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MIYAZAKI

JAPAN
Oct 28, 2015
Two dead, five injured as car hits pedestrians in Miyazaki
A car ran into pedestrians in downtown Miyazaki on Wednesday afternoon, killing two women and injuring five other people, including the driver, police said.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Oct 28, 2015
Meeting the challenge: Japan's premium beef industry assesses its future
The price of Japanese calves is rising, with demand soaring on the back of the shrinking ranks of domestic cattle breeders.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 25, 2015
Miyazaki city turns to French flair in a bid to attract new residents
A city suffering from population decline has attracted nationwide attention through its promotion video, which has had over a million views on YouTube.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 1, 2015
Famed animator plans children's nature retreat in Okinawa isle forest
Famed animated film director Hayao Miyazaki is working to build a children's facility in a virgin forest on a small island in Okinawa Prefecture to encourage kids to enjoy nature through their five senses.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
Aug 26, 2015
Will another Miyazaki save Japanese cinema from Hollywood?
In the 1990s, when I was reporting on the Japanese film business for a British trade magazine, big-budget Hollywood movies with splashy special effects dominated the local box office. And the industry consensus was that resistance — in the form of made-in-Japan effects extravaganzas — was...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / Wide Angle
Jul 15, 2015
Hayao Miyazaki cleans up Japan
Rich, famous, semi-retired people commonly take up good causes (based on whatever they define as "good"), but animation maestro Hayao Miyazaki does things differently.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jul 13, 2015
Famed director Miyazaki calls Abe's move to revise Constitution 'despicable'
Famed director Hayao Miyazaki made a rare public appearance Monday in Tokyo, but the one-hour news conference may not have satisfied fans of his magical animation: The subject wasn't movies but politics.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Jun 22, 2015
Two former heads of legislation bureau blast security bills
In a blow to Abe's security reform bills, two former heads of the government bureau responsible for interpreting the pacifist Constitution criticize the proposed legislation — with one slamming them as unconstitutional.
Japan Times
JAPAN
May 8, 2015
Fund set up to fight Futenma plan adds director Miyazaki to leadership
Famed animation director Hayao Miyazaki will help lead a fund set up to oppose the relocation of a U.S. military base in Okinawa Prefecture, a source close to the fund said Friday.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink
Apr 23, 2015
Celebrity chef event serves up food for thought
If you want to take a course in shokuiku (dietary education), then why not learn from some of the best?
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Apr 13, 2015
Miyazaki mangoes fetch ¥300,000 in season's first auction
A brand-name pair of mangoes from Miyazaki Prefecture was auctioned off for ¥300,000 ($2,495) on Monday at a wholesale market in the prefectural capital, matching last year's record high.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 27, 2015
Fukuoka High Court doubts constitutionality of 2014 snap election
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Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 10, 2015
Miyazaki's controversial Peace Tower continues to cause unease
A monument in the city of Miyazaki built to glorify Imperial Japan's occupation of Asian nations and later rededicated as the city's Peace Tower has been a source of local discomfort for decades.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Feb 1, 2015
Desperately seeking people from the past
A selection of inquiries from people eager to make contact with long-lost friends or family members in Japan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Entertainment news
Jan 11, 2015
Architecture museum's Ghibli exhibition a major hit in Koganei
The Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum in western Tokyo is drawing big crowds with a special exhibition of unique buildings and structures that appear in Studio Ghibli's famous animated films.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 29, 2014
Miyazaki has another bird flu outbreak; prefectural, industry officials alarmed
The Miyazaki Prefectural Government had slaughtered 42,000 chickens on a farm in the city of Miyazaki by Monday morning after a genetic test of dead fowl confirmed the presence of a highly pathogenic bird flu virus.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Dec 22, 2014
Miyazaki governor re-elected to second term
Miyazaki Gov. Shunji Kono was re-elected Sunday, beating a former Lower House member and another challenger.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Dec 17, 2014
Disney's 'Big Hero 6' reassembles Japan without the 'cultural cringe'
So we've all heard that it's hard to be a woman in Japan, but being a Japanese geek comes with its own troubles. For some, it's a life lived in front of glowing screens, a dateless existence spent in a six-mat tatami room with posters of idol group AKB48 plastered on the walls. But here's Disney's "Big...
JAPAN / Science & Health
Dec 16, 2014
Miyazaki poultry farmers dismayed by latest bird flu case
The news that bird flu was detected at a chicken farm in Nobeoka, Miyazaki Prefecture, has rekindled farm owners' bitter memories of an outbreak four years ago that resulted in more than 1 million birds being culled.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 25, 2014
Miyazaki eatery only serves prefecture's namesake beef
The Phoenix Seagaia Resort complex in the city of Miyazaki has opened a restaurant that serves beef from Miyazaki Prefecture exclusively.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
‘Crazy’ yen rally is at risk of shattering as soon as Wednesday
Some investors are warning that a yen rally is fragile, as was on show this week when the yen rapidly retraced an advance after Thursday’s stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth figures.
Japan's average life expectancy rises for first time in three years
A decline in COVID-19-caused deaths likely helped boost the average life expectancy for Japanese men and women to rise for the first time in three years in 2023.
The Japanese Olympians looking to shine in Paris
Rim Nakamura, who is attempting to win Japan's first Olympic gold medal in cycling, will be one of the top Japanese athletes to watch at the Paris Games.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

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