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Tokyo Skytree will celebrate its first anniversary Wednesday but has not yet completed its prime mission of reliably broadcasting to households in the capital and its suburbs. Since December, the world’s tallest free-standing tower, at 634 meters high, has been making test broadcasts to ...
If you work in an office, you probably spend a fair part of your time sitting at a desk, which, of course, isn’t very healthy. To combat that the Pomodoro technique recommends that you work in intervals with regular breaks — for example, 25 ...
“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, ...
"Outsider art" is relatively new in Japan and, as a genre, works made by self-taught Japanese artists are still not very well known on the category-delineating, label-loving international art scene.
After all these years, Rafael Nadal still knows how to dominate Roger Federer. In the 30th meeting between the two tennis greats, Nadal controlled the final from start to finish to win 6-1, 6-3 Sunday for his seventh Italian Open title. “Rafa was just ...
Women’s World Cup ski jump leader Sara Takanashi finished second to American Sarah Hendrickson in Hinterzarten on Saturday. Takanashi was third after her first jump, a 99-meter effort in favorable wind that was the day’s longest on the K-95 hill, but she lost points ...
Ski jumper Sara Takanashi was denied her third consecutive title, having to settle for fourth place in a women’s World Cup competition on Sunday. It was the first time the 16-year-old Takanashi finished outside the medals in a World Cup competition since Jan. 7, ...
Teenager Sara Takanashi returned from a training crash in spectacular form on Saturday, with her third victory this season on the women’s World Cup ski jump circuit in Schonwald, Germany. The 16-year-old from Hokkaido was competing for the first time since Dec. 20, when ...
Tomoka Takeuchi became the first Japanese to win in the parallel giant slalom at the Snowboard World Cup on Friday. Takeuchi, who celebrated her 29th birthday the same day, is the first Japanese woman to win a World Cup event since Soko Yamaoka won ...
Teen Sara Takanashi took her second World Cup win of the season Friday, extending her lead in the women’s ski jump standings. The 16-year-old Takanashi, who also won the season-opening event in Lillehammer, Norway last month, scored a total of 241.0 points with jumps ...
Japanese teen Sara Takanashi made her second podium finish in as many days Sunday but settled for third in a women’s ski jumping World Cup meet in Sochi, Russia. The 16-year-old Takanashi, who was runner-up in the normal hill event a day earlier, had ...
Sara Takanashi came from behind with a 98-meter jump to win the women’s individual normal hill event at a World Cup meet in Norway on Saturday. The 16-year-old Takanashi was in third place after a first-round jump of 96 meters, but her second effort ...
Japan placed second in the mixed team competition at a ski jumping World Cup event in Norway on Friday. Japan at one point held the lead as Yuta Watase had a jump of 95.5 meters on the normal hill on his first jump and ...
Sara Takanashi finished second in the last event of the inaugural World Cup season for women’s ski jumping on Friday. The 15-year-old Takanashi had jumps of 100.5 and 108 meters on the K-95 hill to receive a total of 250.7 points, 3.4 points behind ...
Teenager Sara Takanashi came up short in her bid for her second victory in as many days and finished runnerup at a ski jumping Women’s World Cup meet in Japan on Sunday. Takanashi, who became the first Japanese woman to win a World Cup ...
Aiko Uemura had to settle for a seventh-place finish in her homecoming in the women’s moguls at a World Cup meet on Saturday, but the Japanese freestyle ace was impressed with her speed in what is still a work in progress. Uemura, 32, had ...
Japan’s Sara Takanashi tied a personal World Cup best in finishing second at a meet in Slovenia on Saturday. The Winter Universiade gold medalist landed jumps of 82.5 and 82 meters on the normal hill in Ljubno to score 245.2 points. American Sarah Hendrickson ...