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BASKETBALL / B. League
Dec 10, 2016

Jets soar past NeoPhoenix for 10th consecutive win

The Chiba Jets opened the season with three loses in their first four games. But since then, they have grown as a team and made big strides in the right direction — and taken a big leap in the standings, too.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Dec 10, 2016

Changing with the season

Young child: Why do the leaves change color in autumn?
EDITORIALS
Dec 10, 2016

Keeping Olympic costs down

Solid efforts have been made to cut the cost of hosting the Olympics, but even more should be done.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 10, 2016

China making big diplomat gains in Egypt

China is advancing to the center of the geopolitical stage just as — if not because — American and European leadership seems to be retreating into the wings.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 10, 2016

Valentine denies official talk of being offered Japan ambassador post by Trump

Ex-Chiba Lotte Marines manager Bobby Valentine says he has not been in contact with the Trump team amid reports he is under consideration to become the ambassador to Japan.
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MULTIMEDIA
Dec 9, 2016

December 10, 2016

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BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 9, 2016

Projector robot moves, learns, alters shape

Cerevo Inc. said Friday it has launched a shape-changing home projector robot that can turn ceilings, walls and floors into displays.
Reader Mail
Dec 9, 2016

Time to bring JLPT into the 21st century

December is the time for thousands of students to take the notoriously infamous Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT).
Reader Mail
Dec 9, 2016

Gratitude from travelers in need

My husband and I are experienced independent travelers. We have been visiting Japan for over 30 years. It is one of our favorite destinations, but even so we know only a few words in Japanese — thank you, good morning, delicious and cute. We have always been able to maneuver with English, gestures...
Reader Mail
Dec 9, 2016

Absurd for Japan to pay more to U.S.

Asked about U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's urging on the campaign trail that Japan pay more for the U.S. forces stationed here, Defense Minister Tomomi Inada said at a recent news conference that Japan pays enough for hosting the U.S. military.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 9, 2016

17-hour California surgery separates conjoined twins, who shared organs

Doctors separated conjoined twins at a California hospital, where the 2-year-old girls, who faced each other, were recovering in stable condition after 17 hours of surgery, officials said on Thursday.
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CULTURE / Film
Dec 8, 2016

Meryl Streep pipes up on doing what you love

One of the best lines uttered in Stephen Frears' film "Florence Foster Jenkins" comes from Meryl Streep in the role of Florence — which the actress gracefully repeats for me during her interview for The Japan Times.
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CULTURE / Film
Dec 8, 2016

Ishizaki switches guitars for scripts in his on-screen debut

Making his on-screen debut in Daigo Matsui's multistranded, disorderly and, at times, moving film "Japanese Girls Never Die" ("Azumi Harako wa Yukie Fumei"), singer Huwie Ishizaki admits that he was nervous prior to stepping in front of the cameras. The 32-year-old solo artist is used to putting on intense...
BASKETBALL / B. League / B. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Dec 8, 2016

Teamwork has Tochigi flourishing

Camaraderie pays off for successful teams.
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COMMENTARY / World
Dec 8, 2016

Elites must engage populists

Populists cannot be eliminated, but they can be co-opted.
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JAPAN
Dec 7, 2016

Japanese professor creates online archive documenting Pearl Harbor attack

On Dec. 7, 1941, Peter Willett was feeding his rabbits in the backyard of his house at Ford Island, which sits in the middle of Hawaii's Pearl Harbor.
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CULTURE / Film
Dec 7, 2016

'Smoke': the movie that blazed a trail for indies

Just in time for Christmas, Yebisu Garden Cinema is reviving a film that was one of the cinema's biggest hits in the 1990s, director Wayne Wang's "Smoke," in a crisp new digital remastered version. Watching it again after all these years, it's hard not to feel a little pang, for in many ways it recalls...
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 7, 2016

Former Sen. Bob Dole set up contacts between Trump campaign and Taiwanese leadership

Former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole, acting as a paid lobbyist for Taiwan's government, connected Donald Trump's staff with Taiwanese officials in advance of an unprecedented phone call between the U.S. president-elect and Taiwan's president.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Dec 7, 2016

Trump said to pick Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad as ambassador to China

President-elect Donald Trump has offered the post of U.S. ambassador to China to Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, a longtime friend of Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to three people close to the matter.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Dec 6, 2016

Ex-referee Vanak helped improve job with courage

John Vanak was a quiet revolutionary.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 6, 2016

Italy's was just the latest stupid referendum

Like David Cameron's Brexit fiasco, this didn't have to happen.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 6, 2016

Empathy key to human rights

'The heart of all discussions of human rights is the battle against discrimination. All human beings are equal. No discrimination is permissible. Absolutely none.'
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 6, 2016

Trump learned the wrong lessons from Asia

If Donald Trump dislikes China so much, why has he embraced policies that would be at home in Beijing?

Longform

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