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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 18, 2014

Buffaloes' Italian pitcher Maestri keeps track of Azzurri's World Cup progress

When Mario Balotelli headed Italy into a second-half lead over England at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, Italians around the globe rejoiced. That included Alessandro "Alex" Maestri, an Italian relief pitcher for the Orix Buffaloes who was watching in Osaka and had a game to suit up for later in the day....
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 18, 2014

SoftBank unveils Android-like OS for robots

Billionaire Masayoshi Son wants to create Android for robots.
COMMENTARY
Jun 18, 2014

China's mixed messages to Taiwan, Hong Kong

China has released a document that fundamentally alters the meaning of its promise of 'one country, two systems' to both Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Reader Mail
Jun 18, 2014

Hashimoto owes liberty to Allies

Regarding the June 17 article "Hashimoto says WWII Allies set up 'comfort stations' after soldiers committed D-Day rapes": How dare that buffoon Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto insult the Allied soldiers who fought at D-Day!
Reader Mail
Jun 18, 2014

Sign of Egypt's new beginnings

Last July 17, The Japan Times published a balanced editorial, "When a coup is not a coup?," highlighting reasons behind Egypt's popular revolution on June 30, 2013, against the Muslim Brothers' radicalism and despotic attempts to send Egypt back to the Middle Ages. However, last week's editorial "Egypt's...
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 17, 2014

Abe team presents draft statement on collective self-defense

The Abe administration has tabled a draft statement that could allow Japan to effectively exercise the right to collective self-defense, but the ruling coalition remains divided.
BUSINESS
Jun 17, 2014

GPIF will make investor code work: Fidelity

While broad support from money managers is nice, the backing of Japan's biggest pension fund for new investor guidelines is the reason they will succeed, according to Fidelity Worldwide Investment.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB / MAN ABOUT SPORTS
Jun 17, 2014

McGehee continuing to benefit from playing in Japan

In baseball parlance, feared Miami Marlins slugger Giancarlo Stanton is a beast.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jun 17, 2014

Japan won't let 'Frozen' go

At first blush, the Japanese success of the animated film "Frozen" seems easy to explain. In a country where people pack Tokyo Disneyland on weekdays, of course a new princess-centric cartoon from Disney would succeed, but "Frozen" has been a phenomenon all its own. It's on pace to be the second-highest-grossing...
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 17, 2014

A window of opportunity opens for Iraq's Kurds

If the Kurds of Iraq play their cards right, they could end up with the borders they want, fully recognized by a government in Baghdad that has been saved from ISIS fanatics by Kurdish troops.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 16, 2014

More not always better when it comes to child care, CEO warns

The revamped version of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's growth strategy will likely call on companies and state entities to insert more women into senior positions and aim to improve public child care support to shore up Japan's shrinking workforce.
JAPAN
Jun 16, 2014

Kyoto textile maker to increase classes for foreigners

A leading artisan textile maker that offers training courses in English is expanding its classes to meet demand from students overseas.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 16, 2014

Urge to declare a quick win threatens security

The American urge to declare victory when nobody has won, to divide factions into fast friends and evil enemies, to ground complex decisions into simple, overriding principles rather than complex trade-offs poses a security risk.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Jun 16, 2014

Harassers exploit Gaba's 'man-to-man' lesson format

The first sign that Olivia's Gaba lesson would be anything but ordinary came when her student insisted during the warmup that he didn't like wearing clothes.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 15, 2014

Ambitious Japanese fans deflated by Samurai Blue’s first-match loss in World Cup

Japanese soccer fans fall into a funk after the national team loses its first World Cup match, including nearly 12,000 who watched the game at a Yokohama stadium.
Japan Times
JAPAN / FUKUSHIMA FILE
Jun 15, 2014

Fukushima hotline gets record calls

A suicide-prevention hotline in Fukushima Prefecture received a record 18,194 calls in 2013, signaling that scars from the events of March 2011 still weigh heavily on residents' minds.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language
Jun 15, 2014

True confessions of a bijogā (beautiful jogger)

This is the story of a 39-year-old female runner who works in advertising and runs six times a week.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 15, 2014

Giving a resolute pro-India neighbor its due

It's an indication of the ham-handed manner in which Indian foreign policy is managed that even relations with Bhutan have seemed troubled in the past few years.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Jun 15, 2014

Oh, the places we'll go in 2020 — unless, of course, we won't

In 2020 the Tokyo Olympics will be here! And all our troubles will be gone. Unless, of course, they won't. Because, sometimes, they don't.
BUSINESS / Economy
Jun 14, 2014

Noda says Abe buying into 'voodoo economics'

Sour grapes are in season in Tokyo as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's predecessor steps up and slams the incumbent's tax plans.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 14, 2014

Chinese World Cup woes provoke self-doubt

China's long-suffering soccer fans keep looking for proxies at World Cup time, all the while grumbling under their breaths about the government's control-freak approach to choosing athletes for the national team and a lack of youth developmental leagues outside of the official system.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jun 14, 2014

China says it will never send military to oil rig spat with Vietnam

A Chinese official said on Friday that China will never send military forces to the scene of an increasingly ugly spat with Vietnam over an oil rig in the South China Sea and accused Hanoi of trying to force an international lawsuit.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Jun 14, 2014

Obama faces limited options, doubts over airstrikes in Iraq crisis

Two and a half years after President Barack Obama disentangled America from a long, unpopular war in Iraq, his options for helping the government in Baghdad stave off a militant onslaught are slim as doubts simmer over whether even punishing airstrikes would be effective.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Jun 13, 2014

Won't get fooled again? Fans and their money are soon parted

Some pop fans are more devoted, and more naive, than others

Longform

The building of new high-rise residential buildings has some alarmed that they could empty and fall into disrepair as Japan's population shrinks.
The high cost of letting Japan's condos crumble