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JAPAN / ANALYSIS
Feb 2, 2014
Hashimoto's costly comeback bid vexes voters
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto's surprise resignation and second mayoral bid is greeted with criticism and concern in the city and prefecture.
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 2, 2014
Hashimoto to quit, seek new election
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto said Saturday that he will step down to test the people's will in a new election on his main policy goal of merging the Osaka prefectural and municipal governments into one entity.
JAPAN
Jan 28, 2014
Hashimoto backs embattled NHK head on 'comfort women'
Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto comes out for NHK Chairman Katsuto Momii, who's under fire for asserting that the wartime enslavement of women to provide sex for Japanese soldiers was wrong only by today's standards.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 16, 2014
Vice President Shindo to take helm of world's No. 2 steel maker NSSMC
Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. will name Vice President Kosei Shindo as president on April 1, replacing Hiroshi Tomono, the company said on Thursday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jan 8, 2014
Infielder Nioka ready to hang up spikes: source
Slugging infielder Tomohiro Nioka, the MVP of the 2002 Japan Series for the Yomiuri Giants, is set to retire, a Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters source said Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 17, 2013
Ishin loses control of Osaka Prefectural Assembly
Osaka Ishin no Kai (One Osaka), a local political group that is part of Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party), has lost its majority in the Osaka Prefectural Assembly after four members were expelled Monday for voting against the group's proposal to privatize a local railway.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 11, 2013
Higashikokubaru opts out of Nippon Ishin, Diet
Lower House member and ex-Miyazaki Gov. Hiu00addeo Hiu00adgau00adshiu00adkou00adkuu00adbau00adru exits Nippon Ishin no Kai and will quit as a Diet member, raising speculation that he might try to run for governor of Tokyo or seek his old job in Miyazaki.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 3, 2013
Fast-tracked secrecy bill riles opposition
The ruling coalition forces through a vote to hold a mandatory public hearing on the state secrets bill without giving opposition lawmakers a chance to speak.
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 3, 2013
Abe shelves effort to gain passage of Turkey, UAE nuclear export deals
Due to the clash in the Upper House over the contentious state secrets bill, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government will not pursue approval in the current Diet session of two deals signed earlier this year to export nuclear reactor technology and know-how to Turkey and the United Arab Emirates.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 25, 2013
One dead, three hurt in blast at plant
One person died and two others sustained injuries and were taken to a hospital after an explosion Monday at Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp.'s Yahata plant in Fukuoka Prefecture, according to the local fire department.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 19, 2013
Ruling bloc may yield a bit on state secrets bill
The Liberal Democratic Party-New Komeito ruling bloc is wooing the opposition camp this week to reach common ground on the contentious state secrets bill that the administration hopes the Lower House passed by Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / KANSAI PERSPECTIVE
Oct 27, 2013
Hashimoto's relevancy beginning to fade
When the candidate backed by Osaka Mayor and Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration Party) co-leader Toru Hashimoto was defeated in September by Sakai Mayor Osami Takeyama, a staunch Hashimoto foe, it marked what is widely seen as the beginning of the end of the whole Hashimoto-Nippon Ishin movement, the final defeat of not only a man, but the ideas that propelled him to power.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 26, 2013
Kato criticizes third-party investigation of ball scandal
Ryozo Kato stepped down on Friday from his post as commissioner of Nippon Professional Baseball and hit out at the report of a third-party investigation into a scandal over changes made to the ball for this season.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 25, 2013
Kato criticizes third-party investigation of ball scandal
Ryozo Kato stepped down on Friday from his post as commissioner of Nippon Professional Baseball and hit out at the report of a third-party investigation into a scandal over changes made to the ball for this season.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 6, 2013
Lions close gap on second place
Shogo Akiyama's two-out, two-run single overturned a one-run deficit in the seventh inning and the Seibu Lions held on to defeat the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 4-3 on Sunday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2013
U.S. paralysis leaves travel agencies scrambling
The U.S. government shutdown that started at midnight Monday has impacted the global travel industry, with tourist agencies in Japan scrambling to avoid severe losses.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 1, 2013
Eagles' Tanaka improves to 23-0 in magical season
As if on cue, the Pacific League pennant winner Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles came through for right-hander Masahiro Tanaka — and big.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Sep 24, 2013
Kato's attempt to change NPB doomed by lack of power
Ryozo Kato had the ideas to be the commissioner Japanese baseball needed, but not the muscle.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 23, 2013
Eagles move closer to Pacific League pennant
Rookie Sho Miyagawa allowed just one hit in seven innings Monday as the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles beat the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 5-0 and Japan's newest franchise moved closer to its first Pacific League pennant.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 6, 2013
Tanaka tosses complete-game victory, raises record to 20-0
Masahiro Tanaka equaled the mark for Japan's longest winning streak within a single season as he improved to 20-0 on Friday in the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles' 3-2 win over the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters.
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
Yen’s fragility raises specter of a new currency war in Asia
Suspected intervention to drag the yen off a 34-year low against the dollar is already seen as unlikely to have a lasting effect if Japan continues alone.
Online booking for Mount Fuji climb to open on May 20
Visitors climb the slopes of Mount Fuji, Japan's highest peak at 3,776 meters. From May 20, climbers will have access to a new online booking system for Mount Fuji's most popular Yoshida trail in Yamanashi Prefecture.
Ex-METI bureaucrat given 10-year sentence for drugging and raping women
The Tokyo District Court on Monday sentenced a former industry ministry bureaucrat to 10 years in prison for drugging six women with sleeping pills and then raping or groping them in 2022.
Political party Tsubasa no To investigated over election obstruction
Officers from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police raid the Tsubasa no To office in Tokyo on Monday.
In a rare event, the Northern Lights show up in Hokkaido
The Northern Lights in Nayoro, Hokkaido, on Saturday
Is black the new green for Japan’s flagging tea farmers?
George Guttridge-Smith brews tea at Kyoto Obubu Tea Farm in Wazuka, Kyoto Prefecture, where he serves as head of international development.
Japan's logistics firms seek partnerships to cope with driver shortage
Japan Post CEO Tetsuya Senda (right) and his Seino Transportation counterpart Satoshi Takahashi announce their companies' agreement on joint long-haul truck operations, in Tokyo on Thursday.
How the discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan
Archaeologists say a 1,600-year-old wooden coffin at the Tomio Maruyama tumulus in the city of Nara was kept in good condition probably because it was protected by a layer of clay and copper ions that had seeped out of the mirrors that were buried together.

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