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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jan 24, 2013
Mountain retreat hosts a bevy of outdoor ice sculptures through January
Visitors have the chance to see dozens of ice sculptures created by artists from across Japan at the ninth "Rokkosan Kori no Saiten" ("Mount Rokko Ice Festival") being held at Rokko Garden Terrace.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Jan 19, 2013
Signs of Kansai
At the end of lunch with an old friend, I point out yet another hole in my Swiss cheese knowledge of Japan.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Feb 15, 2012
Nets squandered chance to draft Kobe
Kobe Bryant's annual Garden variety visit last Friday triggered me to re-examine the draft of 1996. Many people have gone straight from high school to Hollywood and become overnight sensations . . . after countless years of dejection and rejection. Kobe actually morphed into a Lakers' legend almost on...
Reader Mail
Aug 21, 2011
The real power when Edo opened
In his July 31 Timeout article, "Most unlikely bedfellows" — on the beginning of U.S.-Japan relations — writer Michael Hoffman made a number of assertions that might have either confused or misled readers.
Japan Times
LIFE
Apr 10, 2011
Awaji Island quake museum offers shocks and survivors
At age 79, Yoshiko Negita's mind is alert and her memory is laser-sharp. There is, too, a sense of urgency in her voice as this resident of Awaji Island in the Seto Inland Sea speaks to visitors at its Hokudan Earthquake Memorial Park. There, preserved at an experiential museum, is an exposed section...
BASKETBALL
Jan 21, 2011
Rera Kamuy coach Bryant fired
Head coach Joe Bryant of the cash-strapped Rera Kamuy Hokkaido has been fired, a Japan Basketball League official said on Thursday.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jan 12, 2011
Kobe Bryant speaks out about his condition, Lakers
NEW YORK — Kobe Bryant "does phone interviews about as often as Osama bin Laden strolls through Central Park," John Black, Lakers VP of public relations, responded by e-mail to my request for an interview. "But I will ask him if he wants to call you."
BASKETBALL
May 12, 2010
Bryant named Rera Kamuy coach
It's official: Joe Bryant will be Rera Kamuy Hokkaido's new head coach, the Japan Basketball League team announced on Tuesday.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Apr 21, 2010
Rera Kamuy close to deal with Kobe Bryant
Joe Bryant is poised for a return to Japan.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Dec 23, 2009
Kobe's winner continues L.A. hex on Bucks
NEW YORK — The date was Jan. 9, 1972.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Aug 5, 2009
Time for Apache to do right thing with Joe Bryant
It's been 2 1/2 months since the Ryukyu Golden Kings defeated the Tokyo Apache in the bj-league championship game.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jun 10, 2009
Kobe Bryant's virtuoso performance off the charts
LOS ANGELES — When Kobe plays as he did in Game 1 of the NBA Finals he may as well be in a vacant gym at midnight with the lights off throwing uncontrollable moves on operatic phantoms. Every other possession was so perversely pure he had the Magic wandering aimlessly around Bryant Park.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
May 15, 2009
Kobe Bryant says series should decide title
A veteran coach, a voice of reason, a passionate advocate for a better and stronger bj-league, Tokyo Apache floor boss Joe Bryant has plenty of suggestions on how to improve the hoop circuit in the future.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Apr 22, 2009
Time is right for a LeBron-Kobe showdown
NEW YORK — Last season the NBA and its fans got what they sold their souls for, a showdown between the Celtics and Lakers . . . the league's two most venerated and decorated franchises.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Apr 19, 2008
Kobe Bryant has Apache poised for title run
Joe Bryant and his famous son, Kobe, have made remarkable turnarounds with their respective basketball teams.
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Feb 11, 2008
Joe Bryant knows player comparisons serve as strong motivational tool
They call him "Jellybean," which happens to be one of the best nicknames in all of professional sports.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Nov 2, 2007
Pistons in position to deal for Kobe
NEW YORK — Since the NBA last played games that counted, we've had a rogue referee plead guilty, an oafish organization found guilty and the league's principal point producer/insubordinate is within a hair ball of leveraging himself off the Lakers' lot.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jun 20, 2007
Bryant not a good fit for rising Bulls
NEW YORK — For those still engrossed in the Spurs-Cavaliers series, Kobe Bryant met Friday in Barcelona, Spain, with Lakers owner Jerry Buss and demanded to be traded. More or less — depending on which interview of the glut he did with U.S. journalists we accept as true — Kobe's request reinforces...
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Mar 28, 2007
Joe Bryant says conditioning key for Kobe
Kobe Bryant has never been in better shape, and he's never played a better stretch of basketball than he has during the Los Angeles Lakers' current five-game winning streak.
Reader Mail
Feb 25, 2007
Freedom to dislike anything
Regarding the Feb. 17 article "NBA sanctions ex-star Hardaway following anti-gay tirade": The recent trouble that American basketball player Hardaway has found himself in gives us lots to consider. First, since when does a single sentence ("I hate gay people") amount to a "tirade"? By definition, a tirade...
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.
For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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