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BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 15, 2014

Hall of Famer Winfield impressed by Otani's versatility

When Dave Winfield was drafted by the San Diego Padres in 1973, it was as a pitcher. When he entered the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2001, it was because of his career as a batter and outfielder. He briefly played both positions in college, and when he looks at the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters' Shohei Otani...
WORLD
Nov 15, 2014

Russia plans to create 'detailed, reliable' alternative version of Wikipedia

Russia plans to create its own version of Wikipedia to ensure its citizens have access to more "detailed and reliable" information about their country, the presidential library said Friday.
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2014

Asahi Shimbun announces new president

The scandal-hit daily newspaper says 55-year-old Masataka Watanabe, one of its managing directors, will take over as president of the company on Dec. 5.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 14, 2014

View private operation of schools with caution

Education reformers take for granted that strategies borrowed from business will improve schools. But the evidence is hardly convincing.
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BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2014

Sharp develops smartphone feature that speaks for itself

Premium smartphone models have become powerful communications and entertainment tools with bigger and clearer screens, high-spec processors and camera quality as good as their compact digital counterparts.
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MORE SPORTS / NFL NOTEBOOK
Nov 13, 2014

Fill-in starting QBs Sanchez, Stanton face pressure to lead teams, win

Over the past three weeks, three of the top four NFC teams — Dallas, Philadelphia and Arizona — have lost their starting quarterbacks to injury.
EDITORIALS
Nov 13, 2014

Tolerating the voices of children

People must realize that children are the future of rapidly graying Japan and work to create an environment in which their presence is not only welcome but encouraged.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 13, 2014

Will China face threats from the north or from the south?

The fact that China's greater humiliations have come from the south, starting with the loss of Taiwan, helps explain its drive to become a leading naval power.
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CULTURE / Film
Nov 13, 2014

Film fest fans can get a fix at any number of events this month

The Tokyo International Film Festival may be finished, but movie buffs still have a lot of choices for festivals this month.
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CULTURE / Art
Nov 13, 2014

'La Chalcographie du Musee du Louvre'

As the largest museum in the world, the Louvre houses some of the greatest masterpieces — Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" and the ancient Greek statue "Venus de Milo" to name a couple. This show focuses on chalcographic works, such as lithographic prints, from the museum's extensive yet less well-known...
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CULTURE / Film
Nov 12, 2014

Ecotherapy Getaway Holiday: Finding feminism on the way to a waterfall

Doesn't every kid imagine being lost in the woods?
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COMMUNITY / Issues
Nov 12, 2014

Mayor blazes trail with radical child-friendly vision for local government

Every time I try to read or write about local government in Japan I get so easily distra— say, is that paint drying over there? You see the problem?!
JAPAN
Nov 12, 2014

Head of anti-foreigner group Zaitokukai to step down

The longtime chairman of ultranationalist Zaiu00adtou00adkuu00adkai says he will step down and give up his membership in the group, claiming the move will bolster the organization's influence.
WORLD
Nov 12, 2014

U.S. urges IMF to cancel debt of Ebola-stricken countries

The United States on Tuesday proposed that the International Monetary Fund write off some $100 million in debt it is owed by Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone to free up more resources for those countries, the hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak.
CULTURE / Music
Nov 11, 2014

Rock music goes mainstream in Rouhani's Iran as old taboos start to fade

In the 10 months since his band was given official permission to perform, Iranian rock singer Ardavan Anzabipour has learned when to cool things down.
WORLD / Science & Health
Nov 11, 2014

New York City Ebola patient Spencer set to be released

Craig Spencer, the New York City doctor who contracted Ebola while treating patients in Guinea, will be released tomorrow from Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan and is free of the virus.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 10, 2014

A world beset by divisions

Whether once divided by physical walls or currently split by political ones, today's leaders in Asia, the U.S. and Europe — including newly elected members of the U.S. Congress — should think about how much has been and can be achieved when the barriers of economic inequality come down.
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COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 10, 2014

GOP takeover could mean trouble for Japan

Perhaps no one in Asia is happier than Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his ruling Liberal Democratic Party to see Republicans take over control of the U.S. Congress. In fact, Japan's plummeting currency and the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal put Abe in a tough corner.
LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Nov 10, 2014

Without kara-de-nai-to, you could be in trouble

Today, we will introduce some uses of the phrase Xu304bu3089u3067u306au3044u3068Yu306au3044, which indicates an essential condition for something to happen.
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LIFE / Lifestyle
Nov 8, 2014

Kendama: great balls of fire

The photographers who attended the Catch & Flow tournament in September would have been well advised to keep an eye on their equipment, as some of the tricks performed during the freestyle competition were so outrageous that balls flew dangerously close to their lenses.
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LIFE / Digital / JAPAN WEB WATCH
Nov 8, 2014

Smartphone app CocoPPa takes a custom approach to overseas sales

Although very few smartphone apps made in Japan have managed to take the world by storm, one that has is CocoPPa. Made by Japanese company United, Inc., the app allows users to customize the design of not only their smartphone wallpaper but also the icons for the other apps on their phone.
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ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
Nov 8, 2014

Hanging around the threat of extinction

Night falls; stars are showing; yet I'm still perspiring. We set off in darkness into a night filled with hope. Our goal is to see one of the rarest creatures on Earth, a species once considered extinct, and for which even now fate hangs in the balance.
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CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Nov 8, 2014

Zen and Japanese Culture

This is one of those books you read to the last page without ever finishing; you keep going back for more — and finding it.
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LIFE / Style & Design / ON: FASHION
Nov 7, 2014

Fashion exhibitions take the limelight this month

H&M's big sister, COS, is here
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COMMENTARY / World
Nov 7, 2014

U.S. government up for sale

The dominating significance of the midterm American legislative elections just finished has been the occasion's dramatic confirmation of the corruption of the American electoral system.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 7, 2014

Tanzania probes alleged ivory smuggling during Chinese state visit

Tanzania is studying a report alleging that Chinese officials bought large amounts of illegal ivory during a visit by President Xi Jinping last year and smuggled it out in diplomatic bags aboard his plane, a Tanzanian government official said on Thursday.

Longform

An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo