcomed," April 1). It was not only to dispute claims of rampant crime in Britain and the alleged culpability of "unassimilated" foreigners, but also to challenge...
Reader Mail
Apr 11, 2007
Risible claim on English expertise
The anonymous writer who pleads for "More stress on Indian English" (March 28 letter) is correct to withhold his name. Such a premise ranks with jokes about "military Intelligence." He cites British colonization of India as the main basis of his plea, but let me remind him that America and Australia,...
Reader Mail
Mar 14, 2007
A neutral to racist greeting
Regarding Hidesato Sakakibara's Feb. 28 letter, "Term 'gaijin' has run its course": When I arrived in Japan, it was another foreigner who presented "gaijin" to me as short for "gaikoku-jin" (someone from a foreign country). In Tahiti, where I come from, we use a similar expression: "Popaa." It has become...
Reader Mail
Mar 11, 2007
Education ministry needs reform
There's been a lot of talk about education reform; unfortunately, the reform presently being advanced by the education ministry has little to no reality on the ground. Our struggle as an international couple trying to give our 15-year-old son a decent education has been one of never-ending disappointment....
Reader Mail
Feb 7, 2007
Get divorced, face deportation
I got divorced recently and have two Japanese children. However, I am British. Therefore, I applied for any type of visa that would give me rights to work and support my children and ex-partner. My ex-partner wrote a letter stating I always provide financial support and that I can see my children whenever...
Reader Mail
Feb 4, 2007
Fight one 'myth' with another
It is so utterly ridiculous to read time and again about certain segments of Japanese society continuing to choose to deny the events and the brutality of the Nanjing Massacre, and now they even want to make a "documentary" to show that it was a myth.
Reader Mail
Jan 28, 2007
Seeing 'liberation' for what it was
Jeff Kingston's review was simply one of the best essays published recently in The Japan Times. It addresses some of the issues facing Japan over its World War II-era atrocities. For nearly 20 years the public has been told by various Japanese leaders (mainly of the Liberal Democratic Party) that the...
Reader Mail
Jan 24, 2007
Choice: all-out war or dialogue
It appears now that U.S. President George W. Bush has finally come to grips with his policy failures, but instead of withdrawing from Iraq, he is looking to expand the regional conflict, as his recent speech mentioning Syria and Iran clearly indicates. If such an escalation were to ensue, it would...
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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