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TSUKUBA

Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Aug 28, 2018
Get ready for the robot invasion — of our classrooms
We may be wary of trusting robots enough to let them educate our children, but what if children were to help teach them a thing or two?
BUSINESS
May 22, 2018
G-20 ministers to discuss digital economy and environment in June 2019
Trade and environment ministers from the Group of 20 nations will meet in Japan in June next year to discuss the digital economy and energy conversion for sustainable development, the government said Tuesday.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jan 27, 2018
Groups promote Olympic legacy
"Legacy" or "legacies" has been a key world in the recent history of the Olympic Games.
Japan Times
SPORTS
Sep 2, 2017
Emmert offers insight on NCAA
Mark Emmert, the National Collegiate Athletic Association president, supports Japan trying to establish its own college sports governing body.
Japan Times
SPORTS
Jul 28, 2017
Yasuda spearheads University of Tsukuba's efforts to modernize college sports in Japan
Dome Corporation CEO Shuichi Yasuda says that the country's universities are mostly conservative and reluctant to tackle new initiatives.
Japan Times
SPORTS
Jun 29, 2017
Plan to reform Japanese college sports greeted with mixture of hope, skepticism
Discussions over the introduction of a "Japanese version of the NCAA" to oversee this country's collegiate sports have prompted positive and negative reactions since they began last year.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Apr 2, 2017
Japanese collegiate sports study ends Phase 1
Japan is currently working to reform college sports and establish its own version of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), creating athletic departments at universities to help it function more efficiently.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jan 18, 2017
Researchers urge Japan to reform college sports system
In the past year or so, the Japan Sports Agency, an external bureau of the education ministry, has discussed the potential establishment of "a Japanese edition of the NCAA" as part of its scheme to make college sports in this country more business-like.
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MORE SPORTS
Nov 17, 2016
University of Tsukuba, Dome Corporation look to change Japan college sports landscape with new deal
The University of Tsukuba wants to help revolutionize college sports in Japan, and setting up its own athletic department is a big part of that goal.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 7, 2016
Ibaraki youth admits fatally stabbing woman and dumping her body in river
A high school boy in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, has been arrested for allegedly dumping the body of a 42-year-old woman in a river, police said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
May 17, 2016
G-7 science chiefs highlight gender imbalance in science, need for research on dementia
Group of Seven ministers of science and technology wrapped up a three-day meeting in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture on Tuesday, pledging to help set up an international network that gets more women involved in science.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Apr 7, 2016
Device enables endoscope images to be viewed on iPhones
Optical equipment maker Microscope Network Co. and the University of Tsukuba have developed a system that enables doctors to monitor and save endoscope images on Apple Inc. iPhones.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 3, 2015
Tsukuba voters overwhelmingly vote 'no' on ¥30.5 billion park
More than 80 percent of the people in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, who voted in Sunday's referendum on whether to build a massive park voted against the project.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Jun 5, 2015
Tsukuba researcher hopes newt experiments yield regenerative medicine breakthrough
A researcher in Ibaraki Prefecture has been studying about a thousand newts every year in the hope of shedding light on the amphibian's self-renewal capability, which he believes could lead to development of regenerative medicine for human beings.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Feb 18, 2015
Japanese basketball hurt by Robots debacle
The NBL, one of the two top men's basketball leagues in Japan, has endured a chaotic 2014-15 campaign, and the disarray reached its nadir with the management change of the Tsukuba Robots.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Dec 6, 2014
Revamped Tsukuba Robots fall to 0-17
Gloria Gaynor's "I will Survive" was playing in the arena. The Tsukuba Robots intentionally did so and that was their message: they have made a fresh start.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Dec 5, 2014
NBL approves new Robots management company
The NBL approved a new management company to run the financially distressed Tsukuba Robots in Thursday's general meeting in Tokyo, the league office officially announced Friday.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Dec 1, 2014
11 players refuse to sign new contracts with Tsukuba Robots, become free agents
A total of 11 Japanese players on the Tsukuba Robots have been placed on the NBL's free agency list after they didn't sign new contracts with the Eastern Conference club's new management company, the league announced on Monday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Nov 7, 2014
Segway wheelchair begins trials on Japanese streets
The Japanese subsidiary of Segway, the inventor of the eponymous two-wheeled electric scooter, on Friday began trials of a wheelchair that enables users to change direction by shifting their weight.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBL NOTEBOOK
Oct 31, 2014
Off-court distractions create additional challenges for Tsukuba Robots
Usually, the first few weeks of any sports league's season should be happy, exciting times as both the teams and fans had eagerly anticipated its arrival.
Japan says Biden's description of nation as xenophobic is 'unfortunate'
The National Diet building in Tokyo
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.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces
Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
Japan drops to 70th in press freedom rankings
A businessman reads a newspaper outside a train station in Tokyo.
Traders spooked by intervention risk trim record yen shorts
Traders edged back from record bets on yen weakness this past week, in a period that included a likely bout of intervention by Japan to prop up the currency.
'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.
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.

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