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Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Oct 5, 2015
Yamada deserving of MVP award
Last Friday, after the Tokyo Yakult Swallows were crowned as the best team in the Central League for 2015, Tetsuto Yamada wasn't quite ready to weigh in on the topic of the CL's best player.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 24, 2015
Yamada belts two homers as Swallows sink BayStars
Tetsuto Yamada homered twice and drove in three runs to lead the Tokyo Yakult Swallows to their fourth straight victory, a 4-2 win over the Yokohama BayStars.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Sep 19, 2015
Swallows' Yamada conjurs up memories of former BayStars second baseman Rose
Second basemen in professional baseball are not normally known as cleanup and power hitters, and their names are seldom seen among league leaders in the home run and RBI categories.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 12, 2015
Man held over Osaka girl's murder served second arrest warrant
Police served an arrest warrant for murder on Saturday on a man already being held on suspicion of dumping the body of a 13-year-old girl in Osaka Prefecture last month.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Sep 8, 2015
Swallows dynamo Yamada set to join exclusive club
Tetsuto Yamada had three hits against the Hiroshima Carp but it was a stolen base that mattered most to Swallows fans on a rainy Sunday afternoon at Jingu Stadium.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 4, 2015
Wakamatsu nabs monthly honor
Rookie changeup artist Shunta Wakamatsu of the Chunichi Dragons won his first pitcher of the month award on Friday, when Nippon Professional Baseball announced its honors for August.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 31, 2015
Osaka murder suspect has history of similar crimes
With the investigation into the murder of two teenagers from Neyagawa, Osaka Prefecture, apparently making little headway, police are looking into links with that case and similar crimes the suspect was convicted of more than a decade ago.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 23, 2015
Police link adhesive tape found on bodies of slain Osaka boy, girl
Authorities send the murder suspect to prosecutors as police raid the onetime lodging of the man, a former worker in the Fukushima nuclear decontamination effort.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 7, 2015
Swallows closer Barnette among three first-time monthly MVP award winners
Tokyo Yakult Swallows closer Tony Barnette was one of three first-time winners on Friday, when Nippon Professional Baseball announced its players and pitchers of the month for July.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 24, 2015
Showroom offers taste of what living with a robot will be like
What will it be like living with a humanoid robot that can read human emotions and exchange conversations with them?
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jul 11, 2015
Multisport culture failing to take root in Japan
Do we have anyone like Bo Jackson or Deion Sanders in Japan? Or the environment to potentially produce athletes like them?
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 1, 2015
Sion Sono is back with buckets of blood and a three-faced heroine in 'Tag'
Sion Sono is a director of extremes — including an extreme dislike of being categorized. Just when you thought you had him pegged as a maker of violent black comedies with classical music scores, such as "Ai no Mukidashi"("Love Exposure"), he turns out heartfelt, albeit still violent, dramas with nuclear disaster themes, such as "Himizu" and "Kibo no Kuni" ("The Land of Hope").
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jun 27, 2015
Home electronics market loses its spark
On May 25, Yamada Denki Co., the largest home electronics retailer in Japan, announced that it would be closing 46 outlets. Given that the stores had been losing money for at least a year and Yamada operates more than 1,000, the announcement wasn't surprising, though the swiftness of its actions was. The targeted stores were shuttered a week later.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 15, 2015
More than 1,000 plaintiffs file lawsuit to keep Japan out of TPP
More than 1,000 people sue the government over Japan's involvement in a U.S.-led trade deal that they say is “unconstitutional.”
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 12, 2015
Batting star Yamada working to improve play in field
After demolishing Central League pitching in his first full season, second baseman Tetsuto Yamada has been spending time upgrading his fielding — a team-wide weakness last season when the Tokyo Yakult Swallows finished last place for the second straight year.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Feb 12, 2015
'New-wave Artists 2015: From the Public Entry Exhibition'
Feb. 19-March 15
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / DECISION 2014
Dec 10, 2014
DPJ faces uphill battle for swing voters
While the ruling coalition commands a higher number of core supporters, opposition parties are vying for swing voters in an election that is expected to see a low turnout.
JAPAN
Oct 7, 2014
Japan to consider removing appeal for donations for former 'comfort women'
Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Monday his ministry will consider removing a 1995 appeal for donations for former "comfort women" — females, mostly Asian, who served at wartime brothels for the Japanese military — from the ministry's website.
BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 27, 2014
Tepco to provide power to Yamada Denki's Kansai, Chubu stores: NHK
Tokyo Electric Power Co. will start providing electricity to Yamada Denki Co.'s stores in the Kansai and Chubu regions in October, NHK reported Wednesday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 23, 2014
Yamada beginning to flex muscles for Swallows
The Tokyo Yakult Swallows' Tetsuto Yamada has been full of surprises since earning the Central League club's regular second base job a year ago, and his home run in the second game of the All-Star Series last Saturday shows we never quite know what to expect from him.
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 homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
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.
'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.
Air China to buy 100 locally made C919 jets in $11 billion deal
A Comac C919 during an aerial display at the Singapore Airshow at Changi Exhibition Centre in Singapore in February
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.
Tokyo's Koto Ward by-election a race unlike any other
Natsumi Sakai, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan’s candidate and one of four female candidates running in the by-election, touts her experience as a cancer survivor and midwife as having prepared her to tackle issues that women currently face.
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.
Top U.S. and China diplomats talk tough amid warnings of new ‘downward spiral’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Friday
Kyotographie's strong 12th edition shines light into the margins
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