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SOCCER / J. League
Mar 31, 2013

Ardija hand Antlers first loss of J. League campaign

Omiya Ardija come from behind to end Kashima Antlers' unbeaten start to the J. League season with a 3-1 win on Saturday.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Mar 31, 2013

U.S. takes lead on missile defense

The United States has quietly taken on the huge task of trying to organize regional ballistic missile defense networks, not only among NATO countries, but also in East Asia and the Middle East.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Mar 31, 2013

Fashion Week Tokyo: Crazy good times make the womenswear cut

If there is one brand that the world needs to stop, drop and roll its collective mouse over online to check out every season, it's Anrealage.
Reader Mail
Mar 31, 2013

What are Americans' excuses?

Regarding The Washington Post article by Max Fisher, published March 25 in The Japan Times under the headline "Did success have a prayer in Iraq?": Lessons will go unheeded by the "38 percent of Americans" who continue to think the Iraq war was "worth it."
Reader Mail
Mar 31, 2013

Berezovsky's plans were foiled

Regarding the March 27 Observer feature titled "Berezovsky: a tale of betrayal by pal Putin": The Boris Yeltsin era was the worst for Russia since World War II. The country was in chaos, run by a band of mobsters headed by Boris Berezovsky, who spoiled and ripped out what was left of the collapsed Soviet...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / BACKSTREET STORIES
Mar 31, 2013

Suites, treats and backstreets of the Imperial Hotel

The Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, or 'Teikoku Hotel,' has occupied the same privileged location, across from Hibiya Park and minutes from the Imperial Palace, for over a century.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 30, 2013

Appliance makers get serious about beauty products

'Beauty' may not be the first thing that pops into people's heads when they think about electronics, but struggling Japanese home electronics manufacturers see a great deal of promise in a range of beauty gadgets targeting women, from high-tech hair dryers to steam skin moisturizers.
SOCCER / J. League
Mar 30, 2013

FC Tokyo's Lee not lacking confidence as he seeks return to national team

Tadanari Lee is determined to use his loan move from Southampton to FC Tokyo as a springboard to return to the national team, but club manager Ranko Popovic has warned his new striker not to try too hard to impress.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 30, 2013

The car of the future that runs on air

There was a sense, when I arrived in Paris a couple of weeks ago, that France was if not quite in meltdown then certainly enduring a profound existential crisis.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 30, 2013

Former French president's son runs for office from America

Louis Giscard d'Estaing, a former two-term deputy representing Puy-de-Dome in the National Assembly, mayor of Chamalieres and son of former French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing kicked off his latest campaign Tuesday afternoon — in Bethesda, Maryland.
Events / KANSAI: WHO & WHAT
Mar 30, 2013

Kyoto's Zuishin-in hosting dance performance

Children in pale pink traditional costumes will dance and sing in a Hanezu Odori performance in Kyoto's Zuishin-in Temple on Sunday.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 29, 2013

Abe reportedly won't visit controversial shrine for spring ceremony

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is not likely to visit Yasukuni Shrine during an important Shinto ceremony this spring but instead will dedicate a ritual implement to the controversial Tokyo shrine, which honors the nation's war dead, including Class-A war criminals, government sources indicated Friday.
JAPAN
Mar 29, 2013

LDP takes aim at English education, seeks to boost TOEFL levels

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party is on a quest to reform the educational system in order to foster global talent to reverse the nation’s declining competitiveness on the world stage, and English-language studies have been especially targeted for improvement.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 29, 2013

2013 Pacific League Preview

Final installment of a two-part 2013 NPB Preview.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 29, 2013

'Herb & Dorothy 50×50'

This is the followup to "Herb & Dorothy" from 2008, in which New York-based documentary filmmaker Megumi Sasaki wowed the world when she introduced Manhattan art-collector couple Herb and Dorothy Vogel. For some reason, it took a full two years for that film to make it to Japanese theaters, and during...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 29, 2013

Anna Karenina

'Anna Karenina" won the Oscar for best costume design this year, and like many a period literary adaptation, you might assume the frocks and greatcoats are the main attraction, the "value added" to what is necessarily a leaner version of an epic novel. Certainly director Joe Wright, who filmed Jane Austen's...
JAPAN / Science & Health
Mar 28, 2013

New prenatal test in high demand but limited to risk cases

Testing will begin in Japan on a new, noninvasive prenatal test to check for chromosomal abnormalities, but it will be limited to pregnant women deemed at risk of having babies with Down syndrome or other disorders.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 28, 2013

Japanese acts play music ambassadors at Canadian Music Week

After rock group Jake Stone Garage hit the final chord of one of their powerful guitar-heavy songs, the crowd let out a few hoots and applauded politely.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 28, 2013

April: Karl Hyde to headline SonarSound

The next month features a great mix of concerts for all sorts of live-music fans. Several long-running bands visit Japan in April, as do some of the most hyped-up young outfits in the world today. Whether you like apocalyptic postrock or Swedish indie rock, the next 30 days have you covered.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 28, 2013

Asian pivot key to rebooting nuclear disarmament efforts

To break the deadlock over nuclear disarmament, the U.S. must transform negotiations with Russia into a trilateral framework that includes China.
BUSINESS
Mar 28, 2013

To build brand, firms produce own media

The Red Bulletin is a handsome Web and print magazine that practically oozes testosterone. Recent issues have featured stories on the world's deepest free diver, human-pyramid building in Spain and a guy who rappels into volcanoes. All of it is embellished with photography worthy of Sports Illustrated....
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 28, 2013

Pope Francis should look east to end poverty

Philippine President Benigno Aquino faces a huge roadblock in his push to end the poverty weighing on his 106 million people: the Catholic Church.
CULTURE / Music / STRANGE BOUTIQUE
Mar 28, 2013

R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Find out what it means to indie's new talent

It's 6 a.m. and the tiny studio is crammed full of people and reeks of sweat. An ear-splitting punk trio do their best to blast the ceiling off and a woman wrapped in nothing but a bit of Duct tape careers around the room, shrieking into a microphone.
Japan to start new residency system for foreign workers
Students hoping to work in Japan attend a Japanese class at a job placement company in Hanoi in October 2022.
Japan to regularly accept assistant language teachers from India
Indian assistant language teachers pose for a photo with Japanese Ambassador Keiichi Ono (center) at the Japanese Embassy in New Delhi on Friday.
With Hall of Fame induction, Ichiro makes himself heard loud and clear
Ichiro Suzuki, one of the most iconic players in NPB and MLB history, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame with 99.7% of the vote.
‘Demon Slayer’ movie slashes its own box office records
“Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle” is the first installment in a trilogy that's set to wrap the anime adaptation of Koyoharu Gotoke's manga about sword-wielding heroes fighting man-eating demons.
Kyoto University researchers find mechanism behind malignant pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancer, the third-leading cause of cancer death in Japan, has the lowest five-year survival rate of any cancer at just 8.5%.
Amid fossil fuel shift in U.S., hope emerges for India and Japan tie-up on solar
A technician works on the assembly line at a solar panel manufacturing hub on the outskirts of New Delhi last October.
Three decades and a pile of notebooks: The beat writer who chronicled Ichiro’s career
Reporters and photographers, including long-time baseball beat writer Keizo Konishi, swarm around Ichiro Suzuki during the World Baseball Classic in San Diego in 2009.
Behind the scenes: Inside Fuji Rock’s strategy for staying on top
In recent years, Fuji Rock has had fewer blockbuster performers and showcased more top-selling Japanese acts and international musicians' first-time performances in Japan.
Tokyo is the No. 2 choice for international students
The University of Tokyo. International students are increasingly flocking to Asia, with affordability being a particularly important metric.
Japan leans into homegrown AI amid rising competition
McKinsey’s 2025 Technology Trends Outlook, published Wednesday, says that the use of “sovereign AI” is a trend gaining significant global traction, including in Japan.

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Ichiro Suzuki, one of the most iconic players in NPB and MLB history, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame with 99.7% of the vote.
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