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Mar 8, 2019
Popular ex-pro wrestler Richard 'The Destroyer' Beyer dies at 88
Richard Beyer, a former American pro wrestler who was popular in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s, died at his home on the outskirts of Buffalo, New York, on Thursday, his son said. He was 88.
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WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 23, 2019
Virgin Galactic flies first test passenger to the edge of space
A Virgin Galactic rocket plane on Friday soared to the edge of space with a test passenger for the first time, nudging British billionaire Richard Branson's company closer to its goal of suborbital flights for space tourists.
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BASKETBALL / B. League / B. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Jan 3, 2019
Jets flying high as second half of season gets started
Just over half of the season remains, but it appears to be a six-team title race.
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CULTURE / Books
Dec 22, 2018
Red Circle Authors: Sending Japanese literature westward
Red Circle Authors is a 'home' for a group of established Japanese writers, helping to promote their work overseas while heightening awareness of the great depth and breadth of Japanese literature.
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BASKETBALL / B. League / HOOP SCOOP
Dec 18, 2018
Ehime's Andrew Fitzgerald looks back on record-setting scoring performance
Andrew Fitzgerald scored the Ehime Orange Vikings' first two points on an outside jumper on Sunday, and never stopped scoring.
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BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 14, 2018
Virgin Galactic rocket ship reaches space in test flight, setting stage for tourists to boldly go
A Virgin Galactic rocket plane reached space on Thursday and returned safely to the California desert, capping years of testing to become the first U.S. commercial human flight to breach Earth's atmosphere since America's shuttle program ended in 2011.
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ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 13, 2018
Nixon's grandson may become a Trump aide on China, sources say
Christopher Nixon Cox, the grandson of the late U.S. President Richard Nixon, is likely to join the Trump administration as an economic staffer focused on trade with China, according to two people familiar with the matter.
BUSINESS
Oct 12, 2018
Virgin's Richard Branson halts talks on $1 billion Saudi investment in space ventures amid journalist's disappearance
British billionaire Richard Branson said on Thursday that his Virgin Group would suspend its discussions with Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund over a planned $1 billion investment in the group's space ventures, in light of events involving missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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JAPAN / Politics
Oct 3, 2018
U.S. policy experts call for launch of Japan-U.S. combined task force
A bipartisan group of U.S. policy experts recommended Wednesday that the Self-Defense Forces and the U.S. military create a combined joint task force to better cope with possible contingencies with China over Taiwan, as well as the South and East China seas, as part of an effort to strengthen the bilateral alliance.
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BASKETBALL / B. League / B. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Aug 2, 2018
Nara the latest destination for high-scoring forward Jeff Parmer
After two seasons in a Yokohama B-Corsairs uniform, power forward Jeff Parmer is ready for a change of scenery.
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WORLD / Politics
Jul 4, 2018
Senate Intelligence Committee agrees with intel agencies that Putin meddled in election to help Trump win
The Senate Intelligence Committee strongly backed the finding by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a campaign to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, ultimately intending to help Donald Trump win.
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WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jun 5, 2018
Trump says he can pardon himself. Nixon was told he couldn't
U.S. President Donald Trump is asserting a power to pardon himself that not even Richard Nixon tried to claim before resigning the presidency in 1974, and that the Justice Department has said isn't constitutional.
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JAPAN
May 3, 2018
Families of abductees seek help from U.S. for immediate return of kin from North Korea
Family members of Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s on Wednesday pressed the reclusive state to immediately return all kidnap victims.
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WORLD / Politics
May 3, 2018
Democrats demand answers over Scott Pruitt's mystery Morocco trip and lobbyist pal's pricey contract
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt's four-day trip to Morocco last December was puzzling from the start.
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BASKETBALL / B. League / B. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Apr 19, 2018
Readers weigh in on top underrated players
It's often easy to identify the superstars in sports.
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CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Jan 6, 2018
In 'The Tokyo-Montana Express,' Richard Brautigan sees Japan with a fresh eye
There is a magical realism to the first steps in a new country. Some of the finest prose to convey this enchantment is Richard Brautigan's short story collection "The Tokyo-Montana Express," first published by Delacorte Press/Seymor Lawrence in 1980. Like stations on a fantasy railroad, the vignettes freewheel between Japan and America, making you laugh out loud and then quiet with melancholia.
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CULTURE / Stage
Dec 19, 2017
Japan's theater world increasingly shed its insularities in 2017
Never mind those North Korean missiles that provide politicians with heaven-sent pretexts to posture. These days, everyone's talking about a boozy party held by Mongolian sumo wrestlers that turned violent reportedly because of a generational dispute over the arcane traditions of Japan's highly regimented national sport.
JAPAN
Nov 3, 2017
Ex-U.S. diplomats among 149 foreign nationals set to receive high government honor
The government said Friday it will bestow decorations on a record 149 foreign nationals this fall — including former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — as well as 4,103 Japanese for their achievements across a wide variety of fields.
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CULTURE / Books
Oct 14, 2017
'Asia's Reckoning': Australian journalist sheds light on Asia's fraught and complex ties
Wittingly or otherwise, Japan, the United States and China — Asia's top powers — all have their guns simultaneously trained on each other, in what Australian journalist Richard McGregor likens to a geopolitical Mexican standoff in his new book, "Asia's Reckoning."
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 14, 2017
A Nobel for humility in field of economics
Instead of trying to design a new theory-of-everything to explain anomalies, Richard Thaler borrowed or created situation-specific theories.

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