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Feb 28, 2019
Sara Takanashi sixth in Seefeld as Maren Lundby wins first world title
Japan's four-time World Cup overall champion Sara Takanashi finished sixth in the women's ski jumping final won by Norway's Olympic champion Maren Lundby at the FIS World Nordic Ski Championships in Austria on Wednesday.
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Feb 27, 2019
Japan lands sixth, Germany wins first women's team world title
Japanese ski jumpers finished in a disappointing sixth place on Tuesday as Germany claimed the first-ever women's team world title at the Nordic World Ski Championships.
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Feb 24, 2019
Ryoyu Kobayashi places fourth at world championships
Ski jumper Ryoyu Kobayashi finished fourth in the men's large hill individual event on the fourth day of action at the two-week FIS Nordic World Ski Championships on Saturday.
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Feb 18, 2019
Kobayashi leaps into rarefied air with 11th World Cup win of season
Ryoyu Kobayashi won his 11th event on the 2018-2019 World Cup circuit on Sunday, the third day of competition in Willingen, becoming the sixth ski jumper in history, and the first Japanese, to post 11 wins in a single season.
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Feb 17, 2019
Ryoyu Kobayashi ties national record with 15th World Cup podium
Ryoyu Kobayashi landed on the ski jumping World Cup podium for the 15th time this season following his third-place finish in Willingen, Germany.
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Feb 11, 2019
Sara Takanashi claims first World Cup victory of season
Japan's Sara Takanashi overcame difficult weather Sunday to claim her first World Cup victory of the season and end Maren Lundby's winning streak.
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Feb 10, 2019
Ryoyu Kobayashi lifts Japan to third at World Cup team event
Overall leader and breakout talent Ryoyu Kobayashi helped Japan's men reach their first World Cup team podium of the season on Sunday.
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Feb 9, 2019
Snowboarder Yuto Totsuka claims silver in halfpipe at worlds
Yuto Totsuka took silver in the men's halfpipe Friday at the FIS Snowboard, Freestyle and Freeski World Championships.
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Feb 9, 2019
Sara Takanashi places second in normal hill event on World Cup circuit
Sara Takanashi finished second in the women's normal hill individual competition on Friday as Norway's Maren Lundby claimed her sixth straight World Cup victory.
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Feb 5, 2019
Lindsey Vonn crashes in super-G at world championships
American Lindsey Vonn crashed heavily in the super-G at the Alpine Ski World Championships on Tuesday in what was the penultimate race of her glittering career.
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Feb 4, 2019
Sara Takanashi finishes second as Maren Lundby wins fifth straight World Cup meet
Sara Takanashi finished second in the women's normal hill individual competition on Sunday as Norway's Maren Lundby claimed her fifth straight World Cup victory.
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Feb 3, 2019
Ryoyu Kobayashi soars to 10th World Cup title of season
Ski jumper Ryoyu Kobayashi won the flying hill event held in the German resort of Oberstdorf Saturday for his 10th victory of the World Cup season.
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Jan 27, 2019
Ryoyu Kobayashi third at World Cup event in Sapporo
Japan's Ryoyu Kobayashi finished third in the competition in Sapporo on Sunday, landing on the ski jumping World Cup podium for the first time in four meets.
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Jan 22, 2019
Ryoyu Kobayashi moved by hero's welcome upon return to Japan
Ski jumper Ryoyu Kobayashi said he was "surprised" to be greeted by so many television cameras and reporters at Haneda airport on Tuesday as he returned home midway through his remarkable breakout season.
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Jan 14, 2019
Ski jumping: Kobayashi misses out on historical World Cup 7-peat
Ryoyu Kobayashi saw his World Cup winning streak end Sunday when he finished seventh in the second men's large hill individual competition of the weekend, won by Poland's Dawid Kubacki.
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Jan 13, 2019
Ryoyu Kobayashi jumps to sixth straight victory on World Cup circuit
Ryoyu Kobayashi added a sixth straight ski jumping World Cup win to his resume on Saturday in Italy.
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Jan 5, 2019
Ski jumper Ryoyu Kobayashi extends winning streak to four on World Cup circuit
Ryoyu Kobayashi won his fourth World Cup title in a row at this year's edition of the Four Hills Tournament on Friday, becoming the first-Japanese male to reach the milestone.
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Jan 2, 2019
Ryoyu Kobayashi grabs third straight World Cup victory
Ryoyu Kobayashi claimed his third straight, and sixth overall, World Cup title Tuesday after sweeping the German legs of the 67th edition of the Four Hills Tournament.
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Dec 31, 2018
Kobayashi wins Four Hills opener for fifth World Cup title of season
Ryoyu Kobayashi picked up his fifth World Cup title of the season with a win at the Four Hills Tournament opener on Sunday night.
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Dec 17, 2018
Ryoyu Kobayashi soars to victory
A day after missing the podium for the first time this season, Ryoyu Kobayashi cemented his position as the world's best ski jumper with a convincing World Cup victory in Switzerland on Sunday.
'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.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
JAL cancels international flight after captain gets drunk at Dallas hotel
A Japan Airlines' flight from Dallas to Tokyo was canceled last week after its captain got drunk at a local hotel.
Golden Week crowds greeted with high temperatures as holiday period kicks off
The departure lobby for domestic flights is crowded with travelers at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Saturday, the first day of this year's Golden Week holidays.
India seen overtaking Japan in nominal GDP in 2025
The skyline of central Mumbai's financial district
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.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.

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