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Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League
Mar 4, 2017
Kagoshima team in cash crisis
The Kagoshima Rebnise have been behind schedule on salary payments to players and team staff for the entire season, The Japan Times has learned.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League / B. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Nov 24, 2016
Sunrockers still a work in progress under new coach Toews
Naturally, a 60-game season, starting in September and ending in May, doesn't involve the same preparations as a five-day tournament.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Aug 9, 2016
Hagino struggles in 200m freestyle final, places seventh
Kosuke Hagino saw his bid for domination in the Rio Olympic pool grind to an abrupt halt when he finished seventh in the 200-meter freestyle final on Monday night.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 14, 2015
'John Wick' lets Keanu Reeves out of 'The Matrix'
In a recent interview with The New York Times, Trevor Noah, the new host of Comedy Central's "The Daily Show," compared his surprise appointment to the casting of "The Matrix." Though the fact has now been consigned to an obscure bit of movie lore, the role of Neo — the po-faced hero so memorably played...
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 30, 2015
Suspected Boko Haram suicide blasts during police raid in Chad capital kills 11
Suspected Boko Haram fighters blew themselves up during a police raid in Chad's capital early on Monday, killing five officers and six militants, police and government officials said.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 7, 2015
Nigerians recount deaths from lack of food, water while fleeing Lake Chad in Niger
Some of thousands of Nigerians told to leave neighboring Niger in the past week due to threats from Boko Haram militants have died en route from lack of food and water, evacuees said.
WORLD
Apr 23, 2015
Government forces invade Nigeria's Sambisa Forest, last known stronghold of Boko Haram
Nigerian forces backed by warplanes invaded Islamist group Boko Haram's last known stronghold, the Sambisa Forest, on Wednesday, in an effort to finally defeat their six-year-old insurgency, two military sources said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 31, 2015
Niger, Chad forces attack Boko Haram positions on Lake Chad
Niger and Chad attacked Boko Haram militants on Monday on islands on Lake Chad that the Islamists have used as a safe haven, military sources in Niger said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 23, 2015
Chadian helicopters bomb Boko Haram on Nigeria-Niger border
Two Chadian army helicopters bombed Nigerian Boko Haram positions on Sunday, killing several dozen militants near a village on the border with Niger, a senior Niger military official told Reuters.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 13, 2015
Chad troops fighting Boko Haram redeploy to Cameroon, signaling possible new push
Much of the Chadian force fighting Boko Haram in Nigeria has withdrawn to Cameroon and is deploying farther south, Chadian soldiers and a Cameroonian military official said on Thursday, signaling the potential start of a new offensive.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 25, 2015
Twin suicide blasts kill 26 in northern Nigeria
Suicide bombers struck two bus stations in different parts of northern Nigeria on Tuesday, killing at least 26 people in attacks President Goodluck Jonathan blamed on Boko Haram, the Islamist militant group he said would soon be defeated.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 22, 2015
Nigerian military announces recapture of Baga from Boko Haram militants
Nigerian forces backed by airstrikes seized the northeastern border town of Baga from Islamist group Boko Haram on Saturday, the military said, a significant victory in an offensive against an insurgency affecting four African states.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 19, 2015
Suspected Boko Haram fighters kidnap around 80 in Cameroon
Suspected Boko Haram Islamist fighters from Nigeria kidnapped around 80 people, many of them children, and killed three others on Sunday in a cross-border attack on villages in northern Cameroon, army and government officials said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 17, 2014
Boko Haram waging total war on Nigeria, senate president says
Nigeria's Islamist militant group Boko Haram has declared "total war" on the West African country and the situation "must be handled with all the seriousness it deserves," Senate President David Mark said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Aug 22, 2014
Africa tightens Ebola travel curbs as affected countries face food shortages
African countries tightened travel curbs on Thursday in an effort to contain the Ebola outbreak, ignoring World Health Organization warnings that such measures could heighten shortages of food and basic supplies in affected areas.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 26, 2014
Facing death at the Earth's highest reaches
Peter Hillary was born in 1954, one year after his father, Sir Edmund Hillary, and Nepalese sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first men in history to stand on the summit of Mount Everest.
Taiwan stuns Samurai Japan to capture Premier12 title
Japan starter Shosei Togo reacts after allowing a three-run home run against Taiwan in the fifth inning of the Premier12 final on Sunday.
Ishiba shelves proposal for liaison offices with North Korea amid rising tensions
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks on Saturday in Tokyo at a rally that was held by a group of families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago to demand the immediate return of all abductees.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
Japan beats Taiwan ahead of rematch in Premier12 final
Keita Sano celebrates with his teammates after scoring on Kotaro Kiyomiya's two-run triple against Taiwan during their Premier12 game at Tokyo Dome on Saturday.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.
An iconic 32-foot doughnut might give Randy’s an edge in Japan
Randy's Donuts in Inglewood, California. Replicas of the giant doughnut sculpture will be installed, where possible, at shops in Japan.
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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