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YO YOSHIDA

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CULTURE / Books
Oct 4, 2014
Inner-city life, and the banal mystery that is other people
Beautifully banal. Perhaps not the most positive-sounding turn of phrase, but the one that best summarizes the appeal of Shuichi Yoshida's interwoven narrative of five young adults and their struggles living in an overcrowded Tokyo apartment.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS / ASIAN GAMES
Oct 4, 2014
Japan places third overall in Asian Games medal count
Japan wrapped up the 17th Asian Games on Saturday, falling well shy of its target of second place in the first international multi-sports tournament since winning the bid to host the 2020 Tokyo Olympics a year ago.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 1, 2014
Universities get bomb threats over teachers who worked for the Asahi
Universities in Osaka and Hokkaido prefectures have received bomb threats in letters that demand former Asahi Shimbun reporters working for them be fired.
COMMENTARY / World / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Sep 29, 2014
Condemnation attributed to 'utter nonsense'
Were 'comfort women' sex slaves for Japanese soldiers in World War II? If you recognize that prostitution is largely a form of physical bondage, they were. But forcibly rounding up women for the work would be a different matter. Recently the testimony of a man who claimed to have helped with the roundups was judged to be false, after causing Japan consternation for three decades.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS / ASIAN GAMES
Sep 28, 2014
Yoshida wins fourth straight Asian Games title
Three-time Olympic champion Saori Yoshida captured her fourth consecutive title in winning the women's 55-kg final against Mongolia's Byambatseren Sundev in the wrestling competition at the Asian Games on Sunday.
JAPAN
Sep 26, 2014
Don't curb your reporting, lawyers tell Asahi
As one of Japan's most respected newspapers incurs a tumult of jeers from critics for admitting erroneous reporting, a group of prominent lawyers is rallying in its support.
Japan Times
JAPAN / LIVES ON THE LINE
Sep 23, 2014
Helplessness as reactor 2 lost cooling
Ninth in a series: While reactors 1 and 3 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear complex suffered core meltdowns, the cooling system for reactor 2 continued to work for three days despite the loss of power following the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011.
Japan Times
JAPAN / LIVES ON THE LINE
Sep 23, 2014
Tepco plea to evacuate enraged Kan
10th in a series: A senior Tokyo Electric Power Co. official broke down and wept in the prime minister's office when the utility felt it had exhausted all options to prevent an utter catastrophe at the Fukushima No. 1 plant.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Sep 16, 2014
Luminous Orange's Rie Takeuchi soars with a little help from her friends
Though often referred to as a "shoegaze band," Luminous Orange's Rie Takeuchi says she is neither of those two things.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Sep 12, 2014
Yoshida, Icho extend dominance
Three-time Olympic champion Saori Yoshida beat Sofia Mattsson of Sweden in the women's 53-kg final to claim her 12th consecutive title at the wrestling world championships on Thursday.
JAPAN / FOCUS
Sep 11, 2014
Yoshida transcripts on Fukushima nuclear crisis released
The government finally discloses the transcripts of its investigative talks with the late manager of the doomed Fukushima No. 1 power plant after media leaks force its hand.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 7, 2014
Daily's retraction doesn't torpedo '96 sex slave report: ex-U.N. expert
A former U.N. researcher who compiled a report urging Japan to apologize and pay compensation over the "comfort women" issue said she sees no need to correct her report made public in 1996 that referred to testimony retracted recently by the Asahi Shimbun, a major Japanese daily.
Japan Times
SOCCER / J. League
Sep 3, 2014
Yoshida urges Japan to forget World Cup flop
Southampton defender Maya Yoshida has told his Japan teammates to flush the World Cup out of their system and try and restore bruised pride by giving new coach Javier Aguirre a win against Uruguay on Friday in his first game in charge.
Japan Times
JAPAN / LIVES ON THE LINE
Sep 2, 2014
Workers grappled with darkness at start of Fukushima nuclear crisis
First in a series: Four days after the magnitude-9 earthquake and ensuing tsunami struck northeastern Japan on March 11, 2011, Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant chief Masao Yoshida was at his wit's end.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 1, 2014
Putting an end to the Japan-Korea history wars
As another war of words heats up, Japanese and South Korean leaders need to step back, recognize where the real interests of their people lie, and stop obsessing about the past.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 31, 2014
Fukushima No. 1 chief feared nuclear doom for eastern Japan
The late chief of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant feared that the core meltdowns of March 2011 would cause catastrophic damage to eastern Japan, his testimony shows.
JAPAN
Aug 26, 2014
Kan seeks full disclosure of testimony on nuclear crisis
Former Prime Minister Naoto Kan called Tuesday for the full disclosure of testimony regarding the Fukushima nuclear crisis, including that of plant chief Masao Yoshida.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2014
After leaks, government to release interviews with deceased Fukushima plant boss
After months of leaks, criticism and controversy, the government says it will release most of the transcribed testimony of the late Masao Yoshida, who dealt with the 2011 triple meltdown crisis as head of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 23, 2014
Late Fukushima nuclear plant chief's testimony may be made public
Unable to keep a lid on the explosive testimony given by late Fukushima No. 1 chief Masao Yoshida, the government makes plans to release it to the public.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Aug 21, 2014
Artists expand photography and film conventions into a new language
At a time when popular culture is fed both mesmerizing and disturbing imagery, it often carries with it a sense of terror, while alluding to the possibility of something disturbingly sublime. What makes that something "sublime," however, evades easy definition.

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Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
The 'outsiders' creating some of Japan's greenest spaces