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BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Dec 11, 2011

Free agency likely to make negative impact on Hawks

They call the baseball off-season the "Hot Stove League" but, this winter, it might be called the "Overheated Stove" or the "Microwave League." As predicted in this column a few weeks ago, the flurry of activity in December would be fast and furious, especially because of the delayed end to the Japan...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Dec 2, 2011

Holiday cocktails with a tower view

The Bay View Sky Lounge on the 28th floor of the Yokohama Bay Sheraton Hotel & Towers is running a Christmas Cocktail Fair through Dec. 25.
JAPAN
Nov 26, 2011

Watanabe instrumental in forging cozy political-news media relationship

Tsuneo Watanabe, chairman and chief editor of the Yomiuri Shimbun who doubles as chairman of the Yomiuri Giants baseball team, is one of the most influential figures in Japan as he reigns not only over the nation's biggest media empire but also acts as a political fixer.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 25, 2011

Ochiai bows out after eight years in charge of Dragons

There was no secret that Hiromitsu Ochiai's days as the Chunichi Dragons manager were numbered. The team had, after all, announced in September it would not renew his contract after the season.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Nov 24, 2011

Seigo Hatasawa is no ordinary school teacher

Japan's performing arts world is massively centered on Tokyo, yet one of its leading lights is based in Aomori City in the country's deeply unchic far north — and he's a school teacher.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Nov 20, 2011

BayStars continue burgeoning baseball tradition in Yokohama

It looks like a go for the sale of the Yokohama BayStars franchise and, assuming all goes well, the team will officially become the Yokohama DeNA BayStars by the beginning of next month. It is good the club will be staying in Japan's second-largest city with its great stadium location and fan base....
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 18, 2011

Pitching carries Hawks to third straight win

For three nights, the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks were extremely rude house guests to the Chunichi Dragons.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 16, 2011

Dragons fans display unbridled support for team

With the Dragons' surprising 2-0 start to the ongoing Japan Series, their loyal fans may be able to see something they hadn't expected before it began: manager Hiromitsu Ochiai being tossed in the air at their home house.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 7, 2011

Hawks turn misery into redemption

Throughout the Climax Series final stage, Fukuoka Softbank Hawks manager Koji Akiyama maintained a blunt attitude when asked how he would compare this year's team with last year's squad, saying, "last year was last year. This year is this year."
Britain responds after Expo 2025 afternoon tea brews outrage
The café space at the Osaka Expo's British pavilion
Woman says archbishop of Tokyo ignored her pleas after priest allegedly raped her
In a news conference in Tokyo on Friday, Tokie Tanaka, 64, details her allegations of sexual abuse against a Catholic priest.
Israel protests after Kyoto inn seeks war crime declaration from tourist
A street in Kyoto in March 2023. An Israeli tourist was asked to sign a document stating that he had not committed war crimes when he checked in at a Kyoto guesthouse in April, prompting a response from Israel's ambassador.
Second round of U.S.-Japan tariff talks ends inconclusively in Washington
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick (far left), U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (left) and Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's chief tariff negotiator. The second round of tariff negotiations between Japan and the United States were held on Thursday in Washington.
Inflation and high hotel prices curtail Golden Week travels
Travelers in front of a flight information panel in a departure hall at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on April 26
'Ukiyo-e in Play' showcases traditional art carved anew
The Adachi Institute has been working on creating brand new ukiyo-e prints in collaboration with contemporary artists such as Yayoi Kusama, whose “Mt. Fuji in Seven Colours: When life boundlessly flares up to the universe” (2014) can be seen on display at “Ukiyo-e in Play.”
Want to see the future at Expo Osaka? Get in line.
“‘Future of life,’ by Ishiguro,” the World Expo pavilion by roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro, displays humanlike androids.
Ishiba hears advice from across the aisle on how Japan should handle Trump
Prime Minister Shigaru Ishiba and CDP head Yoshihiko Noda at a parliamentary session in Tokyo on April 23.
Don't send in the clones: AI event nixed as Alt accounts get reality check
A screenshot from the website for Alt's AI conference, which was canceled after the company disclosed an investigation into its sales figures.
CDP submits bill proposal on separate surnames, but challenges remain
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan lawmakers speak to reporters in parliament on Wednesday after submitting a bill in the Lower House to allow married couples to retain different surnames.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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