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BASKETBALL
Aug 18, 2006

Big names rolling in for showdown in Sapporo as worlds set to tip off

SAPPORO -- The world's best have finally found their way to northern Japan.
BASKETBALL
Aug 18, 2006

FIBA World Championship has long, colorful history

World Cup soccer's exploits have been well chronicled. Basketball's international competitions, excluding Olympic gold-medal games, have received much-less attention from the sporting press.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 18, 2006

Urban tea party gets lift at beach

Unlike Fuji Rock, that other Japanese music festival, and which celebrated its 10th anniversary this year, Summer Sonic is still very much in evolution. It's an evolution less stylistic than logistical.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 18, 2006

Fans go cool on Arctic Monkeys

You might think it would be exciting for a band from a Sheffield suburb to play a huge festival in Japan. But when Arctic Monkeys played the packed Mountain Stage, it was without even the merest flicker of a smile. Preferring to bemoan the noise coming from the stage next door, vocalist Alex Turner seemed...
BASKETBALL
Aug 17, 2006

3-point shooting, pressure defense are key objectives for Japan at worlds

The Japan National Team appeared in the 1998 FIBA World Championship after a 31-year absence. The team was eliminated in the first round and failed to qualify for the tournament four years later.
BASKETBALL
Aug 15, 2006

Team Japan's heads held high despite loss as worlds approach

URAYASU, Chiba Pref. -- More than an hour after Japan and Senegal had completed their exciting exhibition basketball game at the Urayasu City Sports Park Gymnasium on Sunday several hundred die-hard fans remained at the arena.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Aug 13, 2006

Giants '80s theme nights on; scalpers, bonus packets gone

In a further effort to draw more fans to home games at Tokyo Dome and remind supporters how good the team played 15-25 years ago, the Yomiuri Giants are remembering the "good ol' days" and holding '80s Night on Fridays.
JAPAN
Aug 11, 2006

2,339 pools don't pass drain grille muster

Nationwide, 2,339 school and public swimming pools do not meet safety standards because their drain and intake grilles are not properly bolted in place, according to a government survey released Thursday.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 11, 2006

Sax man Pharoah Sanders still hitting the right notes

One of the finest tenor saxophone players of his generation, Pharoah Sanders returns to Japan to play three dates at the Blue Note in Tokyo from Aug. 20-23, before guesting with the Japanese jazz-dance fusion band Sleepwalker as part of Metamorphose, an eclectic one-day dance music/jazz festival taking...
JAPAN
Aug 9, 2006

1,900 pools are missing or have insecure intake grilles

The education minister said Tuesday public swimming pools may face on-site inspections after a survey found 1,900 of them nationwide have drain-related safety problems.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Aug 6, 2006

Many happy returns to my Tokyo village past and present

As readers of this column last week may recall, I wrote there about a period in the early 1980s when my wife and I lived in the western Tokyo suburb of Soshigaya in Setagaya Ward. Three of our four children were born in the local hospital, and we have only the fondest memories of the old neighborhood....
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / WALKING THE WARDS
Aug 4, 2006

Shibuya's got glamour, and more

Anyone with more than a week in Tokyo has spent some time with Shibuya's mascot, Hachiko, waiting and watching thousands of individuals merge on cue into a tsunami of mass determination and consumerism, a scramble of humanity.
JAPAN
Jul 31, 2006

Lawyers eye cult rape accusations

. South Korean authorities have put Jung, 61, on an international wanted list on rape charges.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 30, 2006

Dawn of news for Chinese journalism

PRAGUE -- A remarkable incident has emboldened Chinese journalists. Earlier this year, the government suspended publication of the newspaper Bing Dian Weekly, provoking unprecedented open protest, which received extensive media coverage worldwide.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Jul 30, 2006

New horizons beckon legendary sailor

This story is part of a package on "Growing old healthily." The introduction is here
Japan Times
LIFE
Jul 30, 2006

Gran, 71, leaves world in her wake

This story is part of a package on "Growing old healthily." The introduction is here
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 27, 2006

Amazon Japan to launch online shopping mall

Major online book retailer Amazon Japan K.K. is approaching retailers in preparation for opening an online shopping mall, company officials said Wednesday.
Japan Times
LIFE
Jul 23, 2006

Democracy falters as underworld forces flourish

Kyrgyzstan is referred to as a faltering state, meaning that it is not quite failing.
JAPAN
Jul 22, 2006

JAXA to replace expensive M-5 rockets in fiscal 2007

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will stop producing M-5 solid-fuel rockets and replace them with cheaper ones in the next fiscal year, JAXA officials said Thursday.
EDITORIALS
Jul 22, 2006

Funding scandal shakes ivory tower

It came as a shock last year when former Seoul National University professor Hwang Woo Suk's claims that he had created stem cells by cloning human embryos turned out to be fraudulent. A recent case at Waseda University in Tokyo is no less surprising, although it mainly concerns the irregular use of...
JAPAN
Jul 19, 2006

GSDF troops enjoyed Japanese rice, cup noodles sent over to Samawah

Throughout their 2 1/2-year mission in Iraq that concluded Monday, Ground Self-Defense Force troops survived mostly on food transported from Japan, including 420 tons of rice, logistics officers said.
JAPAN
Jul 19, 2006

Japanese win gold at global math contest

Two Japanese high school students have won gold medals at this year's International Mathematical Olympiad in Slovenia, while four other Japanese contestants took silver and bronze, education ministry officials said Tuesday.
COMMENTARY
Jul 19, 2006

Cultural diplomacy in the Middle East

Political and economic stability in the Middle East is vital to ensure Japan's energy security and to reduce risks in the global economic system. In the interests of this region's mid- and long-term political stability, it is clearly desirable for "democratization" in the region to take root deeply and...
Tokyo hit by torrential rainfall at rush hour
People line up at Shibuya Station in Tokyo as they try to avoid the heavy rain on Thursday.
Foreign drivers in Japan to face tougher license conversion rules from October
According to the National Police Agency, there were 75,905 people who converted their foreign driver’s license to a Japanese one in 2024, up from 48,885 in 2019.
Nissan clinches $4.5 billion bond deal after orders soar
Nissan Motor has raised $4.5 billion through a junk bond sale in U.S. dollars and euros, part of which carries a record-high coupon rate.
Chinese fighters came within 30 meters of Japanese spy aircraft, Tokyo says
A Chinese JH-7 fighter jet makes an near an Air Self-Defense Force YS-11EB surveillance aircraft over the East China Sea this week in this image released Thursday.
What Japanese politics could look like after Upper House election
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who heads the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (center) waves to attendees as he departs after delivering a campaign speech in Yokohama on Sunday.
An emoji used to say it all. Now it might say too much.
Apple’s Craig Federighi shows off a set of emoji at a conference on June 13, 2016. While the small pictures have proved helpful in conveying nuance in our texts, younger people are using them less often.
‘Our ultimate goal is to save every single Japanese video game’
After nearly shuttering earlier this year, the Tokyo-based Game Preservation Society continues its work to save the early history of Japanese gaming.
Rare vintage shots and first-time shows at TOP’s 30th anniversary
The museum's curators selected a wide array of works from the archives for the milestone exhibitions. Among other photos, Nobuyoshi Araki's work from the series "Winter Journey" (1990) was included in the "Continuity and Change" exhibition that concluded in June.
New IG Arena set to dial down temperature at Nagoya Basho, in a good way
With IG Arena getting glowing early reviews as the Nagoya Basho’s replacement venue, it may be a while before fans wax nostalgic about the Aichi Prefectural Gymnasium.
Once a niche, anime is now mainstream content for Netflix and other streaming services
Though Netflix remains the dominant choice globally for anime viewers, Amazon Prime Video has also invested heavily in anime, steadily adding titles to their catalogue.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Mount Fuji is considered one of Japan's most iconic symbols and is a major draw for tourists. It's still a mountain, though, and potential hikers need to properly prepare for any climb.
What it takes to save lives on Mount Fuji
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