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GO TANAKA

Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Sep 10, 2014
Nagatsuka probes into Pinter's 'Betrayal'
"During the 2010 Tokyo run of my play 'Anti-clockwise Wonderland,' I held a reading workshop of 'Betrayal.' That set me thinking I'd like to act one of the men in the love-triangle drama. So now at last I find myself doing that — and directing as well," Keishi Nagatsuka said in a recent interview with...
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 22, 2014
Tanaka to throw batting practice
Right-hander Masahiro Tanaka is slated to throw batting practice for the first time since injuring his elbow in July, Yankees manager Joe Girardi revealed on Thursday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 2, 2014
Tanaka to see doctor on Monday
First-year New York Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka will see a doctor on Monday and his injured right elbow appears to be making progress.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Jul 12, 2014
Luna an All-Star snub despite playing at high level
Hector Luna will probably spend the All-Star break relaxing, when really, he should be working. Instead, the Chunichi Dragons third baseman will be on the outside looking in during the NPB All-Star Series July 18 and 19.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 7, 2014
Tanaka chosen for MLB All-Star Game
The $175 million the New Yankees spent to acquire Masahiro Tanaka is looking more and more like a bargain with each passing day.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 28, 2014
Tanaka unlikely to pitch in All-Star Game
Despite taking the phenomenal success he enjoyed in Japan to the majors this year, first-year Yankees right-hander Masahiro Tanaka is unlikely to pitch for the American League in this year's MLB All-Star Game, New York manager Joe Girardi hinted on Friday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 25, 2014
Swallows rout Marines
Left-hander Masanori Ishikawa pitched seven innings of one-run ball, Yuhei Takai homered and drove in five runs, and the Tokyo Yakult Swallows thumped the Chiba Lotte Marines 14-3 as the two clubs wrapped up their final interleague game on Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 11, 2014
Abe picks for NRA 'undermine' nuclear watchdog's independence
The Lower House has approved the appointment of a Nuclear Regulation Authority commissioner who has received more than u00a510 million in research funding from nuclear-related entities.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 10, 2014
Tanaka-Iwakuma showdown called off due to rain
Former Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles teammates Masahiro Tanaka and Hisashi Iwakuma, who were scheduled to face off in a pitching duel on Tuesday in Seattle, will not face each other this week after Tanaka's schedule in the New York Yankees rotation was pushed ahead to Wednesday.
Rugby
Jun 5, 2014
Tanaka awaits first start of 2014 for Brave Blossoms in IRB Pacific Nations Cup
Highlanders and Panasonic Wild Knights scrumhalf Fumiaki Tanaka will make his first international start of the year Saturday when Japan takes on Canada in the IRB Pacific Nations Cup.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
May 27, 2014
SKST 4seasons aren't posing when it comes to rock
Tomo Nakamura had already decided before walking through the door that this audition would be his last. He'd already been in a half dozen bands that had never taken off. He was prepared to give up on dreams of being a musician, but fortunately for him he had found a group of young men who felt precisely...
JAPAN
May 14, 2014
NRA blames plant operators for prolonged reactor safety checks
The head of the Nuclear Regulation Authority said Wednesday that nuclear power plant operators, rather than regulators, are the ones to blame for the prolonged safety review of reactors that started last July.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Apr 29, 2014
Populist Hashimoto a true 'yankii'?
In Japanese politics, someone labeled a 'yankii' is something of a populist who disdains cosmopolitanism and intellectual elitism. But does that apply to outspoken Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto?
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Apr 26, 2014
Reysol win on last-gasp strike
Junya Tanaka scored with a thunderbolt in the third and final minute of injury time to give Kashiwa Reysol a 3-2 win over Urawa Reds on Saturday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Apr 19, 2014
The media get ready for open season on Tanaka
"In the Spring," wrote Alfred, Lord Tennyson in his famous poem "Locksley Hall," "a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 26, 2014
Chasing a Phantom of success
Based on "Le Fantôme de l'Opéra," a 1911 novel by the French author of detective fiction, Gaston Leroux, and transformed into a musical composed, co-written and produced by Englishman Andrew Lloyd Webber (now Baron Lloyd-Webber), "The Phantom of the Opera" was first produced in London in 1986 and went...
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 23, 2014
Tanaka struggles in victory
New York Yankees right-hander Masahiro Tanaka allowed three runs over 5⅔ innings on Saturday and earned the win in a 5-4 victory over the Minnesota Twins.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 17, 2014
Tanaka escapes jams in third start of spring
The New York Yankees' Masahiro Tanaka allowed a run in 4⅓-innings Sunday in a 7-4 preseason win against the Atlanta Braves.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 17, 2014
Carp ace Maeda puts focus on raising level
Hiroshima Carp ace Kenta Maeda has made no secret of his desire to pitch in the big leagues, but said that will depend on how much he can raise his game.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Mar 15, 2014
1866 and all that: the untold early history of rugby in Japan
The history of rugby in Japan is arguably longer than that of every major rugby-playing country in the world outside of the British Isles and Australia. Very sorry France, New Zealand and South Africa! Regarding early documented rugby history, Japan wins. Until the recent discovery of an 1864 article...
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
Kishida defends planned rule to revoke foreigners' residency
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a meeting of the Lower House Judicial Affairs Committee on Wednesday.
Human bone-like objects found at Nippon Steel plant’s molten iron pot, with one worker missing
Police believe it’s highly possible that human bones found in a molten iron pot at Nippon Steel's Oita factory belong to a missing male employee.
Japanese billionaire sues Meta over investment scams using his image
Entrepreneurs Yusaku Maezawa (second from right) and Takafumi Horie (third from right) attend a study session on fake social media ads and investment scams at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo on April 10.
Was Onosato's defeat of Terunofuji an era-defining bout?
Onosato (right) defeats Terunofuji at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 12. While nothing in sumo is guaranteed, it seems almost inevitable that Onosato is destined for the top of the sport's pyramid.
Unraveling the Japanese prose of Yukio Mishima
Author Yukio Mishima accepts the Arts Festival Award in the drama category at the 20th Arts Festival Award Ceremony on Jan. 22, 1966.
New Taiwan president to set tone for ties with China at inauguration
Taiwan President-elect Lai Ching-te arrives at the CyberSec 2024 Exhibition in Taipei on Wednesday.
Japanese billionaire sues Meta over investment scams using his image
Entrepreneurs Yusaku Maezawa (second from right) and Takafumi Horie (third from right) attend a study session on fake social media ads and investment scams at the Liberal Democratic Party headquarters in Tokyo on April 10.
Japanese rap creates its mecca in Pop Yours
Tokyo-based artist Jumadiba says he forgoes the label of simply “rap” for his music because the Japanese rap scene isn’t confined to a particular sound.
Was Onosato's defeat of Terunofuji an era-defining bout?
Onosato (right) defeats Terunofuji at the Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on May 12. While nothing in sumo is guaranteed, it seems almost inevitable that Onosato is destined for the top of the sport's pyramid.

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