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JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Aug 22, 2016

Cup Noodles slurping strong, 45 years on

Hungry? Just grab a cup of instant noodles and pour hot water into it. After waiting three minutes, the ramen is ready to eat.
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JAPAN / History
Aug 22, 2016

Civility shown to Russo-Japanese War POWs lives on as Matsuyama's legacy

Tucked away in a tiny corner of Matsuyama, on a hillside not too far from the famous Dogo Onsen hot springs resort, lies a unique graveyard. Inside lie gravestones for 98 Russian POWs who died during the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War, a somber reminder of a time the city is nevertheless generally eager...
EDITORIALS
Aug 21, 2016

Engel's coefficient rising in Japan

People are spending more on food, which means they are using less of their money in other areas — thereby reducing overall consumer spending.
MORE SPORTS
Aug 20, 2016

Inside Japan's racehorse breeding empire

Harry Sweeney has his hand up a horse's backside. The mare looks put out by this intrusion. Her eyes dart about nervously and she shifts her weight before accepting five thick human digits probing her insides. After feeling the uterus and the swelling of the ovaries, Sweeney's arm, slick with mucus and...
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OLYMPICS
Aug 20, 2016

Germany defeats Sweden to claim gold in women's soccer

With her arms raised in victory, coach Silvia Neid ran onto the field to join the celebration of Germany's first Olympic gold medal — even jumping onto the players' dogpile.
BUSINESS / Markets
Aug 19, 2016

As Japanese bond investors hunt yields, hurricanes may be worth the risk

Japan's bond investors are so desperate for yield that more and more of them are putting money in notes from insurers whose value can be wiped out by unexpectedly strong hurricanes or earthquakes.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 17, 2016

Koike can help Japan get serious about gender gap

Japan's efforts to promote gender mainstreaming have fallen short. Hopefully new Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike can give this vital concept a jump start.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Aug 15, 2016

Modernizing the Imperial house's succession law

The government should find ways of modernizing the Imperial succession law so that the Emperor can abdicate if he so desires.
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CULTURE / Music
Aug 14, 2016

Dinosaur Jr. to bring Tokyo a glimpse of life in 'ear-bleeding country'

Lou Barlow is looking forward to his trip back to Japan. It's the cuisine, more than anything that has him anticipating his return to the country, but it's not what you might think.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 13, 2016

Argentina's 'Loony Radio' making waves

A radio program in Argentina that draws 12 million listeners is produced by patients at a psychiatric hospital in Buenos Aires.
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BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 8, 2016

True meaning of Ichiro even greater than 3,000-hit milestone

There were a lot of people in Japan who awoke early April 3, 2001 (the night of April 2 in the U.S.), with a mix of anticipation and wonder as they watched new Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki's first game in the major leagues. Ichiro was hitless after three at-bats. Then, in the seventh, he...
JAPAN
Aug 8, 2016

Emperor signals wish to abdicate in near future

Emperor Akihito expresses concern about how his advanced age is affecting the performance of his public duties.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Aug 6, 2016

Why did Japan surrender in World War II?

The contentious debate among scholars about why Japan surrendered in World War II continues to rage.
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CULTURE / Film
Aug 3, 2016

Momoi is on fire in her new indie film 'Hee'

In her four-decade acting career Kaori Momoi has always been a free-spirited stand-out, indifferent to convention. But beneath her easygoing attitude and signature drawling delivery (which used to make me wonder what she had been ingesting before the cameras started rolling) was a thorough professionalism...
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CULTURE / Film
Aug 3, 2016

'Truth': Ask no questions, hear no lies

'The truth is out there" is the tagline from sci-fi thriller TV series "The X-Files," suggesting that perhaps all we had to do was find it and retrieve it like a lost frisbee.
BUSINESS
Aug 1, 2016

Uber to sell Chinese unit to local rival Didi

Uber Technologies Inc. will sell its China business to Didi Chuxing, the dominant ride-hailing service in the country, according to people familiar with the matter. The deal ends a costly battle between the two companies, which competed for customers and drivers.
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JAPAN / GENERATIONAL CHANGE
Jul 31, 2016

Tokyo NPO founder shows foreign residents how to survive disasters

No one can truly be prepared for a calamity like the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, even for Japanese who have gone through disaster drills regularly since childhood to learn how to react.
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CULTURE / Books
Jul 30, 2016

Bushido: Soseki, 'Star Wars' and the samurai

In September 1912, Gen. Maresuke Nogi — a hero of the Russo-Japanese War — committed ritual suicide. His sensational death took place on the day of Emperor Meiji's funeral, making it an act of junshi (following one's lord in death) and a high-water mark for the samurai code in the modern era.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Jul 29, 2016

Tepco's profit plummets amid power saving, defections to new competitors

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc., operator of the wrecked Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, said first-quarter operating profit plummeted 37 percent as sales declined amid faltering demand and new competition in Japan's power market.
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BASKETBALL / B. League / B. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Jul 28, 2016

Tohoku Cup offers fans early treat

An annual tradition is growing.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 27, 2016

North Korea offering 'no-strings' nuclear talks: U.S. expert

North Korea may be offering nuclear talks pretty much without preconditions, a U.S. expert who took part in negotiations with Pyongyang has said.
CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
Jul 27, 2016

Haruki Kadokawa: The man who helped save Japan's film industry

When publisher, producer, director and showman Haruki Kadokawa was at his controversial peak in the 1970s and '80s, the idea of a festival dedicated to his films — commercial fare typically based on the pop fiction his publishing house churned out — would have struck higher-minded critics as utter...
WORLD / Politics
Jul 23, 2016

Clinton's pick of Kaine for running mate signals pivot to center for election

Hillary Clinton named Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine as her running mate for the Democratic presidential ticket, a widely anticipated choice that may say more about how she wants to govern than how she plans to win in November.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 19, 2016

Trove of documents from purged Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang, smuggled to Hong Kong, to be published

A collection of documents from Zhao Ziyang, who was China's reformist Communist Party chief until he was toppled in 1989 for opposing the Tiananmen crackdown, has been smuggled out of the country and will be published in Hong Kong this month, according to a publishing house that is turning them into...
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WORLD
Jul 18, 2016

Brother in Tunisia says Nice attacker sent him 'laughing' picture before massacre

The man who mowed through a crowd with a truck, killing 84 Bastille Day revellers in Nice on Thursday, had phoned home hours earlier and sent a "laughing" picture from the French city, his brother told Reuters.

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight