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Spurs ride out storm
When Tony Parker started running low on masterful plays, Tim Duncan was there to take over and guide the San Antonio Spurs to a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference finals. Parker had 15 points and a career playoff-high 18 assists, Duncan scored San ...
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Guitarist Dustin Wong brings singer Takako Minekawa out on a ‘Toropical’ journey
Guitarist Dustin Wong hesitates for a split second. It’s a pause that would go unnoticed during most other sets, but Wong has spent the last 40 minutes seemingly in a trance while playing guitar and looping the notes via an array of pedals in ...
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Explore one of Tokyo’s most indie neighborhoods at Shimokitazawa Sound Cruising
Guitarist Dustin Wong hesitates for a split second. It’s a pause that would go unnoticed during most other sets, but Wong has spent the last 40 minutes seemingly in a trance while playing guitar and looping the notes via an array of pedals in ...
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Finding an artistic home for fashion
Spring wear: Tsumura Kosuke's transparent survival jackets, now on display in the design gallery at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. | © FINAL ...
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The humor of candid camera
With the advent of the digital camera, mobile phones and social networking, the world is now drowning in photographic imagery. This raises the question: Can photography survive as an art form in a world where it is ubiquitous? The exhibition of work by Kayo Ume, under the title ';Umekayo,'; at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery offers a partial response to this question, and suggests ...
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Sometimes it’s hard for Leonardo to impress
Guitarist Dustin Wong hesitates for a split second. It’s a pause that would go unnoticed during most other sets, but Wong has spent the last 40 minutes seemingly in a trance while playing guitar and looping the notes via an array of pedals in ...
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Ms. Park’s triumphant U.S. visit
The prospect of a clash over defense policy between South Korea's new president and the U.S. has been diminished by North Korea's own ham-fisted ...
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Watching what the church does
-bashing. Catholics are bashed quite enough by their own pedophile priests. 2. She says my letter ';falsely portrays the Cathars as a … wrongfully persecuted religious minority.'; So, in Kim’s opinion, they were obviously a rightfully persecuted minority. 3. She says ';the Cathars had murdered a papal envoy.'; And that justifies the murder over decades of an ...
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Inventors of human rights
Jennifer Kim, in her letter of May 16, seems to be doing a bit of an Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto special. She appears to be suggesting that the mass murder of heretics [Cathars] was necessary at the time. She seems to take the apparent wrongness of their teaching — which supposedly took the anti-life bias of Christianity a little too far — as justification for a ...
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Perfect material for bullying
It ain’t easy being a bilingual girl ';: I agree that bilingual Japanese face obstacles today as they did 30 years ago. We are constantly subjected to bullying in private as well as in the media. Look at all the television shows that persistently make fun of returnees, portraying them as some unidentified creature. We are considered stuck up because of our opinions, and our good ...
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Hitler cited his religious faith
While there does seem to be some disagreement among historians about the degree of Adolf Hitler’s religious beliefs, I think it’s inaccurate for Jennifer Kim, in her May 16 letter, to claim his Catholicism was abandoned in his youth. Published in 1925 and 1926, ';Mein Kampf'; includes a plethora of religious statements. For example, on page 46, Hitler wrote, ';I ...
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Use of ‘force’ was the difference
Perhaps I am in a rare position to comment, from almost firsthand experience, on the statements [about the inevitability of wartime prostitution] made by Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto and former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara. In the 1960s I served my country as a fighter pilot and, as such, was often on foreign bases and in the company of pilots and other military personnel from other countries. I ...
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Embarrassing for the Japanese
Many of us who are of Japanese descent, but who are now citizens of foreign countries by birth or emigration, are totally in shock and disbelief over the continuous stream of distortions of history that emanate from Japanese politicians. For what the world community describes as rape, kidnapping, slavery and crimes against humanity, Japanese leaders use the phrase ';voluntary support for ...
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Embarrassing for the Japanese
Many of us who are of Japanese descent, but who are now citizens of foreign countries by birth or emigration, are totally in shock and disbelief over the continuous stream of distortions of history that emanate from Japanese politicians. For what the world community describes as rape, kidnapping, slavery and crimes against humanity, Japanese leaders use the phrase ';voluntary support for ...
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Not for impressionable men
';I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
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‘Obama scandals’ could actually hurt Republicans
NEW YORK - Republican politicians and activists can barely contain their glee at the simultaneous eruption of three major controversies about the Obama administration. Conservatives are at a low boil over the administration’s dissembling about its actions after the attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya. The public is concerned about the targeting of conservative groups ...
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Sony mulls hedge fund boss Loeb’s spin-off proposal
Sony Corp.'s CEO Kazuo Hirai says the electronics giant's board will discuss a proposal by U.S. hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb to spin off up to 20 per cent of its movie, TV and music division.Hirai was asked about the proposal at a corporate strategy presentation Wednesday. He did not give a timetable for a decision, and would not give his own opinion about the suggestion raised by ...
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Update Case against Milwaukee veteran over Japanese rape judgment proceeds
A judge in Milwaukee has denied a Navy veteran's several attempts to dismiss an unusual civil suit seeking enforcement of a Japanese judgment that he raped a woman there in 2002. Catherine ...
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Sony board examines plan
Tokyo - Sony chief Kazuo Hirai said Wednesday the company was examining a hedge fund proposal to sell off part of its entertainment unit in a bid to boost profits in its core ...
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Yen eases after Japan’s trade deficit
Tokyo - The yen edged down against the dollar and euro in Asia on Wednesday after Japan posted its worst ever April trade deficit, fuelling yen-negative ...
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Sony may actually be considering Daniel Loebs spin-off plan
Sony Music act Beyonce looks out at the photographers as she comes backstage to pose with her award for Best Traditional R&B Performance for "Love On Top" at the 55th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, California February 10, 2013. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni TOKYO- Few foreign activist investors have made much headway in forcing change in Japan, where a conservative corporate ...
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Japans humble space dream to come true triumphantly
"I came to Japan for the first time in 1987, when I attended the well-known Japanese Atomic Industrial Forum (JAIF), which gathers nuclear scientists from around the world. It takes place in spring when cherry trees blossom, so everything was very beautiful and unusual. I delivered a speech on Chernobyl, and, among other things, Academician Legasov. Some time later, I went to Japan for the ...
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Japan’s trade deficit hits $8.6bn
Tokyo - Japan reports its trade deficit widened to a larger-than-expected 879.9 billion yen ($8.6 billion) in April as its weakening currency accentuated surging import ...
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Tokyo stocks close up
Tokyo - Tokyo stocks climbed 1.60 percent to close at their highest level in more than five years with investor appetite unabated on a weak yen and record-setting levels on Wall ...
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Sony mull entertainment spin-off
Kazuo Hirai, chief executive of the ailing electronics firm, said the board would give "thorough consideration" to a call from billionaire hedge fund manager Dan Loeb for a spin-off of its lucrative music and movies business Sony Entertainment.Loeb, whose Third Point hedge fund is Sony's biggest shareholder, argued last week the move would boost the company's shares by ...
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Japan focuses on next big export
Smart grids are the way of the future, according to a Japanese consortium of seven companies that want to invest in the cities of the future and pave the way for the next big export to come out of Japan.
Japan is already one of the leading high-tech industries of the world, producing gadgets and appliances that are sold globally, from cars and microwaves to robots for use in surgery, space and mines. The country is a major manufacturing hub, there are Sony, Panasonic, Toshiba and Nintendo appliances in homes across the globe and many of the world’s most famous export brands have their headquarters in Japan or were founded in Japan. Read more
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