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BASKETBALL
Oct 18, 2015

Lightning beat Five Arrows for first-ever bj-league win

After an 0-5 start, the Hiroshima Lightning achieved team history on Saturday, beating the visiting Takamatsu Five Arrows 95-79 for the franchise's first victory as a bj-league team.
JAPAN
Oct 15, 2015

Cabinet minister was questioned over theft of woman's underwear, gossip magazine says

One of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's newly appointed ministers has come under scrutiny after a gossip magazine reported Thursday that he was once suspected in the theft of a young woman's underwear.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Oct 9, 2015

Kokubo revals Japan's 28-man squad for Premier 12 tournament

Samurai Japan skipper Hiroki Kokubo announced his 28-man final squad for next month's WSBC Premier 12 on Friday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Oct 3, 2015

Universities fending off attacks on the liberal arts

As discussed last week, in June the education ministry sent a directive to all 86 national universities in Japan, apparently calling on them to abolish or reorganize their humanities and social sciences departments.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 2, 2015

Swallows claim first CL pennant since 2001

The Swallows fans packed into the stands at Jingu Stadium had already been cheering about as loud as they had all season for the past four hours
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Oct 1, 2015

Hotel offers home away from home; Guest chefs spread U.S. food culture; Enjoying world chocolate

Hotel offers home away from home
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Oct 1, 2015

Photographer aims to explain Okinawa's tensions in pictures

It is not easy to regard oneself as an oppressor.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 29, 2015

Opportunistic Carp spoil Swallows' celebration plans

The Hiroshima Carp have more work to do during the regular season in order to get where they want to be. Now the Tokyo Yakult Swallows still do as well.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 26, 2015

Nation's youth are attempting to establish a new political norm

"Tell me what democracy looks like!"
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 26, 2015

Giants pull within game of CL-leading Swallows

The Yomiuri Giants kept the magic going at Tokyo Dome and kept their chance at a fourth consecutive Central League pennant alive in the process.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FUKUSHIMA FILE
Sep 20, 2015

Radioactive rain releases can't be curbed due to lack of laws: NRA

Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s stricken Fukushima No. 1 power plant has released rainwater tainted with radioactive substances into the Pacific Ocean at least seven times since April.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Sep 17, 2015

Tokyo conference urges Japan to make most of new global attention

While the world watches Japan's on-again, off-again economic recovery, a forum of roughly 200 corporate decision-makers and former government officials has discussed how to turn that attention to the nation's advantage.

Longform

After the asset-price bubble crash of the early 1990s, employment at a Japanese company was no longer necessarily for life. As a result, a new generation is less willing to endure a toxic work culture —life’s too short, after all.
How Japan's youth are slowly changing the country's work ethic