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HIROSHI OE

Rugby
Feb 4, 2016
Yamashita joins Chiefs for Super Rugby campaign
Japan prop Hiroshi Yamashita will join the Chiefs for the upcoming Super Rugby season, his Top League club, Kobe Kobelco Steelers, announced Thursday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jan 28, 2016
Gondo, Saito to serve as Japan's pitching coaches for games against Taiwan
Former Yokohama BayStars manager Hiroshi Gondo and major leaguer Takashi Saito will join the Japan national team as pitching coaches on Thursday for the team's two games against Taiwan in March.
MORE SPORTS
Jan 14, 2016
Hoketsu seeks Olympic berth at age 74
Equestrian rider Hiroshi Hoketsu, who made his Olympic debut in Tokyo in 1964 and appeared in the 2012 London Games at the Japan record of 71 years of age, will be aiming to compete in his fourth Olympics after applying for a qualifying trial, according to the Japan Equestrian Federation.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Dec 28, 2015
Aichi printing company publishes calendar produced by man with no arms
A printing company has produced a calendar bearing kanji characters written by a staffer who has no arms.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Dec 12, 2015
Can upgraded home stadiums give boost to BayStars, Eagles?
Going from worst to first — last place to a pennant — is difficult for any professional baseball team. The Tokyo Yakult Swallows managed to do it this past season in the Central League, and the two clubs that finished at the bottom of the league standings in 2015 are hoping to rise to the top during the coming year.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Dec 8, 2015
Politicians launch support group for new men's basketball circuit
A group of nearly two dozen Diet members launched a basketball-supporting parliamentarians' association and held its kickoff meeting on Tuesday at the members' office buildings of the House of Councilors in Tokyo's Nagatacho district.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Dec 5, 2015
Hanzai Japan
Hackneyed writing and plot devices grow like kabi (mold) in crime fiction, but this anthology of 16 stories by writers in and outside Japan serves up tasty surprises. "Jigoku" by Naomi Hirahara is a heartfelt, surefooted tale by a serial killer confined to a cardboard-box in hell. Carrie Vaughn's "The Girl Who Loved Shonen Knife" is a breathless, manga-esque escapade about a schoolgirl who'll stop at nothing to win a battle of the bands contest. And Yumeaki Hirayama's "Monologue of a Universal Transverse Mercator Projection" overcomes its clunky title with an animistic tale of grisly slayings — narrated by none other than an atlas of Tokyo. There's more guts and gore than a Japanese whaling research vessel here — some of it ridiculously gratuitous, as in "The Saitama Chain Saw Massacre" by Japanese science-fiction heavyweight Hiroshi Sakurazaka, author of "All You Need is Kill."
Japan Times
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Nov 24, 2015
Hongo's shot at Grand Prix Final in doubt
Rika Hongo jeopardized her chance to make the Grand Prix Final for the second straight year after struggling through a poor free skate at the Cup of Russia in Moscow on Saturday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 18, 2015
Kohei Oguri's 'Foujita' struggles to win over foreign audiences
Veteran auteur Kohei Oguri's first film in 10 years, "Foujita" is a biopic of artist Tsuguharu "Leonard" Foujita. The toast of prewar Paris for his elegantly drawn women and cats, Foujita radically switched styles on his return to a militarized Japan and his propaganda art for the war effort was heavily criticized following Japan's 1945 defeat.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 18, 2015
Fukada's 'Sayonara' captures android intimacy
'We all die alone" is a thought voiced by the famous (Hunter S. Thompson and Orson Welles among them), but it seems to state the obvious. We also all have toothaches alone, do we not?
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Nov 13, 2015
NRA starts clock ticking on Monju, advising operator be replaced
The Nuclear Regulation Authority asks the science minister to replace the manager of the Monju fast-breeder reactor, casting a shadow over the long-troubled experimental facility.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 11, 2015
Director Koji Fukada explores nuanced human-robot divide in 'Sayonara'
Whether it's the anthropomorphic cyborg cat Doraemon, Sony's artificially intelligent canine pet Aibo or even baby harp seals created to assist dementia patients, robots have long been recognized in Japan as capable of providing therapeutic and emotional assistance for their human owners.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Nov 6, 2015
UNESCO eyes improvement in documentary listing system after Japan objects to Nanking Massacre papers
UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova made the comments during a meeting with culture minister Hiroshi Hase in Paris on Friday, according to Hase.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
Nov 6, 2015
Indignant Japan urges UNESCO to overhaul procedures after Nanjing records flap
The government has weighed in again over UNESCO's acceptance of Chinese records of a wartime atrocity, demanding improved procedures.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Nov 2, 2015
University-affiliated startup revolutionizes the electron beam
A Nagoya University-affiliated venture firm has created a next-generation electron beam device, signaling a landmark shift in the way electron microscopes and 3-D printers operate.
BUSINESS
Oct 18, 2015
Farm chief eyes promotional blitz to brace for TPP
Hiroshi Moriyama, minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, said Sunday the government will consider a new program to promote domestic farm products under the landmark free trade accord involving Japan, the United States and 10 other Pacific Rim countries.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Oct 17, 2015
Pondering managerial replacements for 2016 season
The tenure of most major league managers comes to an end when they are fired. More recently, for example, the transactions column included notice the Washington Nationals fired manager Matt Williams and the Seattle Mariners dismissed manager Lloyd McClendon.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 15, 2015
New education minister vows to promote LGBT rights and use Olympics to push social issues
A human rights advocate, former teacher and professional wrestler, and now the newly appointed head of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, said Wednesday he plans to promote support for sexual-minority students at schools.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 14, 2015
Minister vows to return donations from firms involved in bid-rigging
New farm minister Hiroshi Moriyama vowed Wednesday to pay back donations from companies involved in bid-rigging that were made to the ruling Liberal Democratic Party chapter he heads in Kagoshima Prefecture.
JAPAN
Oct 14, 2015
Kagoshima LDP chapter of new farm minister received donations from firms accused of bid-rigging
A ruling Liberal Democratic Party chapter headed by the new farm minister received donations from several companies after a local government expelled them from a list of approved firms due to bid-rigging, sources close to the matter said Wednesday.
Three men rearrested over brokering of overseas prostitution
A woman speaks of her experience of being sent to Macau by an overseas prostitution broker during an interview in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on April 8.
Money stolen via online transfers up fivefold in Tokyo
Special fraud cases in Tokyo in which stolen money was sent via online banking services grew some fivefold from the previous year in 2023.
How the discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan
Archaeologists say a 1,600-year-old wooden coffin at the Tomio Maruyama tumulus in the city of Nara was kept in good condition probably because it was protected by a layer of clay and copper ions that had seeped out of the mirrors that were buried together.
In first month of operations, ride-hailing services used more than taxis in Tokyo
As of last Sunday, ride-hailing services, which use personal vehicles to offer paid rides, had been used a total of 12,628 times in five areas.
Tech giants start to treat Southeast Asia like the next big thing
Attendees arrive for Microsoft's event on AI technologies in Jakarta on April 30.
In a rare event, the Northern Lights show up in Hokkaido
The Northern Lights in Nayoro, Hokkaido, on Saturday
Is black the new green for Japan’s flagging tea farmers?
George Guttridge-Smith brews tea at Kyoto Obubu Tea Farm in Wazuka, Kyoto Prefecture, where he serves as head of international development.
Japan's logistics firms seek partnerships to cope with driver shortage
Japan Post CEO Tetsuya Senda (right) and his Seino Transportation counterpart Satoshi Takahashi announce their companies' agreement on joint long-haul truck operations, in Tokyo on Thursday.
How the discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan
Archaeologists say a 1,600-year-old wooden coffin at the Tomio Maruyama tumulus in the city of Nara was kept in good condition probably because it was protected by a layer of clay and copper ions that had seeped out of the mirrors that were buried together.
Unlike 10 years ago, Japan's new security bill sparks little debate
The Lower House starts discussing a security clearance bill on April 19 in Tokyo.

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