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CULTURE / Music
Apr 3, 2014

No tickets available? Find a Bob Dylan-related event to get your fix

Not every Bob Dylan fan in Japan is going to nab a ticket for the musician's many shows, but don't worry — Dylan fever can be sated in other ways.
OLYMPICS
Feb 13, 2014

Watabe nabs silver in Nordic combined normal hill event

Akito Watabe captured the silver medal in the Nordic combined men's normal hill event on Wednesday with a strong effort in the 10-km cross country race.
OLYMPICS / ICE TIME
Feb 6, 2014

Mao gets to work in Sochi; expected to skate in team event

Mao Asada completed her first practice at the Iceberg Skating Palace on Thursday morning ahead of the start of the team event this evening.
Events / KANSAI: WHO & WHAT
Jan 24, 2014

Dancers sought for 'Dance 4 All' Kyoto event

Kyoto Art Center is seeking people who are interested in performing in the "Dance 4 All" events in Kyoto on Feb. 22 and 23.
Events / KANSAI: WHO & WHAT
Nov 1, 2013

Kyoto palace to hold football, music event

Until Monday visitors to Kyoto can enter the Imperial Palace without the need to make applications in advance.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
May 17, 2013

Circle '13 music event features Shutoku Mukai, Clammbon by the sea

There's something to be said about watching a concert outside. The music fills the air and the feeling of summer becomes liberating. This weekend, people in Fukuoka are going to get a headstart on feeling that vibe.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 29, 2013

Politicians roll up sleeves at Net event

Political parties over the weekend competed for the support of heavy Internet users at an event hosted by an online video-sharing site in the runup to the House of Councilors election in July, the first election to allow politicians unfettered access to the Web in their campaigns.
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 23, 2012

Student jazz event shows importance of culture

Tokyo's Aoyama district will ratchet up its hip quotient this weekend when it hosts the Aoyama Jazz Initiative, a student-run celebration of jazz.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Nov 6, 2012

touchMe event puts fashion within reach of all

Just one week after Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Tokyo had drawn to a close, the capital's fashionistas were drawn back to the runway for a slew of shows that have been gaining in popularity.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2011

Foreign embassies give kids taste of many cultures at Tokyo event

Children tried their hand at Thai vegetable carving and practiced Indian yoga at an intercultural event put on by foreign embassies Sunday in Tokyo.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 15, 2010

Event to get Sendai singing

In his wrap-up of the previous decade in music on Dec. 18, 2009, this newspaper's Philip Brasor identified harmony vocal groups as the "most enduring fad." Well, judging from the activities of a sizable group of young performers from northern Japan, the fad looks certain to continue.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Apr 23, 2010

Nihonbashi event offers antiques 101

The district of Nihonbashi, in the east of central Tokyo, is home to around 150 dealers in antiques, classical art, crafts, Japanese-style paintings, sculptures and prints. Most, however, have managed to sustain themselves on the dedicated patronage of a few wealthy collectors and well-connected dealers,...
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JAPAN
Oct 24, 2009

Yokohama farm event sprouts to spread Slow Food in Japan

YOKOHAMA — A food exhibition featuring local produce and the farmers who grew it opened Friday in Yokohama's Naka Ward to promote the Slow Food movement in Japan.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Dec 22, 2008

WBC organizers happy with event's progress

There's talk of revenge ahead of the 2009 World Baseball Classic and it's music to the organizers' ears.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 15, 2008

Comike — the cradle of cosplay

If you're intrigued by cosplay (short for "costume play"), then this is where it all began: Comic Market, or Comike or Comiket, as it's variously known.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
May 13, 2008

Team Japan faces huge hurdles on road to Homeless World Cup

Japan's collective image of homelessness is a fairly bleak one: Men in unwashed clothing, faces devoid of expression, hauling armfuls of flattened cardboard that will be their resting place for the night; rows of depressingly permanent-looking blue tarp huts in parks and beneath bridges, tucked out of...
MORE SPORTS
Jul 13, 2005

Marines' Valentine firmly against MLB's new international event

Bobby Valentine is not the kind of guy to hold back his feelings. He never has been.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
May 24, 2023

Fanfare for Modi at Sydney event set to boost image at home after poll loss

The Indian prime minister’s rock star-like welcome at Australia’s largest entertainment and sport arena in Sydney underscores his massive public appeal among many Indians at home and abroad.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 13, 2023

KG+ event celebrates emerging photographers

Three young photographers from varied backgrounds and approaches won prizes and the chance to take their work to the next level at Kyotographie’s satellite event, KG+.
Tiger Woods hopes to play in one tournament each month in 2024.
MORE SPORTS
Dec 4, 2023

Tiger Woods sets target to play one event per month in 2024

Woods made his return to competitive golf at the Hero World Challenge.
Visitors view a CV-22 Osprey on display during a friendship event at the U.S. military's Yokota Air Base in Tokyo on Saturday.
JAPAN
May 19, 2024

U.S. Osprey displayed in event at Yokota base in Tokyo

In November last year, a U.S. Air Force CV-22 Osprey crashed off the island of Yakushima in Kagoshima Prefecture, killing all eight people on board.

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Members of the nonprofit group Japan Youth Memorial Association search for the remains of dead soldiers in a cave in Okinawa Prefecture in February.
The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers