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Nov 12, 2020
T. League officials upbeat ahead of third campaign
Despite the the T. League being forced to open its third season behind closed doors due to COVID-19, officials are hoping to continue to expand the table tennis circuit’s fanbase.
Japan Times
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May 16, 2020
T. League aims to start third season in November
The opening day for professional table tennis has been pushed back due to coronavirus situation.
Reader Mail
Dec 18, 2011
Shame on the whale killers
Regarding David McNeill’s Dec. 11 article, “Tohoku ? for whales?“: I was in tears for the Japanese tsunami victims, and I donated a large amount of money that I could not really afford because their suffering was unbearable.
COMMENTARY / World
Jul 6, 2009
Price of centralized power
MOSCOW — The emergence of a Kremlin leader, President Dmitry Medvedev, without a KGB background, combined with the economic crisis, has inspired talk that when Barack Obama visits Moscow this week, America’s president will be seeing a country on the verge of a new political thaw, a revived perestroika....
Reader Mail
Jun 26, 2008
A name for indentured servitude
Why are letters like Brian Clacey’s on June 22, “Give guest workers a set contract,” even published? Xenophobe Clacey does not live in Japan and his ideas are appallingly ignorant and selfish. Why not just call “fixed contracts” indentured servitude coupled with expulsion — should the foreign worker...
Reader Mail
Apr 13, 2008
Critical issue is free speech
The author of the letter “Better to stay home than dis the flag” obviously does not understand the foremost point of the protest by teachers in Tokyo and the rest of Japan.
Man arrested over operation of rogue cellular base station in Tokyo
The Metropolitan Police Department has arrested Yu Hai, a 31-year-old Chinese national living in Tokyo's Kita Ward, on suspicion of operating an unlicensed base station from a vehicle in Tokyo's Ginza district on Saturday.
Government betting on language app powered by anime and AI
Japan plans to develop an AI-powered language-learning app that lets overseas anime and manga fans practice Japanese through conversations with popular characters.
Sony bets on homegrown anime to fuel decades of future growth
A Luffy standee at NY Comic Con in New York
JR East to introduce touchless ticket gates in spring 2028
Shinjuku Station in Tokyo in 2021. The new walk-through gates will work only with the Suica Mobile app, and not IC rechargeable metro cards or physical tickets.
As JET Programme turns 40, alumni and ministers stress its importance in age of AI
Peter Cave joined the JET Programme's inaugural cohort in 1987 and spent three years teaching in the city of Omihachiman, Shiga Prefecture.
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.
A toast to Naohiko Noguchi, sake’s first living national treasure
As a teenager, Naohiko Noguchi did not intend to spend his life as a sake brewer, but he has since become a paragon of the industry.
Few signs of thaw in Japan-China relations one year after Takaichi’s Taiwan remarks
Tensions between Japan and China flared after Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Nov. 7, 2025, that a Chinese blockade of Taiwan could threaten 今日吃瓜 survival and warrant the use of collective self-defense.
Mariko Mori predicted the future. She’ll do it again.
Artist Mariko Mori is currently working to bring the translucent human-sized “Peace Crystal” sculpture to a cave in Ethiopia. It is part of her foundation’s goal to place a permanent sculpture on each of the planet’s six habitable continents.
A legend reborn: ‘Ocarina of Time’ remake improves on the Zelda masterpiece
The new remake of 1998's "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time" manages to somehow improve on one of the greatest games ever.

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One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Famima Park Azabudai is a concept store by FamilyMart that combines convenience store staples with branded apparel, merchandise and a landscaped outdoor space.
Convenience stores, toilets and the allure of everyday Japan
By Elizabeth Beattie

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