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THE ZEIT GIST

Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Sep 5, 2006
Grim bar system may hurt legal reforms
Sept. 21 is awaited with a mixture of anticipation and dread in campuses across Japan. It is the date on which results of the country's first new bar examination are announced. How well a school's students do on this test, which is projected to have a pass rate of about 40 percent, may have a serious...
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Aug 22, 2006
Japan's fingerprinting law is dumb . . . (and that's just what the government thinks)
On May 18, 2006, a little discussed and little debated law passed the Diet.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Aug 15, 2006
The trafficking scourge
Urairat Soimee's journey began with an invitation from a wealthy neighbor -- her mother's childhood friend -- in her small Thai village to come and work at a restaurant she claimed she owned in Japan. It ended with her in a Japanese prison, serving a sentence for murder.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Aug 8, 2006
Japan media focus blurred on big issues
All the pain of the tragedy that has befallen their family is etched in the crumpled faces of Shigeru and Sakie Yokota.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Aug 1, 2006
Can NHK justify its huge collection costs?
NHK spends a massive 76.9 billion yen per year on its fee collection system, which equates to some 12.4 percent of the national broadcaster annual operating income.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jul 25, 2006
Lesbian mothers' twin tasks
Motherhood can be daunting under even the best of circumstances, but, as a lesbian, considering starting a family brings with it a whole new set of difficulties.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jul 11, 2006
A way forward?
Last month, Diet member and Senior Vice Minister of Justice Taro Kono publicized a new action plan for immigration.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jul 4, 2006
Travel firm rapped over foreigner ticket policy
The nation's largest discount travel agency, HIS, which also runs foreigner-friendly No.1 Travel, has based the price of some air tickets from Japan on the nationality of the traveler, possibly in breach of Japanese law, The Japan Times has learned.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jun 27, 2006
Righting a wrong
In July 2005, Doudou Diene, a special representative of the United Nations' Commission on Human Rights, came to Japan at the invitation of the Japanese government.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jun 20, 2006
Family of POW makes appeal to Aso 'honor'
Japan's foreign minister, Taro Aso, will this week receive an appeal to his "honor and decency" in the repayment of a small family debt more than 60 years old.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jun 13, 2006
Fuss over fingerprinting
No consistency The new law requiring foreigners to be fingerprinted and photographed at Japan's airports is unfair.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
May 30, 2006
Japan ready to battle 'culinary imperialists'
Earlier this year I was commissioned by a British newspaper to research a Japanese company called Hakudai, which was reputed to be putting whale meat into dog food.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
May 23, 2006
Making certain of a positive I.D.
Last weekend, I visited three major retail outlets in Shinjuku, Tokyo, to inquire about the purchase of a cell phone.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
May 16, 2006
Second-class citizens
Rogelio Buscio's shoes were missing. It was the evening of July 27, 2005, and 30-year old Filipino Bucio was getting ready to leave the dormitory he shared with other Sanjo Metal Company Ltd. trainees to start his evening shift. He looked everywhere, asked everyone. Nobody was giving up the shoes.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
May 9, 2006
Local fury at Hardy perennial
Last month, as they have every year for decades, a small crowd of people gathered under fat cherry blossoms in Tokyo's Aoyama Park, carrying red lanterns, placards and peace symbols.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
May 2, 2006
How to kill a bill
On Oct. 12, 2005, the Tottori Prefectural Assembly approved Japan's first human rights ordinance, a local law forbidding and punishing racial discrimination.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Apr 25, 2006
Aso family's 'slave' link under scrutiny
While Taro Aso's public statements as foreign minister have done little to help ease tensions between Tokyo and the rest of Asia, a family connection to wartime forced labor has raised further questions over his ability to oversee good relations with Japan's neighbors.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Apr 18, 2006
Musical match for Japan Goliath
Tetsuo Tanaka has been protesting his dismissal from an electronics company for a quarter of a century. Now his struggle, one of the longest one-man campaigns in Japanese history, is to be the subject of a documentary
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Apr 11, 2006
Sick, desperate Japanese turn to booming Chinese organ trade
When Kenichiro Hokamura's kidneys failed, he spent four years on dialysis before going online to check out rumors of organs for sale.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Apr 4, 2006
Students bring school to book
It was payday, and Shawn Hannold's bank account was empty. A phone call from a coworker alerted Hannold the paychecks hadn't shown up in the accounts that morning.
Japan to revise consumption tax exemption for overseas tourists
Tourists walk through Nakamise shopping street near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo in April
Japan's tourism industry hit by cancellations after megaquake alert
A beach closed due to a megaquake alert in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, from Friday to Thursday.
Focus shifts to incoming typhoon as Tropical Storm Maria dissipates
Newly formed Tropical Storm Ampil, which is forecast to approach eastern Japan this weekend, is seen on the left side of this satellite image.
Kishida to step down in September in bid to show ‘LDP has changed’
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.
Publisher finds surprise audience after translating history textbooks
Yamakawa Shuppansha president Takeshi Nozawa holds the publisher's textbook on Japanese history — used in high schools across Japan — alongside the new English version in Tokyo on May 23.
Economic security is about strengthening and sustaining growth, former minister says
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi says changes in the international balance of power, along with deepening economic interdependence, have led some countries to attempt to use their economic power to impose their will on others.
Ice bandanas, convenience store breaks: Running under Japan’s summer sun
Blistering heat is becoming a fixture of summer in Japan, but a few tweaks to your routine can make your outdoor runs bearable — if not enjoyable — until cooler temperatures return.
Japan issued its first-ever megaquake alert. What does that mean?
Naoshi Hirata (center), chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
France brings down the curtain on its Olympic party with Tom Cruise and Leon Marchand
Fireworks are set off during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics at Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Sunday.
Japan fuels U.S. LNG boom even as climate targets and impacts loom
Flaring at the Cameron LNG export terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana. Flaring, a common sight at LNG plants, is a controlled burning of gas for reasons ranging from depressurizing equipment to disposing of gas that can’t be used. The practice is a "waste of money" and negatively impacts climate change and human health, says the International Energy Agency.

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