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Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Sep 3, 2019
Shun Sato stellar in Lake Placid JGP victory
Shun Sato's debut on the Junior Grand Prix circuit was a smashing success.
Japan Times
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Aug 27, 2019
Yuma Kagiyama dazzles in France JGP win
Yuma Kagiyama opened the Junior Grand Prix season with a bang.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 23, 2019
Abe tied as longest-serving postwar Japanese leader with great-uncle Sato at 2,798 days
Saturday will be Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's 2,799th day in office.
Japan Times
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Aug 15, 2019
Yuma Kagiyama looks to continue father's legacy
The sports landscape is filled with sons of famous fathers who could not live up to the family name. Many have tried to emulate success in the same sport, but were unable to approach their dad's greatness.
JAPAN
Aug 8, 2019
Globe-trotting Japanese cyclist dies in road accident in Peru
A Japanese man traveling around the world by bicycle died of a head injury after being hit by a truck Sunday in northwestern Peru, according to local news reports.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 2, 2019
BayStars' Jose Lopez delivers game-winning hit against rival Giants
Jose Lopez hit a tie-breaking, two-run double off his former team, lifting the second-place Yokohama BayStars to a 4-2 win over the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants on Friday night.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 25, 2019
Man arrested after two men die in Nagoya stabbing incident
Two men have died after a man attacked them with a knife in Nagoya on Monday night, police said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 6, 2019
Abe equals Hirobumi Ito as Japan's third-longest-serving prime minister
Political observers largely attribute the longevity of Abe's leadership to a relatively strong economy and a fragmented opposition.
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MORE SPORTS
May 27, 2019
Takuma Sato finishes third at Indy 500
Takuma Sato took advantage of a late-race crash to move into contention at the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, scything into third place to finish in the top three for the second time in three years at IndyCar's most prestigious race.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 22, 2019
'Jesus': Our father, who art in the Japanese mountains
Christianity has never really taken hold in Japan, despite hundreds of years of proselytizing (with a long Edo Period interruption for persecution). In his novel, "Silence," Catholic author Shusaku Endo famously described the country as a "swamp" where the sapling of the Christian faith is doomed to rot.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
May 4, 2019
Japan Times 1944: Potatoes to be grown on Diet Building lawn
Neat squares of Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn will dot the spacious lawn of the Diet Building grounds in a movement not to leave any cultivable land idle. The work on the first plot in the Diet grounds was tackled by 45 attendants of the Diet Building on Wednesday. Another plot of 100 tsubo will be dug up and planted by the end of May.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 27, 2019
Giants quash late rally, beat reeling BayStars
The Yokohama BayStars got the performances they needed at the plate and on the mound to beat the Yomiuri Giants.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 17, 2019
'Kingdom': An admirable try at Chinese history
Why should Japanese kids care about a manga set in China's Warring States Period, (475-221 B.C.)? The players and power struggles are hard enough for professional historians (and this reviewer) to grasp, let alone 10-year-olds.
BASKETBALL
Apr 11, 2019
JBA lifts ban on four ex-national team players caught paying for sex
The Japan Basketball Association said Thursday it has lifted the suspension of four former national team players who were caught buying sex during last year's Asian Games in Indonesia.
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MORE SPORTS
Apr 6, 2019
Hisayoshi Harasawa captures second title at national invitational championships
Olympic silver medalist Hisayoshi Harasawa won the men's over-100-kilogram title at the National Invitational Weight Class Championships on Saturday.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Apr 2, 2019
Performance staff plays big role for Japan hoopsters
Right after the final buzzer, the TV camera momentarily caught head coach Julio Lamas giving a strong hug to athletic trainer Takeo Ichiyanagi after they helped accomplish a big feat in the Middle East in late February.
Japan Times
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Feb 26, 2019
Japan shows skating power with 5 golds at Challenge Cup
The Japanese skating juggernaut rolled into The Hague last week for the Challenge Cup and left town on Monday with a total of five golds medals in an impressive show of dominance.
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MORE SPORTS
Feb 25, 2019
Japan team captures bronze at Nordic World Ski Championships
Japan, anchored by overall World Cup leader Ryoyu Kobayashi, finished third in the men's team competition on Sunday and claimed the country's first medal of the 2019 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.
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MORE SPORTS
Feb 9, 2019
Nao Kodaira's 37-race unbeaten streak at 500 meters ends
Olympic champion Nao Kodaira's two-year undefeated run in the 500-meter race came to an end Friday when she finished second at the ISU World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships.
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Jan 22, 2019
Ryoyu Kobayashi moved by hero's welcome upon return to Japan
Ski jumper Ryoyu Kobayashi said he was "surprised" to be greeted by so many television cameras and reporters at Haneda airport on Tuesday as he returned home midway through his remarkable breakout season.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Traders spooked by intervention risk trim record yen shorts
Traders edged back from record bets on yen weakness this past week, in a period that included a likely bout of intervention by Japan to prop up the currency.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
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