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Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Aug 20, 2017
Tracing James Lee Byars' time in Japan
I first met James Lee Byars in Kyoto in early 1967 and, at his invitation, participated in his "performance." At the time I didn't know that he'd been back and forth between Japan and the U.S. for nearly a decade already. I was also unaware that he had already done one-man shows and taken part in independent...
SOCCER / J. League
Jul 7, 2017
Lee ruled out for four weeks with injury
Urawa Reds striker Tadanari Lee will be out for up to four weeks with a knee injury, the J. League first-division side said Friday.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 1, 2017
The foulest crime, finally brought down?
Idealized notions of America's past are coming into question.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 29, 2017
North Korea vows to kill former South leader Park 'any time, at any place'
North Korea has issued standing orders for the execution of former South Korean President Park Geun-hye and her spy chief in response to what Pyongyang said was an aborted plot to assassinate its leader, Kim Jong Un.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 6, 2017
Alternative realities of realism
"Realism" can be a frustratingly indeterminate term. It can be used to refer to individual paintings, and it can be a conceptual placeholder that seemingly encapsulates the entire history of the Western Renaissance, and other, fine arts through to modernism.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Jun 3, 2017
Togashi instrumental in Japan's tournament-opening win over South Korea
Star point guard Yuki Togashi scored a team-high 12 points, including a key jumper in the final minute, to help Japan take the East Asia Basketball Association Championship group-stage opener with a 78-72 win over South Korea at Nagano Mashima General Sports Arena on Saturday.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Apr 7, 2017
Reds' Koroki notches first-half hat trick in rout of Vegalta
Shinzo Koroki's first-half hat trick set the tone for Urawa's 7-0 demolition job of Vegalta Sendai as Reds vaulted to the top of the J. League on Friday.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Mar 18, 2017
Playground legend 'Bone Collector' brings his talent back to Japan
Streetball fanatics revel with delight when rattling off names of legends who competed at New York's famed Rucker Park in the 20th century.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 4, 2017
'Pachinko' author Min Jin Lee on how Japan's ethnic Koreans keep beating the odds
"I got lost all the time," says writer Min Jin Lee with a charming laugh, sitting in a hotel lobby in San Francisco's Japantown.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 4, 2017
'Pachinko': Min Jin Lee writes the struggle of an ethnic Korean family in Japan
Min Jin Lee's second novel, "Pachinko," charts the fortunes and misfortunes of four generations of a Korean family.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Feb 28, 2017
Reds pounce on FC Seoul in Asian Champions League match
Urawa Reds swept aside FC Seoul in emphatic fashion in the Asian Champions League on Tuesday night, exacting revenge for their defeat in the round of 16 last year with a thumping 5-2 win to make it maximum points from two games in Group F.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Feb 17, 2017
Samsung scion Lee follows father's path in not just business but on scandal trail, too
The legal drama playing out in Seoul over whether Samsung scion Lee Jae-yong engaged in bribery and embezzlement has the feel of a Greek tragedy. It is a tale of an ambitious son trying to live up to his father's legacy — and the twist of fate that binds them together.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Feb 10, 2017
Kodaira captures women's 500-meter title at world championships
Nao Kodaira added another laurel to her dominant season in the 500 meters on Friday, becoming the first Japanese woman to win an individual title at the ISU's World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships.
BASEBALL
Jan 24, 2017
Slugger Lee returns to Lotte Giants
Former Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and Seattle Mariners slugger Lee Dae-ho has rejoined his former South Korean club the Lotte Giants after one season in the major leagues, the Yonhap News Agency reported Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 11, 2017
'The Neon Demon': Demonically arty — in a good way
With "The Neon Demon," director Nicolas Winding Refn seems to have come to the end of a trilogy that began with "Drive" (2011) and continued through "Only God Forgives" (2013). The idea seems to be to take genre-flick styles — car action, revenge and horror — and unravel them to the point where they...
MORE SPORTS
Dec 10, 2016
Kodaira victorious at World Cup event
Nao Kodaira stormed to her fourth women's 500-meter World Cup win of the season on Friday.
Japan Times
CULTURE
Dec 1, 2016
Tokyo Comic Con calls on Hollywood's big guns for star power
As we sit down for an interview, Tokyo Comic Convention Committee Chairman Mitsuaki Munegumi casually points to a glass case in the center of the room.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 25, 2016
Harnessing Trump and Sanders, South Korean populist Lee rises in polls
He respects Donald Trump and enjoys being compared to Bernie Sanders.
Japan Times
Rugby
Nov 17, 2016
Wales, Japan announce lineup changes for weekend test
Sam Warburton resumes the captaincy and Leigh Halfpenny switches to the wing for Wales, which has made 10 changes to its team to play Japan in Cardiff on Saturday.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Oct 15, 2016
Reds capture J. League Cup
Urawa Reds claimed their first trophy since 2007 after beating Gamba Osaka 5-4 on penalties to lift the J. League Cup following a 1-1 draw in Saturday's final.
Tokuryū, a new crime menace in Japan, emerges from the shadows
The National Police Agency coined the term "tokuryū" to classify individuals involved in dark part time jobs and quasi-gangsters, using the words "tokumei" (anonymous) and "ryūdo" (fluid) to reflect their characteristics.
Thanks, tourists. Views of Mount Fuji are now blocked.
Tourists pose in front of a convenience store with Mount Fuji on Friday in the town of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture. Local residents are upset over littering, overcrowding and the inconvenience caused by the visitors.
Is Modi’s party heading for a stunning election loss?
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's campaign tactics have escalated, including anti-Muslim rhetoric and fearmongering, reflecting his ruling party's desperation.
Two more arrested over brutal murder of couple in Tochigi
A vehicle carrying Seiha Sekine, the 32-year-old common-law husband of the deceased Tokyo couple's first daughter, leaves a police station in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Tuesday.
After blockbuster boxing victory, what next for ‘Monster’ Inoue?
Naoya Inoue celebrates his victory over Luis Nery in their IBF-WBA-WBC-WBO super bantamweight title boxing match at Tokyo Dome on Monday.
Stormy seas ahead as Beijing and Manila trade barbs over secret deal
Philippine Marines wave to Philippine Navy personnel and the media during a resupply mission at their military outpost, the BRP Sierra Madre, a warship run aground in the disputed Second Thomas Shoal in 1999, in the South China Sea, in March 2014.
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.
After blockbuster boxing victory, what next for ‘Monster’ Inoue?
Naoya Inoue celebrates his victory over Luis Nery in their IBF-WBA-WBC-WBO super bantamweight title boxing match at Tokyo Dome on Monday.
Xi bristles as Macron and von der Leyen urge China to do more on Ukraine
French President Emmanuel Macron, Chinese leader Xi Jinping and European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen walk after their meeting in Paris on Monday.
How a Japanese scientist is turning the climate crisis into music
A screencap of a performance of Hiroto Nagai's “String Quartet No. 1 ‘Polar Energy Budget’” by the PRT Quartet

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