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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 11, 2011

Ramirez confident despite slow start at plate this season

Alex Ramirez isn't worried about his numbers.
JAPAN
Jun 10, 2011

Unsigned treaties up Japan's nuke suit risk

As a nonsignatory to three international treaties on compensation for nuclear accidents, Japan is exposed to the risk of expensive lawsuits.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jun 10, 2011

Miyamoto piece to open up Yokohama to Broadway gem

The first Broadway musical directed by a Japanese person will be performed in Yokohama from June 17 to July 3.
BUSINESS
Jun 8, 2011

Mazda output at plant shared with Ford to end

Mazda Motor Corp. plans to stop making sedans at a Michigan plant shared with Ford Motor Co. since 1992 as part of efforts to improve efficiency and cut costs.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 7, 2011

Fighters repel Giants to chalk up another shutout win

The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters have discovered the one undeniable constant in all of sports.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WORDS TO LIVE BY
Jun 7, 2011

Refugees International Japan President Jane Best

Jane Best is the president of Refugees International Japan, an independent, nonprofit organization based in Tokyo. Since its foundation 32 years ago, RIJ's dedicated volunteers and staff have been raising funds in Japan and working on projects to help support refugees around the world. Before joining...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / HOTELS & RESTAURANTS
Jun 3, 2011

Grand Pacific Le Daiba hotel offers amenities for runners

With running and fitness attracting followers as the annual Tokyo Marathon gains in popularity, a new running course around Tokyo's Odaiba area (where the marathon finishes) opened on May 22. It offers views of Tokyo Bay and is uninterrupted by traffic.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jun 2, 2011

Festival season kicks into gear with Taico Club

This weekend's Taico Club in Nagano Prefecture will be the first of four summer-festival appearances for Tokyo synth-pop/postpunk act Kimonos. Formed only last year, the duo of Leo Imai and Zazen Boys' Shutoku Mukai will also play at Fuji Rock (July 30), World Happiness (Aug. 7) and the Rising Sun Rock...
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
May 31, 2011

The edified and TEDified in Japan

On May 21, Tokyo's third annual TEDx event was held at Miraikan (the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation) in Odaiba. Though officially closed until June 11 due to the Great Eastern Japan Earthquake, Miraikan hosted 300 guests to this year's event: TEDxTokyo 2011: Enter the Unknown.
ENVIRONMENT
May 29, 2011

Serendipities at every turn on this island 'pearl'

The sound of Buddhist chanting grew louder as my travel companions and I entered the compound around the "temple," where flickering torches lit the smiling faces of sedately circling monks as the warm tones of their voices carried through the impenetrable darkness on a chilling, flag-fluttering breeze....
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
May 27, 2011

Niigata brings down curtain on Hirose era

After 11 seasons at the helm, Masaya Hirose's tenure as Niigata Albirex BB coach has ended.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
May 22, 2011

Recalling fond memories of Killebrew

It is always sad to hear about the death of a ballplayer who, as a youth, you admired.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
May 21, 2011

Sunny today with a chance of margaritas

When I first moved to the "Harenokuni Okayama (Sunny Okayama)" prefecture, I couldn't help but imagine how lazy the weather forecasters must be. I envisioned them laying in hammocks with margaritas in their hand while spewing out the weekly forecast — "Sunny every day!" — and assuring the public...
BUSINESS
May 19, 2011

Yamaha expands U.S. ATV output as dollar falls, transport costs rise

Yamaha Motor Co. is expanding U.S. production of all-terrain vehicles as a weaker dollar and higher transport costs make manufacturing the off-road products in their biggest market more enticing than building them in Japan.
COMMENTARY / World
May 16, 2011

When prevention is more effective than relief

When the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan in March, Brian Tucker was in Padang, Indonesia. Tucker was working with a colleague to design a refuge that could save thousands of lives if — or rather, when — a tsunami like the one in 1797 that came out of the Indian Ocean, some 1,000 km southeast of...
CULTURE / Books
May 15, 2011

Nintendo's Wiining ways

PLAYING TO WIIN: Nintendo and the Video Game Industry, by Daniel Sloan. Wiley, 2011, 256 pp., $24.95 (hardcover) Ten years ago, tough times had hit Nintendo with shrinking sales and profits, increasing demand for new products and growing pressure from competitors. What hope was there for a comeback from...
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
May 15, 2011

Media starting to tally the economic effects of foreigner flight

News reports immediately following the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear plant accident of panicked foreign residents lining up for the first flight home — in many cases advised to flee by their own governments — had the initial result of helping to feed the sense of angst among Japanese that...
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
May 15, 2011

Japan's renegade hero gives Saipan new hope

Graciano Lisua doesn't look like someone who would get too worked up about ghosts. Yet superstition, says the broad-shouldered, barrel-chested Chomorron as he leans on his machete, is of great import for the inhabitants of the Mariana Islands.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
May 14, 2011

F.A. Cup final losing more luster

The downgrading of the F.A. Cup, football's oldest knockout competition, continues. Saturday's final between Manchester City and Stoke City will be one of the lowest profile of all-time.

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Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan