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MIYAZAKI

Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies / Deep Dive
Nov 18, 2018
Miyazaki finds solution to IT labor crunch thousands of kilometers away
Like many of Japan's smaller cities, Miyazaki has been hit by a growing labor crunch, a trend highlighted by the mere 56.8 percent of high school graduates that chose to remain in the prefecture to work — third-worst among the 47 prefectures.
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LIFE / Food & Drink
Nov 3, 2018
A Michelin star in just six months for Ireland's first kaiseki restaurant
Chef Takashi Miyazaki's Ichigo Ichie is Ireland's first kaiseki restaurant — albeit one that blends Japanese and Irish flavors. When it landed a Michelin star within its first year, the restaurant put Cork back on Europe's culinary map and brought Miyazaki instant international acclaim.
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JAPAN / History / Defining the Heisei Era
Oct 27, 2018
Defining the Heisei Era: When anime and manga went global
The Heisei Era commenced after two gods fell in rapid succession. The first, Emperor Hirohito, was no longer officially a god, having repudiated his quasi-divine status under the terms of Japan's surrender in World War II, but he remained god-like in stature. His January death in 1989 at age 87 signaled the end of a Showa past both turbulent and glorious. It drew global attention from the world's leaders and media, but had been widely anticipated in Japan.
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LIFE / Travel
Aug 24, 2018
Swimming holes: Kyushu's under-frequented gems
Summers in Japan are survivable and even enjoyable if you combat the broiling temperatures with a visit to a swimming hole.
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Rugby
Jul 25, 2018
Japanese national team selects training camp sites for World Cup
Hokkaido's Abashiri and Miyazaki have been selected as training camp sites for the Japan national team for the 2019 Rugby World Cup, the Japan Rugby Football Union announced on Wednesday.
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JAPAN
Jun 7, 2018
Startup delivers fresh Kyushu veggies to Tokyo customers in just an hour
A speedy veggie service in Kyushu is growing popular with wealthy Tokyoites hungry for greens they feel are safe to eat, raising expectations the delivery business can improve the fortunes of regional farmers.
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CULTURE / Books / RECENTLY PUBLISHED BOOKS ABOUT JAPAN
Jun 2, 2018
'Mixing Work with Pleasure': a candid reflection of a life at Studio Ghibli
Toshio Suzuki, co-founder of Studio Ghibli, recounts his collaborative partnerships and lifelong bonds with Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata, the third of Ghibli's founders.
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LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
May 21, 2018
Island of monkeys once again connected to the mainland
For the second consecutive year, the island of Koshima is connected to the mainland thanks to a lack of major typhoons, raising fears of trouble between visiting humans and resident monkeys
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BUSINESS
Apr 16, 2018
Japanese mangoes tie record, fetching ¥400,000 at season's first auction
A pair of premium mangoes from Miyazaki Prefecture fetched a record-matching ¥400,000 at the season's first wholesale auction Monday.
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CULTURE / Art
Apr 10, 2018
Kyotographie is still on the up and up
The sixth edition of Kyotographie, Kyoto's annual celebration of local and international photography, which opens in venues across the city on April 14, is titled "Up." This year, the collection of exhibitions address France-Japan relations: the 160th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations and the 60th anniversary of Paris and Kyoto's sister city covenant.
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JAPAN
Apr 5, 2018
Another powerful eruption observed at Mount Shinmoe
Another powerful eruption was observed at Mount Shinmoe in southwestern Japan early Thursday, with ash sent spiralling into a plume around 5,000 meters high, the Meteorological Agency said.
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CULTURE / Film
Apr 4, 2018
'Yamato (California)': Hanae Kan does well as an aspiring rapper that's straight outta Japan
The American military bases in Okinawa are often in the news, usually because of an accident, protest or crime. The bases elsewhere in Japan, not so much. These reminders of a postwar occupation now seven decades in the past have mostly faded from the public imagination.
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JAPAN
Mar 6, 2018
Kyushu's Shinmoedake rumbles anew with explosive eruption
A volcano which was featured in the 1967 James Bond movie "You Only Live Twice" shot smoke and ash thousands of meters into the sky Tuesday, prompting the cancellation of flights to and from a nearby airport. The eruption is likely to continue for some time.
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LIFE / Travel
Mar 2, 2018
From Fukuoka to Miyazaki, Kyushu offers year-round surf
With 12,000 kilometers of coastline, Japan's island of Kyushu offers some fantastic opportunities for surfing, as Oscar Boyd discovers in this Point Break-inspired journey around southwest Japan.
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CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
Jan 25, 2018
2018's anime lineup offers plenty of potential
Over the past few years, the success of several films — including, most notably, Makoto Shinkai's record-setting "Your Name." — have proven that anime directed by someone other than director Hayao Miyazaki can still attract a wider audience.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 20, 2018
Elderly driver gets six years for mowing down six in Miyazaki traffic accident
A 75-year-old man was given a six-year prison term Friday over a 2015 car accident in which he struck and killed two people and injured four others on a sidewalk in the city of Miyazaki.
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JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 10, 2018
Newly minted Japanese Supreme Court justice will issue rulings under maiden name, breaking with long tradition
Yuko Miyazaki, newly appointed to the country's top court, says she will issue her legal judgments under her maiden name — Miyazaki — becoming Japan's first woman to abandon the court's long tradition of using one's legal name after marriage.
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CULTURE
Dec 14, 2017
Anime didn't see any massive hits in 2017, but there was a lot to watch
It takes only two words to sum up why 2016 was always going to be a hard act to follow: "Your Name."
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 2, 2017
BayStars rally in sixth, stave off elimination with Game 5 victory over Hawks
Anyone who thought the Yokohama BayStars were just going to roll over after going down 3-0 in the Japan Series can think again.
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JAPAN / Politics
Nov 2, 2017
Veteran activist, sour on electoral system, keeps fight for local rights alive over half a century
Shogo Miyazaki, a defiant activist who led an unsuccessful movement to oppose the construction of a freight line through a quiet residential area of Yokohama in the 1960s and 70s, is still unconvinced about the utility of Japan's electoral system.

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