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CULTURE / Books
Apr 6, 2019

Wes Lang and his quest to climb Japan's top 100 mountains

A love of hiking inspired avid mountaineer Wes Lang to scale all of Japan's hyakumeizan (100 top mountains). Now, he's co-written a comprehensive and user-friendly guidebook to hiking in Japan to inspire everyone else.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 6, 2019

Tomoya Mori leads Lions' hit parade with 4-for-5 performance against Fighters

Opener, closer, middleman, it's all the same to the Seibu Lions' lineup.
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CULTURE / Film
Mar 20, 2019

'Shinjuku Tiger': A story of one man and his mask

Spend enough time on the streets of Shinjuku, and you'll eventually spot a flamboyantly dressed figure in a tiger mask carrying fake flowers, stuffed animals and a boombox. This is Shinjuku Tiger, the subject of a documentary of the same name out this week.
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BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 16, 2019

Former Lions southpaw Wade LeBlanc returns to Japan as part of Mariners' pitching staff

There are players on the rosters of both the Seattle Mariners and Oakland A's who had been to Japan prior to arriving on Friday ahead of their season-opening series at Tokyo Dome.
EDITORIALS
Mar 16, 2019

Beefing up our quake defense

Given the certainty of devastating quakes hitting Japan, we must do everything we can to be better prepared.
Reader Mail
Mar 15, 2019

Immigrant influx needs preparation

Regarding the article "Tohoku turns to foreign workers," growing up in the United Kingdom in the postwar boom years of the 1950s and '60s, we saw an enormous influx of immigrants, mainly Indian, Pakistani and West Indian, who had come to Britain looking for a better life.
PODCAST / deep dive
Mar 11, 2019

Episode 9: Eight years on from Fukushima

On the eighth anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake, staff writer Ryusei Takahashi shares his experience of a recent visit to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and Magda Osumi discusses the Tohoku region's recovery. Hosted by Oscar Boyd.
JAPAN
Mar 11, 2019

Eight years on, Abe says 3/11 recovery nearing 'final stages,' though half of public unconvinced

Japan pauses at 2:46 p.m. to observe a moment of silence and reflect on all that has happened since that fateful day.
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2019

78% of older teenagers in Japan anxious about natural disasters, survey says

A majority of the respondents found education about disaster preparedness and related risks helpful in times of disaster.
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LIFE / EVENTS AND INFORMATION
Mar 7, 2019

Student collaboration at disaster-hit area

High school students from one of Tokyo's top boys' schools organized a study and field trip to the Tohoku region, which was devastated by the March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, for themselves and exchange students from a partner high school in Connecticut.
SOCCER / From the Spot
Mar 6, 2019

With super club dreams, Vissel Kobe tries to rewrite history

Most sports writers have their own personal pantheon of inspirations. At the top of mine is Hunter S. Thompson.
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BASKETBALL / NBA
Mar 5, 2019

Rockets, Raptors set for two games in Japan

Well, it's only preseason contests this time, but Japan will host NBA games for the first time in 16 years when the Houston Rockets and Toronto Raptors face each other, the league announced at a Tokyo news conference on Tuesday.
Reader Mail
Mar 1, 2019

Morioka has plenty going for it

Katherine Whatley's recent piece, "Morioka: Crafts, poetry and Tohoku's bleak nature" in the Feb. 23 edition, in which she filters her experience of Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, through the grim poetry of Kenji Miyazawa, seems a classic example of a tourist with preconceived notions seeing only what she...
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LIFE / Food & Drink
Feb 23, 2019

Sameya: Making shark profitable and delicious

For his food truck, Sameya, owner-chef Takumi Takase has developed a delicious menu of dishes using shark meat from Kesennuma, Miyagi Prefecture, providing a stable income for local fishermen.
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JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Feb 23, 2019

Japanese teen's aborted bid to hitchhike across the United States divides social media

Twitter user @REIbahobahoanta had an ambitious dream: The 15-year-old junior high school student wanted to hitchhike across the United States.
JAPAN / History / FOCUS
Feb 21, 2019

Crown Prince Naruhito likely to stay close to the people upon becoming Japan's first emperor born after the war

In June 2011, three months after savage tsunami devastated Japan's northeast coastline, Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako were visiting Miyagi — one of the three hardest-hit prefectures — to get a firsthand look at the gut-wrenching aftermath of the disaster and commiserate with evacuees...
BUSINESS
Feb 19, 2019

JR East to end sales aboard Yamabiko bullet trains

East Japan Railway Co. says starting March 15 it will no longer sell food and other goods aboard Yamabiko bullet trains on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Feb 18, 2019

Lions need Imai to step up with Kikuchi gone

Yusei Kikuchi, as Japanese fans can easily see on news reports every night and also on the internet and in newspapers, is doing just fine so far in his first MLB spring training with the Seattle Mariners.
JAPAN / Society
Feb 16, 2019

Embracing a buraku heritage: Examining changing attitudes toward a social minority

When Chie Takaiwa struck up the courage to reveal a family secret to her colleague some years ago, she was met by an unexpected response.
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CULTURE / Music
Feb 14, 2019

Eyehategod spreads the sludge metal gospel

Eyehategod shouldn't have lasted three decades.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Feb 10, 2019

Sightings of rare deep-sea oarfish around Japan stoke concerns of an impending quake

Numerous reports of oarfish — a rarely seen deep-sea species — captured or spotted in waters around Japan since the beginning of the year have sparked concern that an earthquake could strike soon.
JAPAN / History / Heisei Icons
Feb 3, 2019

Takafumi Horie: Bane of the old guard

In many ways, Heisei has been an era of reform, peppered with tales of mavericks who challenged those at the helm of an entrenched business and political system they viewed as opaque and rife with vested interests.

Longform

Construction equipment sits idle in a park near Shiba Toshogu shrine in Tokyo's Minato Ward. While Japan has a history of treating its trees with reverence, green coverage is said to be lacking in most of the major cities.
Do Japan's trees no longer occupy the sacred space they used to?