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LIFE / Digital / ON: TECH
Oct 14, 2018

Ugrading home entertainment

Summer's over, it's time for more home activities — gaming, movies, music, even practicing sports in the yard. Here's a few gadgets to help you enjoy your 'me-time.'
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SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Aug 22, 2018

English sumo broadcasts bring together diverse cast

In last week's column, I talked about overseas tours by the Japan Sumo Association and also mentioned the live sumo broadcasts with English commentary on NHK.
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BASEBALL / In Pictures
Aug 19, 2018

Summer Koshien: From the inside

While living in Japan, I spent languid summers watching Koshien on television. I'd rise before the first game and pour cold mugicha (barley tea) as cicadas hummed outside my open windows.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Aug 19, 2018

Whatever the role, if it's tough, 'Chuck can do it'

Bothered by the acting parts offered to black people in Japan, action man Chuck Johnson started his own production company.
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JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Aug 13, 2018

Olympic heat wave fears: What steps can Tokyo take?

Japan has become well-known for its omotenashi (hospitality), with the concept being part of Tokyo's pitch when it bid to host the 2020 Olympics.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 9, 2018

Exercise — in moderation — linked to better mental health

A study in the United States has found that people who exercise several times a week report having better mental health than those who take no exercise, with team sports and those involving social groups having the most positive effect.
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OLYMPICS
Jul 23, 2018

Olympics minister Shunichi Suzuki lays out keys for successful Tokyo Games

The clock is always ticking at the same speed.
Japan Times
Jul 23, 2018

Kenichi Kuroyama Finishes FIM Trial-E Cup as Runner-up with Yamaha TY-E Electric Trials Bike

July 23, 2018 – The second and final round of the FIM Trial-E Cup took place from July 21 to 22 alongside the TrialGP Belgium, Round 6 of the FIM Trial World Championship in Comblain-au-Pont, Belgium. The Yamaha Factory Racing Team’s Kenichi Kuroyama rode the all-new TY-E electric trials bike to...
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BUSINESS
Jul 20, 2018

Comcast concedes to Disney in bidding war for Fox assets but still vies to buy chunk of Sky

Comcast Corp. dropped its $66 billion bid for Twenty-First Century Fox Inc.'s entertainment assets on Thursday but said it would still try to expand its international footprint by acquiring 61 percent of European broadcaster Sky PLC, the remainder of which is owned by Fox.
EDITORIALS
Jul 17, 2018

The lessons of Les Bleus

Many of the teams that did well in the tournament were multiethnic and multiracial, but success in sports does not produce tolerance.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Jul 16, 2018

Bringing back Daisuke Matsuzaka could make sense for Dragons

If there's anything to be learned from the first half of the 2018 baseball season it's that a lot of people still can't get enough of Daisuke Matsuzaka.
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BASKETBALL / B. League
Jul 12, 2018

Former UCLA, Japan pro basketball player Billy Knight dies in suicide after abuse charges

The basketball world is mourning the passing of Billy Knight. The death of the former UCLA basketball shooting guard, whose long overseas career included stints with four pro teams in Japan, has sent shock waves throughout the sport.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Jul 9, 2018

Tigers should consider trading pitcher Shintaro Fujinami

The Hanshin Tigers should trade pitcher Shintaro Fujinami.
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SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Jun 27, 2018

Sumo world attracts wide range of characters

Sumo is a monolith. Individual stables may exhibit variances in training and culture, but for the most part life for wrestlers is the same throughout the sport. Enter any stable early in the day and you will find training going on. Come back at 6 p.m. and everyone will be eating dinner.
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Jun 19, 2018

Rika Kihira making right call by moving up to senior ranks

Japan junior champion Rika Kihira, one of only eight women in history to land the triple axel in international competition, has decided to move up to the senior ranks for the coming season.
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BASKETBALL / NBA
Jun 15, 2018

Yuta Watanabe working out for teams ahead of NBA Draft

The 2018 NBA Draft is less than a week away, and Yuta Watanabe remains focused on pursuing his dream.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Jun 9, 2018

Porsche picks Taycan as name of brand's first electric vehicle

Porsche AG named its first car to directly compete with electric leader Tesla Inc. the Taycan, as the German manufacturer gears up for what will arguably be its most ambitious and potentially risky vehicle project ever.
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BASKETBALL
Jun 8, 2018

Teenage star Chikara Tanaka to attend IMG Academy in bid to gain college hoop scholarship

Is up-and-coming basketball player Chikara Tanaka going to be a Japanese Kyrie Irving or Steph Curry?
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Jun 2, 2018

Life goals: Soccer player Yuki Nagasato is always on the ball

From Japan to Europe to the U.S., Nagasato's experience on the soccer field has taught her how to play smart.
MORE SPORTS
May 17, 2018

Nihon University's apology refused in football incident as scandal grows

This could be the end of the traditional rivalry "Showdown of Red and Blue." Not only that, the rich tradition of Nihon University football team, a 21-time national champion, has been severely damaged.
ASIA PACIFIC
May 15, 2018

Satellite imagery shows first evidence of buildings being dismantled at North Korean nuclear test site, monitor says

New commercial satellite imagery has provided the first definitive evidence that North Korea is dismantling its Punggye-ri nuclear test site ahead of a scheduled ceremony next week to mark the event, U.S. researchers said Monday.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Apr 22, 2018

The hoops worth going through

The challenges of coaching basketball in Japan keep Samir St. Clair on a winning streak
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BUSINESS
Apr 16, 2018

Obama continues push for denuclearization and world peace

Worldwide Support for Development (WSD), a nonprofit philanthropic organization that holds a variety of summit meetings on global welfare, held the fourth Global Opinion Leaders Summit, at which former U.S. President Barack Obama spoke about denuclearization and world peace, in Tokyo on March 25.
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Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Mar 27, 2018

Wakaba Higuchi seizes on defining moment at worlds

"Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss."
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SPORTS / MAN ABOUT SPORTS
Mar 13, 2018

Back to work: Astros refuse to rest on laurels after team's first World Series crown

Over the last four decades, there has been only one repeat World Series champion — the New York Yankees, who three-peated from 1998-2000.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 18, 2018

British women continue unlikely dominance

Lizzy Yarnold's second successive gold and a bronze for teammate Laura Deas underlined Britain's extraordinary dominance of Olympic women's skeleton racing on Saturday — made all the more extraordinary as the country does not boast a single track.

Longform

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