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BASEBALL
Nov 29, 2013

Kawakami's players impressed MLB counterparts

The V-9 Yomiuri Giants were arguably the best team in the history of the game. Giants stars Sadaharu Oh and Shigeo Nagashima had been openly coveted by MLB general managers back in the United States. So had pitcher Tsuneo Horiuchi at his peak.
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Events / Events In Tokyo
Nov 28, 2013

Ethiopia's traditional rhythms are about to dance across the nation

The Ethiopian National Cultural Troupe is in Japan from Nov. 30 to hold performances, workshops, and dance nights at eight different venues across the country. Offering a variety of dance performances from different ethnic groups of the east African country, this is a great opportunity for anyone wanting...
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LIFE / Travel / TRAVEL INSIDER
Nov 26, 2013

Air France's new chef; SAS Narita lounges a plus; AirAsia to fly to Nagoya

Air France's new chef
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JAPAN / WEDGE
Nov 24, 2013

Firm's tech takes out chemical arms

A Japanese firm claims it has technology that can help Syria dispose of its chemical weapons in line with a Sept. 27 United Nations Security Council resolution ordering the nation to do so.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 21, 2013

JFK's message echoes today

President John F. Kennedy, more than many others then or now, recognized the exponential power that Japan and the U.S. possessed when working together.
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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Nov 18, 2013

Wife fights decades-long battle to free Shibuya riot leader Hoshino

Fumiaki Hoshino has spent nearly 40 years behind bars for a murder he maintains he did not commit and due to a conviction he and his supporters believe was politically motivated.
COMMENTARY / Japan / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Nov 17, 2013

Cracks in Tepco's 3/11 narrative

Tepco will never accept the theory that the earthquake, not the tsunami, caused the Fukushima nuclear disaster because it would make it difficult to restart its other nuclear power plants.
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ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Nov 17, 2013

Disaster-prone Philippines slow to address issues

In one of the world's most naturally deadly countries, catastrophes can originate almost anywhere. Flash floods race down mountainsides. A zigzag of tectonic plates collide below. Typhoons build in warm ocean waters and then tear westward.
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ENVIRONMENT
Nov 17, 2013

Engine economics limit biofuels in U.S.

When it comes to ethanol, the United States may have reached its limit — at least for now.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Nov 15, 2013

90% of foreigners arrested last year were legal residents

Of the 5,423 foreigners arrested last year for committing crimes, more than 90 percent of them were living in the country legally, while illegal immigrants accounted for just 5.9 percent of the cases, unlike in the past, a report says.
COMMENTARY
Nov 15, 2013

Artist mutilates self as Putin paralyzes Russia

The apathy and fatalism Pyotr Pavlensky so dramatically depicted is clear in the Russian economic ministry's long-term economic development forecast.
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JAPAN
Nov 15, 2013

Ex-Mainichi reporter blasts Abe's push for secrets bill

Takichi Nishiyama, an ex-reporter for the Mainichi Shimbun who uncovered the secret pact on the U.S. return of Okinawa, criticizes Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for trying to centralize power and control information with the state secrets bill.
EDITORIALS
Nov 12, 2013

Wage hikes for a sustained recovery

After enjoying increased sales and better bottom lines, Japanese companies can do their part to put the economy back on a sustainable growth path by raising workers' wages.
BASKETBALL / NBA REPORT
Nov 12, 2013

Bird has Pacers on track to win now

Larry Bird knew it was going to be a tough sell.
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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Nov 11, 2013

Okinawa: the junk heap of the Pacific

Over the past seven decades, Okinawa's sea, land and air have been contaminated with a cocktail of toxins by the U.S. military that have poisoned Okinawan civilians and U.S. troops alike.
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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Nov 9, 2013

'Specialness' shrouds stories of minorities

As predicted four months ago in this column, in September the Supreme Court ruled discriminatory and unconstitutional the Civil Code stipulation that says children born out of wedlock are entitled to only half the inheritance of legitimate offspring. The government is expected to revise the law accordingly,...
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 8, 2013

Nuclear power: India shouldn't buy what Japan is trying to sell

Despite the Fukushima disaster, Japan remains at the center of the global nuclear-industrial complex, ready to sell demonstrably dangerous technology to wannabe nuclear powers.
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JAPAN / EMBASSY AVENUE
Nov 8, 2013

Djibouti's former PM gets Japanese award

Dileita Mohamed Dileita, former prime minister of the Republic of Djibouti, was awarded the Grand Cordon of the Order of the Rising Sun by the Japanese government for his contributions to strengthening bilateral ties and his cooperation in Japan's antipiracy measures in the Horn of Africa country, where...
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BASEBALL / MLB / NOTES ON A SCORECARD
Nov 5, 2013

Valentine unfairly left out in cold after Red Sox capture World Series

I wonder what Bobby Valentine thinks about the Boston Red Sox winning the World Series?
COMMENTARY / Japan
Nov 5, 2013

Tokyo and Seoul's dangerous stalemate

Japan-South Korea relations have sunk so low because of wartime history issues that the U.S. might no longer be given a free pass to use its bases in Japan to support South Korea in a war.
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 4, 2013

New secrecy law seen best serving bureaucrats

The secrecy bill is dangerous because Japan already has a lot of nondisclosable information and several laws to protect it, the head of an NPO warns.
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COMMUNITY / How-tos / HOME TRUTHS
Nov 4, 2013

Warming up for the winter chill

In 2000 we moved into an apartment in Tokyo run by the semi-public housing corporation UR. It was new and had a natural-gas heating system. Unlike other gas systems we'd used in the past, however, this one heated water that was then circulated to outlets in different rooms in the apartment. Direct gas...
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Nov 3, 2013

Pensions will pay, but only after 25 years

One reader wrote to Lifelines with a question regarding pensions:
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WORLD
Nov 3, 2013

Miranda was held for 'political' acts

The detention of the partner of a former Guardian journalist has triggered fresh concerns after it emerged that a key reason cited by police for holding him under terrorism powers was the belief that he was promoting a "political or ideological cause."
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Nov 2, 2013

Prolific hitter Murton no lock for NPB return

Will Matt Murton return for a fifth season with the Hanshin Tigers?
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 2, 2013

Rock band Monkey Majik provides positive vibes for Tohoku, enjoys passionate following for Golden Eagles

There was magic in the air before Game 6 of the Japan Series.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Oct 30, 2013

Rescues of South Koreans abducted by North come with controversy

In divided Korea, even the homecomings can be bitter.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 28, 2013

Toyota sales top GM's during third quarter

Toyota Motor Corp. outsold General Motors Co. and all other carmakers for the second time in three quarters, in the latest example of how Japan's largest manufacturers are benefiting from "Abenomics."
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 27, 2013

Antiquities theft robbing Egyptians of the future

Egypt's history holds the prosperity of 40 million people, age 30 or younger, who are seeking opportunities. But thieves are raiding archaeological sites and selling their findings.

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