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Rugby
Apr 4, 2015

Brave Blossoms qualify for Tokyo Sevens quarterfinals

Japan came through a group including France, Samoa and Argentina to advance to the quarterfinals of a Sevens World Series tournament for the first time since 2000 at the Tokyo Sevens on Saturday.
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MORE SPORTS
Apr 2, 2015

Ex-world champion Ao to fight for WBO lightweight title in Las Vegas

Former double world champion Takahiro Ao will enter the ring for the vacant WBO lightweight belt against Mexico's Ray Beltran on May 1 — the eve of the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Manny Pacquiao megafight — at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
WORLD / Science & Health
Mar 25, 2015

World's oldest breast cancer identified in ancient Egyptian skeleton

A team from a Spanish university has discovered what Egyptian authorities are calling the world's oldest evidence of breast cancer in the 4,200-year-old skeleton of an adult woman.
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Mar 22, 2015

Hanyu strives for second straight world title

Yuzuru Hanyu will attempt to become the first Japanese to win consecutive world titles this week after a most unusual past few months. The Olympic champion has been training without coach Brian Orser since the Japan nationals in December.
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JAPAN / UN WORLD CONFERENCE ON DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
Mar 14, 2015

Japan understands threat of natural disasters

An international conference on disaster prevention kicks off March 14 in the disaster-hit Tohoku region and it is aiming to adopt a new global framework to mitigate effects from natural disasters for the coming decade or so.
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WORLD
Mar 4, 2015

German pensioner needs drill to dig for Nazi-looted Amber Room

A pensioner has started digging in Germany's western Ruhr region for the Amber Room, a priceless work of art looted by Nazis from the Soviet Union during World War II and missing for 70 years, but says he needs a new drill to help him.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 16, 2015

Great War cost Europe a century

There was absolutely nothing noble about U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's intervention in Europe during the carnage of 1917. It led to a peace of vengeful victors, triumphant nationalists and avaricious imperialists — when the war would have otherwise ended in a bedraggled peace of mutually exhausted bankruptcies and discredited war parties.
EDITORIALS
Jan 23, 2015

Auschwitz's lessons for Japan

The 70th anniversary, on Tuesday, of the Soviet Army's liberation of Nazi Germany's Auschwitz concentration camp should serve as a chance for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to reflect on Japan's wartime behavior in the Asia-Pacific region.
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JAPAN
Jan 23, 2015

Okinawa to host WEF cybersecurity summit

The government will host a cybersecurity conference jointly with the World Economic Forum in Okinawa in November, Japanese officials announced at this year's annual economic conference in Switzerland.
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JAPAN / Politics
Jan 20, 2015

Abe using overseas trips to test waters in preparation for WWII 70th anniversary statement

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is promoting Japan as a postwar peace-builder as he tests the waters for a statement marking the 70th anniversary of its World War II defeat that risks irritating China and South Korea.
BUSINESS / NOTEBOOK
Jan 13, 2015

Nuclear-free world; train experience for kids; scream your love

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COMMENTARY / Japan / COUNTERPOINT
Jan 10, 2015

The people's Emperor speaks truth to power

Emperor Akihito began the new year with a statement that pointedly referred to two major controversies: war memory and nuclear energy. His thoughts on these demonstrate why he is so admired by the public and underscore the crucial role the 81-year-old monarch plays in contemporary Japan.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 22, 2014

Christians a vanishing species in Arab world

The observance of the Christian holiday in the Middle East is a sad reminder that the region's distinctive relgious, ethnic and cultural diversity is rapidly disappearing.
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JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Dec 6, 2014

Opening WWI naval operations ended; U.S. architect plans Manchuria housing; Tokyo smog more poisonous; Ebola monkeys spur warning

The Navy Department yesterday published a survey of the operations of the different squadrons and divisions of the Imperial Navy since the outbreak of the world war, and announced that the first part of the operations has come to an end.
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BUSINESS / Markets
Nov 28, 2014

China overtakes Japan as world's second-biggest stock market

China surpassed Japan as the world's second-largest stock market for the first time in three years amid growing investor confidence that policymakers in Beijing will revive the economy with monetary stimulus.
BUSINESS
Nov 14, 2014

India-U.S. deal revives WTO and hope of world trade reform

India and the United States settled a dispute on Thursday that had paralyzed the World Trade Organization and risked derailing a $1 trillion package of reforms of global customs procedures.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 11, 2014

China flouts efforts to protect world's wildlife

It would be nice to believe China's rhetoric that it cooperates with other countries in protecting wildlife. Yet, for two decades at least, Chinese consumer demand has been directly linked to the precipitous decline of wildlife populations around the globe.
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LIFE / Lifestyle
Nov 8, 2014

Kendama: a whole new ball game

Almost every child that has grown up in Japan has seen a kendama, a wooden traditional Japanese toy consisting of a ken (sword) and tama (ball) connected by a length of string.
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TENNIS
Nov 8, 2014

Tennis' new generation ready for challenge

A season that produced the biggest shakeup in men's tennis for more than a decade draws to a close next week with three ATP World Tour Finals debutants striving to cap breakthrough years with a large exclamation mark.
COMMUNITY / Voices / HOTLINE TO NAGATACHO
Oct 26, 2014

The world still needs to learn Japanese

For the attention of the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren):
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JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Sep 26, 2014

Campaigners fight to save derelict Mie silk mill but owner cites lack of cash

One of Japan's last surviving silk mills is rapidly falling into disrepair and could collapse despite a local campaign to save it.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 23, 2014

End of Homo economicus looms

The world seems to be on the verge of another great transformation with changes that will fundamentally redefine the nature of our economic interactions — and the social dynamics that underlie them.

Longform

Atsuyoshi Koike, the president and CEO of Rapidus, says there is a “sense of urgency” when it comes to Japan’s efforts in manufacturing semiconductors. “We have to make sure we are successful,” he says.
Atsuyoshi Koike’s big game: Fourth down and 2 nanometers to go