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MIYAMOTO

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COMMUNITY / BLACK EYE
Apr 19, 2015
Meeting Miss Universe Japan, the 'half' who has it all
Progress occurs when people of substance assume the mantle of leadership, and it appears Ariana Miyamoto is equal to the task.
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JAPAN / Society
Apr 3, 2015
Multiracial Miss Universe Japan hopes to change homeland's thinking on identity
Ariana Miyamoto hadn't planned to enter a Japanese beauty contest because she figured her multiracial origins meant she couldn't win. Then a close multiracial friend committed suicide.
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SOCCER / World cup
Jan 12, 2015
Houllier challenges Japan to raise game
Former Liverpool and France manager Gerard Houllier has urged Japan to cast aside its inferiority complex and close the gap on the world's leading soccer nations.
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SOCCER / World cup
Jan 12, 2015
Houllier challenges Japan to take next step
Former Liverpool and France manager Gerard Houllier has urged Japan to cast aside its inferiority complex and close the gap on the world's leading soccer nations.
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CULTURE / Books
Dec 20, 2014
Rivers
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LIFE / Travel
Aug 16, 2014
Chasing the ghost of Musashi in Kyushu
In the spring of 1645 a man lay dying in Kumamoto, on the southern Japanese island of Kyushu. He sensed that his time was near, asked for someone to help him into a seated position and tucked his short sword into his belt. This way he could greet death with dignity. The dying man was the celebrated swordsman Miyamoto Musashi.
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CULTURE / Film
Nov 21, 2013
'Kaguya-hime no Monogatari (The Tale of Princess Kaguya)'
Isao Takahata has long been overshadowed by longtime colleague and Studio Ghibli cofounder Hayao Miyazaki. The younger man (Takahata is 78, Miyazaki 72) has had more and bigger hits, including his latest, the World War II-themed "Kaze Tachinu (The Wind Rises)," while Takahata's last feature animation, the 1999 family comedy "Hohokekyo Tonari no Yamada-kun (My Neighbors the Yamadas)," was a rare Ghibli box-office disappointment.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 4, 2013
Balentien blasts 60th home run in defeat
The Tokyo Yakult Swallows held a farewell game for outgoing star Shinya Miyamoto on Friday, with Wladimir Balentien providing the fireworks with his 60th home run.
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BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 26, 2013
Miyamoto says 'right time' to call it a day
Tokyo Yakult Swallows infielder Shinya Miyamoto on Monday formally announced that he will retire at the end of the season, saying, "it is the right time" to leave.
JAPAN / History / THE LIVING PAST
Aug 24, 2013
Only in Japan could a sword be 'life-giving'
Few countries have broken with their past as sharply as Japan did. That was the price it paid for modernity.
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CULTURE / Art
Aug 22, 2013
Aichi Triennale's best works deal with disaster
Since the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, a lot of art here has dealt with disaster. Not all the pieces in the second installment of the Aichi Triennale are on this theme — but the best ones are.
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COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jul 22, 2013
Tokyo: Which famous Japanese person would you most like to meet and why?
If I had a chance, I'd like to meet the ex-Blue Hearts singer Hiroto Komoto, who covered issues such as many people entering companies all wearing the same suit, all wanting to join big firms and wanting to buy the same-style house. I like him because he 'sang out' about these things.
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CULTURE / Stage
Apr 9, 2013
'Natch' gets ghostly on stage
"If I thought too much about my future plans, I would kind of get stuck," says Natsumi Abe. "So I just try to concentrate on the next day's work and do it as well as I can."
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Jun 5, 2011
Amon Miyamoto: Globe-trotting dramatist seeks new horizons
Fifty-three years ago, Amon Miyamoto was born into a world in which he grew up listening to spirited exchanges between leading lights from the stage and showbiz in his father's coffee shop across from the modern-leaning Shinbashi Enbujo outpost of the venerable Kabuki-za theater in Tokyo's smart Ginza district.

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