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Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Mar 31, 2016

Japan's professional video game sector advances to next level

The Japan eSports Association, which promotes the competitive playing of video games, is nudging the sector toward professional status.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Mar 25, 2016

Halilhodzic pleased with results from new system

National team manager Vahid Halilhodzic has challenged Japan to make it through the second round of 2018 World Cup qualifiers without conceding a goal after claiming a seventh clean sheet in seven games in Thursday's 5-0 win over Afghanistan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Mar 9, 2016

Odious politicians could learn from 'Escobar: Paradise Lost'

As Donald Trump closes in on the U.S. presidency, it's worth remembering that the demagogic real-estate mogul is far from the most odious individual to have pursued a career in politics. Take Pablo Escobar, for instance: The notorious drug kingpin briefly served as a congressman in his native Colombia...
LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Feb 29, 2016

Ramming home the point with dokoro ka

Introducing the meaning and usage of the particle of emphasis u3069u3053u308du304b and its related expressions.
SOCCER
Feb 27, 2016

Maradona blasts FIFA

Former Argentina captain Diego Maradona says longtime FIFA president Sepp Blatter and European soccer chief Michel Platini should have been given life imprisonment rather than six-year bans from soccer for ethics violations.
SOCCER / J. League
Feb 23, 2016

Olympic hopefuls aim to shine in J. League

The Rio Olympics are just over five months away, but with the new J. League season about to begin, Japan's soccer medal hopefuls have no time to sit back and dream of glory in Brazil.
SOCCER
Feb 20, 2016

U.S., Canada book tickets to Rio

Striker Alex Morgan scored a hat trick as the United States booked a place in the Rio Olympic women's soccer tournament with a 5-0 demolition of Trinidad and Tobago in a semifinal at the CONCACAF qualifying tournament in Houston on Friday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Feb 17, 2016

Upcoming games give Kokubo chance to fine-tune Samurai Japan approach

In October 2013, Japanese baseball officials, stung by the country's failure to win the World Baseball Classic earlier that year, decided to make some changes and hired Hiroki Kokubo as the manager of the national team.
LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Dec 21, 2015

It's time to hit the books and study 'benkyo'

Introducing some of the uses of u52c9u5f37 (u3079u3093u304du3087u3046), meaning 'to study.'
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 18, 2015

Prime suspect apparently cleared three French checkpoints on drive back to Brussels hotbed

A Belgian fugitive suspected of taking part in the Paris attacks was stopped three times by French police as he was driven back to Brussels the following morning but allowed to carry on his way, a defense lawyer said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
Rugby
Sep 28, 2015

Yokohama to stage 2019 World Cup final

Yokohama Stadium, which staged the 2002 soccer World Cup final, will replace Japan's new National Stadium as the venue for the 2019 Rugby World Cup final, World Rugby said on Monday.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Aug 19, 2015

FIFA exec Tashima warns Chung cannot bank on Japan's support

South Korean FIFA presidential hopeful Chung Mong-joon cannot bank on the support of neighboring Japan, FIFA executive committee member Kozo Tashima said Tuesday.
JAPAN
Aug 15, 2015

Japan backs guidelines for new National Stadium

Japan has approved guidelines for its new Olympic stadium, vowing to build an "athlete's first" venue as cheaply as possible and complete it by March 2020, a year later than planned, but without including any cost estimates or limits.
SOCCER
Jul 28, 2015

Platini to announce FIFA presidency bid

Michel Platini, the head of European soccer's governing body UEFA, is to announce in the next few days that he will stand for the presidency of FIFA, a source close to the former France international told Reuters on Tuesday.
SOCCER / Women's World Cup
Jul 7, 2015

Nadeshiko reflect on World Cup journey after return to Japan

Nadeshiko Japan manager Norio Sasaki wasted no time in targeting the gold medal at next year's Rio Olympics as the beaten Women's World Cup finalists returned home from Canada on Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 24, 2015

Confederate flag flap is one of many such disputes worldwide

Around the world, countries have long struggled with questions about flags similar to those faced by South Carolina, which is under pressure to remove a Confederate flag from its statehouse in the wake of the shootings that killed nine people at a black church.
SOCCER
Jun 22, 2015

Report: Maradona to run for FIFA president

Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona has decided to stand as a candidate for the FIFA presidency to replace Sepp Blatter, Uruguayan journalist and author Victor Hugo Morales has said.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Jun 7, 2015

BBC claims to have seen former FIFA VP Warner's documents

The BBC claims to have seen evidence detailing what happened to the $10 million soccer's world governing body FIFA sent to former vice president Jack Warner.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Apr 28, 2015

46 teams have submitted documents for new hoop circuit

All 47 clubs of the NBL, NBDL and bj-league, including expansion teams for the 2015-16 season, are scheduled to join the new men's basketball league in Japan in 2016. The Japan 2024 Task Force made the announcement in Tokyo on Tuesday.

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight