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Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Sep 11, 2015
Manchester United-Liverpool rivalry always fierce, bitter clash
This is a game Louis van Gaal dare not lose. English football's clasico between Manchester United and Liverpool today is, like Barcelona vs. Real Madrid, not a derby, but it represents the fiercest and most hostile rivalry in English football.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 2, 2015
Taguchi hopes to realize dream of managing in U.S.
Former big leaguer So Taguchi has been touted as a candidate to manage the Pacfic League's Orix Buffaloes next year and does dreams of managing one day — but in the United States rather than Japan.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Aug 22, 2015
Van Gaal shrugs off criticism over Pedro
Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal on Friday played down the club's interest in signing Pedro from Barcelona after the Spanish international decided to join Premier League champion Chelsea instead.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 17, 2015
Feds probing St. Louis Cardinals over allegations team targeted Houston Astros in hacking: report
The Federal Bureau of Investigation and U.S. federal prosecutors are investigating the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team for hacking into the computers of the Houston Astros to steal closely guarded information about player personnel, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Feb 13, 2015
Van Gaal gets defensive with Man United struggling
"Am I so brilliant or are you so thick?"
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Jan 16, 2015
Manchester United's high-priced squad fails to inspire
It is only Louis van Gaal's cv that is preventing him from receiving the sort of merciless criticism directed at David Moyes last season.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 5, 2015
Why Japan should embrace Angelina Jolie's 'Unbroken'
The attacks on Angelina Jolie's just-released film 'Unbroken' — which is much less about Japanese brutality against an American POW than the resilience of the human spirit — appear part of a revisionist recrudescence under the Abe administration.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Dec 29, 2014
Hachimura delivers as Meisei claims high school title
Louis Hachimura and Meisei High School came through at the right time — when the championship banner was on the line.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Dec 12, 2014
Manchester United improving, but van Gaal still faced with many issues
A football club is like a family.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 23, 2014
Anxious Missouri residents await grand jury verdict over killing of black teen
Anxious residents of a St. Louis suburb Sunday awaited a grand jury's decision on whether to bring criminal charges against a white policeman who fatally shot a black teen in a case that has become a flash point for U.S. race relations.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Nov 21, 2014
Welbeck move benefited both Arsenal, Man United
It is almost three months since Manchester United sold Danny Welbeck to Arsenal for £16 million because Louis van Gaal did not think the striker was good enough to play for the Reds.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Sep 12, 2014
Welbeck sale makes perfect sense for United
Gary Neville was baffled. So was Bryan Robson. Football writers inevitably questioned Manchester United's decision to sell Danny Welbeck to Arsenal for £16 million after he scored both goals in England's 2-0 win over Switzerland in Basel.
WORLD
Aug 20, 2014
St. Louis police fatally shoot man with knife, authorities say
Police in St. Louis killed a man they say brandished a knife and refused to drop it.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 14, 2014
Nightly protests follow shooting of unarmed black teen in Missouri
Police in Ferguson, Missouri, fired tear gas, stun grenades and smoke bombs to disperse some 350 protesters late Wednesday, the fourth night of racially charged demonstrations after police shot to death an unarmed black teen.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jul 23, 2014
Dungy backs off latest remarks about Sam
NFL television analyst and former coach Tony Dungy backed off Tuesday from comments he "wouldn't want to deal with" the diversions arising from drafting Michael Sam, who is hoping to become the league's first openly gay player, saying he was referring to media attention surrounding such a move.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
May 2, 2014
Gerrard may end up tragic figure in Liverpool's title bid
One mistake during a 38-game season does not decide who wins the title, but Steven Gerrard will be haunted for the rest of his life if Liverpool does not win the Premier League.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Mar 19, 2014
Deep feelings at high altitudes
The photographs, taken by artist Naoya Hatakeyama, hint at both the beauty and dangers of a mountain, as reflected in the shades of light and darkness alongside textures of soft-edged snow and sharply lined rocks.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 12, 2014
Paris Opera Ballet chief hails Japan 'challenge'
Thanks to Louis XIV's love of dance, French is the language of ballet and Paris has remained the center of the art for more than 300 years since the Sun King's splendiferous 72-year reign ended with his death in 1715.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Feb 22, 2014
Joni Waka: 'Learn to be happy with only one rice ball'
I have never grown up and never hope to, as dreams and fantasies tend to wilt and die in the harsh reality of adults.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Dec 29, 2013
Hachimura powers Meisei High to Winter Cup title
Freshman sensation Louis Hachimura scored 32 points to guide Sendai's Meisei High School to its second-ever Winter Cup title with a 92-78 victory over Fukuoka University Ohori in the boys' final of the 44th All-Japan High School Tournament on Sunday.
'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.
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.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
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.
Golden Week crowds greeted with high temperatures as holiday period kicks off
The departure lobby for domestic flights is crowded with travelers at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Saturday, the first day of this year's Golden Week holidays.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
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.

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