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JAPAN
Dec 22, 2022

A controversy forces Tokyo to define 'public park'

A plan to redevelop the capital's Meiji Jingu Gaien park and its sporting venues has drawn ire from people who want the area's trees to be spared.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Feb 17, 2022

China’s gamble on a new Olympic strategy pays off in gold medals

China's most successful Winter Olympics team ever is a motley lineup that includes the son of hockey legend Chris Chelios, a former child actor and a Louis Vuitton model.
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MORE SPORTS
Jan 5, 2022

In $500 million trading card deal, Fanatics buys Topps

Michael Rubin, the CEO of Fanatics, called trading cards and collectibles 'a significant pillar” in the company's plans.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 30, 2021

Door slams and idle chatter fill out Games’ new soundtrack

An unusual Olympics is missing the atmosphere fans bring to events. What is left is not silence, but something else.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 27, 2021

Russia is banned, yet it’s everywhere at the Games

A doping punishment changes a country's official name but little else about its Olympic experience.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Mar 21, 2021

Japanese fans have attended sporting events since July. Will they be safe at the Olympics?

Thorough countermeasures and restrictions on active support introduced by the country's professional sports leagues have allowed large crowds back into stadiums.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Feb 20, 2021

Move over, Honus: new era of million-dollar cards has arrived

'The industry is at its hottest point in my 40-year history,” Ken Goldin, the founder of Goldin Auctions, said.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
May 2, 2020

Left in limbo: Olympic and Paralympic hopefuls struggle with postponement

Tokyo's Olympic dream is still alive — for now — but many athletes have been left wondering if their hard work will all be for nothing.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 27, 2020

Leave the COVID-19 data analysis to the experts

Real experts know the dangers of winging it.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 19, 2019

Golf tournament seeks to inspire diversity through sport

The 2019 ISPS Handa Watch World Cup pro-am golf tournament was held on Nov. 4 and 5 at Taiheiyo Club Gotemba West. The course is located in the scenic foothills of majestic Mount Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / NEWS IN NIHONGO
Jul 22, 2019

Breakdancing likely added to 2024 Olympics in Paris

t the general meeting held in Lausanne, Switzerland, on the 25th, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) effectively decided to include breakdancing, skateboarding, sport climbing and surfing as additional events for the 2024 Paris Olympics just as the organizing committee proposed.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Dec 19, 2018

One Championship raises U.S. profile

One Championship CEO Chatri Sityodtong expects the company's recently-announced deal with U.S. broadcaster Turner Sports will go a long way toward raising the martial arts organization's profile in the U.S.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Aug 29, 2018

Passionate Indonesian fans embrace home Asian Games

"Nippon! Nippon!"
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jan 27, 2018

Groups promote Olympic legacy

"Legacy" or "legacies" has been a key world in the recent history of the Olympic Games.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Dec 15, 2017

Disney buying Fox film and TV units for $52 billion in digital push amid Netflix and Amazon surge

Walt Disney Co has struck a deal to buy film, television and international businesses from Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. for $52.4 billion in stock, giving the world's largest entertainment company an arsenal of shows and movies to combat growing digital rivals Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com...
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BASKETBALL / B. League / B. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Oct 27, 2016

Katakami preps teams for media

Credit the B. League for making an earnest effort to raise the professional reputation of men's basketball in Japan.
Japan Times
JAPAN / WORLD FORUM ON SPORT AND CULTURE
Oct 19, 2016

Baseball connects Japan, U.S.

Former Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology Hiroshi Hase, sat down for a chat with the Japanese baseball legend Hideki Matsui, who was appointed March 21 as an ambassador for the World Forum on Sport and Culture. The discussion was moderated by Kumi Fujisawa, an advisor to...
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COMMENTARY / World
Jul 5, 2016

How Zika can save the Olympics

Golfers, along with stars from other already enriched sports, have no place in the Olympics.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS / OLYMPIC NOTEBOOK
Dec 19, 2015

Shearman details life behind sporting lens

Mark Shearman has achieved extraordinary success as a sports photographer, specializing in track and field. He has a remarkable portfolio — containing images of Olympic legends such as Edwin Moses and Carl Lewis, Usain Bolt and Sebastian Coe — that few can ever hope of compiling. But, he admits without...
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MORE SPORTS / MAN ABOUT SPORTS
Dec 1, 2015

Newton affair reveals ugly truth about discourse in U.S.

Sports, MAS has often heard it said, are a metaphor for life.
Japan Times
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jul 28, 2015

Kajikawa using power of sport to improve society

In the increasingly cynical world we live in it seems like true believers are becoming a dying breed. The cold, hard reality of everyday life having taken a toll on optimism and enthusiasm.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Voices / FOREIGN AGENDA
Aug 4, 2014

The dark side of the Koshien dream

The majority of high-school baseball players end up neglected due to a dearth of coaching education and a win-at-all-costs mentality that favors the very talented few.
OLYMPICS
Jul 17, 2014

Murofushi partners with TMDU

Athens Olympics hammer throw champion Koji Murofushi is teaming up with the Tokyo Medical and Dental University to provide medical and scientific support to athletes and eventually produce more Olympic medalists in the future, the TMDU announced on Wednesday.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS / OLYMPIC NOTEBOOK
Jun 28, 2014

IOC visit puts spotlight on 2020 venues, budget

It's no shocking revelation that the IOC's planning revolves around lots of meetings.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Feb 1, 2013

Six months on, U.K. schools are losing the Olympic legacy

Near the entrance of York High School in northern England, painted in large letters, are the words of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." It is not a bad motto, particularly for a school that prides itself on its sporting prowess. Along all the corridors and outside...
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 25, 2011

No more ping-pong diplomacy

Thirty years ago, when China was still closed off to most of the world, Chairman Mao Zedong invited a group of American table-tennis players to participate in a week of friendly exhibition matches around the country. Insular and impoverished, China was just emerging from the most chaotic years of the...
BASKETBALL
Oct 20, 2005

Kawachi shooting for stars with new pro hoop league

Toshimitsu Kawachi, the commissioner of Japan's first ever professional basketball league, is a true believer.
U.S. gymnast Simone Biles competes in the uneven bars during the U.S. Olympic trials in Minneapolis on June 30.
OLYMPICS
Jul 18, 2024

Paris Olympics marketing blitz powered by female athletes

While the Olympics has long been considered the pinnacle of women’s sports, increased attention has prompted more brands to feature female athletes.

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