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MIKIKO ANDO

OLYMPICS
Jul 28, 2021
An injury almost ended Mikiko Ando's Olympics before they began. Now she's a bronze medalist.
Ando had severely hurt her knee when she dropped a 120-kg barbell just three weeks before the Tokyo Olympics.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS
Jul 27, 2021
Japan's Mikiko Ando takes bronze in women's weightlifting
Andoh finished behind Taiwan's Kuo Hsing-Chun, who won the gold medal in the women's 59-kg weightlifting event at the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Nov 13, 2007
Joy of learning marked down
A panel of the Central Education Council, which advises the education minister, has compiled an interim report that urges more class hours for core subjects in elementary and junior high schools — the first such move in 30 years. The proposal would be carried out as early as in 2011 as courses of study...
EDITORIALS
Oct 28, 2007
A fresh defense scandal
The credibility of the nation's defense administration is at stake in the wake of a fresh scandal embroiling a former top bureaucrat of the Defense Ministry and a defense contractor. We welcome the nonpartisan decision, reached at a Lower House select committee last week, to summon former administrative...
EDITORIALS
Sep 22, 2007
Aiming for the moon
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) launched the "Kaguya" (Shining Princess) lunar exploration probe Sept. 14. It is now on its way to the moon, 380,000 km away. Kaguya marks the biggest moon mission since the 1969-72 U.S. Apollo flights. It is hoped that the probe, launched by an H-IIA rocket,...

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Visitors to Kyoto walk along a street near Kiyomizu Temple in April. A popular tourist spot, Kyoto has seen what locals feel to be an overwhelming amount of tourists in 2024.
Is Japan ready for 60 million tourists?