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MIRAI

Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jan 24, 2018
'Midnight Bus': A trundling bus trip to boresville
Taizo Harada plays Toshikazu 'Riichi' Takamiya in Masao Takeshita's 'Midnight Bus,' a film that feels overlong and lacks emotional punch.
Japan Times
Figure Skating
Nov 11, 2017
Russians Evgenia Medvedeva and Sergei Voronov capture NHK Trophy titles
Two-time world champion Evgenia Medvedeva retained her lead after the short program despite a fall in the free skate to win the NHK Trophy on Saturday night. The elegant Russian qualified for next month's Grand Prix Final with the victory.
Japan Times
Figure Skating
Nov 10, 2017
Evgenia Medvedeva and Carolina Kostner finish 1-2 in NHK Trophy women's short program
Two-time world champion Evgenia Medvedeva grabbed the lead at the NHK Trophy with a score of 79.99 points in the short program on Friday night. The Russian was her usual sublime self while skating to "Nocturne," executing element after element nearly flawlessly.
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 18, 2017
Toyota targets 1,000-km driving range with fuel cell concept car
Toyota Motor Corp. is set to unveil a fuel cell concept car that aims to offer 50 percent more driving range than its current hydrogen-powered sedan in a technology push that defies a rising wave of battery-powered vehicles.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Feb 15, 2017
Toyota to recall all 2,800 Mirai hydrogen-fueled cars sold worldwide
Toyota Motor Corp. said on Wednesday it was recalling all of the roughly 2,800 zero-emission Mirai cars on the road due to problems with the output voltage generated by their fuel cell system.
Japan Times
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Jan 17, 2017
Hiwatashi aims for top-eight finish at U.S. nationals
Reigning American junior champion Tomoki Hiwatashi will compete in the senior U.S. nationals for the first time this week when he takes the ice at Kansas City's Sprint Center.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Dec 27, 2016
The waiting's over for stars of 'Billy Elliot'
Eleven years after he saw "Billy Elliot" in London's West End and was inspired to stage the musical in Japan with a Japanese cast, Yoshitaka Hori, president of leading production company Horipro Corp., could finally stand smiling at a Tokyo press conference called on Dec. 18 to introduce the four boy...
Japan Times
Figure Skating
Nov 25, 2016
Hanyu's dazzling brilliance radiates NHK Trophy
Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu vaulted into first place at the NHK Trophy on Friday night behind two booming quadruple jumps in the short program.
Japan Times
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Oct 4, 2016
Hanyu's quad loop adds to Japan's skating legacy
The golden age of Japanese skating is now in its 12th season and shows no signs of abating anytime soon.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 6, 2016
'Kampai!' raises a glass to sake education
For decades, sake (or nihonshu for the majority of Japanese) didn't really do it for the citizens of this archipelago. Cheap, ubiquitous and made from rice, it seemed too familiar — tacky even. Older people drank it at weddings, or swilled the stuff when they wanted to get uproariously drunk. Young...
Japan Times
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Jul 5, 2016
In surprise decision, Mao not entered in NHK Trophy this season
The 2016-17 skating season officially began with the recent release of the Grand Prix assignments for the new campaign. It didn't take long to find a big surprise in the listings.
Japan Times
Figure Skating
Mar 25, 2016
Nagasu added to U.S. team for worlds
Mirai Nagasu will represent the United States in the upcoming world championships in Boston, U.S. Figure Skating announced on Wednesday. Nagasu, the 2008 U.S. champion, will replace the injured Polina Edmunds.
Japan Times
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Feb 23, 2016
Miyahara primed for a run at first world title
Before the recent Four Continents Championships in Taipei, Satoko Miyahara said she was "tired of finishing second at international events."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Dec 22, 2015
Plenty of food for thought in a good year for great plays
The year now ending began gloomily with the Charlie Hebdo murders in Paris reminding us of hopeless breakdowns in mutual understanding and tolerance worldwide; now it's set to close hot on the heels of an agreement by nearly 200 countries at the COP21 talks in Paris on the need to counter threatened...
Japan Times
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Nov 24, 2015
Hongo's shot at Grand Prix Final in doubt
Rika Hongo jeopardized her chance to make the Grand Prix Final for the second straight year after struggling through a poor free skate at the Cup of Russia in Moscow on Saturday.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Companies
Oct 27, 2015
Futuristic hydrogen cars come with a curfew — for now
Hiroshi Matsushita brims with pride about the staring and pointing that goes along with driving his dream car, Toyota's hydrogen-powered Mirai fuel cell sedan. There's just one problem: his new set of wheels came with a curfew.
Japan Times
Figure Skating / ICE TIME
Mar 22, 2015
Hanyu strives for second straight world title
Yuzuru Hanyu will attempt to become the first Japanese to win consecutive world titles this week after a most unusual past few months. The Olympic champion has been training without coach Brian Orser since the Japan nationals in December.
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.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
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.

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