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CITY

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 12, 2018
Nourishing cities with nature
City planners are working to reverse decades of reckless growth by turning urban centers green.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 1, 2018
Rampant bicycle theft puts the brakes on China's Mobike foray in Mexico City
Chinese bike-sharing company Mobike entered the Latin American market in Mexico City this year drawn by its millions of potential clients. Now it has run into a problem increasingly plaguing the country: street crime.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 22, 2018
Tomoo Gokita: Exposing the underbelly of pop culture
Tomoo Gokita's deformations of his subjects are surrealistic with a precision mix of austere black, white and grays, low-brow culture imagery, kookiness and powerfully evocative draftsmanship.
Japan Times
SOCCER
May 14, 2018
Liverpool ace Salah, Manchester City break records on final day of Premier League season
Records fell on the final day of the Premier League season on Sunday as Manchester City beat Southampton 1-0 to become the first team to reach 100 points and Mohamed Salah established a new Premier League goalscoring mark as Liverpool clinched a top-four spot.
Japan Times
SOCCER
May 9, 2018
Southampton all but secures top-flight survival
Southampton almost certainly secured its Premier League survival after Manolo Gabbiadini's second-half goal gave it a 1-0 win over Swansea City on Tuesday that left its relegation rival deep in the mire.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
May 8, 2018
The funny side of Edo Period culture
Sometimes vulgar or ridiculous, and occasionally cliched, the toba-e of Nichosai, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai and Kyosai at the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts offer a panorama of what the historically amusing.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA
May 7, 2018
Saitama housewife catches NBA's eye with cute illustrations of Oklahoma City Thunder players
Sometimes nonverbal means of communication can connect you to the world.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 20, 2018
'No job, no money': Life in Vietnam for immigrants deported by U.S. in violation of 2008 bilateral deal
It wasn't until Pham Chi Cuong saw the plane waiting to deport him from the United States that it sunk in that he was about to be sent back to Vietnam, the country he fled in 1993.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Apr 6, 2018
Mighty Man City given reality check by Liverpool
Manchester City has collected compliments and plaudits almost on a weekly basis this season and rightly so, though the premature if inevitable claims about Pep Guardiola's team being the best English side of all-time took a severe dent when Liverpool thrashed — not too strong a word — the visitors...
Japan Times
SOCCER
Mar 13, 2018
David Silva bags two goals as Manchester City inches closer to title
David Silva underlined his importance to Manchester City's impending title success with both goals on Monday in the 2-0 Premier League win over Stoke City.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Mar 8, 2018
Man City suffers rare home defeat, reaches Champions League quarterfinals on aggregate
Manchester City advanced to the Champions League quarterfinals despite suffering its first home defeat in over a year, going through 5-2 on aggregate after a 2-1 defeat by Swiss champion Basel on Wednesday.
SOCCER
Mar 2, 2018
Shinji Okazaki set to make return to pitch for Leicester City
Leicester City forward Shinji Okazaki could return to the squad for Saturday's English Premier League match against Bournemouth after shaking off a knee injury that has kept him out for three games, manager Claude Puel said on Thursday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jan 31, 2018
Touted by Trump for U.S. manufacturing role, slumping Harley-Davidson closes Missouri plant
Harley-Davidson Inc. said on Tuesday it will close a plant in Kansas City, Missouri, as it consolidates manufacturing operations after its motorcycle shipments fell to their lowest level in six years, sending its shares down more than 8 percent.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 19, 2018
Train derails and hits residences in Mexico City suburb, killing at least five
A train derailed in a densely populated Mexico City suburb on Thursday morning, killing at least five people, local authorities said.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Jan 12, 2018
Liverpool moving on with Coutinho gone
Come May, Philippe Coutinho will probably have a La Liga and possibly a Copa del Rey winners' medal. He cannot play for Barcelona in the Champions League as he is ineligible, but two — even one — medal would be welcome because they would be the first club honors the Brazil midfielder, 25, has won....
Japan Times
SOCCER
Jan 3, 2018
Man City eases past Watford to restore lead to 15 points
Manchester City returned to winning ways and restored its Premier League lead to 15 points with an emphatic 3-1 victory over Watford at its Etihad Stadium stronghold on Tuesday.

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Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan