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BASKETBALL
Feb 5, 2014

Watanabe opts to go to George Washington U.

Japanese basketball phenom Yuta Watanabe will commit to George Washington University next season, he revealed on his Twitter account on Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Feb 4, 2014

A divide is deepening in Ukraine

As the country threatens to erupt in civil war, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych returned from a four-day sick leave that he'd taken on the heels of the resignation of Prime Minister Nikolai Azarov.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 4, 2014

Chef lures new crowdfunding chief

Osamu Ito, a former Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities Co. banker, is setting up a crowdfunding company that will raise money online to invest in startups, including a Michelin-starred chef's "bento" business.
BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 4, 2014

Panasonic profit beats analyst estimates

Panasonic Corp. posted third-quarter profit that beat analysts' estimates as the television maker stops making plasma sets to speed up reforms and recover from back-to-back annual losses.
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BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Feb 4, 2014

When will they learn: Old folks still falling for swindlers

Telephone swindlers are finding new, inventive ways to cheat old people.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 3, 2014

Uphold basic living standards

To attain a national minimum for social welfare, some urge introducing a basic income — provision of a fixed sum of money to each citizen — to replace social security, which covers only needy people.
EDITORIALS
Feb 3, 2014

New horizon in stem-cell research

A team of scientists led by 30-year-old Dr. Haruko Obokata has challenged the established theory in biology that it is impossible to reprogram specialized cells to become stem cells without tampering with cell nuclei.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Feb 3, 2014

Power companies offsetting reactor closures by hiking electricity rates

Power utilities, including Tokyo Electric Power Co., leaned on customer rate hikes to boost their financial performances in the first nine months of the business year as idled nuclear plants kept fuel costs high.
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LIFE / Style & Design
Feb 3, 2014

Japan's iron age continues in style

Nambu Tekki, traditional Japanese ironware has developed to produce many aesthetically pleasing designs, including brightly colored contemporary products for the French market.
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PRESS / Publications
Feb 3, 2014

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BASKETBALL
Feb 2, 2014

Akita holds off Takamatsu for 11th consecutive victory

The Akita Northern Happinets edged the Takamatsu Five Arrows on Sunday, winning 77-75 to record a two-game series sweep on the road.
EDITORIALS
Feb 2, 2014

Rising costs of climate change

If high greenhouse gas emissions continue to 2030, a U.N. draft report on climate change states, future generations may be forced to make very costly and technologically daunting efforts to reduce them such as drawing carbon dioxide out of the air and storing it underground.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Feb 2, 2014

Give foreign nurses in Japan a boost by treating accord as long-term remedy for labor shortages

If there is any seriousness in overcoming the nursing shortage in Japan, the welfare of foreign nurses should be prioritized, including allowing further visa extensions.
BASKETBALL
Feb 1, 2014

Pomare, Iwate sail past Ryukyu in OT

Gyno Pomare delivered a splendid performance for the Iwate Big Bulls on Saturday evening.
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JAPAN
Feb 1, 2014

Fears widen over Kadena toxins

Just days after the commander of U.S. Kadena Air Base, near the city of Okinawa, promised parents their children's schools were safe from dioxin contamination, a further 50 chemical barrels have been unearthed from adjacent land and a retired U.S. Air Force major has come forward with claims the school...
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Feb 1, 2014

Can local voices derail the Super Shinzo Express?

Voters in Nago, northern Okinawa Island, threw down the gauntlet on Jan. 19 when they reelected as mayor the incumbent, Susumu Inamine, a staunch opponent of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's plan to relocate the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma from the congested city of Ginowan in the south to the Henoko...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Feb 1, 2014

Hawks need more quality in starting rotation

The Fukuoka Softbank Hawks fielded a pitching juggernaut in 2011, the likes of which will be hard to replicate without the help of outside forces.
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WORLD
Feb 1, 2014

Hurdles stall peace efforts in Phillipines

The Philippine government faces challenges implementing an accord aimed at ending decades of conflict in resource-rich Mindanao, with the risk of violence from Muslim rebel groups not included in the deal and private armies in the area.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 31, 2014

Asia's emerging democratic axis

A Japan-India democratic axis, with U.S. support, could reshape the Asian strategic landscape and block the rise of a Sino-centric Asia. A rudderless India is in search of its own Shinzo Abe.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / TELLING LIVES
Jan 31, 2014

Three decades on, Tokyo bluesman is still rambling

'You can't go home again,' but you can take a little bit of home with you wherever you roam. 'Rambling' Steve Gardner does; a Mississippi roots and bluesman based in Tokyo, Gardner travels the world making music and giving seminars about musical history.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 31, 2014

Japan and China's great African game

It's no longer Western powers vying for African land and the continent's wealth as they had until the outbreak of World War I. The power struggle now is among Asian nations, most notably China and Japan.

Longform

A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami