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HITOMI

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Dec 14, 2017
Miu Hirano loses in first round at season-ending ITTF World Tour Grand Finals
Miu Hirano, a bronze medal winner at this year's World Table Tennis Championships, made a first-round exit in the women's singles at the season-ending ITTF World Tour Grand Finals on Thursday.
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JAPAN
Dec 12, 2017
Charles Jenkins, U.S. defector to North Korea and husband of former Japanese abductee Hitomi Soga, dies at 77
Jenkins, who spent nearly 40 years in North Korea as a prisoner, lived in Japan with his family after his release in 2004.
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JAPAN
Sep 14, 2017
Former victim alarmed by declining interest in North Korean abductions of Japanese
Hitomi Soga, a former abductee to North Korea, on Wednesday voiced concern about the waning public interest in the issue.
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CULTURE / Entertainment news
Aug 4, 2017
Pikotaro marries model Yasueda, vows to work harder
Comedian Pikotaro, best known for his hit song "Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen," announced Friday he has tied the knot with model Hitomi Yasueda.
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JAPAN / Society
Jun 28, 2017
From envy to epiphany: Japanese woman with dwarfism follows fashion dreams
Life for Hitomi Goto had always been about trying to blend in and the envy she felt as a person dealing with dwarfism from an early age, especially when it came to the fashion of her peers.
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Jun 1, 2017
Hirano, Ishikawa reach third round at worlds
Miu Hirano and Kasumi Ishikawa were victorious on the third day of action at the World Table Tennis Championships Wednesday, making it five out of five Japanese to advance to the third round of the women's singles.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jul 15, 2016
JAXA eyes 2020 launch of new X-ray astronomy satellite to replace lost Hitomi
The nation's space agency said Thursday it is considering launching in 2020 an X-ray astronomy satellite to succeed Hitomi, which the agency lost communication with in March soon after it entered orbit.
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CULTURE / Film
Jun 29, 2016
'Desperate Sunflowers': Women on the verge of friendship
Movies about female friendship are no longer rare: In the 25 years since the seminal "Thelma and Louise," even the Japanese film industry has figured out that two or more women bonding on screen can be good for the box office. But what about feuding female cousins?
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JAPAN / Science & Health
Mar 28, 2016
Debris spotted floating around silent Hitomi X-ray satellite
The U.S. Joint Space Operations Center on Sunday said it has spotted five objects floating near Japan's brand new Hitomi X-ray astronomy satellite that lost communication with Earth the previous day.
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CULTURE / Books
Aug 29, 2015
'The Book of Tokyo' reveals sidelined Japanese writers, but not the city itself
"The Book of Tokyo" is part of Comma Press' "Reading the City" series, though most of the stories inside could be transplanted to other Japanese cities — Nagoya, Fukuoka or Sapporo — without any noticeable difference.
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JAPAN / Politics
Oct 13, 2014
Soga skeptical of plan to send abduction delegation to Pyongyang
Hitomi Soga, one of the repatriated Japanese abducted by North Korean agents in 1978, took a dim view Sunday of the government's plan to send officials to Pyongyang to get an update on its new probe into the other missing Japanese.
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CULTURE / Music / JAZZ NOTES
Sep 9, 2014
Tokyo Jazz Festival impresses again
Sitting in a muddy field is taken as par for the course, and possibly even part of the attraction, at major summer festivals like Fuji Rock. But rain would certainly have put a damper on any jazz festival set in the heart of the capital. Luckily, although the clouds threatened to burst on both Saturday and Sunday, the rain mainly stayed away, and thousands of music fans were able to get the most out of the 13th Tokyo Jazz Festival.
JAPAN
Jan 8, 2014
Japanese woman grieves over husband's death in attack on honeymoon in Ecuador
A Japanese woman severely wounded in a shooting that killed her husband on their honeymoon in Guayaquil, Ecuador, expressed her sorrow Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Dec 28, 2013
Snakes and Earrings
Take a walk through Tokyo's Shibuya or Shinjuku shopping districts and you'll soon notice the streets are filled with a certain kind of girl — stylishly dressed, sassy, with heavy makeup and dyed brown or blond hair. These are gyaru, and to get a peek inside their world, "Snakes and Earrings" is a good place to start — though it may not be as pretty as you'd expect.
When will Japan intervene to support the yen?
Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki has reiterated the government's readiness to take an appropriate action as the yen continues to slide against the U.S. dollar.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
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.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
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.
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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