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Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
May 9, 2015
May 9, 2015
 
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
May 2, 2015
May 2, 2015
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Apr 18, 2015
April 18, 2015
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Apr 11, 2015
April 11, 2015
Japan Times
MULTIMEDIA
Apr 3, 2015
April 3, 2015
BASKETBALL
Mar 29, 2015
bj-league lifts ban on JT
The professional basketball bj-league has rescinded its ban on media access by The Japan Times with immediate effect. The ban was instituted on Oct. 11, 2013, and continued for more than 17 months.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 14, 2015
Misawa spelling prodigy wins 6th Japan Times Bee
A diligent speller whose favorite English word is "floccinaucinihilipilification," or "the action or habit of estimating something as worthless," proved his exceptional talent by correctly spelling the championship word "snood" to clinch the 6th Japan Times Bee on Saturday at Japan Times Nifco Hall in Tokyo.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 2, 2015
NYC rang in new year with heightened security in Times Square
Roughly 1 million revelers packed New York's Times Square and rang in the new year with the city's annual crystal ball drop under unusually tight security for the nation's biggest New Year's Eve celebrations.
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Aug 24, 2014
Murakami's 'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki' tops New York Times' best-seller list
Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami's book "Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage" topped the New York Times best-selling hardcover fiction list for the week after being translated into English and put on sale Aug. 12.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ASHIDA'S WAR DIARY
Aug 17, 2014
The realist behind the idealist Constitution
A mystery surrounding late Prime Minister Hitoshi Ashida was his postwar call for Japan to re-militarize despite constitutional limits imposed by war-renouncing Article 9.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ASHIDA'S WAR DIARY
Aug 15, 2014
Former PM Ashida had many faces, grandson says
Hitoshi Ashida was born to a wealthy Kyoto farming family, spoke three languages and had a doctorate in international law, but also had many faces, his grandson recalls.
Japan Times
JAPAN / ASHIDA'S WAR DIARY
Aug 14, 2014
Diary spurs rethink of prewar anti-militarist, postwar prime minister
The anti-military stance of the editor of The Japan Times got him blacklisted during the war but helped him become prime minister three years after it ended.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 29, 2014
Spelling bee champ from Japan ends run at U.S. semis
An American teenager born and raised in Japan fell short of the semifinals at a prominent U.S. spelling competition Wednesday, but said she was proud to represent her home country.
JAPAN
May 24, 2014
Japan Times chairman paid hefty back taxes
Nifco Inc. Chairman Toshiaki Ogasawara paid more than ¥100 million in back taxes in 2012 after failing to declare ¥1 billion in income, his tax accountant says.
Japan Times
JAPAN / History
May 8, 2014
Journalist backtracks on best-seller after Nanjing switcheroo
A veteran foreign correspondent discovers that the Japanese translation of his new book twists his views on the Nanjing Massacre.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 23, 2014
Spelling ace Bostrom wins 2014 bee
Michaella Bostrom has been crowned winner of the 5th Japan Times Spelling Bee after besting 37 other students from around the country, booking a ticket to the annual Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington on her third try.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 4, 2014
NY Times editorial erred in claiming Abe denied massacre: Suga
The New York Times erroneously reported in a recent editorial that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has claimed the 1937 Nanjing Massacre never happened, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said Tuesday, adding the government has already lodged a protest with the paper and demanded a correction be published.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 3, 2013
Indulge in 'Morning English' seminars with breakfast
What better way to start the morning than with a plate of eggs Benedict — made from organic eggs, of course — a cup of coffee and a copy of the new Japan Times/International New York Times?
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 31, 2013
Japan Times appoints advisers to improve coverage
The Japan Times announced Thursday that it has established The Japan Times Media Advisory Board, appointing four distinguished individuals living in Japan to improve the quality of the newspaper and its reportage.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 23, 2013
Role of media groups to 'contextualize' info
Given the faster, increasingly digital and polarized ways news is disseminated around the world, the role of trusted news organizations is to "contexualize" the bits of information people pick up in various different media, Andrew Ross Sorkin, a financial columnist for The New York Times, said Wednesday in Tokyo.

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