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BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Sep 5, 2015

Time for NPB to scrap automatic pitcher ejection rule

It is time for Japanese baseball to revoke — or at least amend — the rule on automatic ejection of the pitcher when a batter is hit in the head by a pitch. According to the in-Japan-only regulation, an umpire must toss out of the game any pitcher who throws one into a batter's helmet, intentionally...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Sep 4, 2015

Sleep-deprived Tokyo gets an Australian wake-up with granola

Thinking about Tokyo's morning rush hour is enough to make anybody want to crawl back into bed. After working late in the office or attending an obligatory drinking party with coworkers, the last thing anyone wants to do is squeeze themselves onto a packed morning train for a somber repeat of the day...
Japan Times
Rugby
Sep 1, 2015

Ono eager to taste victory at 2015 Rugby World Cup

Hitoshi Ono, a veteran lock for Japan's national team, is set to make his third appearance at the Rugby World Cup and said with a smile that playing on the sport's biggest stage never gets old.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 31, 2015

China party says no disrespect meant with Jiang sign removal

The removal of a stone plinth sign written by former Chinese President Jiang Zemin at the entrance of a key Communist Party training center is not a sign of disrespect, a senior official said on Monday, after rumors of destabilizing party infighting.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Aug 30, 2015

Ayana shatters Dibaba's double dreams

Ethiopia's Almaz Ayana put on a stunning display of front-running to win the women's 5,000 meters by more than 17 seconds at the IAAF World Championships on Sunday and deprive compatriot Genzebe Dibaba of an unprecedented double gold.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 28, 2015

Abe pledges to support Liberia's recovery from Ebola epidemic during meeting with president

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pledged to support Ebola-hit Liberia as it recovers from the deadly epidemic during a summit with the country's visiting President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Thursday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Aug 26, 2015

Anti-Abe feeling grows in SDF

Sentiment against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is rising in the SDF over fears that his pending security legislation will increase the risk of going to war.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 25, 2015

End of Iran's Islamic revolution

For Iran, what counts now is no longer ideology, but national interest and realpolitik.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Aug 21, 2015

Well-traveled Ranieri keeps landing job after job

If nothing succeeds like failure, Claudio Ranieri will remain in a job for a long time. At the highest level, managers tend to be judged on their record . . . what they have won . . . how much success they have brought to clubs or national teams.
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Aug 20, 2015

Limits of Abe's leadership

Former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori has been and continues to be a thorn in Shinzo Abe's side, as evidenced by the National Stadium brouhaha.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Aug 19, 2015

Trail of failed ventures involving American in murder probe leads from New York to Tokyo

The record of dubious projects leads from Peter Gatien-era New York clubland to Singapore and Japan
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Aug 15, 2015

Psychology is where real radiation risks lie

Misinformation breeds discrimination. As if it wasn't enough to experience the trauma of a nuclear bomb, many hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) also faced appalling discrimination.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 13, 2015

Thailand and China build ties of convenience

The Thai military regime, isolated by the West, finds that China is more than willing to fill the void.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 12, 2015

Love blooms like incendiary bombs in 'Kono Kuni no Sora'

Veteran scriptwriter Haruhiko Arai spent three decades trying to adapt Yuichi Takai's 1983 novel "Kono Kuni no Sora" ("This Country's Sky") for the screen — and the wait was worth it.
Japan Times
SOCCER / SOCCER SCENE
Aug 12, 2015

Mood turns against Halilhodzic after East Asian Cup debacle

If a scoreless draw with Singapore in Japan's opening World Cup qualifier in May marked the end of manager Vahid Halilhodzic's honeymoon period, last week's East Asian Cup has had critics wishing for a divorce already.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 12, 2015

China's 2% yuan devaluation clobbers stocks, stokes dollar, fuels currency war fears

China's 2 percent devaluation of the yuan on Tuesday pushed the dollar higher and hit Wall Street and other global equity markets as it raised fears of a new round of currency wars and fed worries about slowing Chinese economic growth.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS / THE DOPING EPIDEMIC
Aug 11, 2015

Conte says coverup protected big stars at Seoul Games

Years before he made the decision to 'go down the slippery slope,' and provide performance-enhancing drugs to elite athletes, BALCO founder Victor Conte, a standout triple jumper in high school, made a name for himself as a self-made expert.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 9, 2015

What Greece needs to prosper

The remedy for Greece lies in adopting the right structural reforms, including dismantling corporatist arrangements and practices that obstruct innovation and entrepreneurship.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 7, 2015

Made in North Korea: goods store opens to brisk business in Seoul

A shop in South Korea's capital specializing in goods made in the North has run nearly $140,000 through its tills in just three months of business, helping dispel the notion that products from the impoverished state are shoddy and undesirable.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 6, 2015

Bryce Dallas Howard kicks her high heels up in 'Jurassic World'

Typical: You spend $150 million on your effects-heavy summer blockbuster, and all people want to talk about is a character's choice of footwear. When "Jurassic World," the long-gestating sequel to the original "Jurassic Park" trilogy, opened internationally in June, the film's producers probably weren't...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 6, 2015

How China is winning S.E. Asia

If push comes to shove in the South China Sea, will the U.S. find allies in its corner, or will they just be holding Uncle Sam's coat?
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 5, 2015

Time for UNSC members to ban their own WMD

Rather than nuclear disarmament, the world is witnessing an upgrading — and, in some cases, expansion — of nuclear arsenals.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS / THE DOPING EPIDEMIC
Aug 4, 2015

Conte expects Salazar to be banned

Several weeks before doping allegations of epic proportions brought widespread media attention over the weekend, Alberto Salazar's name was at the center of serious doping allegations that also triggered major coverage.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 4, 2015

State Department is accused of watering down human trafficking report

In the weeks leading up to a critical annual U.S. report on human trafficking that publicly shames the world's worst offenders, human rights experts at the State Department concluded that trafficking conditions had not improved in Malaysia and Cuba. And in China, they found, things had gotten worse....
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 2, 2015

The night the dream died

The financial contagion of Greek profligacy may have been averted, but the price will be the even more virulent political contagion of Euroskepticism.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 1, 2015

Trump sought to import foreign workers

Donald Trump is staking his run for U.S. president in part on a vow to protect American jobs. But this month, one of his companies, the elite Mar-a-Lago Club resort in Florida, applied to import 70 foreign workers to serve as cooks, wait staff and cleaners.
More Japanese universities pushing toward teaching in English
Waseda University in Tokyo
The unstoppable rise of konbini tourism
Guests typically follow Ryo Ito’s lead as he weaves through the narrow, colorful aisles of convenience stores.
A narrow Pacific waterway at heart of U.S. plans to choke China’s vast navy
Philippine and Australian troops fire an M777 howitzer during live fire exercises as part of joint military drills in Laur, Nueva Ecija, the Philippines, in August.
The second life of Japan's net cafes
Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Takaichi’s balancing act: Supporting Taiwan and stabilizing China ties
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi shakes hands with Lin Hsin-i, Taiwan’s presidential adviser, on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit meeting in Gyeongju, South Korea, on Saturday in this image posted to Takaichi's official X account.
More Japanese universities pushing toward teaching in English
Waseda University in Tokyo
Young Indonesians in Japan find their political voice
Indonesian students at Hiroshima University hold posters of the 17+8 Demands, demanding transparency and action from their homeland’s government.
The unstoppable rise of konbini tourism
Guests typically follow Ryo Ito’s lead as he weaves through the narrow, colorful aisles of convenience stores.
Kenshi Yonezu, 'Chainsaw Man' and the art of pop ubiquity
Kenshi Yonezu's “Iris Out” was an instant hit when it dropped in September. Its association with smash anime "Chainsaw Man — The Movie: Reze Arc" has spread it to even more people.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes
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