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Mar 6, 2023
Naoya Inoue to face Stephen Fulton for WBC and WBO super bantamweight belts
Naoya Inoue is set to challenge Stephen Fulton of the United States for the WBC and WBO super bantamweight titles on May 7 at Yokohama Arena, his Ohashi Gym said Monday.
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OLYMPICS
Jul 31, 2021
Will Japan’s gold rush end with judo? Not likely.
Japan has won nine golds in judo so far, the most by a single nation at an Olympics. Japan set the previous mark of eight in 2004.
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OLYMPICS
Jul 28, 2021
Twice is nice: Japan's Yui Ohashi wins second gold of the Games in women's 200-meter IM
Tomoru Honda also added to Japan's medal haul in the pool, earning a silver in the men's 200-meter butterfly.
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OLYMPICS
Jul 25, 2021
Day 2 recap: From skateboarding to judo, Japan brings home the gold
Japanese judoka Uta and Hifumi Abe became the first siblings to win gold medals on the same day, while Yuto Horigome bagged skateboarding's first gold.
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OLYMPICS
Jul 25, 2021
Japan's Yui Ohashi swims to gold in women's 400-meter individual medley
Yui Ohashi was coming off a 40th place finish at the national championships and thought about giving up swimming altogether in 2015. Now she's an Olympic champion.
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Dec 16, 2020
Seagulls deny Frontiers on final play of X Bowl to return to X League summit
The Obic Seagulls made their long-awaited return to the X League summit Tuesday night, knocking off the league's current dynasty.
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CULTURE / Film
Sep 10, 2020
‘L'Etranger De La Plage’: Love story adaptation is missing its heart
Akiyo Ohashi's film version of Kanna Kii's manga tells the story of two men falling in love while dealing with loss and parental disapproval.
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CULTURE / Film
Jan 9, 2020
'On-Gaku: Our Sound': Indie anime seven years in the making is a surefire classic
Director Kenji Iwaisawa's hand-drawn anime, with voice acting by former Yura Yura Teikoku frontman Shintaro Sakamoto, taps into the riotous power of music.
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JAPAN
Dec 16, 2019
Ferry service in western Japan ends 109 years of history
A ferry connecting Uno Port in Okayama Prefecture and Takamatsu Port in Kagawa Prefecture has ceased services after 109 years.
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JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 6, 2019
Five people with ties to Osaka school operator arrested for alleged embezzlement
Public prosecutors on Thursday arrested five people related to Meijo Gakuin Educational Corp. on suspicion of embezzlement, including Mieko Ohashi, a 61-year-old former president of the school operator in Osaka Prefecture.
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May 10, 2019
Surfers eye 2020 Games while enjoying the ride
A long Golden Week holiday period had just ended the previous day.
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JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
May 4, 2019
Japan Times 1944: Potatoes to be grown on Diet Building lawn
Neat squares of Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn will dot the spacious lawn of the Diet Building grounds in a movement not to leave any cultivable land idle. The work on the first plot in the Diet grounds was tackled by 45 attendants of the Diet Building on Wednesday. Another plot of 100 tsubo will be dug up and planted by the end of May.
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Jan 28, 2019
Rikako Ikee honored as Japan's swimmer of the year
The Japan Swimming Federation hosted the annual Aquatics Awards on Monday evening in Tokyo, celebrating achievements by its elite athletes in 2018.
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Jan 16, 2019
Video of UCLA gymnast Katelyn Ohashi's perfect 10 goes viral
An online video of UCLA senior Katelyn Ohashi's exuberant floor routine that earned her a perfect 10.0 at an intercollegiate competition on Saturday has gone viral, logging over 34 million views since it was posted on Twitter by the California university's gymnastics team.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 27, 2018
Carp fans arrive hours early for opener, express never-ending support for team
Partly because it was Saturday, so many fans arrived at Mazda Stadium wearing red replica jerseys and T-shirts hours before Game 1 of the Japan Series between the Hiroshima Carp and Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks.
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Aug 21, 2018
Rikako Ikee's quest for Asian Games perfection ends with silver finish in 4x200 relay
Rikako Ikee's quest for a perfect Asian Games slipped away Tuesday, when the women's 4x200-meter freestyle team swam to silver, a disappointing result after she had earlier kept her streak alive with her fourth gold in four events.
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Aug 11, 2018
Rikako Ikee sprints to 100-meter butterfly gold at Pan Pacs
Rikako Ikee won gold in the women's 100-meter butterfly final and set a national in the process on Saturday, bagging her third medal at the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.
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Aug 9, 2018
Kalisz outlasts Hagino, Seto in 400 IM on Pan Pacs opening day
Chase Kalisz proved he’s currently the best individual medley swimmer in the world with a crushing victory over the Japanese star duo.
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Apr 8, 2018
Rikako Ikee sets two more records on final day of national swimming championships
Rikako Ikee set a pair of Japan records and Yui Ohashi set another on Sunday as the national swimming championships came to a close.
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JAPAN
Apr 8, 2018
Japan celebrates 30th anniversary of Seto-Ohashi Bridges
A ceremony was held Sunday to celebrate Tuesday's 30th anniversary of the Seto-Ohashi Bridges, a series of bridges connecting Kagawa and Okayama prefectures across the Seto Inland Sea.

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