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Figure Skating
Feb 7, 2019
Ayaka Hosoda very likely to continue competitive career next season
Veteran skater Ayaka Hosoda, who stole the show with her triple axels at the Japan Championships in December, is very likely to continue her skating career, The Japan Times has learned.
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CULTURE / Stage
Feb 5, 2019
The actors hoping to save Kyoto University's Yoshida Dormitory
Students and stage fans will see whether a hastily arranged series of performances of Bertolt Brecht's "The Threepenny Opera" this weekend can break a decades-long standoff over the closure of Japan's oldest student dormitory: the wooden Yoshida ryō (Yoshida Dormitory) at Kyoto University.
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BASKETBALL
Jan 24, 2019
UNC Wilmington's Kai Toews bursts onto scene as dynamic passer in freshman season
As a college freshman, Kai Toews has quickly become a player to pay attention to.
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JAPAN / History
Jan 19, 2019
The University of Tokyo riots of 1968-69: A photographer remembers the final days of resistance
Riot police at the University of Tokyo haul off a man wearing a white helmet, cuffed hands clasped above his bowed head. His expression is a mixture of resignation and defiance, but the fine details are hard to discern, obscured by the dark shades of the monochrome photograph he is depicted in — where...
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JAPAN / History / JAPAN TIMES GONE BY
Jan 5, 2019
Japan Times 1969: Police battle students at Tokyo University
Radical students holed up in Tokyo University's Yasuda Auditorium withstood a 10-hour siege by riot police who seized control of 16 other buildings held by the students on the university's Hongo campus.
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BUSINESS
Jan 5, 2019
Brazil's 'Chicago Oldies' team aims to revive Pinochet-era economic playbook
Brazil's new Economy Minister Paulo Guedes worked in Chile 40 years ago after earning his doctorate at the University of Chicago, giving him a front-row seat to dictator Augusto Pinochet's economic shock treatment.
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MORE SPORTS
Jan 3, 2019
Fujitsu overcomes slow start, routs Kwansei Gakuin University in Rice Bowl
The X League champion was simply too much for the collegiate side — again.
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JAPAN
Jan 1, 2019
Top Japan news of 2018
The Japan Times newsroom selected the following domestic news stories as the most important of 2018.
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MORE SPORTS
Dec 31, 2018
1912 Olympian Kanakuri helped create Hakone race
This will be the 95th winter featuring the New Year's tradition — the Tokyo-Hakone Round-Trip College Ekiden Race, or as it's more commonly known, the Hakone ekiden.
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BASKETBALL / NBA
Dec 28, 2018
Hoop pioneer Wat Misaka reflects on breaking barriers in an incredible life
Wataru "Wat" Misaka never demanded the spotlight nor shouted from the roof tops seeking attention.
WORLD / Politics
Dec 27, 2018
Trump's acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker falsely claimed scholar-athlete honor: report
Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker has incorrectly claimed in government documents that he had been named an Academic All-American while playing football at the University of Iowa, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Dec 26, 2018
Trailblazer Norika Konno ready to turn heads in U.S.
With about 2 minutes and 25 seconds left in the game, Norika Konno scored off a Eurostep, one of her signature moves, for a layup.
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ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 26, 2018
Leading Chinese Marxist student taken away by police on Mao's birthday
Chinese police detained a well-known Marxist at a top university on Wednesday, a witness said, on the sensitive anniversary of the 125th birthday of the founder of modern China, Mao Zedong, whose legacy remains deeply contested.
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BASKETBALL / B. League / HOOP SCOOP
Dec 18, 2018
Ehime's Andrew Fitzgerald looks back on record-setting scoring performance
Andrew Fitzgerald scored the Ehime Orange Vikings' first two points on an outside jumper on Sunday, and never stopped scoring.
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JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Dec 17, 2018
In lawsuit, consumer group alleges discrimination by Tokyo Medical University
The Consumers Organization of Japan is demanding that test fees and associated costs be paid back to the impacted applicants.
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.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
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.
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.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
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.

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