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Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Sep 10, 2014
If the Japanese are so clean, why is there so much crap on my beach?
Do Japanese take their rubbish with them only when people are watching? The view from one small beach on the Miura Peninsula suggests that is the case.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 21, 2014
Miura delivers another quality start for BayStars
Forty-year-old ace Daisuke Miura threw seven innings on Thursday night to win his fifth straight start as the Yokohama BayStars beat the third-place Hiroshima Carp 3-0.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Aug 18, 2014
Miura adding to legacy with recent success for BayStars
Daisuke Miura is turning back the clock in Yokohama.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 7, 2014
Miura tosses complete-game victory against Giants
Daisuke Miura allowed a run over the distance to earn his third straight win as the Yokohama BayStars stomped the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants 10-1 on Thursday.
Japan Times
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 5, 2014
'King Kazu' chosen as JFA ambassador for World Cup
Former Japan striker Kazuyoshi Miura will be dispatched to Brazil as the Japan Football Association's ambassador to the World Cup, the JFA said Thursday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 20, 2014
Debate still rages over Abe-endorsed WWII drama
Takashi Yamazaki's World War II drama "Eien no Zero (The Eternal Zero)," whose pilot hero joins the tokkōtai (kamikaze) suicide squadron in the closing days of the war, has soared to the box office heights since its Dec. 21 release. After ranking No. 1 in the charts for eight weeks in a row, the film now looks likely to finish its run with more than ¥8 billion, making it one of the 10 top-grossing Japanese films of all time.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives
Feb 8, 2014
Yuichiro Miura: on top of the world
Ever wondered what it feels like to stand on top of the world? Eighty-one-year-old alpinist Yuichiro Miura should know: He's done it three times since turning 70. He became the oldest person to scale the world's tallest peak, Mount Everest, in May last year, a remarkable feat that spurred the government to name a state award in his honor. It's rather fitting, then, that the Miura Award is handed out to those who "challenge themselves to the limits of human potential."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Dec 18, 2013
Miura's sex 'Whirlpool' wows a bashful Paris
Looking around before "Ai no Uzu" began, there was an almost palpable anticipation ahead of our plunge into the realm of young Japanese people's sex lives. What to talk about while waiting for the orgy to begin?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Nov 13, 2013
Brecht's 'Fatzer' underground in Kyoto
The term "metatheater" refers to devices in a play that break the so-called "fourth wall" — the illusion of theatrical reality — in order to involve the audience as critical participants in the production. Metatheatricality is a hallmark of early 20th-century Modernist drama, and is often associated with the work of German playwright Bertolt Brecht.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 31, 2013
Miura sets sights on another record, this one for skiing
Adventurer Yuichiro Miura, who in May became for the second time the oldest person to scale Mount Everest, now wants to become the oldest person to descend from the world's "highest skiing point."
MORE SPORTS
Jun 22, 2013
Super featherweight Miura set for first title defense in Mexico
Takashi Miura, the WBC super featherweight champion, will make his first title defense on Aug. 17 in Cancun, Mexico, his gym announced Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Jun 16, 2013
Miura oldest to climb Everest but some facts overlooked
The government has just established a new public award named after alpinist-skier Yuichiro Miura for "adventurers who challenge themselves to the limit of human potential." Originally the recipients of the prize, whom Miura will select himself, were going to be seniors, but at its namesake's insistence all ages are now eligible. Nevertheless, the deed that inspired the honor, Miura's conquering of Mount Everest last month at the age of 80, thus making him the oldest person ever to scale the world's highest peak, has been heralded as a valuable inspiration for Japan's boomers. If Miura can reach the summit of Everest at such an advanced age and with a faulty ticker to boot (four operations for arrhythmia since 2008, not to mention a history of diabetes and hypertension), then think of what mere mortals can accomplish.
JAPAN
Jun 7, 2013
Miura Award in works to honor adventurers who push the envelope
Japan will introduce the Miura Award to give credit to adventurers who have accomplished their dreams and goals regardless of age, after Japanese climber Yuichiro Miura, 80, last month became the world's oldest person to scale Mount Everest, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Thursday.
JAPAN
Jun 7, 2013
Miuras cite red bean rice, dirty jokes
Steamed red bean rice and dirty jokes may have been the key for climbing Mount Everest at age 80, famed alpinist Yuichiro Miura and his son, Gota, said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 30, 2013
Miura returns home after setting Everest record
Alpinist Yuichiro Miura, 80, returns to Tokyo after becoming the oldest person to scale Mount Everest.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 28, 2013
Miura calls it a day with Mount Everest
Famed alpinist and professional skier Yuichiro Miura, who defied age last week by climbing Mount Everest at 80, said Sunday in Katmandu that he will not attempt the mountain again.
EDITORIALS
May 25, 2013
Challenge of a lifetime, again
Having conquered Mount Everest for the third time, Yuichiro Miura, 80, demonstrates the physical possibilities of human endurance while inspiring Japan's elderly.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 17, 2013
Alpinist Miura, 80, off to retake Everest age record
Yuichi Miura, 80, has launched his bid to retake the crown as the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, his management office said Thursday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 12, 2013
Funahashi: 'Good stories don't need happy endings'
A graduate of the University of Tokyo's cinema studies course, Atsushi Funahashi studied directing at the School of Visual Arts in New York and shot his first two films, “Echoes” (2002) and “Big River” (2005), in the United States.
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2013
Ski legend Miura, 80, in bid to best Everest age record
Adventurer and skiing legend Yuichiro Miura, 80, vowed Friday to give his all to reach the summit of Mount Everest and become the oldest person ever to conquer the world's highest peak.
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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