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MIURA

Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 30, 2015
Quadruple amputee yakuza raises hell in 'Daruma'
Yakuza are not usually thought of as disabled, but more than a few have had their pinky fingers, or a section thereof, sliced off with a blade. Traditionally, this disabling is punishment for violating the gang code.
Japan Times
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Sep 11, 2015
Super featherweight Miura to defend WBC crown against Vargas in November
Takashi Miura will make the fifth defense of his WBC super featherweight crown against top-ranked Mexican Francisco Vargas in Las Vegas on Nov. 21, his Teiken Gym announced on Friday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 9, 2015
Schoolgirls with dubious impulses run wild in 'Our Huff and Puff Journey'
When I was living in a student sharehouse, a fellow resident proposed breaking into a nearby public pool for a midnight swim.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 27, 2015
U.S. man held for dumping woman's body into sea charged with murder
Police have served a fresh warrant to an American man for the murder of a Japanese woman whose body was found off the coast of Kanagawa Prefecture last month.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 8, 2015
American man sent to prosecutors in connection with woman's death
Police send an American man, arrested over the death of a Japanese woman whose body was found in the sea in Kanagawa Prefecture, to prosecutors for possible indictment.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 5, 2015
Cannibalism and confusion in live-action 'Attack on Titan'
Stories about giants are ancient and universal. It isn't hard to understand why: Children are born into a world populated by big, lurching terrors with bad breath and enormous teeth — or is that Uncle Frank just trying to be chummy?
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Jun 28, 2015
Kazu renews J. League oldest-scorer record again
Iconic striker Kazuyoshi Miura renewed his own record as the J. League's oldest scorer by hitting the winner for Yokohama FC on Sunday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jun 23, 2015
Young British directors take Tokyo by storm — but why?
This year it's quite noticeable how many non-Japanese are directing plays in Tokyo — not frequent and famed visitors such as David Leveaux, Robert Lepage and Simon McBurney, but relative unknowns here making their debuts at two leading large commercial theaters that almost always feature Japanese dramatists.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 20, 2015
Miura takes control as BayStars beat Swallows
Player-coach Daisuke Miura allowed four hits over eight innings and Yoshitomo Tsutsugo homered twice to lift the Central League-leading Yokohama BayStars to a 2-0 win over the Tokyo Yakult Swallows on Wednesday.
Japan Times
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May 1, 2015
Super featherweight Miura retains WBC title with third-round TKO of Dib
Boom.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Apr 28, 2015
Orpheus descends on Japan
Of all U.S. playwright Tennessee Williams's many major works — including "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "The Glass Menagerie" — "Orpheus Descending," which opens in Tokyo next week with a star-studded Japanese cast and multi-award-winning English director Phillip Breen at the helm, is among those most rarely staged anywhere.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Apr 5, 2015
'King Kazu' rewrites scoring record
Former Japanese international Kazuyoshi Miura broke his own record as the J. League's oldest scorer with a header for Yokohama FC in a 3-2 defeat to Jubilo Iwata in the second division on Sunday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Apr 2, 2015
Shinobu Terajima dresses down for risque role in 'All Nudity Shall Be Punished'
Sex and violence can be a good draw to get crowds out to the theater, but don't underestimate the power of actress Shinobu Terajima to bring audiences to a show.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Jan 17, 2015
'King Kazu' guides Vissel Kobe to victory over Nakata, former Japan internationals in charity soccer match
On the 20th anniversary of the Great Hanshin Earthquake, former Japan striker Kazuyoshi Miura provided the highlights with two goals in a charity match held at Noeivir Stadium Kobe on Saturday.
Japan Times
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Nov 22, 2014
Miura retains WBC super featherweight title with sixth-round TKO
Takashi Miura beat top-ranked Mexican challenger Edgar Puerta to successfully defend his super featherweight crown for a third time in a WBC world title doubleheader on Saturday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Nov 19, 2014
Asia enriches the Bard's work-in-progress
Whatever would William Shakespeare make of it all if he were to journey now through Asia, where the interpretations of his works differ so much across vast regions, ethnic groups, cultures and languages?
COMMUNITY / Voices / COMMUNITY CHEST
Oct 20, 2014
Readers tackle the 'Japan clean, yet beach covered in crap' enigma
Some emails received in response to Roberto De Vido's recent Foreign Agenda column about a trash-strewn beach in Kanagawa.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 15, 2014
Two men and a tot make a half-decent film
When indie directors take a more commercial turn, the usual explanation is the bigger paycheck, but it's not always so simple. Yuya Ishii's shift from the raucous films of his early career to the more genteel, mainstream 2013 film "Fune wo Amu (The Great Passage)" raised not only his standard of living but also his status with more traditionally minded domestic critics.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Sep 27, 2014
The Rise of Sharing: Fourth-Stage Consumer Society in Japan
Atsushi Miura envisions a society in which we will own little but share a lot in his lively discussion on where consumer society in Japan is headed. I don't buy it — well, not all of it — but nonetheless it's an interesting and engaging analysis of Japan's famously sophisticated and discerning shoppers.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Sep 10, 2014
Little Forest: Natsu/Aki (Little Forest: Summer/Autumn)
Japanese food culture might be ancient, but Japan's obsession with food in pop culture is relatively recent. The "gourmet boom" of the bubble-era 1980s — when Japanese had more money and leisure to dine in style, rather than simply fill their stomachs — was a big spur. The accompanying proliferation of food-themed comics, TV shows and movies still continues, with no end in sight.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
G7 eyes plan on U.S.-led $50 billion aid package for Ukraine
A local resident visits the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Thursday. The U.S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
'Monster' Inoue ready to tear down Luis Nery in title defense at Tokyo Dome
Naoya Inoue (left) and Luis Nery following a pre-fight news conference in Yokohama on Saturday, two days ahead of their super bantamweight title fight.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Sapporo court ruling on Ainu fishing rights presents tough questions
A traditional Ainu preserved food called <i>satchep</i> (dried fish) being made at the government-run National Ainu Museum and Park, nicknamed Upopoy, in the town of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Dec. 25. The Sapporo District Court ruled last month that the Raporo Ainu Nation's rights as an Indigenous people did not extend to having an inherent right to fish for commercial reasons.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.
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.

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