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Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Feb 1, 2021

Masahiro Tanaka's return to Rakuten benefits both sides

With the return of its former ace, the Tohoku team gets a player who can help win games on the field and comes with a massive amount of star power.
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Jan 27, 2021

Fake news becoming real issue for foreign sumo fans

Online information about sumo has increasingly been falling victim to many of the same issues that plague mainstream news.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jan 25, 2021

NPB and J. League hope to avoid burdening local governments during training camps

Nippon Professional Baseball and the J. League want teams to focus on making sure players and staff members don't become infected with COVID-19 during training camps.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jan 21, 2021

NPB lays out plans for 2021 season

Teams will begin their spring camps as scheduled on Feb. 1 in Miyazaki and Okinawa prefectures, though they'll do so with no fans present.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Jan 20, 2021

MLB to investigate ex-Mets GM Jared Porter over inappropriate texts

Major League Baseball plans to investigate former New York Mets general manager Jared Porter for sending unsolicited, inappropriate text messages to a female reporter, a source with knowledge of the situation told Reuters on Tuesday.
Japan Times
SPORTS
Jan 13, 2021

Dick Pound says farewell to WADA and passes anti-doping torch

Tributes from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to IOC chief Thomas Bach poured in for retiring anti-doping crusader Dick Pound last week but there was understandably no applause from the likes of Lance Armstrong, Gary Bettman or Vladimir Putin.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Jan 12, 2021

How Trump’s pied pipers rallied a faithful mob to the Capitol

The backers were inspired by conspiracy theories and whipped into action by Trump's desperate calls to 'save” democracy by reversing his loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Jan 12, 2021

Cash piles and hostile bids set stage for a wild year in Japan M&A

While the broader trends that have driven recent overseas moves will likely hold, companies are also focusing inward, as they restructure assets and evaluate domestic competition.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Jan 9, 2021

Bad timing spoils Tomoyuki Sugano's MLB aspirations

Given a market where he apparently didn't get a deal he liked and an offseason changed by the coronavirus, it's not hard to see why Sugano chose another year with the Kyojin.
SPORTS
Jan 8, 2021

Japanese sports brace for impact of new state of emergency

Upcoming sumo and rugby events will allow spectators, while pro basketball's B. League has raised concerns over restrictions covering the sale of food and drinks.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 8, 2021

A shattering blow to America’s troubled democratic image

The institutions of democracy prevailed in the early hours of the following morning, but the images of mob rule in Washington touched a particular nerve in fractured Western societies.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jan 5, 2021

Extreme sports gain legitimacy through Olympic inclusion

The Tokyo Games will feature skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing in an effort to bring more young fans into the Olympic community.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jan 2, 2021

Exciting books and translations from Japan to look out for in 2021

It's time to put 2020 behind us and look ahead to a new year with a new reading list. Here's a selection of intriguing titles coming out in the next 12 months.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World / Beyond COVID-19
Dec 29, 2020

Overcoming Trumpism

The underestimation of Trump voters, and complacent belief in a Biden landslide, revealed the widening gulf between urban, educated America and rural, working-class America.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Dec 29, 2020

Athletes head into 2021 uncertain over Olympic qualification outlook

Many Olympic sports are still working to schedule events that will give athletes a fair opportunity to earn a place in the postponed Tokyo Games.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Dec 22, 2020

Warren Cromartie won't continue role as Yomiuri adviser in 2021

The three-time Best Nine selectee returned to the Giants in 2019 at manager and former teammate Tatsunori Hara's request.
JAPAN / Society / 2020 in Review
Dec 19, 2020

Anxiety over coronavirus in 2020 spurs unprecedented societal change in Japan. Will it last?

For many in Japan, 2020 has been a year hijacked by uncertainty, a tumultuous period spent improvising and adapting to an unfamiliar way of life.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA
Dec 18, 2020

Social slam dunk: Washington Wizards scoring high with Japanese media strategy

The club has capitalized on Rui Hachimura's first season with localized content that has generated enthusiasm in Japan and drawn praise from NBA officials.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Dec 18, 2020

Miyavi meets the reality of the moment

The musician, also known as the samurai guitarist, learns to roll with the punches in the era of the coronavirus with virtual reality performances.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Dec 17, 2020

Tomoyuki Sugano and Yuki Yanagita win MVP honors in NPB

The Giants ace and Hawks slugger each won the award for the second time.
Japan Times
TENNIS
Dec 17, 2020

How putting on a mask raised Naomi Osaka’s voice

In 2020, Osaka found her voice and the self-possession to speak up when and how she saw fit, a massive leap for the global superstar.
JAPAN
Dec 16, 2020

Suga under fire for year-end dinners as coronavirus cases mount

Suga's outings came after the government abruptly halted a government travel subsidy program he had long defended.
Tokyo emerges as a top market for global tech talent
Tokyo ranks among the world's top tech talent hubs alongside Beijing, the San Francisco Bay Area, Bengaluru, Paris, New York and Dublin, according to Colliers' newly released global tech markets report.
JSA’s 100th anniversary event is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for sumo fans
Egyptian wrestler Osunaarashi has some fun with children during a special Japan Sumo Association event in 2017.
Tens of millions of yen found at home of Aum Shinrikyo founder's wife
The house of the wife of the late Chizuo Matsumoto, the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult's founder, in Koshigaya, Saitama Prefecture, in July
Japan researchers identify gut bacteria strain that boosts anticancer drugs
Researchers at the National Cancer Center Japan say a new type of gut bacteria named YB328 could help unlock the potential of cancer immunotherapy.
Living conditions index hits lowest level in 15 years in Japan
The share of respondents to a Bank of Japan quarterly survey in June who said they have become worse off came to 61.0%, up 5.1 percentage points from the previous survey.
Japan's rice farmers are confounded by Shinjiro Koizumi’s policies
Kiyoshi Shibata stands in front of one of the rice paddies in Murayama, Yamagata Prefecture, where he produces the prefecture's signature rice brand Tsuyahime.
From stalking to death threats, female candidates still face harassment
Mayu Ushida, a former NHK newscaster running for election in the Tokyo electoral district on the Democratic Party for the People ticket, signs an autograph for a voter after a public rally at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Kawaii Lab redefines idol pop for the TikTok generation
Misa Kimura is the main producer for Kawaii Lab, a project by entertainment agency Asobisystem whose groups have found success by pairing a social media-first strategy with a fresh perspective on traditional idol-pop tropes.
Craig Mod's life in motion in a disappearing Japan
Mod's memoir “Things Become Other Things” chronicles his walking trips across the Kii Peninsula, surveying “a graceful end to a certain life cycle.”
With China and Trump, Japan defense report says world entering ‘new era of crisis’
A senior member of a Self-Defense Forces honor guard inspects a formation before the arrival of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for a visit to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 30.

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