Opinion | For a Change, Proud to Be Japanese (Published 2011)
Tokyo JAPANESE people are accustomed to earthquakes. I myself have experienced many since childhood. So I remained calm when the shaking started on the sixth floor of an old multipurpose building in central Tokyo. I only thought, “This is bigger than normal.” But the shaking didn’t stop and the swaying grew more severe. I rushed down a narrow staircase through a cloud of dust. When I turned around
Opinion | Amid Shortages, a Surplus of Hope (Published 2011)
Yokohama, Japan I SET out from my home in the port city of Yokohama early in the afternoon last Friday, and shortly before 3 p.m. I checked into my hotel in the Shinjuku neighborhood of Tokyo. I usually spend three or four days a week there to write, gather material and take care of other business. The earthquake hit just as I entered my room. Thinking I might end up trapped beneath rubble, I gra
Europe’s Young Grow Agitated Over Future Prospects (Published 2011)
Francesca Esposito has a law degree and a master’s and speaks five languages. She recently quit her unpaid job for Italy’s social security administration.Credit...Nadia Shira Cohen for The New York Times LECCE, Italy — Francesca Esposito, 29 and exquisitely educated, helped win millions of euros in false disability and other lawsuits for her employer, a major Italian state agency. But one day last
After a Bitter Campaign, Forging an Alliance (Published 2010)
“We’ve developed, I think, a very good rapport,” said Hillary Rodham Clinton, the secretary of state, assessing her relationship with President Obama.Credit...Feng Li/Getty Images WASHINGTON — On a snowy Thursday shortly before her weekly meeting with President Obama last month, Hillary Rodham Clinton got a distressing phone call: her husband, Bill Clinton, was in a hospital with chest pains and n
China Drawing High-Tech Research From U.S. (Published 2010)
An Applied Materials research lab in Xi’an, China. The Santa Clara, Calif., company is the largest supplier of the equipment used to make semiconductors, solar panels and flat-panel displays.Credit...Shiho Fukada for The New York Times XI’AN, China — For years, many of China’s best and brightest left for the United States, where high-tech industry was more cutting-edge. But Mark R. Pinto is moving
Google, Citing Attack, Threatens to Exit China (Published 2010)
This article was reported by Andrew Jacobs, Miguel Helft and John Markoff and written by Mr. Jacobs. BEIJING � Google said Tuesday that it would stop cooperating with Chinese Internet censorship and consider shutting down its operations in the country altogether, citing assaults from hackers on its computer systems and China’s attempts to “limit free speech on the Web.” The move, if followed throu
More Bodies Found at Cleveland Home (Published 2009)
CLEVELAND (AP) � More remains were discovered Tuesday at the Cleveland home of a convicted rapist, raising to 10 the number of bodies that has been found there, the authorities said. Four more bodies and a skull were found at the home, where the remains of six women were removed last week, said the police chief, Michael McGrath. Anthony Sowell, 50, who lives in the home, is in jail and was charged
Claude Lévi-Strauss, 100, Dies; Altered Western Views of the ‘Primitive’ (Published 2009)
Claude Lévi-Strauss, 100, Dies; Altered Western Views of the ‘Primitive’ Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French anthropologist whose revolutionary studies of what was once called “primitive man” transformed Western understanding of the nature of culture, custom and civilization, has died at 100. His son Laurent said Mr. Lévi-Strauss died of cardiac arrest Friday at his home in Paris. His death was announ
Rising Debt a Threat to Japanese Economy (Published 2009)
TOKYO � How much debt can an industrialized country carry before the nation’s economy and its currency bow, then break? The question looms large in the United States, as a surging budget deficit pushes government debt to nearly 98 percent of the gross domestic product. But it looms even larger in Japan. Here, years of stimulus spending on expensive dams and roads have inflated the country’s gross
Japan Rethinks a Dam, and a Town Protests (Published 2009)
NAGANOHARA, Japan � The clatter of construction machinery still fills this forested mountain gorge, where legions of men in hard hats busily pour concrete, clear hillsides and erect a huge, unfinished bridge whose concrete supports tower over the valley floor like crucifixes in an immense graveyard. It seems an apt analogy. Japan’s new government has suspended the $5.2 billion Yamba Dam being buil
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