Tag - sendai

 
Menu
Search
 
May 06, 2024
 

Today's print edition

Home Delivery
Subscribe for more access

SENDAI

COMMUNITY / Voices
Mar 10, 2014
Three years after 3/11, how is the Tohoku recovery effort going?
In the waiting room at Tokyo Station, Liane Wakabayashi asked passengers en route to Tohoku for their opinions on recovery efforts since the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, which devastated the region three years ago.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Mar 8, 2014
Tsunami zone's village culture fades into fog of history
We can better appreciate what Tohoku's shoreline villages represented now that they have been washed away and former residents are marooned in soulless temporary housing ghettoes where the greatest risks are isolation and boredom.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League / 2014 J. LEAGUE PREVIEW
Feb 27, 2014
Gamba looking for payback
The following is the first of a two-part preview for the upcoming J. League season. Team-by-team previews of the nine lowest-ranked teams competing in the first division are listed.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 25, 2014
Suit against tsunami-hit bank fails
The Sendai District Court ruled Tuesday against the plaintiffs in a damages suit brought by relatives of three bank employees killed by the huge tsunami generated by the March 11, 2011, earthquake.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Feb 24, 2014
Arnold still getting used to life at Vegalta
New Vegalta Sendai manager Graham Arnold admits to being overwhelmed by the job so far, but the Australian is quietly confident of finding his feet over the coming J. League season.
BASKETBALL
Feb 14, 2014
Ide provides spark as Tokyo edges Gunma
Yuji Ide canned four 3-point shots and scored a game-high 22 points and Ricky Woods and Edward Morris poured in 19 points apiece as the Tokyo Cinq Reves defeated the Gunma Crane Thunders 81-75 on Friday night.
BASKETBALL / ONE-ON-ONE WITH ...
Feb 5, 2014
Sendai's White recognizes importance of team chemistry, close-knit family
The Japan Times features periodic interviews with players in the bj-league. Wendell White of the Sendai 89ers is the subject of this week's profile.
BASKETBALL
Feb 1, 2014
Ex-NBA player Brown parts ways with Sendai due to family emergency
Former NBA forward Andre Brown, whose acquisition was announced by the Sendai 89ers last week, has left the bj-league team before playing in a game.
BASKETBALL
Jan 24, 2014
Former NBA forward Andre Brown joins Sendai 89ers
Andre Brown's professional basketball career can be best described as a global odyssey.
BASKETBALL
Jan 19, 2014
Akita rolls to ninth straight victory
The All-Star spotlight will shine on Akita next Sunday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jan 14, 2014
Sendai's plan to lease pandas stalls
"Have the pandas gone back to China already?" a young schoolgirl asked last spring at Yagiyama Zoological Park in tsunami-hit Sendai.
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 10, 2014
Mitsubishi said to weigh bid for Sendai Airport
Mitsubishi Corp., the nation's biggest trading house, may bid for the rights to operate Sendai Airport, according to two sources.
JAPAN
Dec 26, 2013
Akita court hits vote gap, not results
A branch of the Sendai High Court ruled Thursday that the vote weight disparity of up to 4.77 times logged in the Upper House election in July was "in a state of unconstitutionality," but rejected the plaintiffs' demand that the results from the Akita constituency be nullified.
BASKETBALL
Dec 9, 2013
Resurgent 89ers rout Wat's
Things are starting to fall into place for the Sendai 89ers.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 14, 2013
German on lam nabbed by cops
A 25-year-old German man was arrested Thursday after escaping from the Miyagi Prefectural Police and being placed on a nationwide wanted list.
EDITORIALS
Oct 27, 2013
Soon under new management
Under a new law, Japan's central and local governments may entrust the collection of landing fees and the management of airport commercial operations to private companies.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Oct 26, 2013
Champions Hiroshima move back into J-League lead
J-League champions Sanfrecce Hiroshima moved back into first place on goal difference ahead of Yokohama F Marinos with a narrow 1-0 victory over Vegalta Sendai on Saturday.
BASKETBALL
Oct 25, 2013
Gray provides major muscle to help carry Yokohama past Sendai
Marquise Gray, a Michigan State alum, scored 14 points and pulled down 24 rebounds and Masayuki Kabaya and Omar Reed added 15 points apiece to lead the Yokohama B-Corsairs to a 77-69 triumph over the visiting Sendai 89ers on Friday night.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 11, 2013
Nuclear disaster drill aims for more realism
The government on Friday kicked off a two-day nuclear evacuation drill — its first since the 2011 Fukushima No. 1 power plant disaster — with the aim of making the exercise more realistic than its usual scripted rehearsals.
SOCCER / J. League
Oct 10, 2013
Teguramori named Japan U-21 national team coach
The Japan Football Association decided at its executive board meeting Thursday to hand Vegalta Sendai manager Makoto Teguramori the task of guiding the men's Under-21 national team to a place at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
As visitors surge, Japan seeks ways to make tourism eco-friendly
Much like other hot spots across Okinawa, Onna has diligently strived to captivate both domestic and international tourists, while at the same time grappling with the environmental strain induced by the influx of visitors.
G7 eyes plan on U.S.-led $50 billion aid package for Ukraine
A local resident visits the Lychakiv cemetery in Lviv, Ukraine, on Thursday. The U.S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Kishida talks up bolstered Latin American ties as China cements position
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida holds a news conference in Sao Paulo on Saturday.
As visitors surge, Japan seeks ways to make tourism eco-friendly
Much like other hot spots across Okinawa, Onna has diligently strived to captivate both domestic and international tourists, while at the same time grappling with the environmental strain induced by the influx of visitors.
'Monster' Inoue ready to tear down Luis Nery in title defense at Tokyo Dome
Naoya Inoue (left) and Luis Nery following a pre-fight news conference in Yokohama on Saturday, two days ahead of their super bantamweight title fight.
Debate on constitutional revision at a standstill despite Kishida's pledges
With less than two months left before the conclusion of the current session of parliament, any possibility that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida can deliver constitutional reform before the end of his term as Liberal Democratic Party president in late September, as he has promised, appears remote.
Sapporo court ruling on Ainu fishing rights presents tough questions
A traditional Ainu preserved food called <i>satchep</i> (dried fish) being made at the government-run National Ainu Museum and Park, nicknamed Upopoy, in the town of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Dec. 25. The Sapporo District Court ruled last month that the Raporo Ainu Nation's rights as an Indigenous people did not extend to having an inherent right to fish for commercial reasons.
With eye on China, defense chiefs agree to bolster interoperability
From left: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Australian defense chief Richard Marles, Japanese Defense Minister Minoru Kihara and Philippine Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro hold a joint news conference in Honolulu on Thursday.

Podcast

From easily navigable train stations to the helpfulness of its municipal staff, Tokyo has earned high praise for its commitment to accessibility for disabled travelers.
[Rebroadcast] Japan is doing better on accessibility than you may think

Longform

Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
By Stephen Mansfield

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

Live like a lord or lady for a night at Ozu Castle
Live like a lord or lady for a night at Ozu Castle

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS note

Read more

SUPPLEMENTS BINDER