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OSAKA

BASKETBALL
Jul 5, 2014
Casey Hill named to Golden State's Summer League coaching staff
Former Tokyo Apache assistant coach Casey Hill is keeping busy this summer.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / OSAKA RESTAURANTS
Jun 24, 2014
Baan Suki: Relishing the spice of Thai cuisine
One of the most memorable, cheapest and spiciest dishes I've ever had was also the first bite I ate in Thailand. It was a few years back, on an island south of Bangkok. We had just arrived at our hotel and bolted to the beach. A cook had a cart set up (it was more or less a wok) on the sand and the aroma...
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / OSAKA RESTAURANTS
Jun 24, 2014
City Bakery: A taste of New York at Grand Front Osaka, but only just
At City Bakery in Osaka (and also in Tokyo), there's an eclectic mix of what you would expect from an New York bakery (brownies and chocolate-chip cookies) as well as items you may not expect (pretzel croissants and blueberry corn muffins) and a few that don't meet expectations — namely the scones....
Japan Times
JAPAN / KANSAI PERSPECTIVE
Jun 22, 2014
Osaka on leading edge of casino debate
If Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui, Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto and their Osaka Ishin no Kai (One Osaka) members play their cards right, their gamble on casino legalization could hit the jackpot.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / CHILD'S PLAY
Jun 20, 2014
Creative approach brings science to life in Osaka
Last month I wrote about Kansai's Big Bang museum, but that's not the only place in the region that uses science to entertain. Smack in the middle of downtown Osaka you'll find two other great places for educational fun: the Osaka Science Museum and Kids Plaza Osaka.
JAPAN / View from Osaka
Jun 14, 2014
Is 'rational' Toru Hashimoto acting irrationally?
Just how little influential political or intellectual opposition in Japan is there to fundamentally conservative politics and economic theories touting the wisdom of the corporate mentality? Well consider this: Toru Hashimoto, the mayor of Osaka and co-founder of Nippon Ishin no Kai (Japan Restoration...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jun 11, 2014
Imagination runs wild in Japanese contemporary art
"Nostalgia and Fantasy: Imagination and its Origins in Contemporary Art" is a ragtag grouping of nine individual artists and one unit, each of whom focus on extremely different things. It is difficult to say, in fact, where "nostalgia" and "fantasy" come into play in some instances. With only minimal...
BUSINESS / Markets
Jun 4, 2014
Osaka Exchange looks to expand into commodity, forex markets
Japan Exchange Group Inc., the country's main exchange operator, is considering expansion into commodities and foreign exchange as Asian economies continue to grow.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
May 31, 2014
Events of 10 years ago still reverberate today
Ten years ago this month, Japanese baseball went into its deepest and most memorable crisis. In case you were not in Japan then — or have forgotten — here is a brief review of what happened.
JAPAN
May 17, 2014
Why Kansai's corporate captains are trumpeting TPP
Several years ago, at the Kansai Economic Seminar, an annual snoozefest of pompous platitudes and pretentious, paternalistic pontificating by the old men who run Kansai's major corporations, one senior leader called for entering the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations.
SOCCER / J. League
May 17, 2014
Sekine strike helps Reds sink Cerezo
Teenager Takahiro Sekine scored seven minutes after coming on as a substitute to send Urawa Reds into the J. League summer break on top of the table after a 1-0 win over Cerezo Osaka on Saturday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 11, 2014
Casino moguls gamble on Japan
Two U.S. billionaires bet on rival cities to be the first to open casino resorts in Japan if the government legalizes gambling.
BASKETBALL
May 3, 2014
Osaka overpowers Shiga in second half, triumphs in Game 1
The Osaka Evessa held the Shiga Lakestars to 19-for-60 shooting, seized control of the game in the third quarter and made a winner of Evessa coach Shunsuke Todo in his bj-league playoff debut.
EDITORIALS
May 3, 2014
Nightclub beats rap on dancing
In a prod toward a modern legal view of sexual morals, an Osaka nightclub owner beats a charge, based on a 1948 law, of allowing patrons in his club to dance without a special permit for dancing.

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A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami