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Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Mar 11, 2017
2017 looks more like '1984' than 1984 ever did
Goerge Orwell's '1984' is a fitting best-seller for 2017, a year of 'post-truth,' 'fake news' and 'alternative facts.'
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Mar 11, 2017
Abe's revisionism nets own goals at home and away
What links Osaka, Seoul, Busan and Glendale, California? Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's championing of revisionist history.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / B. League
Mar 10, 2017
Brave Thunders hold off Hannaryz
Nick Fazekas finished with a double-double and balanced scoring helped lead the Kawasaki Brave Thunders to an 83-80 triumph over the Kyoto Hannaryz on Friday night.
JAPAN
Mar 10, 2017
Moritomo Gakuen head to resign, withdraw controversial school application
Moritomo Gakuen President Yasunori Kagoike announced his intention to resign Friday after telling Osaka Prefecture that he was withdrawing an application to approve the opening of a new elementary school.
JAPAN
Mar 9, 2017
On-site investigation at Moritomo Gakuen suddenly cut short; new fraud claims emerge
Thursday night visit by prefectural officials shut down when the school's staff allegedly interfered with the investigation.
JAPAN
Mar 7, 2017
Moritomo Gakuen overstated school construction costs in ministry filing, records show
Moritomo Gakuen, under fire for a questionable land deal with the government, vastly overstated construction costs for a new elementary school in paperwork submitted to the land ministry, records show.
JAPAN / Science & Health
Mar 6, 2017
Physical activity found to help patients with progressive pulmonary diseases
Good news for smokers. A group of researchers from Osaka has discovered that physical activity can be beneficial to patients with progressive smoking-induced pulmonary diseases.
SOCCER / J. League
Mar 4, 2017
Reds bounce back against Cerezo
Urawa Reds picked up their first points of the new J. League season with a 3-1 win over Cerezo Osaka on Saturday.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 2, 2017
Grilled over Osaka land deal, Abe balks at demand for probe into LDP
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe rejects demands for an investigation into his Liberal Democratic Party over the school land deal in Osaka some are now calling the “Akheed scandal.”
JAPAN
Feb 28, 2017
Osaka Prefecture relaxed school-approval system rules after Moritomo Gakuen request
Osaka's governor said Tuesday the prefecture relaxed regulations regarding the approval system for opening schools after a nationalist private kindergarten operator made a request, but denied it influenced the decision.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics / KANSAI PERSPECTIVE
Feb 26, 2017
Nippon Ishin no Kai bill targets gambling woes in bid to move casino policies forward
The opposition party Nippon Ishin no Kai is proposing new legislation to deal with problem gamblers, hoping to speed up the debate after a bill legalizing casinos in Japan was rammed through the Diet in December.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Feb 24, 2017
Akie Abe's message deleted from nationalist school's website as PM's wife gives up honorary title
Akie Abe gives up her honorary title at a nationalist school making real estate and hate speech waves in Osaka that is also linked to defense chief Tomomi Inada.
SOCCER / J. League
Feb 24, 2017
Antlers looking to defend J. League crown
The following is second of a two-part preview for the upcoming J. League season. Team-by-team previews of the nine highest-ranking teams competing in the first division are listed.
SOCCER / J. League
Feb 23, 2017
Cerezo target J. League upset
The following is the first of a two-part preview for the upcoming J. League season. Team-by-team previews of the nine lowest-ranking teams competing in the first division are listed.
Social media helps fuel growing 'sex tourism' in Japan
People walk down a street in the red-light entertainment area of Kabukicho in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on March 31.
Pope Francis, radical leader who broke the papal mold, dies at 88
Pope Francis blesses the faithful during the weekly general audience at the Vatican in August 2023.
Japan mulls reviewing car safety rules to strike deal with Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's Economic Revitalization Minister and top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to the press upon his arrival at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Friday.
Japan tariff negotiator rules out quick U.S. deal despite push by Trump
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan's top tariff negotiator with the U.S., speaks to reporters upon his arrival at Tokyo's Haneda Airport on Friday, a day after talks in Washington.
Shohei Ohtani announces birth of daughter
Shohei Ohtani and his wife Mamiko Tanaka attend a Lakers game in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 2024.
Is Japan’s parliament ready to welcome more youth to its ranks?
Lower House lawmaker Kai Odake in his Tokyo office on Wednesday
The floor is art: Takuro Tamayama transforms mundanity
Takuro Tamayama’s sculpture “Models (Pair, 6 sets, 12 rings)” comes with a mathematical formation that scales it for different spaces.
Nothing sells like Shohei Ohtani, MLB’s marketing megastar
People walk past an advertisement featuring Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani outside Tokyo Dome on March 18.
Calling all Potterheads: ‘The Goblet of Fire’ comes to Tokyo
The Tokyo version of the globe-trotting exhibition features a Ministry of Magic set, which includes an imposing replica of the Magic Is Might monument representing magical fascism.
Tokyo stock picker advises Trump-proofing portfolios with Godzilla creator Toho
The head of Godzilla, a Japanese monster movie character, is seen on a building of Toho Cinema in Tokyo. Toho is one tariff-defensive stock being recommended by brokers.

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