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Legendary former world champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. tamed Japanese kickboxing phenom Tenshin Nasukawa via technical knockout on Monday. The special boxing exhibition, a dramatic conclusion to the Rizin 14 mixed martial arts event, took place before a New Year's Eve full house of 29,105 at ...
Japan's Kazuto Ioka suffered his first loss in over four years on Monday when Donnie Nietes won a split decision to capture the vacant WBO super flyweight championship. The 29-year-old Ioka, aiming for his fourth world title, had trouble coping the powerful inside punching by ...
Tokyo Medical University enrolled an applicant in its nursing school by passing over candidates with better scores at the request of a Diet member, according to a report by an independent panel looking into the university's rigging of exam scores. Masahiko Usui, former chairman of ...
The number of Japanese aged 20, the legal age of adulthood, on New Year's Day will be 1.25 million, up 20,000 from a year earlier, according to a government estimate released Monday. But new adults will make up only 0.99 percent of the total population ...
The government is likely to announce the name of the next era in mid-April, ahead of the May 1 change of the name from the current Heisei, according to informed sources. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will make a final decision on the timing as conservative ...
Democratic Republic of Congo's opposition said Monday it expects one of its candidates to win the presidential election based on early vote tallies, but the ruling coalition said it was confident its candidate had won the chaotic contest. The competing claims followed a disorderly election ...
As a former director and producer for the Nippon Television Network Corporation, Nobuhisa Sakata has participated in live broadcasts of many different major professional sporting events, such as Yomiuri Giants games and the world track and field championships. But for him no other project inspired ...
This will be the 95th winter featuring the New Year's tradition — the Tokyo-Hakone Round-Trip College Ekiden Race, or as it's more commonly known, the Hakone ekiden. There's a story behind how the annual race came to be over a century ago. Shiso Kanakuri was one ...
Japan hopes to use the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics as an opportunity to become a more inclusive and accessible society, and in 2018 games organizers made some strides towards making it a reality. When hosting a major sporting event, people usually talk about what kind of ...
Experts bemoan the lack of support measures so far for incoming laborers.
Abe and Putin agreed in November to speed up peace treaty talks by finding common ground to resolve the territorial row.
The Tokyo District Court ensures the former Nissan chairman Ghosn will ring in the new year from behind bars.
The recent sweeping revision to the immigration law opens a gateway for as many as 345,000 migrant workers to enter Japan in the next five years. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, however, has repeatedly said the new visa system does not constitute an immigration policy. "This ...
Dozens of young people from around Asia descended on Tokyo last month for a job fair, dressed in a plain black suit of the type considered "the uniform" for Japanese college students when they meet with prospective employers. Some of the visitors said they were ...
The playoff chase went down to the final minutes of the season Sunday, when Baltimore squeezed in as AFC North winner, and defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia got some help to secure an NFC wild card. That left Pittsburgh and Minnesota out. Kansas City (12-4) grabbed ...
Staff Writer When a train is about to depart a station, passengers hear an announcement saying, "Please stand clear of the closing doors." Now, when they ride an escalator at Tokyo Station, they will receive constant reminders from East Japan Railway Co. to "Please stand on ...
Sample newspaper article Hayao Miyazaki anime to get kabuki remake 宮崎駿監督のアニメーション映画「風の谷のナウシカ」が歌舞伎で舞台化されることが12日、分かった。歌舞伎俳優の尾上菊之助さんや中村七之助さんらが出演し、12月に東京・新橋演舞場で上演する。宮崎監督の作品が歌舞伎になるのは初めて。 「風の谷のナウシカ」は1984年公開。産業文明や環境破壊をテーマにした物語で、宮崎監督の代表作の一つ。 新橋演舞場によると、菊之助さんが歌舞伎での舞台化を発案した。主人公ナウシカ役を菊之助さん、皇女クシャナ役を七之助さんが務める。他に尾上松也さん、坂東巳之助さん、尾上右近さんが出演するという。 (KYODO) Words and phrases 宮崎駿 (みやざきはやお) Hayao Miyazaki 監督 (かんとく) director アニメーション映画 (あにめーしょんえいが) animated film 「風の谷のナウシカ」 ("かぜのたにのなうしか") "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind" 歌舞伎 (かぶき) kabuki 舞台化される (ぶたいかされる) to be adapted for stage 分かる (わかる) to understand, to become known [it was revealed] 歌舞伎俳優 ...
New Year's Day is a major holiday in Japan, but the date for it hasn't always been in January.
A holdover from Japanese past still makes for a convenient way to express the idea of "at least" in daily conversation.
