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BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Aug 5, 2013

Balentien, Ogawa keep Swallows in spotlight

There normally wouldn't be many reasons to keep close tabs on a 35-57-1 team that's 22½ games out of first place.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 5, 2013

Putin may be the only winner in Snowden affair

President Barack Obama's handling of the Snowden affair shows that the logic of security overrides that of civil rights. For a Nobel Peace Prize winner, that's disappointing.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / JUST BE CAUSE
Aug 5, 2013

Ol' blue eyes isn't back: Tsurunen's tale offers lessons in microcosm for DPJ

Spare a thought for Marutei Tsurunen, Japan's first European-born naturalized immigrant parliamentarian, who was voted out in last month's House of Councilors election.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 5, 2013

End of China's exuberance

Chinese authorities' acceptance so far of a slowdown in economic growth is a good sign of investment opportunities ahead that were absent in the more exuberant past.
BUSINESS / Tech
Aug 5, 2013

Businesses face switch as Windows XP wanes

Fire up a desktop computer at many small or medium-size businesses, and there is a decent chance it is running on a 12-year-old operating system: Windows XP.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Aug 4, 2013

Fighters pitcher Wolfe not ready to give up on season

Brian Wolfe's confidence is not shaken.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2013

The new cultural counter-revolution in China

The Chinese Communist Party's promotion these days of Confucianism and Western classical music illustrates the profound transformation this country has made again.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2013

The real mission for Pope Francis

Pope Francis has yet to initiate a conversation on where the Catholic Church might end up if organizational reforms and attitudinal concessions are carried out.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2013

Can Egypt's past spur respect for plurality now?

One must hope that Egypt's experience of recent decades will induce a broad range of Egyptians to seek an answer based on respect for a plurality of ideas today.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 4, 2013

Inside the mind of Deng's intellectual successor

A new book at last puts Zhu Rongji, Shanghai's former mayor and the economic intellectual successor to the late Deng Xiaoping, into the pantheon of Chinese giants.
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MULTIMEDIA
Aug 4, 2013

Edogawa-ku Fireworks 2013

Over 14,000 fireworks were set off Aug. 3 near Ichikawa Station, Chiba, for the annual Edogawa-ku Fireworks. Here are but a few of the "fire blossoms" that had the crowd oohing and aahing.
BASKETBALL
Aug 3, 2013

Center Davis decides to remain with Shimane

Big man Jeral Davis, who led the bj-league in blocked shots in each of the past three seasons, recently finalized a deal to return to the Shimane Susanoo Magic for the upcoming season, the team has announced.
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CULTURE / Books
Aug 3, 2013

The messy, chaotic real life of artists

A couple of years ago, the New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm, who knows enough about journalism to hardly ever give interviews herself, spoke to Katie Roiphe for the Paris Review. Except that she didn't actually speak to her — or at least, not while Roiphe's tape recorder was rolling.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Aug 3, 2013

Closet traditionalists still populate a supposedly single moms' world

Every day some 370,000 babies are born worldwide. Of those born on July 22, 2013, 369,999 went unnoticed outside their immediate circles. The exception was a royal prince, third in line to the British throne. His first photos show him blissfully unaware of the vast excitement he was causing. He'll come...
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CULTURE / Books
Aug 3, 2013

Story of the modern Bonnie and Clyde

Like all the best fabled morality tales this one begins in a walk-in wardrobe. The wardrobe belongs to Paris Hilton and the interlopers into that strange fantasy land are a pair of bored high school dropouts who have wandered here in search of adventure (and free designer stuff).
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CULTURE / Books
Aug 3, 2013

Revealing the landscaped gems of North America

North America is not a land mass one immediately associates with gardens. China, Japan, Britain and France, perhaps, lay claim to the mind's strongest landscape associations.
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CULTURE / Books
Aug 3, 2013

Murderous disintegration of a marriage is all too believable in first and final novel

Jodi Brett is beautiful, rich and intelligent. A psychotherapist, she is also, as A.S.A. Harrison's debut opens, "deeply unaware that her life is now peaking ... that a few short months are all it will take to make a killer of her." Because her partner of 20 years, Todd Gilbert, never a faithful man,...
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CULTURE / Music
Aug 3, 2013

Chicago's young rappers find their voice in a violent city

Human tragedy has always been processed through song, and this summer it's happening most vividly in the city where America's blues turned electric.
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 2, 2013

Slow reactor restart process rattles energy markets as uranium piles up

Uranium prices are showing little sign of recovery after sinking to their lowest levels in more than seven years amid a glut of the radioactive metal and speculation Japan will delay restarting its reactors.
BASKETBALL
Aug 1, 2013

Qatar edges Japan in FIBA Asia opener

The Qatar men's national team outscored Japan 22-13 in the fourth quarter en route to a one-point victory in the teams' 27th FIBA Asia Championship opener on Thursday in Manila.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Aug 1, 2013

Take baby steps into theater

Before it learns how to speak, a baby responds to sounds by cooing, gurgling and changing his or her facial expression. Then it begins to babble and, eventually, the first "mama" or "dada" pops out to parental delight.
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JAPAN
Aug 1, 2013

Nation's troops long way from hitting the beaches: experts

Japan has taken an increasingly proactive role in defending its territory since the end of the Cold War allowed it to shift its defensive posture to address threats from North Korea and China as public memories of the war begin to fade.
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BUSINESS / Companies
Aug 1, 2013

Sony rides weak yen to beat profit estimates

Sony Corp., considering Daniel Loeb's push for a partial sale of its entertainment assets, said Thursday it posted first-quarter earnings that beat estimates after cutting costs, introducing new smartphones and benefiting from a weaker yen.
WORLD
Aug 1, 2013

Afghan civilian casualties soar 23%

The U.N. said Wednesday that 23 percent more Afghan civilians were killed or wounded in the first half of 2013 than during the same period last year, a finding that raises troubling questions about the Taliban's ability to terrorize Afghanistan as the U.S. military withdrawal quickens.
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MULTIMEDIA
Aug 1, 2013

[VIDEO] 2013 Shinjuku Eisa Festival

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CULTURE / Art
Jul 31, 2013

Big works buoyed by Dojima River's 'Little Water'

Standing in front of the largest work at the Dojima River Biennale, currently showing at the Dojima River Forum in Fukushima, Osaka, is a mesmerizing experience. A 10-meter-tall digital projection of an ethereal cascading waterfall, it glows mysteriously as its gentle rumbling permeates the dimly lit...

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