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CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Dec 7, 2013

Special on "the father of the Showa idol"; advice for discouraged youth; CM of the week: Kyogetsu

Hideyoshi Aizawa, who died in May, is known as the "father of the Showa idol." As the founder and president of Sun Music, one of the most powerful talent agencies in Japanese show business, he basically invented the idea of the idol singer in the 1970s and '80s with the cultivation of people such as...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 6, 2013

Shin-Okubo, window on a sad regional rift

The crowds at Tokyo's Koreatown have been replaced by a small but strident group of anti-Korean protesters who are turning it into a barometer of Japan-Korea relations.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Dec 4, 2013

Bunraku storyteller speaks out

During the early part of the Edo Period, when Japan was ruled by Tokugawa shoguns from 1603-1867, Osaka — the main city in the Kansai region of western Honshu — thrived as the country's cultural and economic center. It was during those heady days around 400 years ago that a kind of puppetry called...
BASEBALL
Dec 2, 2013

Giants now banking on Kataoka to shore up second base

The Yomiuri Giants have, at long last, finally found their second baseman.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Nov 30, 2013

For once, MVP voters got things right

One thing that's always surprising when NPB voters get both the Pacific and Central League MVP winners right.
BASEBALL
Nov 26, 2013

Tanaka, Balentien earn MVP honors

Masahiro Tanaka pitched his way into the record books. Wladimir Balentien slugged his way there.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Nov 24, 2013

TV sports broadcasts as a language-learning tool

Another exciting grand sumo tournament ended yesterday, and brought back memories of my first encounter with sumo, in Okinawa back in September 1965.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 22, 2013

Prostitute goes on trial for slaying of U.S. diplomat in Johannesburg

The trial of a South African prostitute charged with murdering a U.S. diplomat, Christopher 'Norm' Bates, in January began this week in Johannesburg.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 20, 2013

The Charles in Charlie Brown

The advertising surrounding "Ever and Never: The Art of Peanuts" focuses on the cutest character from the classic American comic strip. So much so, promotions for this exhibition at the Mori Arts Center Gallery has been dubbed the "Snoopy Exhibit," a title that also graces the Twitter and Facebook accounts...
LIFE
Nov 16, 2013

Fifty years later, conspiracy theories live on

"Any concerted plan that placed Lee Harvey Oswald in the gunner's seat," wrote Norman Mailer in "Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery," "would have had to have been built on the calculation that he would miss." Yet Mailer, whose research took him back to the city of Minsk, where Oswald had lived under...
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Nov 13, 2013

Where's the beef? Japanese taste buds dictate processing methods

Is that steak you're eating technically a steak?
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 3, 2013

Eagles blank Giants in Game 7, capture first Japan Series title

More than 25,000 roared in unison as a light rain suddenly got a little bit harder. They were now one out away from their first Japan Series title, and had their ace, Japan's ace, on the mound to do the honors.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 2, 2013

Opportunistic Giants force Game 7 as mighty Tanaka handed first defeat of 2013

The mighty Yomiuri Giants weren’t about to relinquish the Japan Series title without a good fight.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Nov 2, 2013

At a loss for words to explain Tanaka's loss

For awhile it was a joke even to ask the question.
BASEBALL
Oct 28, 2013

Flawless Tanaka wins Sawamura Award

Masahiro Tanaka followed up an amazing career first with something even more impressive the second time around.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Oct 28, 2013

Smashing ideas on future design and technology

While contemporary art is still transfixed by its own reflection, veteran Japanese curator Yuko Hasegawa has focused her cultural microscope on something quite different. "Bunny Smash Design to touch the world," the current group exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, is a hit-and-miss...
BASEBALL
Oct 27, 2013

Tanaka handcuffs potent Giants lineup, lifts Eagles to Game 2 triumph

When you're in desperate need of a win, a pretty good strategy is to give the ball to the guy who never loses and get out the way.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 25, 2013

Veteran skipper Hoshino continues quest for elusive title

Senichi Hoshino isn't ready to give up the fight.

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