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Feb 19, 2014

2014 Sochi Olympics men’s curling team norway

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Feb 19, 2014

2014 Sochi Olympics men's biathlon 15-km mass start

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Feb 18, 2014

2014 Sochi Olympics ice dancing free dance

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Feb 18, 2014

2014 Sochi Olympics women's 12.5 km mass start biathlon

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Feb 18, 2014

2014 Sochi Olympics men’s figure skating final

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Feb 18, 2014

2014 Sochi Olympics men's aerials

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OLYMPICS / ICE TIME
Feb 18, 2014

Mao's path to gold difficult, but not impossible

Mao Asada returned to practice here on Sunday following several days of training in Yerevan, Armenia. Mao trained for 40 minutes at the Iceberg Skating Palace along with teammates Akiko Suzuki, Kanako Murakami and three other skaters.
WORLD
Feb 18, 2014

Ethiopian Air hijacker claims he was seeking asylum in Switzerland

An Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise aircraft flying to Rome was hijacked by the co-pilot and made a forced landing in Geneva, where police arrested the man before freeing all passengers and remaining crew.
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BUSINESS
Feb 17, 2014

Westin feels it's perfectly positioned to pamper, keep ahead of rivals

The Westin Tokyo is currently enjoying brisk sales and expects business to continue to thrive as consumers presently have a propensity to spend money on luxurious food and accommodations, the hotel's general manager said recently.
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Feb 17, 2014

2014 Sochi Olympics ice dancing short dance

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Feb 17, 2014

2014 Sochi Olympics individual ski jumping large hill

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Feb 17, 2014

2014 Sochi Olympics pairs figure skating

LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Feb 16, 2014

Nante kanshin-na ojōsan-nano!

Today we will introduce the usage of the two nouns that are homonyms but are written with different kanji, u304bu3093u3057u3093uff08u611fu5fc3uff09and u304bu3093u3057u3093uff08u95a2u5fc3uff09, and their related expressions.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Feb 15, 2014

Tips for purchasing tickets at Japanese ballparks this season

It will cost a little more this season for tickets to Japanese professional baseball games, like everything else in Japan. Because of the rise in the consumption tax rate from 5 to 8 percent effective April 1, most teams are increasing ticket costs by¥100 or ¥200 across the board from 2013 prices....
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JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Feb 15, 2014

Samuragochi scandal shows that tin-eared classical music fans can be suckers for stories

What makes Mamoru Samuragochi's story interesting is not that he got away with his subterfuge for so long, but that the media, the public and even professional musicians accepted the story as being proof of his value as an artist.
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Feb 14, 2014

2014 Sochi Olympics men's short program figure skating

BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Feb 13, 2014

Perpetual problems plague Japan Basketball Association

Intermittent hullabaloo by the Japan Basketball Association's big wigs about "big plans" for the future of men's basketball generally produces one thing: a collective yawn by those who analyze such things.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 13, 2014

Watabe nabs silver in Nordic combined normal hill event

Akito Watabe captured the silver medal in the Nordic combined men's normal hill event on Wednesday with a strong effort in the 10-km cross country race.
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Feb 13, 2014

2014 Sochi Olympics Nordic combined normal hill

EDITORIALS
Feb 12, 2014

Abe's Russia initiative

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should realize that his revisionist perception of Japan's war in the 1930s and '40s is putting Japan in a weak position diplomatically, especially with regard to its negotiations with Russia to resolve a northern territorial issue.
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Feb 12, 2014

2014 Sochi Olympics men’s moguls

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