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BASKETBALL / NBA
Aug 14, 2018

Thunder superstar Russell Westbrook delivers inspiration in Tokyo visit

Russell Westbrook brought smiles to enthusiastic fans' faces on a festive Tuesday morning in Tokyo.
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BUSINESS
Aug 14, 2018

South Korea's 'Hyundai Town' faces grim future with idled shipyard, rise in suicides

When Lee Dong-hee came to Ulsan to work for Hyundai Heavy Industries five years ago, shipyards in the city known as Hyundai Town operated day and night and workers could make triple South Korea's annual average salary.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 13, 2018

SoftBank mulls major investment in robot pizza startup Zume

SoftBank Group Corp. is in talks to invest from $500 million to $750 million in Zume Inc., a startup that makes and delivers fresh pizzas with the help of robots, according to people familiar with the conversations.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / KANPAI CULTURE
Aug 11, 2018

New brews from old Tokyo

Tokyo-area craft sake breweries gather to celebrate local specialties at the Greater Tokyo Sake Festival.
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JAPAN
Aug 11, 2018

Lefties push back against Japan's 'righteous' spin

Yu still remembers her mother's firm words: "You're using your other hand."
Japan Times
JAPAN / Regional voices: Chubu
Aug 5, 2018

Using their noodles: Fukui school's soba club hopes to roll to national title

Noodle club members from a high school in the city of Fukui are hurriedly honing their soba-making skills to prepare themselves for the national high school championship in Tokyo later this month.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2018

The one man Putin can't get out of his head

Bill Browder says renewed threats from Russia mean his efforts to punish its kleptocrats are working.
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JAPAN / Society
Aug 3, 2018

A day in the life of Kurdish asylum-seekers in Tokyo

Tokyo offers an almost limitless variety of awe-inspiring tours but one recent addition guided visitors on a truly unique journey — into the settlements of Kurdish asylum-seekers.
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BUSINESS
Jul 31, 2018

Already in decline, Japan's pachinko industry now braces for gambling-addiction regulations

Like many pachinko parlors throughout Japan, Naomi Suzuki's establishment on the outskirts of the city of Fukushima was once full of energy, with the din of bouncing steel balls and garish lights flashing to indicate winnings.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 30, 2018

'He looked like a terrorist!' Rural India joy ride ended in rumor-fueled mob attack and lynching

In the tiny hamlet of Murki in the hinterlands of south India, Inspector V.B. Yadwad surveyed a pile of bricks and stones in a ditch where he and other police officers had been attacked earlier this month while trying to save a group of five men on a road trip from a violent mob.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Jul 29, 2018

One man's labor-of-love museum captures Seto Inland Sea island's storied stone history

Build a stone museum and they will come? That's the idea behind the K's Labo museum on Kitagi Island in Okayama Prefecture.
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LIFE / Food & Drink
Jul 28, 2018

Tokyo barbecue joints to get summer sizzling

Grabbing your own grill and heading out to your preferred park or public space is the traditional way to approach barbecuing but in recent years, new spaces to barbecue in Tokyo and its surrounding areas have popped up for people of all grilling levels.
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GLOBAL MEDIA POST / Texas report 2018
Jul 27, 2018

Dallas does business right

Dallas is the most populous city in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and the fourth-largest, population-wise, in the United States. Because of market size, the local economy is ripe for various business investments. Companies have set up their head offices in Dallas, located between the West and the East coasts,...
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JAPAN / Deep Dive
Jul 26, 2018

Edomae: Sushi made to stand the test of time

What is Edomae sushi?
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / 20 QUESTIONS
Jul 21, 2018

Punk Drunkers: When it's cool to be uncool

Chikayoshi Satomi, the man behind cult brand Punk Drunkers says, for him, the line between work and play is always blurred.
Japan Times
JAPAN / AT A GLANCE
Jul 21, 2018

Kawagoe: From Edo standout to tourist draw

Kawagoe, Saitama Prefecture, is less than an hour's train ride from central Tokyo. But in this city full of history, one would feel a sense of nostalgia in the streets thanks to a number of traditional Japanese kura warehouse buildings from the Edo Period (1603-1868).
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CULTURE / Music
Jul 17, 2018

Didgeridoo player Hiroki 'Goma' Morimoto survived a car crash and relearned a culture

Hiroki Morimoto will be celebrating a musical milestone when he hits the stage at Fuji Rock Festival this year: 20 years with his instrument of choice, the didgeridoo. A serious car accident nine years ago, however, nearly brought his musical career to an end.
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BUSINESS / Tech
Jul 17, 2018

Communist-run Cuba starts rolling out internet on mobile phones

Communist-run Cuba has started providing internet on the mobile phones of select users as it aims to roll out the service nationwide by year-end, in a further step toward opening one of the Western Hemisphere's least connected countries.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 16, 2018

'Akira': Looking back at the future

On the 30th anniversary of the release of the animated version of 'Akira' in Japan, we examine the enduring legacy of Katsuhiro Otomo's sci-fi classic.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Jul 13, 2018

Grit, daring and terror — how Thailand's cave boys were rescued, protected 'like eggs'

Two days after 12 boys and their soccer coach disappeared inside a cave complex in Thailand's mountainous north, a team of Thai Royal Navy SEALs headed before sunrise into the pitch-black maze of muddy passages to find them.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Jul 12, 2018

With Brexit fiasco hanging over her, Theresa May does things her way, one day at a time

Theresa May sat quietly sipping tea in the corner of a small room at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester last October. The British prime minister had just delivered a speech meant to restore her authority over a ruling party that was sliding in the polls and riven by the country's decision...
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JAPAN
Jul 10, 2018

'Life or death': Tokyo pub owners fear impact of tougher smoking laws

Hiroshi Yoshida is facing a dilemma.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Jul 7, 2018

Restaurant chains are taking the smoking ban into their own hands

Although the anti-smoking laws recently passed by Japan's national government have yet to go into effect, several popular restaurant chains have already gone completely smoke-free. But will that be enough to help make Japan a smoke-free country by 2020?
BUSINESS
Jul 5, 2018

Japan's online fashion revolution gathers speed as brands bid to catch up with industry leader Zozotown

Zozotown, which swooped in as a little-known retail website and prodded once-reluctant Japanese consumers to shop online for clothes, is now facing stiff competition in the industry whose image it remade.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Jul 2, 2018

In Japanese, finding 'beauty' in plump sheep and toadies

Kanji with ovine roots turns up all over the place in Japanese vocabulary.

Longform

A man offers prayers at Hebikubo Shrine in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward. The shrine is one of several across the country dedicated to the snake.
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