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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 16, 2015

Samurai Japan announces provisional roster for Premier 12

Skipper Hiroki Kokubo announced the Samurai Japan national baseball team's first provisional roster for November's inaugural WBSC Premier 12 on Thursday afternoon.
Reader Mail
Jul 16, 2015

Help Greece by giving them the Olympics, permanently

How about this partial solution for the Greek crisis and for economies worldwide: Give the Olympics back to Greece. Greece started the Olympics, let's give it back to them and save billions of yen in the process.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jul 14, 2015

Detained Chinese lawyer 'blabbered' about rule of law, human rights

China's state media last month accused Wang Yu, the country's most prominent female human rights lawyer, of "blabbering about the rule of law and human rights."
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 13, 2015

Is a two-tiered Europe next?

The euro crisis is providing Europe with some tough Greek lessons.
BUSINESS / Markets
Jul 13, 2015

'Island of sanity' lures funds amid Greece, China woes

Van Biema Value Partners LLC, a New York-based fund of hedge funds with $600 million, is looking to increase allocations to Japan because it is a haven from the Greek crisis and China's share-market rout.
JAPAN
Jul 10, 2015

JAZA reinstated in world body after suspension over Taiji dolphins

The Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums on Thursday regained its membership in the global industry body after it ordered its members to cease acquiring dolphins from a controversial drive hunt.
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Jul 10, 2015

While fondly recalling late Takanonami's career, expectations rising for newest ozeki

In the run-up to the 2015 Nagoya Basho, on June 20 it was announced in the domestic media that former ozeki Takanonami had passed away at age 43.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 9, 2015

Japan firms face hurdles as 'service' culture taken overseas

At Uniqlo stores worldwide, staff greet every customer with "Welcome to Uniqlo!"
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 8, 2015

Abbott's bullying of public broadcaster backfires

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has bungled once again by trying to bully Australia's national broadcaster into toeing the government line.
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Jul 2, 2015

Chongryon adrift at sea as succession battle looms

A succession fight is brewing in Chongyron, but however it turns out, the organization's influence in Pyongyang is disappering.
Japan Times
SPORTS / NOTES ON A SCORECARD
Jun 30, 2015

Sasaki deserves a shot at coaching Samurai Blue

By guiding Nadeshiko Japan into the semifinals of the Women's World Cup for a second consecutive time, coach Norio Sasaki has clearly established his acumen as both a motivator and strategist.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Jun 29, 2015

Czech soccer legend Masopust dies at 84

Josef Masopust, who led Czechoslovakia into the 1962 World Cup final and was considered the country's greatest ever player, died on Monday after a long illness, his former club Dukla Prague announced. He was 84.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 29, 2015

Defining the contribution of engineering to society

COMMUNITY / Issues / LABOR PAINS
Jun 28, 2015

Has striking in Japan become extinct?

"Strike." Dear reader, what do you think when you hear this word? What impression do you get? Do you see the blood, sweat and tears? Do you see an angry, vicious mob disturbing our civil society? I bet a majority of Japanese people under the age of 40 have neither a positive nor negative impression of...
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jun 27, 2015

Humans may face a singular concern when it comes to robot employment

The trouble with machines is, they do things better than we do. "Give me a place to stand and I will move the Earth," said the third-century B.C. Greek inventor Archimedes, lever in hand. The Earth has been moving ever since, ever faster.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jun 27, 2015

Landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizes gay marriage nationwide

The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, handing a historic triumph to the American gay rights movement.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Jun 27, 2015

U.S. Supreme Court rules in favor of gay marriage nationwide

The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the U.S. Constitution provides same-sex couples the right to marry, in a historic triumph for the American gay rights movement.
SOCCER / J. League / J. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Jun 24, 2015

Urawa responds to 2014 heartbreak in rampant style

After throwing away the J. League championship last season, few could have expected Urawa Reds to respond so emphatically.
LIFE / Lifestyle
Jun 20, 2015

'Trying to conceive through science is a roller-coaster ride'

When Maiko Okada visited a fertility clinic in Tokyo for the first time five years ago, she was totally unprepared for the roller-coaster ride of emotions she would subsequently experience.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS / OLYMPIC NOTEBOOK
Jun 20, 2015

Clarke’s legendary records still resonate 50 years later

Nearly three weeks after American sprinter Henry Carr's passing, another iconic runner from the 1964 Tokyo Games has passed away.
JAPAN / View from Osaka
Jun 20, 2015

Abe and Hashimoto's political dance will have to avoid stepping on any toes

One month after Osaka voters said no, just barely, to his pet project of fundamentally restructuring the municipal government, Mayor Toru Hashimoto finds himself courted by an increasingly anxious Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who hopes to borrow whatever is left of Hashimoto's influence in the Japan Innovation...
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jun 19, 2015

8,500-year-old 'Kennewick Man' skeleton was likely Native American, not Ainu, DNA findings indicate

The much-anticipated results of a study of DNA taken from the hand bone of the so-called Kennewick Man, a 8,500-year-old skeleton discovered in Washington state in 1996, suggest the man was most closely related to Native American populations, a team of international researchers said on Thursday.

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After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan