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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 12, 2015

Triumphant Giants stage seventh-inning comeback against Carp

The Yomiuri Giants beat Kenta Maeda in a close game again, and this time he helped them do it.
JAPAN
May 12, 2015

U.S. to station Ospreys at Yokota Air Base starting in 2017

The government formally announces that the U.S. Air Force will deploy a squadron of tilt-rotor CV-22 Osprey aircraft at Yokota Air Base in western Tokyo in 2017.
Japan Times
WORLD / EU SPECIAL 2015
May 12, 2015

Union advocates peace, strives to maintain solidarity

Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
May 11, 2015

A woman's job in Japan: watch kids, care for parents, work late

Hiromi Nakasaki remembers working past midnight on New Year's Eve and during holidays as a business systems consultant in Japan's notoriously harsh work environment. Last summer, at the height of her career, she quit.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 8, 2015

Lions rout Marines, stretch winning streak to seven games

The Seibu Lions and Chiba Lotte Marines traded errors and three-run half innings in the opening frame of their matchup on Friday night.
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
May 4, 2015

Let's discuss caregivers in the news

A total of 78 people from the Philippines and Indonesia have passed the caregiver certification exam for fiscal 2014, the welfare ministry said Thursday.
EDITORIALS
May 1, 2015

Abe must address home audience

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe needs consider whether singling out China as the reason for strengthening of Japan's security alliance with the U.S. will, in fact, help make the region 'remarkably more stable.'
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 30, 2015

Murata stays hot at plate as Giants defeat Dragons

The Yomiuri Giants may have a new power-hitting third baseman on the way, but Shuichi Murata wants to show everyone the old model is still working just fine.
JAPAN
Apr 24, 2015

Broadcaster Tokyo MX loses drone over British Embassy

Local broadcaster Tokyo MX loses a drone while filming a report on the aerial devices and finds it on the grounds of the British Embassy.
JAPAN
Apr 22, 2015

Drone with radiation symbol found on roof of prime minister's office

A drone about 50 cm wide equipped with what appeared to be a small camera, a smoke flare and emblazoned with a radiation symbol was found on the roof of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Tokyo office on Wednesday morning, officials and media reports said.

Longform

Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past