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Japan Times
CULTURE
Dec 20, 2018

2018 was a busy year for gamers in Japan, with established franchises and open world epics reigning supreme

Many gamers began 2018 by teaming up with a garishly outfitted cat and rushing into battle against a big, angry monster. Some of those same people will usher out the year by punching Nintendo icon Mario in his famously mustachioed face.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 20, 2018

Seven questions about Ghosn and Nissan

The arrest of Carlos Ghosn last month evinces layers of complexities and raises numerous questions and issues about corporate Japan in the global context that will surely be debated for years to come.
Japan Times
Dec 20, 2018

Real-time Multi-language Translation “Kotozna Chat”, we serve Kakao Talk now!

Tokyo, Japan - Kotozna, Inc (formerly known as Jaqool, Inc) added Kakao Talk as a new chat channel for kotozna chat, a multi-lingual real-time translation service using social media platforms, for inbound travelers.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Dec 20, 2018

Russian nostalgia for Soviet Union seen reaching 13-year high: Levada poll

The number of Russians who regret the break-up of the Soviet Union has risen to its highest since 2005, amid rising economic concerns and nostalgia for the Soviet welfare system, the Levada pollster said on Wednesday.
Japan Times
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Dec 19, 2018

Passion and technology behind English sumo coverage

Sumo fans around the globe are spoiled for choice these days when it comes to following their favorite sport.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / BLACK EYE
Dec 19, 2018

For me, 2018 was the year Japan began to listen

One day next year, and the year after that, someone will ask me in the course of a conversation why I decided to stay in Japan. I know this because it ranks among the top questions I'm asked — by Japanese and non-Japanese alike — since I arrived here back in 2004. And on the day I'm asked, my answer...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 19, 2018

As two rule breakers gave the Japanese film world hope in 2018, elsewhere eyes turned to China

The Japanese movie business is something like a restaurant where new cooks and waiters arrive as old ones retire or die, but the menu remains much the same, decade after decade.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Dec 18, 2018

Amy Schumer, Asley Judd join calls to free U.S. trafficking victim jailed for murder

Actors Amy Schumer and Ashley Judd have backed a campaign for an American woman convicted of killing a man who paid to have sex with her as a child to be given clemency.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 17, 2018

Hagoita paddles featuring big names from the Heisei Era on display in Tokyo

Traditional doll-maker Kyugetsu Co. opened a special exhibition in Tokyo on Monday featuring 30 kawari hagoita wooden paddles depicting standouts of the Heisei Era.
Japan Times
SPORTS
Dec 15, 2018

Wrestle mania: The changing landscape of professional wrestling in Japan

In June 1976, professional wrestler Kanji "Antonio" Inoki took on iconic American boxer Muhammad Ali at the Nippon Budokan arena in Tokyo in a fight that would be broadcast to an estimated global audience of 1.4 billion.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Dec 13, 2018

Inside Huawei's secret research HQ, China is shaping a future that's less reliant on U.S. tech

The surprise arrest of Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co., has thrust the company into a political firestorm and deepened a core threat: that more and more countries will blacklist its switches, routers and phones out of growing concern that they could be hijacked by foreign...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHY DID YOU LEAVE JAPAN?
Dec 8, 2018

Machiko Yamashita: A Japanese breadwinner in Berlin

Former art historian and butoh dancer Machiko Yamashita brings Japanese bread buns to Berliners.
Japan Times
SUMO / INSIDE SUMO
Dec 5, 2018

Change in stable can revive wrestlers' careers

Takakeisho, winner of this year's Kyushu tournament, was pictured alongside his stablemaster on Nov. 26 holding up a large red sea bream and drinking sake from an outsized trophy at a celebratory event.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Society
Dec 3, 2018

Japanese volunteers spring to action after fatal child abuse case

Five-year old Yua Funato was found unconscious at a Tokyo apartment in March, her feet severely frostbitten and her face and body covered with bruises that were inflicted by her 33-year-old stepfather. She was later pronounced dead at a hospital from pneumonia-induced sepsis caused by malnutrition.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Nov 24, 2018

Mellow Habanero: Award-winning hot sauce from an unlikely corner of Japan

In 2002, a fateful encounter with habaneroson the Okinawa island of Ishigaki first sparked Taku Kondo's interest in the pepper. Now, Kondo cultivates 1,800 habanero plants to make his award-winning range of organic hot sauces, which are sold under the Mellow Habanero label.
Japan Times
Figure Skating
Nov 23, 2018

Yuhana Yokoi, Nana Araki favorites entering Japan Junior Championships

With Rika Kihira and Mako Yamashita having moved up to the senior ranks, there will be a new titlist crowned at the Japan Junior Championships this weekend at Accion Fukuoka.
WORLD
Nov 20, 2018

French universities to offer more courses in English to attract foreign students

France wants to boost the number of foreign students at its universities by more than half over the next decade and will offer more courses taught in English to attract them.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 20, 2018

Drug lord 'El Chapo' ordered murder of man who wouldn't shake his hand, witness testifies

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was a ruthless killer who ordered the murder of a man who had refused to shake his hand at a meeting, a prosecution witness told jurors at Guzman's U.S. trial on Monday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 18, 2018

Putin faces hurdles of his own in territorial spat

Vladimir Putin would like to go down in history as the Russia leader who resolved all his nation's territorial disputes, but the road to reaching a settlement with Japan is littered with obstacles.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 16, 2018

Nintendo hopes new 'Pokemon' titles will lead to surge in sales for its Switch console ahead of holidays

Nintendo Co. is gambling that it can sell millions of Switch consoles this holiday season by introducing a new "Pokemon" game that interacts with the free-to-play mobile hit "Pokemon Go," as well as a new character that resembles a hex nut.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Tokyo police care for lost umbrellas, keys and flying squirrels
An employee at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Lost and Found Center in the Iidabashi area of central Tokyo bags, tags and organizes thousands of items.
Japan to aid introduction of multilingual ride-hailing apps
A Nihon Kotsu Co. taxi departs one of the company's service offices in Tokyo.
Seven & I founding family sounded out KKR and others about buyout: report
A 7-Eleven convenience store in Tokyo
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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