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Elementary, my dear stud11 March 2010, 8:59 pm
As with most other things in the modern world, "Sherlock Holmes" is kindly adapted to fit the "it's for everyone" format — you don't have to be an expert on Victorian London, on the whereabouts of Baker Street, on who Dr. John Watson was — or any of those elementary issues. (By the way, that famed line "elementary, my dear Watson" appears only very rarely in the original "Sherlock Holmes" books.) You don't even need a sense of history at all, apart from perhaps, that this is a time period wh...
Wine importers keep their cool11 March 2010, 8:58 pm
A few years ago, I enjoyed a chilled glass of wine while sitting on a cobbled street in the medieval French city of Chinon in the heart of Loire Valley; the wine was from the surrounding vineyards of Samur and tasted absolutely divine. When I got the chance to sample a similar wine from the same region this week, however, I felt slightly let down — the subtle minerality of the drink seemed to have been lost. This was no doubt due in part to circumstance — sensations are often more vivid when...
Aum victim tally revised to 6,25211 March 2010, 8:57 pm
Aum Shinrikyo's 1995 sarin attack on the Tokyo subway system killed or injured nearly 6,300 people, not about 5,500 as earlier estimated, the National Police Agency said Thursday in the results of a nationwide survey. The tally as of the end of February found 6,252 people were either lightly or seriously injured by the nerve gas and that the death toll has risen to 13 from 12 due to the case of a man who died the day after the March 20 attack in an accident related to his inhalation of sarin. ...
Tokyo ward mayor sets example by taking paternity leave11 March 2010, 8:56 pm
Hironobu Narisawa, mayor of Bunkyo Ward, Tokyo, plans to take about two weeks of paternity leave in April to encourage other male staff to follow suit, officials said Thursday. "I want to enjoy both the joy and pain of child-rearing as a father," said the mayor, 44, whose wife had their first child, a boy, on Feb. 5. ...
Rule of law vs. security11 March 2010, 8:55 pm
LONDON — Politicians in Britain and in Japan often talk glibly about the importance of the rule of law. But how many of them have a clear idea of what this important phrase means? A book by Tom Bingham titled "The Rule of Law" was recently published in Britain. It ought to be on the bedside table of every politician and will, I hope, be translated into Japanese. ...
Painting the spirit that built great empires11 March 2010, 8:54 pm
As I write, the British pound is in sharp decline against a wide range of currencies, including even the Zimbabwean dollar! No, there hasn't been an editorial mishap and this is not the financial section of The Japan Times. I just mention these facts of economic decline to add some perspective to the enigma of Frank Brangwyn, a British artist who was extremely popular and internationally celebrated during his lifetime but largely forgotten by the time he died in 1956, the very year in which the ...
Fujita qualifies for British Open11 March 2010, 8:53 pm
Hiroyuki Fujita earned a spot at the British Open on Thursday when he claimed a one-shot victory at an Asian qualifying tournament in Kuala Lumpur. Fujita, fifth on the 2009 JGTO money list, shot a 6-under 66 at Saujana Golf and Country Club for a two-day total of 11-under 133 in the event in which the top four finishers qualified. ...
Israeli confronts past by mastering Wagner11 March 2010, 8:52 pm
Rising Israeli conductor Dan Ettinger will complete, in Tokyo in March, his first series of performances of "The Ring of the Nibelung," a cycle of four linked operas by 19th-century composer Richard Wagner. Wagner's music has been unofficially forbidden to be performed in Israel. ...
Bio a lesson in journalist principles11 March 2010, 8:51 pm
On June 17, 1960, seven major newspapers in Tokyo simultaneously carried a "joint declaration" concerning a bloody public clash over the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty that left a female University of Tokyo student dead, calling for a quick resolution to the situation. Thousands of radical student demonstrators and citizens gathered around the Diet in protest, which become one of the largest political demonstrations in Japanese history. Several hundred protesters and police officers were injured. ...
DPJ begins new round of waste-cutting11 March 2010, 8:50 pm
The Government Revitalization Unit signed off Thursday on a new round of efforts to cut waste in government programs during the new fiscal year, this time directing each ministry to review projects and organizations under its jurisdiction, government revitalization minister Yukio Edano said. The newest review, which will be conducted ahead of the compilation of budget requests for the fiscal year starting in April 2011, will be modeled on a similar review of government programs carried out by t...

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