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CULTURE / Film
Oct 19, 2012

Tokyo International Film Festival hits 25

This year, Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) celebrates its 25th edition and will hold commemorative programs, including a three-day screening of six Japanese films from the Showa Era (1926-89) in the very Showa-esque district of Nihonbashi.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 19, 2012

Opportunistic Dragons take 2-1 series lead over Giants

Junki Ito turned 21 years old in January. That's three fewer years than his batterymate Motonobu Tanishige has been a professional baseball player.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Oct 16, 2012

Aoki takes care of business to give Cinq Reves first win

Entering this season, six-time All-Star Cohey Aoki had made 1,255 baskets — plus 983 free throws, while converting an astonishing 89.2 percent of his shots at the foul line — in 8,642 minutes of playing time in the regular season since the league's inception in 2005. Many of his most important points...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 15, 2012

Kishi gives Takeda a lesson in playoff baseball

Shota Takeda has all kinds of talent. At the tender age of 19, the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks right-hander made 11 starts this season, winning eight and finishing the year with a 1.08 ERA.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Oct 2, 2012

JBL looking to go out with a bang

With its 2012-13 campaign getting under way this weekend, the Japan Basketball League, which will be rebranded as the National Basketball League next fall, promises to entertain the fans as much as possible in its final season under the old name.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Sep 30, 2012

Whatever fanatics say, a nice cup of tea together beats a fight to the death

There is no doubt about it: We humans are, at best, a peculiar species. It seems that we feel obliged to display brazen hostility toward each other, to the point of engaging in violence, before we can reconcile to friendship.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 26, 2012

Ortiz hits go-ahead home run as Lions edge Eagles

Jose Ortiz spent the first part of this season playing in Mexico, where he said he wasn't really doing too well.
Japan Times
LIFE
Sep 23, 2012

Street dance sweeps young Japan

The cool, wild and powerful movements of rhythm-heavy hip-hop dance are gripping the body and soul of ever more Japanese children and young people.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Sep 16, 2012

BayStars need major upgrades to roster

The Yokohama BayStars lost their 69th game of the 2012 season on Sept. 5, dropping a 3-1 decision to the Tokyo Yakult Swallows. The BayStars thus sealed their 11th consecutive losing season, and it is safe to say the team's performance this year has been nothing short of disappointing.
CULTURE / Books
Sep 16, 2012

Charming short stories about man's tarnished imperfections

The Beautiful One Has Come, by Susan Kamata. Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing, 2011, 212 pp., $15.00, (paperback) Long-term Japan resident and writer Suzanne Kamata juxtaposes the charming and the unappealing in an understated elucidation of flawed humanity with her collection of short stories, "The Beautiful...
BUSINESS
Sep 8, 2012

Orix setting its sights on local banks, asset managers in South America

Financing company Orix Corp. opened a Brazil unit this month to seek acquisitions in South America.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Sep 6, 2012

Feel the Roots

What do you get when you mix prehistoric Jomon Period ruins and free-spirited, improvised percussion and rhythm? Jomon Trance, that's what. A genre coined by global music group RaBiRaBi, it's a sound that "blends the ancient and the future to create a new ceremonial space."
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 1, 2012

Giants' Koyama picks up first career victory

Neither Yuki Koyama nor Tokyo Dome existed in 1981, the year the Giants are currently celebrating with their throwback uniforms.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Aug 28, 2012

Houlton feels good about '12 Giants

D.J. Houlton is dealing with a case of deja vu.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / BACKSTREET STORIES
Aug 26, 2012

All the fun of the fair — and that's just the temples

Inspired by this summer's Olympic quest for gold medals, I opt to go for the gold myself. Toshimaen amusement park in Tokyo's northwestern Nerima Ward is home to Carousel El Dorado, one of the world's oldest hand-carved wooden merry-go-rounds. Named for an imaginary city of gold sought by 16th-century...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 25, 2012

A plan for a healthy TV diet

The world is going to pieces. I know because the television told me so. Global warming, economic meltdown, regional conflicts, partisan politics, Justin Bieber. Is there anything good happening? Anywhere?

Longform

Mount Fuji is considered one of Japan's most iconic symbols and is a major draw for tourists. It's still a mountain, though, and potential hikers need to properly prepare for any climb.
What it takes to save lives on Mount Fuji