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OKAYAMA

SOCCER
Sep 22, 2016
Kashima scores gritty win over J2 side Okayama in Emperor's Cup
Kashima Antlers needed a late own goal to edge past Fagiano Okayama and reach the fourth round of the Emperor's Cup on Thursday as they claimed a hard-fought 2-1 win against the J2 outfit.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 5, 2016
Official from Japanese Embassy in Indonesia nabbed at Narita for March stalking in Okayama
A staff member at the Japanese Embassy in Indonesia has been arrested for allegedly stalking his former girlfriend while on vacation in Japan.
SOCCER
Aug 10, 2016
Miyama staying with Okayama
Japan women's captain Aya Miyama has been persuaded to remain at Okayama Yunogo Belle, the club announced Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 5, 2016
Okayama Korakuen Garden enjoys rebound in tourism
Visitors to Korakuen Garden in Okayama, one of the nation's top three Japanese gardens, exceeded 800,000 for the first time in 15 years, thanks to a surge in tourism and events to lure young people.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 15, 2016
G-7 school chiefs vow to reach out to refugees, plug core values, tackle discrimination
Education ministers from the Group of Seven agree to work together to address global issues such as refugee problems and widening income inequalities.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 15, 2016
Okayama girl, 5, honored for knowledge of 'yokai' monsters
Five-year-old Mana Umemoto has become the youngest person ever to receive the title Doctor of Yokai Monsters.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Oct 31, 2015
Deer and boar: from pests to the plate
For many years now I have been hammering on about Japan's runaway population of deer and wild boar, and about the huge damage they cause — especially to agriculture, silviculture, forestry and endangered wild plants in national parks.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 30, 2015
Delicate preemie survives heart surgery in Okayama
A hospital said Friday it successfully operated on a highly premature newborn for tetralogy of Fallot, a complex heart condition comprising four separate defects.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 28, 2015
Okayama child abductor sentenced to 6½ years in prison
A man convicted of the abduction and false imprisonment of an 11-year-old girl in Okayama Prefecture has been sentenced to 6½ years in prison.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Oct 11, 2015
Hoodie Monks mix beats with their Buddhism
The Hoodie Monks bring together two cultures that might at first seem like unlikely partners: Buddhism and hip-hop.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Oct 7, 2015
New report links thyroid cancer rise to Fukushima nuclear crisis
Thyroid cancer in local children and adolescents following the Fukushima nuclear disaster was probably caused by radiation released in the accident, four researchers said Tuesday in a report.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 16, 2015
Cambodian boy who had cancer surgery in Japan wants to become doctor
A 7-year-old Cambodian boy who received surgery for kidney cancer at a hospital in Okayama spoke of his dream of training to becoming a doctor as he was discharged Tuesday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 12, 2015
Teen held over bomb threat at Okayama high school
A 15-year-old male was arrested Thursday for an alleged bomb threat targeting a high school in Bizen, Okayama Prefecture, that was evacuated earlier this week, police said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 28, 2015
Okayama gets Japan's first tax-free shopping arcade
An entire shopping arcade in the city of Okayama became duty-free on Thursday, the first such mall to do so nationwide as Japan tries to lure visitors to destinations away from the heavily trodden tourist trail between Tokyo and Kyoto.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
May 20, 2015
Hoop hero Okayama reflects on lost chance
Long before recent international Japanese basketball stars like Yuta Tabuse, Yuki Togashi and Yuta Watanabe, there was Yasutaka Okayama, who might have made a name for himself the same way they did.
JAPAN
Jan 16, 2015
Cull of 200,000 hens begins at Okayama farm infected with bird flu
Public health workers began a cull of roughly 200,000 chickens Friday morning at a farm in Okayama Prefecture, western Japan, where an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5 bird flu was confirmed.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Jan 10, 2015
Between a rock and an art place in Kurashiki's merchant quarters
Timing, as they say, is everything. With a bad habit of turning up to places and appointments too early, I often find myself wandering through train stations and pocket parks, and past the shuttered doorways of shops.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 13, 2014
Film fest fans can get a fix at any number of events this month
The Tokyo International Film Festival may be finished, but movie buffs still have a lot of choices for festivals this month.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 24, 2014
Lung transplant for toddler, 2, is first for Japan and makes world medical history
Okayama University Hospital says it has transplanted parts of a mother's left lung into her 2-year-old son, who is the youngest person in the country ever to successfully undergo the procedure.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Sep 13, 2014
Kibiji bike path: eating local in the slow lane
It doesn't take a great mind to read a map, and neither does it take one to get lost. I found myself doubting my direction three times as the Kibiji bike path — one of Japan's top 100 cycling roads — wound its way through pear- and grape-growing country, past a continuous patchwork of rice fields to Okayama. My excuse: I was rushing against the threat of rain and I refused to take out my phone and check my current location. The second time (or was it the third?), I knew I was definitely lost when I came upon a French couple standing astride their bikes with maps out, engaging a Japanese farmer. All three were pointing in different directions.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Saudi Arabia steps up Gaza-related arrests as Israel ties edge closer
The arrests for Gaza-related posts indicate Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s regime will take a hard line against citizens not toeing the line when it comes to normalizing ties with Israel.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
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.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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