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Figure Skating
Aug 16, 2017
Hanyu makes emotional return to Yokohama rink
Two-time figure skating world champion and 2014 Sochi Olympic gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu performed an exhibition program Wednesday at a rink where he has special memories.
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CULTURE / Art
Aug 15, 2017
Dealing with connectivity and isolation at the Yokohama Triennale
As Akiko Miki, one of the three curators of this year's Yokohama Triennale, tries to wrap up a roundtable discussion titled "The Connecting World and the Isolating World" at the Yokohama Museum of Art, a question is shouted out from the back of the room.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 29, 2017
Early runs, dominant Sugano guide Giants past BayStars
When you've got a pitcher as good as Tomoyuki Sugano on the mound, the game plan is usually pretty simple.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Jul 24, 2017
Amador, Lopez, Mathieson catch fire in NPB
Over the past weekend in Japan, the only thing hotter than the weather, was the play of a trio of foreign NPB stars.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 21, 2017
Lopez's banner performance not enough for BayStars in 3-3 tie with Giants
Jose Lopez went 5-for-5 to fuel the Yokohama BayStars' three-run comeback in a 3-3 tie with the Yomiuri Giants on Friday.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 19, 2017
Kuwahara delivers big hit to lift BayStars over Swallows
Masayuki Kuwahara smashed a tie-breaking, two-run, eighth-inning triple to lift the Yokohama BayStars to a 5-3 win over the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
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JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 14, 2017
Kanagawa police seeking missing Yokohama sisters find two corpses stuffed in bags in the woods
The Kanagawa Prefectural Police have found the bodies of two people packed in separate bags in the woods along a road in Hadano and are trying to determine if they are Chinese sisters who lived in Yokohama and vanished on July 7.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 10, 2017
Batista blasts Carp past BayStars
Xavier Batista's fourth pinch-hit homer of the season overturned a one-run deficit as the Hiroshima Carp beat the Yokohama BayStars 5-1 on Monday night.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 8, 2017
Ruthless BayStars slay Dragons
Shoichi Ino struck out a season-high nine over seven innings and two relievers provided perfect relief as the Yokohama BayStars whipped the Chunichi Dragons 9-0 on Saturday.
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SOCCER / J. League
Jul 8, 2017
Sanfrecce salvage point against in-form Marinos
Brazilian striker Anderson Lopes earned a vital point for troubled Sanfrecce Hiroshima with a late equalizer in a 1-1 draw away to in-form Yokohama F Marinos in the J. League first division on Saturday night.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 6, 2017
BayStars acquire reliever Escobar for backup catcher
The DeNA BayStars bolstered their bullpen on Thursday, when they announced the acquisition of first-year foreign pitcher Edwin Escobar in a trade with the Nippon Ham Fighters.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 27, 2017
Arai provides winning spark for Carp in triumph over BayStars
Takahiro Arai, the Central League's 2016 MVP, provided the off-the-bench heroics on Tuesday in the Hiroshima Carp's 4-3 win over the Yokohama BayStars.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 24, 2017
Ishida collects first victory since April as BayStars subdue Swallows
Jose Lopez and Toshiro Miyazaki both went deep behind six shutout innings from starter Kenta Ishida as the Yokohama BayStars defeated the Tokyo Yakult Swallows 5-1 on Saturday.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 19, 2017
Koyano, Romero lift Buffaloes over BayStars
Eiichi Koyano and Stefen Romero provided the firepower on Monday as the Orix Buffaloes closed out interleague play with a 7-4 win over the Yokohama BayStars.
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SOCCER / J. League
Jun 18, 2017
Amano's timely strike leads Marinos past FC Tokyo
Jun Amano picked the perfect time to score his first career goal, the Yokohama F. Marinos midfielder netting in the dying minutes to lead his side to a 1-0 victory over FC Tokyo in the J. League first division on Sunday.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 8, 2017
Eagles star Norimoto extends double-digit strikeout record to eight games
Tohoku Rakuten's Takahiro Norimoto renewed his own record by striking out 10 or more batters in eight straight games in the Eagles' 8-2 victory over the Yokohama BayStars in interleague play on Thursday.
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JAPAN
Jun 2, 2017
Diet enacts law to upgrade ports for cruise ship boom
The Diet enacted a law Friday for upgrading key ports across Japan to attract more tourists on cruise ships under joint efforts by the public and private sectors.
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JAPAN / Society
Jun 1, 2017
Yokohama mayor apologizes to schoolboy bullied for being nuclear evacuee
Yokohama Mayor Fumiko Hayashi apologized to a 13-year-old boy for the municipal government's failure to act swiftly when he was bullied in elementary school for being a nuclear evacuee from Fukushima Prefecture.
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BASKETBALL / B. League
May 28, 2017
B-Corsairs beat Dragonflies to maintain first-division status
The Yokohama B-Corsairs successfully survived the humiliating prospect of demotion to the second division in the B. League's inaugural season with a 74-53 victory over the Hiroshima Dragonflies in the promotion/demotion game at Yoyogi National Gymnasium on Sunday afternoon.
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JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 25, 2017
Conspiracy bill will set Japan up for replay of Yokohama Incident, journalists warn
With the Diet poised to outlaw the planning of crimes, a former TV director and a film journalist are speaking out against the contentious conspiracy bill, urging the public to remember the lessons of the Yokohama Incident — a fatal case of political repression in World War II that was only resolved...

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