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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Oct 5, 2017

Fighters ace Shohei Otani lives up to expectations in Japan

Shohei Otani has lived up to the hype. Just as Bryce Harper in MLB and LeBron James in the NBA, the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters star pitcher/DH not only entered the professional ranks to outsized expectations, he actually met them.
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BUSINESS / Companies / FOCUS
Oct 5, 2017

Carlos Ghosn's protege faces first crisis with 'shocking' Nissan Japan recall

Carlos Ghosn, one of the auto industry's most celebrated turnaround artists, saved Nissan Motor Co. by managing himself out of numerous tight spots. Now his hand-picked successor faces a big test of his own, just six-months into his tenure as Nissan's chief executive officer.
BUSINESS
Oct 5, 2017

Marathon's Bruce Richards says next global recession may hit in 2019, sees 'huge opportunities'

Marathon Asset Management boss Bruce Richards is gearing up for the next global recession, which he reckons could be less than two years away.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 4, 2017

Russia quietly throws North Korea lifeline in bid to stymie regime change

Russia is quietly boosting economic support for North Korea to try to stymie any U.S.-led push to oust Kim Jong Un, as Moscow fears his fall would sap its regional clout and allow U.S. troops to deploy on Russia's eastern border.
EDITORIALS
Oct 4, 2017

Troubling referendums in Iraq and Spain

The flames of nationalism still burn brightly in this supposed global age.
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CULTURE / Music
Oct 4, 2017

Supercar's 'Three Out Change!!' may be the most stunning debut in Japanese rock history

The years 1997 and 1998 were a watershed in Japanese music. It was the dizzying peak that marked the point between the relentlessly climbing music sales that preceded and the mostly unbroken decline that followed. It also saw the 21st century begin to take shape, with artists such as Hikaru Utada, Ayumi...
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TENNIS
Oct 4, 2017

Tech company aiming to fill fans' downtime with private snapshots at sporting events

Competitions, smartphones and social networks. With those three things combined, arenas and stadiums can become more than just a place to enjoy watching sports.
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BUSINESS / Tech
Oct 3, 2017

New entrants flock to Tokyo's cutting-edge technology trade show

A robot, remote controlled by motion capture, moves in perfect sync with a person in the distance. A device passes an infrared scan over some food and supplies complete nutritional information about the fare. These are among the array of cutting-edge technologies on display as Japan's largest electronics...
CULTURE / Art
Oct 3, 2017

'Hokusai: Beyond the Great Wave'

Oct. 6-Nov. 19
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ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 3, 2017

White House again rules out talks as North Korea threatens Japan with 'nuclear clouds'

The White House on Monday poured more cold water on potential talks with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program just days after U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Washington was in direct contact with leader Kim Jong Un's regime.
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BUSINESS
Oct 3, 2017

Flying since 1968, U.K.'s Monarch Airlines goes bust, marooning over 100,000 tourists

Britain's Monarch Airlines collapsed on Monday, causing the cancellation of hundreds of thousands of holidays, after falling victim to intense competition for flights and a weaker pound.
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COMMENTARY / World
Oct 2, 2017

Myanmar's decades-old jihadi curse

It is vital to address the long history of Islamist extremism that has contributed to the Rohingya's' current plight.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 2, 2017

Japan has to spend a little less on its well-off elderly

Lowering pension and medical benefits to well-off elderly people looks like Japan's least-bad option to rein in its debt.
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LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Oct 2, 2017

Let's discuss telecommuting

Telecommuting from Shari, Hokkaido
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BUSINESS
Oct 2, 2017

Zuckerberg post marks end of Yom Kippur, seeks forgiveness for divisions caused by his work

Facebook Inc. founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg asked for forgiveness for ways his work was used to divide people in a Facebook posting marking the end of Yom Kippur, the Jewish holiday of atonement on Saturday.
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BUSINESS
Oct 2, 2017

Britain caught in crossfire, says it will fight to protect jobs amid Boeing-Bombardier row

Britain, caught in the crossfire of a damaging trade dispute between plane makers Boeing and Bombardier, said on Sunday it would fight its corner to protect thousands of jobs put at risk in Northern Ireland.
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COMMENTARY / World
Oct 1, 2017

We'll get flying cars to go with our 140 characters

There has been an explosion of commercial interest in flying cars.
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JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 30, 2017

The education system still has much to learn

There is a driven, compulsive quality to Japanese education, which emerges clearly in a report by Shukan Toyo Keizai magazine titled "Schools are breaking down."

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