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BASKETBALL / B. League
Jan 6, 2018
SeaHorses overpower Brave Thunders, await showdown with Jets in Emperor's Cup final
The SeaHorses Mikawa took advantage of their depth and ferocious inside power to return to the Emperor's Cup final for the first time in two years.
Japan Times
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Jan 6, 2018
Abe On Ice
EDITORIALS
Jan 6, 2018
Economic relations with China
There are signs that economic cooperation between China and Japan, stagnant for the past several years, is being revived.
EDITORIALS
Jan 5, 2018
'Comfort women' deal should be honored by Seoul
The South Korean government should carefully weigh the potential damage that seeking to rework the agreement would have on diplomatic relations with Japan.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Jan 5, 2018
As people in Japan smoke less, Japan Tobacco's new CEO looks abroad for growth
Japan Tobacco Inc.'s Masamichi Terabatake is in the hot seat.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 5, 2018
Terrorism link not seen in Japanese man's fatal street stabbing in Ireland allegedly by Egyptian teen
There is no evidence that the fatal stabbing of a Japanese man in a series of random and unprovoked attacks in the northeastern Irish town of Dundalk this week was related to terrorism, police said on Thursday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 5, 2018
2017 was second-hottest year on record, after sizzling 2016, but had its share of wildfires, Arctic thaw
Last year was the second-hottest worldwide on record, just behind a sweltering 2016, with signs of climate change ranging from wildfires to a thaw of Arctic ice, a European Union monitoring center said on Thursday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Jan 4, 2018
Don't renegotiate 'comfort women' deal
Renegotiation efforts, no matter how well-intentioned, would undermine the agreement of 2015, with no guarantee of success and much risk of failure.
BUSINESS
Jan 4, 2018
Britain looks to join Pacific trade deal after Brexit: Financial Times
The United Kingdom is interested in joining the latest version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade bloc after it leaves the European Union, the Financial Times newspaper said.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jan 3, 2018
U.S. warns Pyongyang against new missile test and plays down Kim-proposed talks with Seoul
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, warned North Korea on Tuesday against staging another missile test and said Washington would not take any talks between North and South Korea seriously if they did not do something to get Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jan 2, 2018
The zero hour of Kobe's avant-garde
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art's present draw card is the Saint Petersburg collection, "Old Masters from the State Hermitage Museum." But on a lower level, at the far end of a long corridor gallery, are photos and grainy videos — the small-scale documentation of one of Japan's little-known postwar...
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / Japan
Dec 31, 2017
Japan in 2018 — 10 possible surprises
Here are some far-out predictions that, if they come true, would be truly earthshaking. Enjoy, and best wishes for a successful and happy 2018.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health
Dec 31, 2017
Riken-backed group targets hair changes as new way to gauge human health
A group including state-affiliated research institute Riken has started a joint study to develop technology to analyze human health based on changes in people's hair shape and components.
Japan researchers develop a simple way to spot signs of Alzheimer's disease
In 2022, the number of elderly people with dementia in Japan reached 4.43 million, according to data from the health ministry.
Japan to overhaul tax exemption system for foreign visitors
The Ginza shopping district in Tokyo in August
Two dead after fire at Upper House lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi’s apartment
A fire broke out on the sixth floor of an apartment building where Upper House lawmaker Kuniko Inoguchi resides on Wednesday in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward.
Real-life ‘Tokyo Swindlers’ ordered to pay ¥1 billion in damages
High-rise buildings in Tokyo. Through faking documents and passports a criminal group conspired to pose as the owner of a real-estate plot and buildings in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward in 2017, defrauding Sekisui House of ¥5.5 billion.
Real estate worth ¥25 trillion puts Japan companies in spotlight
Elliott Investment Management's stake in Tokyo Gas is centered around getting the utility to sell off its real estate holdings, including Shinjuku Park Tower, which houses the Park Hyatt Hotel Tokyo.
Hiroshi Kurosaki looks beyond Japan for heart-wrenching drama
Hiroshi Kurosaki’s Netflix series “Beyond Goodbye” centers on a woman (Kasumi Arimura, left) who discovers her dead lover’s heart saved the life of a quiet pianist (Kentaro Sakaguchi).
Japan researchers develop a simple way to spot signs of Alzheimer's disease
In 2022, the number of elderly people with dementia in Japan reached 4.43 million, according to data from the health ministry.
‘What Divides Us’ producer honors grandfather’s Hiroshima reportage
“What Divides Us" producer Cannon Hersey says his grandfather, who wrote about the aftermath of nuclear destruction in Hiroshima, never spoke about what he had seen while working with Japanese minister Kiyoshi Tanimoto to preserve the stories of survivors.
DPP’s Tamaki leverages new position with energy proposal
DPP leader Yuichiro Tamaki in Tokyo on Tuesday
Bluesky is booming in Japan — mainly for reasons other than U.S. politics
According to Similarweb, average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October.

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