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STATION

JAPAN
Nov 29, 2018
Offshore work on U.S. base in Okinawa to go into high gear in December
Many residents in Okinawa have long hoped the Futenma base replacement would not be in the prefecture.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 12, 2018
In New York visit, Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki highlights opposition to U.S. base plan
Newly elected Okinawa Gov. Denny Tamaki said Sunday that the Japanese government's plan to replace a key U.S. military base within the prefecture is opposed to the will of local residents.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 17, 2018
Government to seek invalidation of Okinawa's move to block U.S. base work
The Japanese government will soon take a countermeasure against the Okinawa Prefectural Government's recent move to block landfill work for a key U.S. military base transfer within the island prefecture, a central government source said Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 4, 2018
Judge orders Amsterdam station stabbing suspect held two more weeks, cites 'terrorist motive'
An investigating judge on Monday ordered an Afghan asylum-seeker held for a further two weeks on suspicion of stabbing "with a terrorist motive" two American tourists at Amsterdam's main railway station.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2018
Partially completed Yamanote Line station, designed by Kengo Kuma, unveiled to media
A new station being built on Tokyo's Yamanote loop line was shown to the media Wednesday with around 70 percent of the construction work completed.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jul 23, 2018
JR East launches escalator safety campaign after logging 180 accidents in fiscal 2017
East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) launched a escalator safety campaign at its stations Monday after seeing about 180 accidents in fiscal 2017 and some deadly cases before that.
JAPAN
Apr 26, 2018
Two U.S. Ospreys make precautionary landings at Amami Airport before flying to bases
Two U.S. military Osprey aircraft made emergency landings at the airport on Amami Island in southwestern Japan on Wednesday afternoon, a government source said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Mar 2, 2018
Japan's space agency taps astronaut Akihiko Hoshide for International Space Station command
Astronaut Akihiko Hoshide will be onboard the International Space Station for about six months from around May 2020 and serve as its commander during the latter part of his stay, Japan's space agency said Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 7, 2017
New Tokyo Station plaza offers a more pleasant promenade to the Imperial Palace
A new plaza on the Marunouchi side of Tokyo Station was unveiled Thursday after years of construction, offering pedestrians a much improved promenade from the station to the Imperial Palace.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Dec 1, 2017
Japan may join U.S. space project in quest to achieve manned moon landing
Japan will consider joining a U.S.-proposed project to build a new space station orbiting the moon, hoping such a move will boost the chances of sending Japanese astronauts to the lunar surface, government officials said Friday.
JAPAN
Oct 11, 2017
Elderly man accidentally drives car on Hokkaido train track for more than a kilometer
An 83-year-old man drove a car on a railway track in Hokkaido for about 1.2 kilometers before becoming stuck at a crossing, police said Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Oct 9, 2017
Marseille attacker's brother arrested in Italy for terror links
Italian police said on Sunday they had arrested the brother of Anis Hannachi, the Tunisian man who killed two young women with a knife outside the Marseille train station a week ago in a suspected terrorist act.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 28, 2017
Endangered coral found in Okinawa landfill construction site at U.S. base off Henoko
A type of coral on Japan's list of endangered species has been found in waters off the Henoko district in Okinawa, where landfill-related construction is underway for the planned replacement of a key U.S. military base within the prefecture, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Aug 24, 2017
Nago Mayor Susumu Inamine seeks third term, remains opposed to U.S. Okinawa base construction
Nago Mayor Susumu Inamine, who opposes a plan to relocate the operations of a key U.S. Marine Corps base to his city in Okinawa, said Wednesday he will seek a third four-year term.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books / ESSENTIAL READING FOR JAPANOPHILES
Jul 15, 2017
'Tokyo Station': Taut thriller has slow start, strong finish
The bulk of Martin Cruz Smith's "Tokyo Station" is set in 1941, when the impending war with the Allied Forces was the talk of Tokyo.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 8, 2017
U.S. Osprey, F/A-18 make emergency landings in Okinawa and Miyagi; no injuries reported
Two emergency landings, one involving a U.S. Marine Corps Osprey and the other a fighter jet, took place Tuesday on an island in Okinawa and in northeast Japan, the Defense Ministry's regional bureaus said Wednesday, but no injuries were reported.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Apr 8, 2017
Future high-rise building could provide free views of Jingu Stadium games
It appears some apartment dwellers in Tokyo will soon have a great view of Yakult Swallows games at Meiji Jingu Stadium. A high-rise building is under construction right across the street from the ballpark. It's on the road that runs from the future site of the new National Stadium to the T intersection where it meets Route 246 at Gaien-mae Metro Station.
JAPAN
Mar 30, 2017
Tokyo police seek man who fled down tracks from Akabane Station after alleged groping
Police are searching for a man who jumped off a platform at Tokyo's JR Akabane Station on Wednesday and ran down the tracks after a woman claimed to a JR East employee that someone had groped her on a train.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 15, 2017
Man flees along tracks after alleged groping incident on JR Saikyo Line
Police are looking for a man who allegedly groped a woman on a train Tuesday before jumping off the platform at JR Ikebukuro Station and running away along the railway tracks.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 14, 2017
'Parody and Intertextuality: Visual Culture in Japan Around the 1970s'
Feb. 18-April 16
'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.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
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.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
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.
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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