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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 29, 2015

Opportunistic Carp spoil Swallows' celebration plans

The Hiroshima Carp have more work to do during the regular season in order to get where they want to be. Now the Tokyo Yakult Swallows still do as well.
EDITORIALS
Sep 29, 2015

Modest progress in U.S.-China ties

While there were no gaffes during Chinese President Xi Jinping's recent visit to the U.S., his summit with President Obama was a missed opportunity for significant progress.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 29, 2015

No guarantee of data literacy by statisticians

Just having a statistics department isn't enough for a university — it has to be effective.
Japan Times
SPORTS / NOTES ON A SCORECARD
Sep 29, 2015

Blatter's stain on game proving very lame

"Blatter is a dead man walking ... "
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 / EXPLAINER
Sep 28, 2015

Home-sharing services on the rise in Japan as owners cash in on tourist boom

For foreign tourists to Japan, staying at traditional ryokan inns is a popular way to enjoy their trips, but home-sharing services are growing as an alternative form of accommodation.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 28, 2015

Abe's military push proves to be losing trade as defense stocks sink

Equity investors looking to profit from Japan's move away from pacifism might find that easier said than done.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 28, 2015

Xi Jinping's high-stakes visit to Washington

The visit to Washington by President Xi Jinping illustrated the old saying that politicians need to be able to 'walk and chew gum at the same time.'
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 28, 2015

Climate and the Volkswagen scandal

But there are several scandals swirling around Volkswagen's emissions malfeasance, and the most important may be European governments' passion for diesel over gasoline.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Sep 28, 2015

China's culture chief says sites being plundered, bulldozed

The treasures of China's thousands of years of culture face being plundered, sometimes violently, or disappearing under bulldozers as authorities either do not care or do not have the resources to look after them, China's culture chief said.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Sep 27, 2015

Can art bring people back to Japan's depopulated islands?

I've seen island revitalization projects come and go, but the idea of an NPO riding on the coattails of a successful art trend in the area strikes me as having some promise.
TENNIS
Sep 26, 2015

Bencic, Radwanska advance to Pan Pacific Open final

Rising Swiss star Belinda Bencic beat Denmark's Caroline Wozniacki on Saturday to storm into the final of the Pan Pacific Open, where she will face Poland's Agnieszka Radwanska.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Sep 26, 2015

Masaki Matsunaga: 'We should enjoy all the emotions we feel'

Japanese entreprenuer on dialects, parents and using balloons to make people float
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Sep 26, 2015

A cry for help

So what made you cry watching 'My Neighbor Totoro?'
Japan Times
OLYMPICS / OLYMPIC NOTEBOOK
Sep 26, 2015

'Munich 72 and Beyond' chronicles aftermath

Forty-three years ago this month, the Munich Massacre shocked the world.
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Sep 25, 2015

September 26, 2015

Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Sep 25, 2015

Outlook for Rodgers, McClaren not very promising

The noose is tightening round the neck of Brendan Rodgers. How long the Boston-based Fenway Sports Group, which owns Liverpool, will stay loyal to its manager remains to be seen, but it is becoming increasingly difficult to put up a valid argument that Rodgers can take Liverpool forward.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Sep 25, 2015

Togashi a free agent after being cut by Italian team

After parting ways with Italian Serie A club Dinamo Sassari, guard Yuki Togashi is once again a player without a team.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 25, 2015

Supporters demand security bill protesters be released following 'unjust arrests'

Supporters of protesters who were arrested for obstruction of justice during a rally against the government's security legislation demanded Friday that they be released immediately and decried their "unjust arrest."
Reader Mail
Sep 25, 2015

Rugby World Cup 2019 in danger

Your article "Olympics mess a nation's indictment" (Sept. 16) is a useful assessment of some of the horrendous decision-making that has typified Japan's planning for the 2020 Olympic Games. What both that article and most other commentaries largely overlook is the damage done to Japan in another sporting...
Reader Mail
Sep 25, 2015

Abe has placed himself above the nation's law

The editorial "Security policy set the wrong way" in the Sept. 19 edition is absolutely right to question Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's approach to governance. There is a reason the Constitution is very difficult to change, and yet that poses no concern to Abe or his supporters (who are dwindling day by...
Reader Mail
Sep 25, 2015

Congratulations from South Africa

Regarding the story "Japan shocks Springboks to make Rugby World Cup history" in the Sept. 21 edition, your World Cup team played a magnificent game.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 24, 2015

Laundry firm's flexibility cited as reason why single moms don't quit

Since joining the laundering company Kikuya in 1995, Akemi Hirayama says she has never missed a day of work.
EDITORIALS
Sep 24, 2015

The coming crisis in housing

The government's policy on housing should veer away from encouraging new construction and focus more on developing the market for secondhand houses.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 23, 2015

The ballad of Sam Peckinpah is written in blood

Over the years, the idea of so-called auteur filmmaking has become identified with a certain breed of art-house cinema. A short list of American auteurs would probably include directors such as Woody Allen, Wes Anderson and Paul Thomas Anderson — but not someone like Sam Peckinpah, who made ultra-violent...
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 23, 2015

As Malaysian leader struggles in graft scandal, his party plays the race card

When thousands of Malay Muslims marched through Kuala Lumpur last week to support his scandal-racked government, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak kept his distance.
Fears rise of rupture in Japan-China ties in wake of Taiwan remarks
Two Chinese tourists wearing kimonos take a selfie as they visit Sensoji temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district on Saturday.
A beloved Tokyo penguin’s end presages Suica’s shift to payments giant
JR East is retiring the beloved Suica penguin as part of a rebrand to transform the contactless payment platform, used for both transit and retail, into a mobile fintech powerhouse.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
Ashfall warning issued in southern Japan as volcano erupts
View of Sakurajima from the mainland of Kagoshima Prefecture
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Good fortune, wrapped in fried tofu
Golden "age-fukuburo," a culinary take on Japan's new year "lucky bags," can be served on their own.
Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan celebrates 80 years at the forefront of press freedom
Located near the Imperial Palace, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan prides itself on the accessibility of its events and the support it offers to budding and established journalists. The club is currently headed by Dan Sloan, a former reporter for Reuters.
The challenges awaiting Japan’s new finance minister
Finance minister Satsuki Katayama answers questions from reporters in a group interview on Oct. 24.
At Ginza’s newest hotel, luxury is a private treasure
At Fufu Tokyo, each guest room comes with its own private "onsen" (hot spring) — a luxury nearly unheard of in the heart of Tokyo's capital.
Japan fully enters sports streaming era as fans face new dilemmas
Sports fan Tadashi Yokoyama streams basketball and fencing on three screens.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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
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