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Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Jan 29, 2017

WBC duty means quick turnaround for foreign stars

Now that spring camps are only a few days away for NPB teams — some players are already working out "independently" together — the foreign contingent has begun trickling into the country. It was mostly the first-year foreign players the past couple of weeks, but now the veterans have started showing...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Jan 29, 2017

Caroline Kennedy's legacy in Japan will be her message of equality and reconciliation

Caroline Kennedy left a deep impression upon Japan and will long be remembered for her positive role here.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 29, 2017

International law is under siege in the South China Sea

China is the latest to flout international law, but the United States and Russia paved the way.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 29, 2017

Understanding the real cost of protectionism

Does Donald Trump know that one American company might be 'destroying' more American jobs than China is?
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jan 28, 2017

2017: a year for sumo nostalgia

On Jan. 22, 30-year-old ozeki (champion) Kisenosato (real name Yutaka Hagiwara) emerged victorious in the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament with an outstanding record of 14 wins and only one loss. His promotion to history's 72nd yokozuna (grand champion) was confirmed by the Japan Sumo Association three...
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jan 28, 2017

Sino-Japanese propaganda wars are heating up

Both Japan and China are wielding history like a cudgel to bash the other and assert a sanctimonious nationalism that impedes reconciliation.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Jan 27, 2017

January 28, 2017

COMMENTARY / World
Jan 27, 2017

Vague U.S. policies may speed China's buildup

Without clarity on how it intends to prevent China's militarization in the South China Sea, the Trump administration may give Beijing an excuse to do it even faster.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Markets
Jan 26, 2017

Dow tops 20,000, raises hopes of recharged rally, fears of teetering precipice

The Dow Jones Industrial Average index's pop over 20,000 on Wednesday crowns a frenetic post-U.S. election rally that featured the second fastest-ever climb between 1,000-point milestones in the Dow's 120-year history.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jan 25, 2017

U.S. adds extra aircraft to marine force in Australia

The United States will send extra military aircraft to Australia's tropical north this year, a U.S. Marine Corps spokesman said Wednesday, bolstering its military presence close to the disputed South China Sea.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 24, 2017

Is Baseball Hall of Fame a museum or a shrine?

If Cooperstown wants admission to mean enshrinement, it must embrace and articulate the hall's ethic — that real success must be honorably achieved.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 24, 2017

Aligning the West to face an uncertain world

The populist forces that are now pulling at the threads of the post-1945 international order must be resisted.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Jan 24, 2017

Japan fills out team for World Baseball Classic

Samurai Japan mostly filled out its roster for the 2017 World Baseball Classic on Tuesday, adding eight players, but no major leaguers, to the 19 names released in December.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Jan 23, 2017

Hovasse appointed as Japan's first foreign-born women's basketball national team head coach

Having achieved successful results over the past several years, the Japan women's national basketball team is shooting for a medal finish at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 23, 2017

The pivot to Asia was Obama's biggest mistake

The U.S. pivot failed to achieve key goals in Asia while America's inattention made matters worse in Europe and the Middle East.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 23, 2017

Theresa May's hard Brexit risks a crash landing

British Prime Minister Theresa May's objectives for negotiating with the EU make clear her intention to prioritize hardline Brexiteers' demands over the country's economic interests.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Jan 23, 2017

New Year's festivities in Japan ain't what they used to be

For one thing, it's too warm. Back in mid-century Tokyo, お正月 (o-Shōgatsu, New Year's Day) used to be so cold, according to my grandmother, that peoples' laundry froze on the 物干し竿 (monohoshizao, bamboo drying pole).
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 23, 2017

Davos conferees look to embrace windfalls from populist political shift, for now

Populism isn't necessarily bad for the global economy. It might even be boosting it — at least for now.
JAPAN / MBA SPECIAL 2017
Jan 22, 2017

An MBA for Visionaries

GLOBIS University is Japan's largest business school, offering a Master of Business Administration (MBA) program in the heart of Tokyo.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 22, 2017

America's Russian hypocrisy

Washington's campaign against Russian President Vladimir Putin exposes the pattern of duplicity that has pervaded U.S. foreign policy.
CULTURE / CULTURE SMASH
Jan 21, 2017

Japanese folklore meets anime in Kyoto

The colors were jarring. Beneath the vermillion torii gates of Kyoto's Shimogamo Shrine and surrounded by the olive broadleaves of Tadasu Forest was a pool of furry, bright yellow ponchos, decorated with the brown facial features, rounded ears and bulbous oblong tails of the tanuki, or Japanese raccoon...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Jan 21, 2017

Media deployed to fight history wars in East Asia

At a recent conference funded by the Toshiba Foundation on the media's role in representing the shared wartime past in East Asia, scholars and journalists gathered at Cambridge University to assess the current state of play.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Jan 21, 2017

Full transcript of Donald Trump's inaugural address

President Donald Trump's inaugural address, as delivered:
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Jan 21, 2017

January 21, 2017

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 20, 2017

Asia's newest fear: a Trump currency war

Having called out China as a currency manipulator, U.S. President Donald Trump now says the dollar is too strong.
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.
Takaichi doesn’t mince words on Taiwan, but dramatic policy shift unlikely
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi responds to questions during a House of Representatives Budget Committee session in parliament on Tuesday.
Florist Nicolai Bergmann flourishes outside the box
Florist Nicolai Bergmann shops for fresh flowers at the Ota flower market in Tokyo on Friday.
China delivers warning to U.S. and Japan with third aircraft carrier
The Fujian, China's third aircraft carrier, carries out sea trials at an unknown location in May last year.
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.

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