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Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jan 24, 2017
T-C-T and TPAM set to offer a hot winter's feast of the arts
A bonanza is brewing in Tokyo and Yokohama for lovers of cross-cultural contemporary theater.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Jan 24, 2017
Japan fills out team for World Baseball Classic
Samurai Japan mostly filled out its roster for the 2017 World Baseball Classic on Tuesday, adding eight players, but no major leaguers, to the 19 names released in December.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 6, 2016
Dragons beat Carp to deny Kuroda win No. 200
Ryosuke Hirata broke a 1-1 tie with a sixth-inning RBI double as the Chunichi Dragons prevented Hiroki Kuroda from recording his 200th career victory in top-flight pro ball with a 4-1 win over the Hiroshima Carp in the Central League on Wednesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jun 21, 2016
Dramatist speaks up for the downtrodden and new thinking in Japan
Fifty-three year-old Oriza Hirata unexpectedly arrived early for our 9 a.m. interview in a Tokyo family restaurant one recent Sunday morning. Not only that, but the famed playwright and director turned up alone without the squad of minders such people's managers generally send along to stop them making headlines for reasons they wouldn't like.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 17, 2016
Norberto, Hirata help Dragons edge Fighters
Jordan Norberto blanked the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters over 7⅔ innings and Ryosuke Hirata hit a decisive RBI double as the Chunichi Dragons claimed a 1-0 win to snap their four-game skid on Friday in interleague action.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jun 16, 2016
Jo Kanamori and Oriza Hirata retell 'La Bayadere' with a dose of political awareness
The atmosphere at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia, must have been electric on Feb. 4, 1877. That was the day Austrian composer Ludwig Minkus premiered "La Bayadere" — the latest masterpiece of classical ballet by French choreographer Marius Petipa — to some of Europe's cultural elite.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 11, 2016
Dragons' Ono earns complete-game victory against Lions
Yudai Ono went the distance and Ryosuke Hirata hit a two-run home run in the eighth to lift the Chunichi Dragons past the Seibu Lions 4-2 on Saturday in the interleague action.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 3, 2016
96-year-old Japanese man recognized as world's oldest graduate
A 96-year-old man in western Japan expressed his joy on Friday at being recognized as the world's oldest university graduate.
OLYMPICS
Feb 24, 2016
Badminton duo decide against competing for spot in Rio
Badminton doubles players Noriyasu Hirata and Hirokatsu Hashimoto have ruled themselves out of contention for this summer's Rio de Janeiro Olympics due to personal reasons of one of the athletes, Kyodo News learned Wednesday from various sources.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 14, 2016
Top court rejects ex-Aum member's appeal against nine-year prison term
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by a former senior member of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, in a move that will finalize a nine-year prison sentence for his involvement in three criminal incidents.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 23, 2015
Blood, skin traces on Osaka slaying suspect's clothes appear to match victim's DNA
The clothes of the man charged with the murder in August of a 13-year-old girl in Osaka Prefecture had traces of blood and pieces of skin that appear to match the victim's DNA, investigators have said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Sep 12, 2015
It still takes a village to keep our kids safe
The murders of 13-year-old Natsumi Hirata and 12-year-old Ryoto Hoshino in Osaka last month sparked a heated conversation in the media about the state of parenting in Japan.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 12, 2015
Man held over Osaka girl's murder served second arrest warrant
Police served an arrest warrant for murder on Saturday on a man already being held on suspicion of dumping the body of a 13-year-old girl in Osaka Prefecture last month.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 31, 2015
Osaka murder suspect has history of similar crimes
With the investigation into the murder of two teenagers from Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture, apparently making little headway, police are looking into links with that case and similar crimes the suspect was convicted of more than a decade ago.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Aug 29, 2015
Koji Hirata finds the 'soul of tango' through his bandoneon
Koji Hirata encountered the bandoneon, a type of concertina, at the young age of 13. While it's common for a teenager to take up a musical instrument, Hirata showed an unusually high level of commitment when, at 16, he took a solo trip to Argentina to learn it.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 25, 2015
Murder of Osaka students highlights street children problem
The murder this month of two junior high school students from Osaka Prefecture who loitered around a train station until the morning of the day they disappeared, has highlighted the problem of street children and prompted locals to enhance measures to protect them.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 25, 2015
Suspect in Osaka murder may have sent messages from victim's phone: sources
The suspect may have used the victim's Line smartphone app to send messages to her friend after kidnapping her, investigative sources said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 23, 2015
Police link adhesive tape found on bodies of slain Osaka boy, girl
Authorities send the murder suspect to prosecutors as police raid the onetime lodging of the man, a former worker in the Fukushima nuclear decontamination effort.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 22, 2015
Man arrested in Osaka murder case likely acted alone, police say
The man arrested late Friday in connection with the murder in Osaka of 13-year-old Natsumi Hirata, whose body was found with multiple lacerations and whose head and face were bound with adhesive tape, likely acted alone, investigators said Saturday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 21, 2015
Man, 45, arrested over Osaka girl's murder; body of male schoolmate found
Police on Friday night arrested a 45-year-old man in Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture, in connection with the murder of a junior high school girl.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Raising kids in Japan as a single parent? It takes a village.
Making things work as a foreign, single mother in Japan isn't easy, but these tips and tricks can help you through the hardest parts.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
In Japan, regional revitalization fails to halt population decline
Sakiyama elementary school in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, in March .Over the past decade, the government has directed efforts toward policies designed to give young people incentives to base themselves in rural areas.
Putin’s war will soon reach Russians’ tax bills
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting in St. Petersburg on Friday.
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.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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