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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Apr 24, 2021

My summer vacation abroad: Family, friends and a vaccination

The idea of travel and reuniting with loved ones may be all the more tempting if you can get a COVID-19 vaccination while you're back in your home country.
Reader Mail
Feb 28, 2020

Don't count on the Tokyo Olympics

Regarding the story "Games 'unlikely to be canceled' due to virus" in the Feb. 27 edition, a senior member of the IOC was quoted as saying that a decision as to whether to cancel or proceed with the Olympics this summer cannot be made until there are reliable facts on which to base it. But the Japanese...
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 19, 2019

Japanese businesses see economy peaking out, want more stimulus: poll

The nation's economy is likely to stop expanding this year and into next with the Sino-U.S. trade war and a planned sales tax hike expected to crimp activity, a Reuters poll of Japanese companies found, with most calling for fresh stimulus to prop up growth.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 20, 2017

Alibaba dives into mass marketing with reported $800 million Olympic sponsorship deal

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s deal to sponsor the Olympic Games through 2028 is said to be worth $800 million, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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CULTURE / Music
Aug 18, 2016

Underworld: 'We've become inseparable now, and it's really great'

Two years ago, Underworld duo Karl Hyde and Rick Smith had an epiphany. After more than three decades of working together — through some unremittingly lean early years; an epoch-defining, mega-selling turn in the 1990s; soundtracking the London Olympics opening ceremony, and a fractured and increasingly...
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BASKETBALL
Jun 10, 2016

Dates announced for George Washington-Japan national team hoop series

The Japan Basketball Association announced Friday that the men's national team will play against George Washington University in a three-game series in August.
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BASKETBALL
May 9, 2016

Australia crushes Japan in exhibition

Big center Elizabeth Cambage racked up 20 points and 12 rebounds as the Australian women's national team cruised past Japan 81-55 in the second game of their three-game exhibition series at Tokyo's Yoyogi National Gymnasium No. 2 on Monday night.
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JAPAN / GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT ENGLISH
Jan 2, 2014

Schools fret about assistant teachers ahead of proposed 2020 reforms

With education reform expected to place a great deal of emphasis on English, officials worry about the uneven quality of foreign assistant language teachers.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Oct 22, 2013

Japan's 'helplessness' crisis

The biggest crisis in Japan's democracy today is that people know the prime minister is telling lies — intentionally or not — but they've given up even imagining alternative ways of politics.
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JAPAN
Sep 13, 2013

Zaha Hadid: queen of the curve

Zaha Hadid was once flying to Frankfurt to give a talk. Her plane taxied out, developed a minor fault, and stopped. She refused to believe the reassurances that the delay would be brief, and demanded that she be put on another flight. Her wish was impossible — to return to the stand, to unload and...
JAPAN
May 13, 2010

Parties pin poll hopes on sports star power

The summer Upper House election is looking increasingly like an athletic competition as both ruling and opposition parties field sports stars to woo independent voters.
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Feb 20, 2010

Proposed new league will have major obstacles to overcome

To accurately describe what's been going on for several years now in this nation's pro hoop scene, I submit the following analogy:
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Aug 3, 2008

Clubs take advantage of extended deadline to sign new foreigners

The deadline for signing new foreign players by Japanese teams was extended from June 30 to July 31 this year because of the Beijing Summer Olympics.

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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