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HOKKAIDO JR

Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 24, 2014
Painful love in decaying Hokkaido port town
My interview with Mipo Oh, the director of the turbulent new love drama 'Soko Nomi Nite Hikari Kagayaku (The Light Shines Only There),' did not begin smoothly.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 22, 2014
Yanagita leads Hawks to comeback victory over Fighters
Yuki Yanagita started a triple play and plated the tying run as the Pacific League-leading Fukuoka Softbank Hawks came from behind to beat the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 2-1 on Tuesday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 21, 2014
Fighters acquire left-hander Carter
The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters signed left-hander Anthony Carter from the San Diego Padres' Triple-A affiliate, the Pacific League club announced Monday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 20, 2014
Otani survives scrapes as Fighters beat Eagles
Shohei Otani (2-0) pitched out of a series of scrapes on Sunday to work into the seventh inning and earn the victory in the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters' 4-2 win over the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 16, 2014
Fighters rookie Uwasawa holds off Buffaloes
Rookie right-hander Naoyuki Uwasawa allowed three runs in seven innings to improve to 3-0 in three starts as the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters beat the Orix Buffaloes 8-3 on Wednesday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 13, 2014
Fighters' Inaba to have surgery on left knee
Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters first baseman Atsunori Inaba will have surgery to clean out damaged cartilage in his ailing left knee, the team's trainer said Sunday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 10, 2014
Bomber says next target is police box
A Hokkaido TV station receives a letter claiming responsibility for a string of bombings in Sapporo and threatening to hit a police box next.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Apr 10, 2014
Seguignol says being flexible key to success in NPB
Fernando Seguignol towered over a group of people huddled near one of the batting cages on the field at Tokyo Dome, where the Yomiuri Giants' Leslie Anderson was getting his work in prior to a game against the Hiroshima Carp earlier this week.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Apr 8, 2014
Luxury Hokkaido hotel where G-8 summit was held in '08 to be sold
Security service provider Secom Co. plans to sell its luxury hotel in Hokkaido — site of the Group of Eight summit in 2008 — to Meiji Shipping Co. in June, according to company officials.
JAPAN
Apr 8, 2014
Tax authorities reject punter's bid to declare losing bets as expenses
Tax authorities say a man in Hokkaido failed to declare more than roughly ¥400 million in income from horse race betting over six years, determining that the money spent on losing tickets does not count as expenses, sources said Monday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 27, 2014
Giants, Hawks look like class of NPB as season begins
2014 NPB Preview
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Mar 26, 2014
Yoh happy to carry on tradition as Fighters' showman
There has been a certain amount of pizazz associated with Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters center fielders the last several seasons.
JAPAN
Mar 26, 2014
Hakodate assembly OKs lawsuit against nuclear plant
The municipal assembly of Hakodate, Hokkaido, approves a plan to sue the central government and an electric utility to stop construction of a nuclear plant in neighboring Aomori Prefecture.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Mar 24, 2014
Spotlight still shining on Nippon Ham's two-way star Otani
Shohei Otani poked his head out of the hallway leading to the visitors' clubhouse at Tokyo Dome and mumbled a shy query about the whereabouts of Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters PR man Hisashi Hatanaka before disappearing again.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 8, 2014
Otani outshines pitching peer Fujinami
Hokkaido Nippon Ham right-hander Shohei Otani outpitched fellow second-year man Shintaro Fujinami as the Fighters defeated the Hanshin Tigers 6-5 in a preseason game on Saturday.
JAPAN
Feb 26, 2014
Train buff in Hokkaido builds his own museum
An architect in Otofuke, Hokkaido, has transformed part of his household into a railway museum.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 21, 2014
Girl embraces Ainu dance, shivers her timbers
Ayaka Ono is not an Ainu but has long been fascinated by the indigenous inhabitants of Hokkaido. Last year, she even became a performer of one of their traditional dances.
EDITORIALS
Feb 19, 2014
No way to run a railway
Hokkaido police have begun an investigation of JR Hokkaido on suspicion that its workers fabricated track maintenance data after a freight train derailed in the Hakodate line's Onuma Station compound last Sept. 19.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2014
Kagoshima and Hokkaido cities marry their foods
No shotgun necessary. In a friendly "arranged marriage," two cities — Makurazaki in Kagoshima Prefecture and Wakkanai in Hokkaido — united their local delicacies in a Shinto-style wedding ceremony at Izumo Shrine in Shimane Prefecture Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 17, 2014
Hokkaido town opens ice hotel, with wet bar
Tobetsu, a little known Hokkaido town aiming for revitalization, has opened Japan's first hotel made of ice, with three guest rooms, a bar and a variety of attractions.
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.
Yen’s fragility raises specter of a new currency war in Asia
Suspected intervention to drag the yen off a 34-year low against the dollar is already seen as unlikely to have a lasting effect if Japan continues alone.
Online booking for Mount Fuji climb to open on May 20
Visitors climb the slopes of Mount Fuji, Japan's highest peak at 3,776 meters. From May 20, climbers will have access to a new online booking system for Mount Fuji's most popular Yoshida trail in Yamanashi Prefecture.
Ex-METI bureaucrat given 10-year sentence for drugging and raping women
The Tokyo District Court on Monday sentenced a former industry ministry bureaucrat to 10 years in prison for drugging six women with sleeping pills and then raping or groping them in 2022.
Political party Tsubasa no To investigated over election obstruction
Officers from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police raid the Tsubasa no To office in Tokyo on Monday.
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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