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Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Dec 14, 2015

Boy who pushed for hospital high school education passes away

An 18-year-old boy from Kasugai, Aichi Prefecture, who had called for hospital schooling for sick high school students and helped establish a teacher dispatch system, passed away last month.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Dec 13, 2015

Iron man Tsutsugo still going strong in December

Yoshitomo Tsutsugo has been very busy this year.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 12, 2015

North Korean pop band formed by Kim Jong Un cancels Beijing concert, leaves for home

An all-female North Korean pop band formed by leader Kim Jong Un abruptly cancelled a Beijing concert on Saturday and headed back home to Pyongyang, Chinese media and the concert venue said.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Dec 12, 2015

Why infrastructure repairs are being ignored

Several days after a storm caused the Kinugawa River to overflow its banks and destroy communities in Ibaraki Prefecture in September, the infrastructure ministry held on-site meetings to look into what went wrong.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Dec 12, 2015

Can upgraded home stadiums give boost to BayStars, Eagles?

Going from worst to first — last place to a pennant — is difficult for any professional baseball team. The Tokyo Yakult Swallows managed to do it this past season in the Central League, and the two clubs that finished at the bottom of the league standings in 2015 are hoping to rise to the top during...
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 11, 2015

Secrets law, one year later

The controversial state secret law that took effect last year has already had a chilling effect on the media: no one is even talking about it anymore.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 11, 2015

Investors need to get real about climate change

The threat to food and migration will wreak havoc with economic trends, stock values and interest rates.
BUSINESS
Dec 11, 2015

Hedge fund founder says Abe's activist army 'doing it wrong'

Jamie Rosenwald, who's been buying Japanese shares since 1972, says short-sighted activists are failing to make the most of one of the biggest opportunities for investors in decades.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 11, 2015

Wife linked to California massacre tried to contact wary jihad groups; lake near attack combed

Dive teams from the FBI and sheriff's department searched a small lake in San Bernardino, California, on Thursday as part of the investigation of last week's massacre of 14 people at a nearby county office center, a law enforcement source said.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Dec 10, 2015

Sanfrecce off to winning start at Club World Cup

Yusuke Minagawa and Tsukasa Shiotani scored either side of halftime as J. League champions Sanfrecce Hiroshima beat New Zealand part-timers Auckland City 2-0 on Thursday to kick off the Club World Cup.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 9, 2015

Abe's dubious 'new arrows'

Abenomics has shifted from economic growth driven by the private sector to relying on government spending, and is even moving toward state capitalism.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Dec 9, 2015

France's shift to the right bypasses Sarkozy's new party

This was going to be the landslide win that set Nicolas Sarkozy on a fast-track to regaining the French presidency in 2017. Or at least that was his plan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Dec 9, 2015

Predictable pattern: As U.S. gun sales shoot up after California carnage, makers' shares spike

Shares of U.S. gun makers have surged in the wake of the massacre of 14 people in California last week, following a pattern that has grown more common in recent years when high-profile mass shootings have spurred firearms sales as well as calls for gun control measures.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 8, 2015

Gene-drive technology carries promise, peril

Most powerful new technologies are double-edged, but gene drives can change or even wipe out entire species.
BUSINESS
Dec 8, 2015

BOJ dooms credit analysts as foreign banks let Tokyo posts lapse

Foreign brokerages are leaving credit analyst positions in Tokyo unfilled as record central bank bond-buying stimulus makes it hard for them to make profits.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Dec 8, 2015

Once a fixture, climate skeptics say they are being stifled at Paris summit

To be a climate change skeptic in Paris this week means facing heavy odds.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 7, 2015

Investigators believe California shooters planned many attacks, probe if wife radicalized spouse

U.S. investigators are increasingly convinced the California shooters planned multiple attacks, given their stockpile of weapons, and are looking at whether the Pakistani woman involved radicalized her American husband, officials said on Sunday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Dec 6, 2015

Gesu tapped into the 2015 'band boom'

"No one else but me is me," sings Gesu no Kiwami Otome.'s vocalist Enon Kawatani on the group's second single, "Watashi Igai Watashi Janai No." Released in April, this funky pop song with its straightforward, existential catchphrase delivered in Kawatani's trademark falsetto voice has seemingly struck...
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 6, 2015

Islamic State claims California killers as followers

The Islamic State group said on Saturday that the married couple who killed 14 people in a mass shooting in Southern California were its followers, and FBI agents raided a home apparently belonging to a friend of the husband.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT
Dec 5, 2015

Alien invasion: Vexatious foreign species are increasingly taking up residence in Japan

Shibuya has a rat problem.
Possibility of Nankai Trough megaquake now 80%, government panel reports
A map of the hypocentral region of an anticipated Nankai Trough earthquake
Crashed Jeju jet’s black box failure shows decadeslong gap in power rules
The flight data recorder retrieved from Jeju Air flight 2216, which crashed killing 179 people in December. Black boxes holding the flight data and cockpit voice recorders for the flight stopped recording four minutes before the disaster, South Korea's transport ministry said Saturday.
Atsuyoshi Koike’s big game: Fourth down and 2 nanometers to go
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.
Tokyo police arrest dentists and others over ¥20 million medical fraud
According to Tokyo police, a group of seven people, including dentists, submitted falsified claims in June 2023 for the treatment of 62 foreign students and technical trainees from Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka, fraudulently obtaining around ¥2.87 million ($18,500) in medical fees.
30th anniversary of Hanshin quake marked with desire to pass on lessons
Children pray for the victims of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake during an early morning ceremony to mark the 30th anniversary of the quake, in Kobe on Friday.
The efforts to bridge the disaster information gap, 30 years on
Roxana Oshiro and her husband gather their belongings in front of their house in Furukawacho, in Kobe's Suma Ward, after the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995.
Japan looks to up the ante with more money and partners in military aid program
Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and Philippine Foreign Minister Enrique Manalo hold a joint news conference in Taguig City, Metro Manila, the Philippines, on Wednesday.
Possibility of Nankai Trough megaquake now 80%, government panel reports
A map of the hypocentral region of an anticipated Nankai Trough earthquake
With new regional party, Shinji Ishimaru touts rebirth
Shinji Ishimaru announces details of his new regional party at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Nippon Steel’s case against Biden probably unwinnable, attorneys argue
U.S. Steel’s Edgar Thomson Steel Works in Braddock, Pennsylvannia, in 2019. Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel face significant legal challenges in their case against the United States.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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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
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