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COMMUNITY / How-tos / HOME TRUTHS
Oct 3, 2015

Don't be green about the charm of tatami

When we were thinking of buying a condominium, we visited several old danchi — apartments built by Japan's former public housing corporation — because they were cheap and, we thought, easy to renovate. One of the units we inspected had bedroom floors made of tatami mats, and we wondered if we could...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 3, 2015

Ishikawa savors resilient Swallows' rise from cellar to CL champions

Masanori Ishikawa was soaked in beer from head to toe. The white Central League Champions T-shirt clung to the veteran Tokyo Yakult Swallows pitcher as he shuffled onto the makeshift stage in center field after the Swallows' pennant-clinching 11-inning 2-1 victory over the Hanshin Tigers on Friday night....
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BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Oct 3, 2015

Robbs reflects on connection to Japan

A recent visitor to Tokyo was old Japan hand and long-time Honolulu sportscaster Don Robbs. The 78-year-old radio voice of the University of Hawaii baseball games and other sports in the islands has been a frequent traveler to this country since he first came here in 1960 as a member of the U.S. Army....
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WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 3, 2015

Oregon sheriff who opposes gun control is thrust into the spotlight after massacre

About a month after the 2012 Sandy Hook school shootings, Douglas County Sheriff John Hanlin in Oregon posted a video on his Facebook page from conspiracy theorists who said the event might have been a hoax. A few days later, he wrote to Vice President Joe Biden, telling him to stay away from gun control....
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MULTIMEDIA
Oct 2, 2015

October 3, 2015

CULTURE / Music
Oct 2, 2015

Moscow Club brings back some indie greats on 'Outfit of the Day'

A ride on the subway drastically changed Tokyo band Moscow Club's fate. After the quartet used crowdfunding site Indiegogo to finance its first full-length album, the members felt it was a good point to end a project that had transformed from a hobby into something taxing.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 2, 2015

Mighty VW was undone by Japanese firm Horiba's portable emissions-gauging systems

Hiroshi Nakamura heard the news early Saturday morning last month from a U.S. colleague: Volkswagen AG had just admitted to years of cheating on emissions tests.
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COMMUNITY / Issues
Oct 1, 2015

Neither here nor there: Stretched between Nigeria and Japan, family ties fray

This is the last of a two-part series on Japanese-Nigerian families torn between Asia and Africa. The first part can be found here.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Oct 1, 2015

Eto, Kimura await world-title bouts in Sendai

Boxers Koki Eto and Yu Kimura wil enter the ring in Sendai for world-title shots in late November, Teiken Promotions announced on Thursday.
JAPAN / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 1, 2015

Japan, China timed announcement of espionage arrests, says expert

Beijing and Tokyo appear to have waited until two of China's key events were over before revealing the detention of two Japanese nationals.
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JAPAN / Society
Oct 1, 2015

My Number poses dilemma for bar hostesses, others moonlighting after work

A dirty little secret of one Japanese "office lady" stereotype is that some women, dissatisfied with their clerical salaries, augment their earnings by moonlighting as bar hostesses.
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BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Oct 1, 2015

Defending champion Hamamatsu aims for another title in league's final season

The 11th and final bj-league season gets underway on Friday night, signaling an end to several months of massive changes within the league.
EDITORIALS
Oct 1, 2015

Valid concerns over My Number

Public worry is high over the coming My Number system, and with good reason.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 1, 2015

Catalonia's breakaway vote

Artur Mas, president of the regional government of Catalonia, is creating a crisis for Spain as he strives for independence.
WORLD
Oct 1, 2015

Venom experts say global snake bite death tolls are grossly underestimated

Venom specialists said Wednesday that disease and disability caused by snake bites is far higher than official global health estimates suggest, and that anti-venom stocks are running dangerously low.
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CULTURE / Books
Oct 1, 2015

Photographer aims to explain Okinawa's tensions in pictures

It is not easy to regard oneself as an oppressor.
JAPAN
Sep 30, 2015

Overseas online purchases to be taxed in bid to protect domestic industries

Consumers in Japan will pay sales tax on overseas online purchases from Thursday in a policy change to eliminate the price advantage of foreign firms over domestic rivals.
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COMMENTARY / World
Sep 30, 2015

Xi's visit to the U.S. — the devil is in the details

Following Xi Jinping's visit to the U.S., China touted progress in their 'Major-Country Relationship,' a topic on which Washington was curiously silent.
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CULTURE / Film
Sep 30, 2015

Down and out with Tokyo's manga artists

That Japanese movies are often adapted from Japanese manga is no secret. Less well known is the subgenre of films about the lives of some Japanese mangaka (manga artists), which is informally known as mangakamono. Many of these fictional biopics have gone on to become local blockbusters, but we'll get...
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CULTURE / Film
Sep 30, 2015

In 'Fathers and Daughters' it doesn't take a village to raise a child, only Russell Crowe

Dads and their female offspring are a whole different pot of stew from mothers and their girls — both in the movies and in real life. Director Gabriele Muccino ("The Pursuit of Happyness") takes on the theme in "Fathers and Daughters," but doesn't bring anything new to the party. In fact, his movie...
BUSINESS / Tech
Sep 30, 2015

Twitter may expand 140-character limit with new product

Twitter is finally waking up to the idea that some things just cannot be summed up in 140 characters.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 29, 2015

A Helsinki-type process could work for Koreas

The recent military tension between Seoul and Pyongyang shows that an institutional framework for permanent inter-Korean peace is more urgent than ever.

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