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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Jul 8, 2013

Tanaka hitting his stride as season progresses

The next time Masahiro Tanaka takes the mound for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles he'll be trying to win his 12th consecutive decision since opening day.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
May 28, 2013

281_Anti Nuke's anger at authority is at a critical mass

More than two years after the triple reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, hundreds of thousands of residents of the Tohoku region of northeastern Honshu remain displaced, the power station teeters on the brink of further disaster and large swaths of northern Japan are so irradiated...
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Apr 23, 2013

Early trouble will test Golden Eagles' mettle

The grind of a 144-game season will usually, over time, weed out the pretenders from the contenders, often with ruthless precision.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 21, 2013

Marines rally past Eagles

The Chiba Lotte Marines' pitchers were off to a good start, but the team's offense was having a little trouble getting things going against the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 11, 2013

Fighters bounce back, blank Eagles

The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters didn't put up much of a fight against the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles' ace in the first game of their series.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / HOTLINE TO NAGATACHO
Apr 9, 2013

Rosy Fukushima health report faulted by experts

Dear Prime Minister Shinzo Abe,
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / WEEK 3
Mar 17, 2013

How an American collector brought Jakuchu to Tohoku

Including loans from each of Japan's six national museums as well as the Imperial Household Agency, 'Jakuchu's Here!' represents to a gift from Japan's art establishment to an audience that it has neglected for decades.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 13, 2013

Tokyo doctor adds disaster zone to practice

Ever since the 9-magnitude earthquake rocked the Tohoku region two years ago, Tokyo doctor Naoko Ishii and her husband, Hajime, have been quasi-residents of the Ogatsu district of Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture.
JAPAN
Mar 12, 2013

Survivors recall two years of struggle

The Emperor, Empress and millions across the country observe a moment of silence at 2:46 p.m. — the exact time when calamity struck Japan on March 11, 2011.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 12, 2013

Orphans need special trauma care

Hundreds orphaned by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami remain vulnerable two years later because of insufficient government support.
EDITORIALS
Mar 11, 2013

Two years after the 3/11 disasters

Japan this week marks the second anniversary of the massive earthquake and tsunami that devastated Pacific coastal areas of the Tohoku region.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 10, 2013

Two wide-ranging, informed compilations scrutinize the March 11 disasters

NATURAL DISASTER AND NUCLEAR CRISIS IN JAPAN, edited by Jeff Kingston. Routledge, 2012, 304 pp., £28.99 (paperback)
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 9, 2013

Photos by Tohoku's elderly on show

Aiming to draw attention to the daily lives of the tsunami-hit northeast, an exhibition of photographs taken by residents of Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, began Friday in Tokyo, featuring their daily lives after the tragic twin disasters.

Longform

A sinkhole in Yashio, which emerged in January, was triggered by a ruptured, aging sewer pipe. Authorities worry that similar sections of infrastructure across the country are also at risk of corrosion.
That sinking feeling: Japan’s aging sewers are an infrastructure time bomb