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THE ZEIT GIST

Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Mar 9, 2010
Detainees allege abuse at Kansai holding center
The only way to see or speak to Moses Ssentamu is through a Plexiglas window at the West Japan Immigration Center in Ibaraki City, so there is no independent way to verify his claims of physical and psychological abuse. But if true, they raise serious concerns about Japan's treatment of visa overstayers...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Mar 2, 2010
Attorney glut may hit foreign firms
COLIN P. A. JONES One of the interesting things about being part of Japan's new law school system and its role in greatly increasing the number of Japanese attorneys is this: Nobody seems to have bothered asking the Japanese people if they actually need more attorneys. The original target of increasing...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Feb 23, 2010
No one-size-fits-all for foreign suffrage
Support has been surprisingly muted for the Hatoyama administration's push toward suffrage for foreign permanent residents, even among the constituencies such a law would enfranchise. The debate is definitely a hot one, sparking a number of protests against the plan around Tokyo, with opposition logic...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Feb 16, 2010
Help for Haiti from half a world away
A plain black bow adorns the coat of arms on the door of the Haitian Embassy in Tokyo, a poignant reminder to visitors of the hundreds of thousands who have died in the country since the devastating earthquake of Jan 12. It is a small gesture that belies the scale of the destruction wrought by the quake:...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Feb 9, 2010
Watson to whalers: We will never surrender
Despite speaking on a bad line from somewhere off Antarctica, the message from Paul Watson was loud and clear:
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Feb 2, 2010
Children's rights, judicial wrongs
Last in a two-part series
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jan 26, 2010
Judges fill the gaps in Japan's family law
First in a two-part series
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jan 19, 2010
Resolve to get involved this new year
It's that time of year when a lot of us make resolutions — many of which last only a few days. 2010 offers you the opportunity to do something new and get more involved in the community.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jan 12, 2010
Wannabe comics find their voices in Tokyo
"Everyone likes a laugh now and then, right?"
Japan Times
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Dec 29, 2009
Stray observations on booming pet culture
Pets are big business these days. Cat and dog cafes, animal accessory shops, dog hotels and even aesthetic salons for animals are easy to find. On weekends, in the large park near my house, I see people walking what appear to be entrants in a pedigree dog competition: dachshunds in mini-sweaters promenade...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Dec 22, 2009
Too innocent for prejudice?
Are kindergarteners racist? Do they discriminate between children with different skin colors?
Japan Times
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Dec 15, 2009
To gargle or not to gargle?
The Web site for the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) contains a pandemic influenza storybook filled with personal reflections from survivors, family members and friends. One of the accounts tells the story of Art McLaughlin, who lived about 25 km east of Chicago during...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Dec 8, 2009
Ichihashi trial key test of legal reforms
In March 2007, the Japanese police came under intense scrutiny at home and abroad after Tatsuya Ichihashi escaped barefoot from under the noses of a group of officers at his apartment in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture. The body of British Nova teacher Lindsay Hawker was found shortly after partially buried...
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Dec 8, 2009
Ichihashi trial key test of legal reforms
In March 2007, the Japanese police came under intense scrutiny at home and abroad after Tatsuya Ichihashi escaped barefoot from under the noses of a group of officers at his apartment in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture. The body of British Nova teacher Lindsay Hawker was found shortly after partially buried...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Nov 24, 2009
Every husband a potential 'abuser'
Before the Christopher Savoie case hit the news, Japanese commentators on the Hague Convention on international parental child abduction had already begun fretting over the completely unsubstantiated assertion that "almost all" instances of children being brought to Japan involve a Japanese mother fleeing...
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Nov 24, 2009
Every husband a potential 'abuser'
Before the Christopher Savoie case hit the news, Japanese commentators on the Hague Convention on international parental child abduction had already begun fretting over the completely unsubstantiated assertion that "almost all" instances of children being brought to Japan involve a Japanese mother fleeing...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Nov 17, 2009
Changes must go beyond Hague abduction treaty
First in a two-part series
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Nov 10, 2009
From East Berlin to the Far East, and vice versa
On Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. The East German nation, for 28 years hidden from the world's eyes behind almost impassable walls, suddenly opened up.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Nov 3, 2009
The fatally flawed math of risking it all in Japan
Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Oct 27, 2009
Immigration showing signs of ninjo
Last month, I was asked to take part in a public panel discussion on the recently released Harrison Ford blockbuster "Crossing Over." In the film, Ford plays an L.A. Immigration and Customs officer with a conscience, increasingly disturbed by the human consequences of his job.
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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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Sociologist Gracia Liu-Farrer argues that even though immigration doesn't figure into Japan's autobiography, it is more of a self-perception than a reality.
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