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SOCCER
Sep 1, 2010

Teenager Miyaichi to join Arsenal

NAGOYA (Kyodo) Seventeen-year-old striker Ryo Miyaichi is set to join Arsenal after catching the eye in a trial with the Premier League giants this month, Kyodo News learned Tuesday.
Japan Times
SOCCER / World cup
Aug 31, 2010

Zaccheroni named as new Japan manager

The Japan Football Association on Monday named former AC Milan and Juventus manager Alberto Zaccheroni to lead the national team.
JAPAN / Q&A
Aug 28, 2010

Shedding light on death penalty

Justice Minister Keiko Chiba, who will probably be replaced next month because she lost her Diet seat in the July 11 Upper House election, allowed journalists for the first time Friday to enter the Tokyo Detention House's execution chamber.
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Aug 28, 2010

Aichi aims to earn a place in arts via Nagoya's Triennale festival

Nagoya hopes the Aichi Triennale art festival will bring together artists and citizens from around the world.
SOCCER / J. League
Aug 28, 2010

No regrets as Inamoto reflects on nomadic career

KAWASAKI — If Japanese soccer has been on a journey since the J. League began in 1993, no one has racked up more miles than Junichi Inamoto.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 27, 2010

Orchestra taps dancer Kumagai for cross-genre concert

Thirty-three-year-old Kazunori Kumagai started tap dancing when he was 15. Four years later, he went by himself to New York to attend special training for a role in "Noise/Funk," a Broadway show that traced black history in the United States through tap, hip-hop and funk rhythms. His Broadway dream was...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 27, 2010

'Tokyo-jima (Tokyo Island)'

It's a common fantasy — being the only guy on an island of beautiful women. But to be the only woman on an island of men, including the good, the bad and the ugly? Somewhat different, isn't it?
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Aug 27, 2010

Special Imperial knife ceremony

On Sept. 12, the Hyatt Regency Tokyo will hold a special dinner event featuring a rare Imperial Court tradition called hocho shiki (kitchen knife ceremony).
SOCCER / J. League
Aug 27, 2010

JFA continues search for coach

The Japan Football Association has yet to find a successor for World Cup coach Takeshi Okada.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 27, 2010

In the absence of information comes greater imagination

The 1990s saw the rise of what at the time seemed an important generation of Japanese female photographers. This included Junko Takahashi, HIROMIX, Rika Noguchi, Mika Ninagawa and Tomoko Sawada. While much of this new wave — most notably the narcissistic soft-porn of HIROMIX and the cosplay outings...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 27, 2010

Klaxons

Klaxons divide opinion like few others. Emerging in 2006 to a crescendo of hype, they were held up as leaders of the nu-rave movement even before their debut album "Myths of the Near Future" was busy thrilling and irritating in equal measure.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2010

Sumo hopes to keep stablemasters in touch with iPads

High school girls may make rapidly tapping out messages on a cell phone look like child's play, but for sumo wrestlers — with fingers too large to hit a single key at a time — grappling with standard handsets is a gargantuan task.
BUSINESS
Aug 26, 2010

July export growth slows for fifth straight month

Export growth slowed for the fifth straight month in July as slowing global demand and a strong yen erode a key driver of the economy, government data showed Wednesday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Aug 26, 2010

All for the love of Tajima cows

When you hear the term, "Kobe beef," a few things are likely to come to mind: the velvety, fatty richness of the meat, the extraordinarily high price of a steak and the lavish lifestyle of the cattle. The pampering these cows receive is renowned and the image of beer-chugging bovines has been seared...
BUSINESS
Aug 25, 2010

MHI debuts hybrid supercharger

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. has developed what it claims is the world's first hybrid supercharger system that generates electricity with heat from the exhaust gas of a diesel ship engine.
COMMENTARY
Aug 25, 2010

Pakistan: a question of water

This may not be the most tactful time to bring it up, with much of Pakistan underwater and many millions homeless, but Pakistan's real problem is not too much water. It is too little water — and one day it could cause a war.
Living conditions index hits lowest level in 15 years in Japan
The share of respondents to a Bank of Japan quarterly survey in June who said they have become worse off came to 61.0%, up 5.1 percentage points from the previous survey.
Tokyo emerges as a top market for global tech talent
Tokyo ranks among the world's top tech talent hubs alongside Beijing, the San Francisco Bay Area, Bengaluru, Paris, New York and Dublin, according to Colliers' newly released global tech markets report.
From stalking to death threats, female candidates still face harassment
Mayu Ushida, a former NHK newscaster running for election in the Tokyo electoral district on the Democratic Party for the People ticket, signs an autograph for a voter after a public rally at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Tuesday.
CDP leader criticizes ‘Japanese First’ policy and calls for inclusive society
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yoshihiko Noda said it is obvious that Japanese society could not function without the help of foreign workers in manufacturing, health care, construction and public transportation.
JSA’s 100th anniversary event is a once-in-a-lifetime chance for sumo fans
Egyptian wrestler Osunaarashi has some fun with children during a special Japan Sumo Association event in 2017.
Japan's rice farmers are confounded by Shinjiro Koizumi’s policies
Kiyoshi Shibata stands in front of one of the rice paddies in Murayama, Yamagata Prefecture, where he produces the prefecture's signature rice brand Tsuyahime.
From stalking to death threats, female candidates still face harassment
Mayu Ushida, a former NHK newscaster running for election in the Tokyo electoral district on the Democratic Party for the People ticket, signs an autograph for a voter after a public rally at Shinjuku Station in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Kawaii Lab redefines idol pop for the TikTok generation
Misa Kimura is the main producer for Kawaii Lab, a project by entertainment agency Asobisystem whose groups have found success by pairing a social media-first strategy with a fresh perspective on traditional idol-pop tropes.
Craig Mod's life in motion in a disappearing Japan
Mod's memoir “Things Become Other Things” chronicles his walking trips across the Kii Peninsula, surveying “a graceful end to a certain life cycle.”
With China and Trump, Japan defense report says world entering ‘new era of crisis’
A senior member of a Self-Defense Forces honor guard inspects a formation before the arrival of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba for a visit to the Defense Ministry in Tokyo on June 30.

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After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan
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