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TOKYO

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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Mar 4, 2014
Kagari: Creamy soup and noodles worth lining up for
Tracking down tiny, one-counter restaurants in Tokyo's narrow backstreets can often feel like the proverbial haystack needle-search. No such problem finding Kagari. The giveaway is the perpetual line of people outside.
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LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Mar 4, 2014
Fuku: Your new local yakitori stop
Yakitori is neighborhood food, not destination dining. When you feel like nibbling on skewers of grilled chicken, you don't go across town; you head for your local. If you're lucky, it will be good. But it's unlikely to be as good as Fuku in Yoyogi-Uehara.
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CULTURE / Music
Mar 4, 2014
Tim Deluxe makes 'Radicle' move to get healthy
We've all been there before. Sometimes it's a New Year's resolution, sometimes it's the realization that you're out of breath just running up the stairs to catch your last train — but at one point or another, we've all decided to try and get in shape.
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JAPAN / Science & Health
Mar 4, 2014
Robots challenged to pass Todai examination
If robots with artificial intelligence prove they can outperform humans, will most jobs currently undertaken by people be done by robots instead?
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Mar 3, 2014
Swallows' Balentien keeps focus on steady improvement
Wladimir Balentien launched a few balls to the farthest reaches of Tokyo Dome during batting practice on Sunday, turned his hat backwards and, as he sat down near the visitor's dugout, proclaimed that his timing was off.
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / TELLING LIVES
Feb 28, 2014
The lesson of the long-distance runner: 'There are no impossibles'
Maickel Melamed was born with his umbilical cord wrapped around his neck, and his parents were told he would not live long. Almost four decades on, Melamed has crossed marathon finishing lines in New York, Berlin and Chicago — and conquered Venezuela's highest mountain.
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SOCCER / J. League / 2014 J. LEAGUE PREVIEW
Feb 28, 2014
Cerezo looking to end Sanfrecce stranglehold
The following is the 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.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 26, 2014
Tokyo court nixes deportation order against Philippine woman twice married to Japanese
The Tokyo High Court allows a Philippine woman, an illegal immigrant, to stay in Japan, reversing an initial ruling that upheld a deportation order against her.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 26, 2014
Suit filed over dating, property scam
Twelve victims of dating scams involving investments in luxury apartments file a group suit with the Tokyo District Court, demanding u00a5200 million in total damages from real estate agencies and mortgage lenders.
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BASKETBALL
Feb 23, 2014
Tokyo edges Yokohama, earns series split
The one-two punch of Yuji Ide and Ricky Woods guided the Tokyo Cinq Reves to a 74-71 victory over the host Yokohama B-Corsairs on Sunday.
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LIFE / Travel / BACKSTREET STORIES
Feb 22, 2014
Arisugawa-no-Miya's no mere people's park
Tokyo's weather in February is unpredictable, so when the day I have set aside for exploring features a record-breaking blizzard, I'm not surprised. So, bundled up like Everest conqueror Edmund Hillary, I exit Hiroo Station in Minato Ward to find the air feathered with swirling flakes and the streets...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Feb 22, 2014
Tokyo 2020: only as old as the medalists you field
The motto of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics is 'Discover Tomorrow,' which organizers hope will help distract sport fanatics from the reality of Japan being the fastest-aging country in the world.
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JAPAN
Feb 20, 2014
Disaster prep to be 2020 focus: Masuzoe
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JAPAN
Feb 20, 2014
Last week's snowfall in Japan left more than 20,000 people cut off
More than 20,000 people in Tokyo and nine other prefectures in eastern Japan were cut off following heavy snowfalls last week, local government tallies showed Thursday.
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CULTURE / Stage
Feb 19, 2014
NNTT debut peers behind the masks of 'Condemned' Sartre family
Until Japan was opened to the West in the mid-19th century, its theater culture mainly comprised traditional forms such as kabuki, comic kyōgen, bunraku (puppet theater) and noh.
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CULTURE / Art
Feb 19, 2014
'The Marvelous Real: Contemporary Spanish and Latin American Art from The MUSAC Collection'
Realism usually refers to attempts to represent subjects in a precise and truthful manner. However, here, the "realism" of Spanish art is not about technique — it's about artists finding the best way to portray what they see as "real."
JAPAN / BULLETIN BOARD
Feb 19, 2014
Tokyo University to host symposiums on Fukushima crisis
The University of Tokyo will hold symposiums on March 9 and 11 on its Hongo campus to mark the third anniversary of the triple meltdowns at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant.
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2014
Forum offers chance to learn about working for NPO
People who want to work for a nonprofit organization will have a chance Saturday to learn firsthand what the job entails at the NPO Shigoto Forum 2014 in Tokyo, a job fair focusing on nonprofits and nongovernmental organizations.
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BUSINESS / Markets
Feb 19, 2014
Merger of Jasdaq, Mothers, second section eyed
Japan Exchange Group Inc. will consider merging three smaller equity markets to simplify its exchange structure, a bourse official said.
JAPAN
Feb 19, 2014
JR Tokai may open new maglev train station in Yamanashi before '20 Olympics
Central Japan Railway Co. is considering opening a new station for its magnetically levitated trains in Kofu, Yamanashi Prefecture, ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, according to a source.

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