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Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League / B. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Sep 15, 2016

Enthusiastic players unite to promote new league

Players were upbeat and enthusiastic, and a positive vibe filled the room.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 14, 2016

Bolt leaves door open for 2017 world sprint double

Usain Bolt has left the door open to running in both the 100 and 200 meters at next year's world championships, where he said he will be more focused on protecting his legacy than topping his world records.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 13, 2016

Central bank's policies impeding recovery

Central bankers' 'central planning' of the financial sector with controlled prices for credit are failing for the same reason as central planners of communist economies failed. It's time to allow financial markets to determine interest rates.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 13, 2016

Clinton never learns she can't hide every stumble

The drip-drip-drip of revelations about Hillary Clinton's actions have been far worse for her than if she'd been more forthcoming in the first place.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 13, 2016

Online betting markets pare prospects of Clinton win amid health scare but she still tops Trump

Online betting markets cut back Hillary Clinton's prospects of winning the Nov. 8 election after a video showed the Democratic presidential candidate stumbling and having difficulty walking as she was helped into a van at a Sept. 11 memorial, raising concerns about her health.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Sep 12, 2016

At U.S. Open, Japanese brands leave Nike, Adidas in the dust

It's called the U.S. Open, and the crowd is definitely from New York, but the clothing on the court is decidedly Japanese.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Sep 10, 2016

Godzilla hits middle age but is still fueled by Japan's anxieties

Within one month of its July release, Toho's "Shin Gojira" ("Godzilla Resurgence") attracted more than 3.6 million viewers. Box-office takings are already estimated to have surpassed ¥5.3 billion, putting the film more than halfway toward the seldom-attained figure of ¥10 billion. Toho has great expectations...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Sep 10, 2016

National trauma and the memory wars of Asia

It has been 15 years since 9/11, and America's nightmare has metastasized beyond anyone's wildest imagination. It is a bad dream that includes former President George W. Bush's Iraq War debacle, which plunged the Middle East into its current turmoil. But America's trauma pales when compared with the...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League
Sep 8, 2016

Sunrockers working to meet professional commitments

The B. League, a brand-new men's professional basketball circuit in Japan, will open its inaugural season later this month.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Sep 7, 2016

Views from Tokyo: What were your highlights from the Rio Olympics?

People out and about in the capital offer their views on the best of the 2016 Summer Games.
BUSINESS / Companies
Sep 6, 2016

Sumitomo 'liquidating Japan hedge fund' as clients pull out

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. is liquidating a Japan-focused hedge fund after investors withdrew money following poor performance, according to people familiar with the matter, adding to the list of casualties as the industry suffers its biggest outflows since 2009.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Sep 5, 2016

Japanese men search for ways to improve

Even when you possess elite skills, physicality and elaborate Xs and Os, if you don't have a burning desire to win, you'll just waste those gifts.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 5, 2016

A legacy of repression, slavery and kleptocracy

Uzbekistan's founding president has plenty of atrocities to his name.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Sep 5, 2016

Nagoya park becomes 'holy ground' for 'Pokemon Go' players

A little over a month has passed since the smartphone game "Pokemon Go" was released in Japan, but people are still found wandering around Nagoya's Tsuruma Park — a magnet for its players — until late at night.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 4, 2016

Pope Francis declares Mother Teresa a saint during Vatican ceremony

Mother Teresa of Calcutta, known as the "saint of the gutters" during her life, was declared a saint of the Roman Catholic Church by Pope Francis on Sunday, fast-tracked to canonization just 19 years after her death.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 4, 2016

Obama plays down significance of alleged airport snub by China ahead of G-20 summit

U.S. President Barack Obama attempted to tamp down criticism Sunday of what some have called an intentional diplomatic snub by Beijing a day earlier as he arrived for the Group of 20 summit in China.
JAPAN / Media / DARK SIDE OF THE RISING SUN
Sep 3, 2016

One year on, gang splinter is tough to explain

More than a year has passed since the country's largest crime syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, split into two. More than a dozen gangs defected from the Yamaguchi-gumi on Aug. 27, 2015, to form the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi, headed by Kunio Inoue, as a rival syndicate and, even now, the reasons for the breakup...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 2, 2016

The most dangerous problem in Asia: Japan-China relations

China and Japan have a thousand-year history of fighting each other. What if that pattern repeats itself?
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Sep 2, 2016

Sakamoto leads strong showing by juniors in France

Japanese skaters began the Junior Grand Prix season with encouraging results at the opening event last weekend in St. Gervais, France. Japan took home half of the six singles medals on offer, with Russia claiming the other three.
EDITORIALS
Sep 1, 2016

A chemical crisis for Syria and U.S.

The Assad regime must be held accountable for its use of chemical weapons.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 1, 2016

Russia fetes 75th anniversary of arrival of first British Arctic WWII convoy

British and Russian World War II veterans gathered on Wednesday in Arkhangelsk, 75 years to the day since Britain's first Arctic convoy of military supplies steamed into the northern port.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 31, 2016

With Duterte, hard to separate intentions from bluster

Whether Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte aims to shock, inspire or just amuse, deciphering his blunt and often unpredictable rhetoric is a potential challenge for investors seeking policy clarity from the new leader.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Aug 31, 2016

Death toll in Duterte's Philippine drug war surges to 2,000

The number of drug-related killings in the Philippines since Rodrigo Duterte became president two months ago on a pledge to wipe out the illegal drug trade, has reached around 2,000, fresh data has shown.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 30, 2016

The 'informel' whirlwind that swept across Japan

Taro Okamoto's "Men Aflame" (1955) is a swirling fusion of figuration, surrealism and abstraction. The content addresses the irradiation of Japanese sailors onboard the Dai-go Fukuryu-maru by fallout from American nuclear testing on Bikini Atoll. The painting is part of the 1950s Japanese art movement...
Tokyo ranked world’s richest city by GDP, with Osaka-Kobe also rated highly
Tokyo has a gross domestic product of $2.55 trillion, just ahead of New York’s $2.49 trillion and Greater Los Angeles’ $1.62 trillion, according to CEOWorld’s global wealth index.
Takaichi stands firm on controversial Taiwan contingency remarks
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a session of the House of Representatives' Budget Committee in parliament in Tokyo on Monday.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Tokyo looks to keep ‘monster parents’ at bay with new protocols
New guidelines are addressing struggles by teachers to deal with the burden of parents who make irrational complaints that go beyond what is considered socially acceptable, often referred to as "monster parents," which is overwhelming their workload.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.
Jenson Button brings end to an illustrious racing career intertwined with Japan
Jenson Button races for Honda during the Singapore Grand Prix in September 2008.
Cleanliness gets competitive at Tokyo’s Spogomi world cup
On Oct. 29, teams from 33 qualifying countries scoured the streets of Shibuya for all manners of trash as part of the Spogomi litter-picking competition.
Jon Homewood: ‘There’s beauty in what we throw away’
After a peripatetic childhood around the world, teacher and artist Jon Homewood ended up coming to Japan in 2012 for a professional opportunity.
High-speed rail is expensive and difficult, but seen as a key to growth
Achal Khare, former managing director at India’s National High Speed Rail Corporation, gives a presentation during the IHRA Forum 2025 in Tokyo on Oct. 23.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years
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