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Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jan 5, 2016

Moses Malone should be remembered as all-time great

Moses Malone, the Hall of Fame center who died Sept. 13 of a heart attack, was a man of few words.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 4, 2016

Foreign investors get it wrong on Japan stocks, ending 25-year run

For the first year since 1989, foreign investors sold Japanese stocks and missed a rally.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Jan 2, 2016

The little things in life

Now that the season of extravagance is over, it's time to kick back and enjoy some of the little things in life.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Jan 2, 2016

Teens find spicy 'udders' keep boars at bay

A couple of weeks ago, I came home in the evening and found a wild boar on the porch. It had been bled and gutted, but otherwise it was still whole and hairy. I was very busy as I had to head off to Tokyo the next morning, but that present from some kindly local hunter in the Nagano Prefecture hills...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Jan 2, 2016

20 Questions: the best answers of 2015

Japan Times On Sunday contributors select the responses that made them laugh loudest this year
MORE SPORTS
Dec 31, 2015

Super featherweight champion Uchiyama defends title for 11th time

Hard hitter Takashi Uchiyama posted a third-round technical knockout victory over Oliver Flores on Thursday night, defending his WBA super featherweight title for the 11th time at Ota City General Gymnasium.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Dec 30, 2015

Fortuitous move to bullpen led Barnette to majors

The last game pitcher Tony Barnette ever started for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows came against the Chunichi Dragons on March 8, 2011, during spring training. Barnette had already had one life-altering moment that spring — he'd proposed to now-wife Hillary before leaving Arizona for Japan — and, though...
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 30, 2015

Russia to revise space program amid economic troubles, including cuts to moon exploration

Russia is to revise its space program, the national space agency said on Tuesday after a newspaper published a report that billions of dollars of cuts may be on the way, including to ambitious moon exploration plans.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 30, 2015

China sends Japan a message via former navy frigate

Tensions are rising in the East China Sea after China deployed an armed, former navy frigate for the first time to challenge Japan's control of contested islands in what may be an attempt to shift Tokyo's attention away from disputes in the South China Sea.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 29, 2015

Bridgestone considering topping Carl Icahn's increased bid on Pep Boys parts chain

Bridgestone Corp. will decide by the end of the year whether to top Carl Icahn's bid for Pep Boys after the billionaire investor raised his offer for the car-parts chain to more than $1 billion.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Dec 27, 2015

Does the future of Japanese music depend on streaming services?

When music consultant Mikiro Enomoto asked a class of Kyoto Seika University students how they listened to new music last year, he reckons 80 percent of them mentioned YouTube or YouTube-linked sites. When he asked the same question to this year's class, almost all of them said they don't bother looking...
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 24, 2015

Top world news stories of 2015

The Japan Times editors selected these world stories as the most important of 2015.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Dec 24, 2015

Improved play has Fukuoka back in playoff race

There's no magic formula for the Rizing Fukuoka to swiftly climb in the Western Conference standings.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 24, 2015

Answers sought on Japanese reporter said held in Syria

After Reporters Without Borders reveals another Japanese freelancer has been taken hostage in Syria, Tokyo again scrambles to react as fellow journalists criticize the disclosure.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 21, 2015

The French rally to the republic

French voters took the path of reason on Dec. 13 when they thwarted the National Front's bid to gain control of regional assemblies.
LIFE / Language / MORNING ENGLISH
Dec 21, 2015

Let's discuss the Akatsuki space probe

Japan's space agency says its Akatsuki probe has successfully entered into orbit around Venus.
JAPAN / NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT
Dec 20, 2015

Nuclear power plants feared vulnerable to terrorist groups

Security at France's 58 nuclear power plants was purportedly raised to its highest level last month as a result of the terrorist attacks in Paris, stoking concern over the safety of Japan's nuclear facilities.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Dec 19, 2015

Growing old, gracefully: senior citizens in the workplace

For Eiji and Kumiko Ishikawa, the working day starts as early as 5 a.m. Having loaded the requisite equipment into their van, they set off for their first job of the day, a 14-story high-rise in western Tokyo.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Dec 19, 2015

Dropping a bombshell

I read in The Japan Times that China will sell U.S.-denominated bonds.
Reader Mail
Dec 18, 2015

U.S. textbook defender lacks an open mind

The article "50 Japanese scholars fire back in McGraw-Hill sex slave row" in the Dec. 12 issue about professor Eiji Yamashita's well-worded and eminently reasonable rebuttal to the American academics' year-long histrionics over the "comfort women" makes a nice capstone to this disheartening affair.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 17, 2015

Two generations of 'Star Wars' heroes come together in 'The Force Awakens'

It all started a long time ago (1977 to be precise) in a galaxy far, far away — er, Hollywood. Six films and billions of dollars in merchandising later, the world awaits the arrival of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Dec 16, 2015

Airbnb: Will Japan kill the golden goose?

Time will tell whether new legislation kills or culls the golden-egg-laying goose that Airbnb has become for hosts and travelers.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 16, 2015

First stop India, next stop Singapore-Malaysia for Japan's bullet train sales campaign

Fresh from beating China in a $15 billion rail contract in India, Japan now aims to sell its bullet trains to a high-speed line being planned between Singapore and the Malaysian capital. The project would open a new market for companies from Hitachi Ltd. to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Dec 15, 2015

Hanyu's magic transcendent, truly a sight to behold

"Yuzuru Hanyu is not from this planet."
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Dec 15, 2015

Spouses await court ruling on retaining maiden name in marriage

Tears welled up in Kaori Oguni's eyes as she recalled the heartache she felt at what was supposed to be one of the happiest moments of her life — that is, when she and her husband registered their marriage at a Tokyo ward office in 2006.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 14, 2015

Japan's U.S. entanglement

Japan's overreliance on America at times causes its diplomacy to act in a way seemingly at odds with its own interests.
SDF spots China’s biggest aircraft carrier for first time
The Fujian aircraft carrier is seen in Shanghai in May 2024 as it leaves for its first sea trial.
Why more hotels in Japan are offering room-only service
Nipponia Hotel Ise Kawasaki Merchant Town in Ise, Mie Prefecture
Is America ready for Japanese-style 7-Elevens?
Convenience stores are a fixture of Japanese life and 7-Eleven, a chain that began in the U.S. in 1927, opened its first store in Japan in 1974 — and then became wholly Japanese-owned in 2005 through parent company Seven & I Holdings.
Final weeks of World Expo in Osaka likely to see large crowds
With one month left to go, crowds are expected to swell at the World Expo in Osaka during its final weeks.
Japan's elderly population down at around 36.2 million
The estimated number of people age 65 or older in Japan stands at 36.19 million as of Monday, accounting for record 29.4% of the country's total population, according to the internal affairs ministry.
Pole vault rivals in awe after Duplantis has another historic night in Tokyo
Sweden's Armand Duplantis competes in the men's pole fault final during the World Athletics Championships at National Stadium in Tokyo on Monday.
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
Tara Davis-Woodhall leaps to gold and finds redemption at world championships
Tara Davis-Woodhall celebrates after winning the women's long jump final at the World Athletics Championships at Tokyo's National Stadium on Sunday night.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.

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Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
Rethinking that second drink: Japan’s Gen Z gets ‘sober curious’
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