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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 25, 2016

Fighters skipper Kuriyama grateful for change of seasons, another trip to Japan Series

Hokkaido, the northernmost place in Japan, opens the door to winter faster than other places, and the leaves are already changing colors from green to yellow and red. And this makes Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters skipper Hideki Kuriyama genuinely thankful to be playing baseball this late in the year.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 23, 2016

Carp sink Fighters to take 2-0 Japan Series lead

Hiroshima Carp fans might have gone home feeling that a little can sometimes go a long way after Game 2 of the Japan Series. Their Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters counterparts, however, head back to Sapporo thinking that snowballs have a nasty tendency to start avalanches.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 23, 2016

A-Bomb Dome gives foreign players pause for thought during Japan Series

In Hiroshima's Naka Ward, amid the excitement and revelry of the Japan Series being in town, sits the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Atomic Bomb Dome, one of the world's most significant historical markers and a constant reminder of a darker time in the city's history.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 23, 2016

Carp slugger Eldred savoring Japan Series experience

Brad Eldred wants to savor every moment of this trip to the Japan Series. From every crack of the bat, every ouendan song and the thwack heard when the ball hits a glove, he wants to remember all of it. It's Eldred's first time here, and he's not taking it for granted.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 18, 2016

Why Japan and India must be partners in Myanmar

A Japan-India partnership on major projects in Myanmar can help reduce the salience of Chinese influence there.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 17, 2016

Japan denies reported plan to jointly administer Russian-held islands

Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga on Monday denied a media report that the government is discussing jointly administering with Russia the disputed islands off Hokkaido as it seeks a breakthrough deal on a row that has prevented the two nations from inking a peace treaty to formally end World War...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 15, 2016

Japan and Mongolia agree to strengthen ties further

Mongolian Prime Minister Jargaltulga Erdenebat and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed Friday during talks in Tokyo to accelerate ongoing efforts to draw up a 2017-21 action plan to strengthen bilateral ties.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Oct 5, 2016

Veteran Oga has harsh message for Women's Japan Basketball League

The Women's Japan Basketball League prepared a ball room at a luxury Tokyo hotel for its season-opening news conference with the head coaches and captains of all the 12 clubs on Monday.
JAPAN
Oct 5, 2016

Japan at the center of North Korean defection drama in Beijing: reports

Tokyo denies reports that two high-ranking North Korean officials in Beijing are seeking political asylum in Japan.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 27, 2016

Japan's top admiral urges resumption of China port calls to ease tensions

The head of the Maritime Self-Defense Force on Monday repeated criticism of China's pursuit of territorial claims but called for a resumption of port and personnel visits, which have been suspended for several years amid rising tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 26, 2016

U.S., South Korea conduct joint naval exercises in the Sea of Japan

The U.S. and South Korea conducted joint naval exercises in the Sea of Japan on Monday amid growing tensions with North Korea over its nuclear weapons program.

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