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MIYOSHI

Japan Times
SOCCER
Jun 23, 2023
Koji Miyoshi leaves Antwerp to join Birmingham
Koji Miyoshi is joining Birmingham from Royal Antwerp in Belgium, the English second-tier Championship side said Thursday.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Mar 22, 2021
Toyota completes WJBL Finals sweep to end Eneos' historic reign
“We've been chasing Eneos for the last 10 years and now we've done it,” Toyota guard and captain Naho Miyoshi said after her team's victory in the best-of-three series.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Sep 16, 2019
Koji Miyoshi scores winner off bench on Antwerp debut
On-loan midfielder Koji Miyoshi scored a winner just five minutes into his Belgian top-division debut as Antwerp beat Anderlecht 2-1 away on Sunday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 21, 2019
'Dance With Me': Short on laughs, but big on energy
The Japanese film industry has made many musical films, but almost no Hollywood-style musicals. One reason why is Eizo Sugawa's "You Can Succeed, Too" (1964), a singing, dancing salaryman musical inspired by the Broadway hit "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying." Billed by the Toho studio as Japan's "first real musical" it was also famously a flop.
SOCCER / J. League
Aug 7, 2019
Antwerp makes bid for midfielder Koji Miyoshi
Belgian top-flight side Antwerp has made an official offer for 22-year-old Japan midfielder Koji Miyoshi, sources said Tuesday.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Nov 4, 2018
Koji Miyoshi puts Consadole on track for Asian Champions League spot
Consadole Sapporo took a step toward a berth in next year's AFC Champions League on Sunday when Koji Miyoshi's 74th-minute goal lifted the club to a 1-0 win over Vegalta Sendai.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Jun 8, 2018
Japan women rout Taiwan in exhibition contest
The Japan women's national team dominated at both ends of the floor and annihilated Taiwan 96-66 in an exhibition game at Arena Tachikawa Tachihi on Friday night.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Apr 14, 2018
Consadole's Ken Tokura nets late header in triumph over Reysol
Striker Ken Tokura scored with a header in the dying minutes to give Consadole Sapporo a 2-1 comeback win against Kashiwa Reysol on Saturday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 15, 2018
Japanese court orders Zushi Municipal Government to pay husband of stalking victim
A district court Monday ordered the city of Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture, to pay ¥1.1 million in compensation for giving the address of a woman to the stalker who tracked her down and murdered her in 2012.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
May 28, 2017
Scrapping of Hiroshima's Sanko Line highlights transport ills in shrinking Japan
It was just after the Sanko Line marked its 40th anniversary when West Japan Railway Co. informed Kazutoshi Masuda, mayor of Miyoshi, Hiroshima Prefecture, that it would seek a more "sustainable" public transportation system.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Sep 10, 2016
'Postmodernism in Japan': Critics, historians and writers analyze the contemporary age
"Postmodernism and Japan" opens with editors H.D. Harootunian and Masao Miyoshi declaring that postmodernism is a Western phenomenon that cannot be exported globally. The essays that follow draw connections and expose dissonances between postmodernism and Japan. Topics range from close readings of works of literature to sweeping analyses of technology and culture.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jun 18, 2016
'As We Saw Them': Masao Miyoshi and the dawn of U.S.-Japan relations
In "As We Saw Them," literary critic and academic Masao Miyoshi looks at the 1860 Japanese embassy to the United States, the first sent to a Western power after centuries of seclusion.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Apr 23, 2016
'Off Center' tries to pull Japan out of America's shadow
"Off Center" is Japanese-born U.S. academic Masao Miyoshi's exposition of the asymmetrical relationship between Japan and the West.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Jan 15, 2015
JFA won't answer to reports on match-fixing case involving Aguirre until after Asian Cup
The Japan Football Association will wait until Japan's ongoing Asian Cup campaign has finished before responding to reports that a match-fixing case involving manager Javier Aguirre will go to court, JFA president Kuniya Daini said Thursday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 5, 2013
Renowned composer Akira Miyoshi dies at 80
Award-winning composer Akira Miyoshi died of heart failure Friday at a Tokyo hospital, his agency said Saturday. He was 80.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 11, 2013
The tireless patience of a behavioral photographer
In Wim Wenders' 1984 film "Paris, Texas," Walt (Dean Stockwell) picks up his younger brother Travis (Harry Dean Stanton), who had disappeared in the desert four years earlier, to drive him back to Los Angeles. As Walt drives, Travis shows him a weathered picture of an empty plot of land he bought in some nondescript part of Texas called Paris, a place he vaguely remembers. Over the course of the film Travis' memory returns as he connects his seemingly uninteresting photograph and the real vacant piece of landscape.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
May 3, 2013
Yoshida's ode to a distant Okinawan island
Many directors hit everything from the books to the streets in preparation for their next film, but for his second feature, “Tabidachi no Shima Uta — Jugo no Haru (Leaving on the 15th Spring),” Yasuhiro Yoshida went far further than most.

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Historically, kabuki was considered the entertainment of the merchant and peasant classes, a far cry from how it is regarded today.
For Japan's oldest kabuki theater, the show must go on