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BASKETBALL
Nov 22, 2013

Lyons embraces leadership position for Takamatsu

The Japan Times features periodic interviews with players in the bj-league. Dexter Lyons of the Takamatsu Five Arrows is the subject of this week's profile.
Japan Times
SOCCER / SOCCER SCENE
Nov 21, 2013

Belgian tour provides welcome tonic for Japan

If national team manager Alberto Zaccheroni was looking for reassurance from this week's visit to Belgium, two excellent performances and results to match were a timely reminder that Japan is more than capable of making an impact at next summer's World Cup.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS / NOTES ON A SCORECARD
Nov 19, 2013

Mizuno best man to lead Tokyo organizing committee for 2020 Games

It is amazing how often the answer to a question can be right in front of you.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / LEARNING CURVE
Nov 17, 2013

Identity issues can complicate a child's path to becoming bilingual

The pursuit of bilingualism can be something akin to the quest for the Holy Grail for parents living in Japan. It's also near-universal, affecting expatriates here for an extended period, multilingual families where the parents come from different cultural backgrounds, or Japanese nationals eager to...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Nov 13, 2013

Tokyo: What does Japan do better than anywhere else?

Everyone here in Japan, or in Tokyo at least, is so disciplined and always punctual. The Japanese people I have met stick by their comments and the promises they make, and in my experience excuses are not accepted as much as they might be elsewhere.
BASKETBALL
Nov 5, 2013

Herb Brown helps Japan women's basketball team nab FIBA Asia gold

Longtime basketball coach Herb Brown, older brother of Hall of Fame bench boss Larry Brown, helped steer the Japan women's national team to its first continental championship in 43 years on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS / MAN ABOUT SPORTS
Nov 5, 2013

Saints looking like they have the pep back in their step

After the New Orleans Saints had thumped Buffalo last week to run their record to 6-1, quarterback Drew Brees rolled about the Saints' Superdome locker room employing a confident-bordering-on-cocky bop and dip in his step.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Nov 2, 2013

The last of the shoguns; fighting widens; Yokohama train crash kills 129; Emperor's health slips

The proposal of providing a large public park at Inokashira for the benefit of the people of Tokyo has been approved by the Municipal Council. The Emperor has graciously offered the use of an extensive lot in that locality for that purpose.
EDITORIALS
Oct 31, 2013

Ethnic unrest in China

The fiery suicide vehicle crash in Tiananmen Square underscores minorities' demands for greater autonomy in China as well as the terror problem for Beijing, despite a growing national economy.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Oct 31, 2013

Smokehouse: Harajuku lures foodies to the smoked BBQ pit

Low and slow: The much-loved mantra of American barbecue culture is more than just a slogan. It's an attitude, a badge of pride in a way of cooking and eating that's still little known to people here in Japan. If Smokehouse has anything to do with it, that situation looks set to change in a big way....
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 29, 2013

Camry loses Consumer Reports nod

Consumer Reports pulled its recommendation for Toyota Motor Corp.'s Camry sedan and said post-bankruptcy General Motors Co. is among the automakers cracking Japanese brands' dominance in fielding reliable cars.
BASKETBALL
Oct 29, 2013

bj-league bans JT access

In an unprecedented move, the professional basketball bj-league has issued a ban on media access by The Japan Times for the entire 2013-14 season. The directive has been relayed to teams around the country by the league office, the newspaper has learned.
ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 27, 2013

French energy giant inks uranium deal with Mongolia

Ulan Bator AFP-JIJI
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Oct 26, 2013

Twitter users find out the hard way that anonymity is just fleeting

In the ego-driven game of Twitter, Jofi Joseph was, for a while, one of the winners.
EDITORIALS
Oct 26, 2013

Teachers add up days of overtime

Teachers at Japanese elementary and secondary schools log an average of 95 hours of overtime per month. It's no wonder some might be falling asleep along with their pupils.
BASEBALL / MLB / MAN ABOUT SPORTS
Oct 23, 2013

No secret to consistency of Cardinals

Time was when nearly every baseball team, from Little League to the majors, endeavored to play the game "The Dodger Way" or "Cardinal Style."
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 22, 2013

All-English science contest gives young researchers way to connect

When University of Tokyo student Mugiko Komatsuda appeared on stage at a science contest in Tokyo last week, she dazzled the crowd with her self-confidence, resonant voice and radiant smile.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Oct 21, 2013

With ban on lead in hunters' bullets, California hopes to protect condors

By 1982, the number of California condors in the wild had dwindled to 22, an entire species nearly wiped out by, among other threats, lead poisoning from hunters' ammunition.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Oct 16, 2013

Nara's Chapman gets off to fast start for expansion team

Each season brings new standouts to Japan, what with nonstop expansion since the league's inception in 2005.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 13, 2013

Abe set to overturn legacies of Koizumi and Nakasone

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is reviving the old Liberal Democratic Party, having undone moves by former Prime Ministers Yasuhiro Nakasone and Junichiro Koizumi toward smaller government.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Oct 10, 2013

Farmers bring a slice of country life to Tokyo

With Tokyo Tower as a backdrop and being home to some of Tokyo's most famous nightclubs, several foreign embassies and upscale clothing stores, Roppongi has all the flash and glamor missing from slow-paced, rustic country life. Fields and farms have no place in the steel-and-concrete labyrinth of Roppongi...
Japan Times
LIFE
Oct 7, 2013

Growing Community: the JT's most talked-about section is about to get larger

From Oct. 17, the Community section in the Japan Times print edition will be expanding to four days a week. Here's a taste of what to expect.
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Oct 5, 2013

Kabaya looks past glory of title team, forward to new season

Masayuki Kabaya played a starring role in leading the Yokohama B-Corsairs to a championship in their second season in the bj-league.
Tsunami threat passes following magnitude 6.9 quake off Iwate
A tsunami advisory was issued for Iwate Prefecture on Sunday evening following a strong earthquake. The advisory was later called off, after waves measuring 20 centimeters were recorded in some areas.
The Toyota buyout is a major test for Japan’s reforms
Akio Toyoda, chairman of Toyota Motor, speaks during a media preview at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Oct. 29. Minority investors are challenging the carmaker's bid to take affiliate Toyota Industries Corp. private.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Takaichi plans pay cuts for herself and her ministers
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi chats with her Cabinet members in parliament in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Mother of Thai girl forced into sex work in Tokyo detained in Taiwan
The Metropolitan Police Department headquarters in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward
Cleanliness gets competitive at Tokyo’s Spogomi world cup
On Oct. 29, teams from 33 qualifying countries scoured the streets of Shibuya for all manners of trash as part of the Spogomi litter-picking competition.
Jon Homewood: ‘There’s beauty in what we throw away’
After a peripatetic childhood around the world, teacher and artist Jon Homewood ended up coming to Japan in 2012 for a professional opportunity.
Yokozuna duo Onosato and Hoshoryu poised for another clash of titans
Yokozuna duo Onosato (right) and Hoshoryu clash for the title on the final day of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Sept. 28 at Ryogoku Kokugikan.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.
A 40-year wait for ‘Mishima’ ends at TIFF
Made at a time when Japan was still grappling with Yukio Mishima’s legacy, Paul Schrader’s biopic “Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters” was blocked from screening in the country for decades.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
By Yukana Inoue

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