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BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 8, 2004

Lions owner Tsutsumi denies merger reports

Seibu Lions owner Yoshiaki Tsutsumi denied press reports Tuesday that his club will merge with the Lotte Marines.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 7, 2004

Japanese ball players set to strike

Japan's professional baseball players' association will go on strike for the first time if owners go ahead with a proposed merger of two teams later this week, the group's leader said Monday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 4, 2004

Woods helps BayStars ground Swallows

Tyrone Woods hit his 41st homer of the season Friday as the Yokohama BayStars downed the Yakult Swallows 6-4.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 4, 2004

Baseball chief denies Giants will move to PL

Dismissing talk that the Yomiuri Giants may switch leagues, Japanese pro baseball commissioner Yasuchika Negoro said Friday he will propose several plans in the following days to manage the Pacific League next season in the event of a merger between the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes and the Orix BlueWave...
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 31, 2004

Proposed vote on merger postponed

The Japanese baseball commissioner's office on Monday postponed a vote on a hotly contested merger between the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes and Orix BlueWave, after a court appealed for time to consider a request from the players' association to block the tie-up.
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 30, 2004

Majority in favor of two-league system

Around 74 percent of people in Japan are in favor of maintaining the current two six-team leagues in professional Japanese baseball, according to a Kyodo News survey released Saturday.
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2004

CH-53D helicopters grounded

The U.S. military in Japan will not fly CH-53D helicopters at the request of the Japanese government until it is "appropriate" to do so, the U.S. government said in a statement released Saturday.
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2004

CH-53D helicopters grounded

The U.S. military in Japan will not fly CH-53D helicopters at the request of the Japanese government until it is "appropriate" to do so, the U.S. government said in a statement released Saturday.
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JAPAN
Aug 29, 2004

GSDF stages massive annual live-fire exercise

The Ground Self-Defense Force on Saturday conducted one of its largest live-fire drills ever on Japanese soil at its Higashi-Fuji Training Area in Shizuoka Prefecture.
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 28, 2004

Japanese baseball commissioner wants to keep two-league system

Japanese baseball commissioner Yasuchika Negoro said Thursday he prioritizes maintaining the two-league system in the debate over whether to realign Japanese professional baseball.
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 27, 2004

Players to take court action over merger

The baseball players association said Thursday it plans to seek a court injunction as early as Friday against the planned merger between the Orix BlueWave and Kintetsu Buffaloes.
Philippine bid to acquire used Japanese warships gains steam
Tokyo is looking to transfer Abukuma-class vessels to the Philippines as part of broader efforts to boost the defense capabilities of like-minded neighbors amid growing Chinese military assertiveness in the region.
Japan Post to stop accepting some parcels for shipment to the U.S.
Japan Post's UGX will still be available for many rejected packages.
Japan aims to tighten rules for business manager visas from October
The number of foreign residents with business management residency status had reached a record 41,615 as of the end of 2024.
Tokyo releases AI-generated video of Mount Fuji erupting
A screenshot from an AI-generated video showing what could happen to Tokyo if Mount Fuji erupted
Character-crazed Japan has little appetite for Labubu
A pop-up advertisement for the newly opened Chiikawa Park in Tokyo's Ikebukuro neighborhood demonstrates how the country is chockful of cute characters — to the detriment of trends like Labubu.
Is Kishida plotting a return of the king? Or would he rather stay a kingmaker?
Former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida chairs a plenary session at the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development in Yokohama on Aug. 21.
Japanese prefectures break with labor ministry on minimum wage
The ministry of labor has suggested a 6% minimum wage increase, but most prefectures reporting so far are opting to go slightly higher.
Philippines quietly deepening ‘unofficial’ defense ties with Taiwan
Filipino soldiers take part in a flag-raising ceremony on Mavulis Island during a visit by the Philippines' Armed Forces chief of staff, in Batanes, the Philippines, in June 2023. Batanes, a group of idyllic islands at the country’s northernmost tip, sits about 160 kilometers from Taiwan.
Are 'coolcations' the answer for Japan's heat-weary tourists?
Hikers on a trail in Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture. As extreme heat continues to grip Japan, a tectonic shift may be underway in the nation’s summer tourism scene as more people gravitate toward cooler destinations.
Germany's first sakemaker offers a bold brew of ideas
Reigen, Germany's first sake brewery, makes a diverse, nontraditional range of sake that includes fruit-flavored sips and wine barrel-aged renditions.

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

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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past
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