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Traffic deaths at record low over Bon
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Shimane mascot boasts rice paddy art
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'Canadian Idol' contestant acquitted on terrorism charge
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Japanese believed held by Islamic State in Syria said he planned to support rebels
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Science & Health
Group aims to detect 13 cancers in a single test
A new five-year project involving the National Cancer Center,
private companies and universities in Japan aims to devise a blood test
that can detect 13 kinds of cancer.
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Crime & Legal
Man held over Mandarake theft didn't know about threat until after reselling toy
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National
Islamic State says it's holding Japanese man captured in Syria
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World
Justice's goal in Ferguson: ensuring truth
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Crime & Legal
N. Korean stimulant smuggling networks extend to Japan, South Korea
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National
Kewpie adapts its menu to feed a graying nation
by Minami Funakoshi
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World
Obama to host U.N. Security Council talks on foreign fighter threat
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World
As Gaza war subsides, a battle over how it is investigated begins
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Politics & Diplomacy
As Taliban push for territory quickens, Afghan troops get new kill orders
Japanese Baseball
Lions earn tie against League-leading Hawks
Ernesto Mejia’s 23rd homer of the year and some outstanding
work by the pitching staff earned the Seibu Lions a 2-2 tie against the
Pacific League-leading SoftBank Hawks on Tuesday. In their last turn at
bat in the 12th inning against Kazuki Miyata (0-0), ...
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Baseball
Red Sox reliever Tazawa won't play for Japan in 2017 WBC, Oh says
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MLB
Timely hits carry Angels
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More Sports
Redskins hold off Browns as Manziel causes stir with obscene gesture
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MLB
Nationals reel off 7th straight
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Tennis
Injured Nadal pulls out of U.S. Open
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Basketball
Ballmer attends Clippers fan rally
Issues | THE FOREIGN ELEMENT
Challenges can't compare to the rewards of cross-cultural adoption in Japan
by Melodie Cook
Five years ago, my Japanese husband and I adopted a
3-year-old boy who had been placed in an orphanage when he was a month
old. His birth mother, too young to care for him, had likely decided
that giving him up was his only ...
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Voices
Tokyo and Saitama: Would you ever consider adopting a child?
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Issues
Could the lingua franca approach to learning break Japan's English curse?
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How-tos
From 2015, you may not have to work 25 years to draw a pension
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Community
A cat named Piccola: talk to me
The fact that corn or maize has a Japanese name — tōmorokoshi
— indicates that it entered the country centuries ago, before it was
the norm to import the name of a food as-is and spell it out
phonetically (as with tomatoes or asparagus, ...
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Food & Drink
Nanakura: A lighter take on udon noodles
by Robbie Swinnerton
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Food & Drink
New social network helps visitors find a Tokyo drinking buddy
by Angela Erika Kubo
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Food & Drink
Bakka: Neapolitan-style pizza al fresco in the heart of Shibuya
by Robbie Swinnerton
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Language
Complicated characters: Let us now praise difficult kanji
by Daniel Morales
Music
Musician Rory Viner turns Japan's suicide statistics into a song
by Mike Sunda
Train delays due to jinshin jiko, which euphemistically
translates to “human accident” — often a suicide on the tracks — are far
from an infrequent occurrence in Tokyo. Reaction to such suicides — of
people you never knew — depends on the individual, whose ...
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Book
Punk author Kou Machida on his offbeat samurai story
by James Hadfield
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Review
The Nobility of Failure
by Michael Hoffman
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Review
Seraph of the End: Vampire Reign (vol. 1)
by Andrew Lee
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Music
Pixies to bring 'Indie Cindy' to Summer Sonic
by Shaun Curran
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