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[] | 2016-08-31T14:50:43 | null | 2016-08-31T23:05:33 | Rookie Kazuki Yabuta made the most of his emergency start, pitching six scoreless innings for the Hiroshima Carp in a 3-0 win over the Yokohama BayStars on | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fsports%2F2016%2F08%2F31%2Fbaseball%2Fjapanese-baseball%2Frookie-yabuta-helps-carp-move-closer-to-pennant%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sp-jball-a-20160901-870x617.jpg | en | null | Rookie Yabuta helps Carp move closer to pennant | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Rookie Kazuki Yabuta made the most of his emergency start, pitching six scoreless innings for the Hiroshima Carp in a 3-0 win over the Yokohama BayStars on Wednesday.
The Carp, who are chasing their first Central League pennant since 1991, moved 12 games clear of the second-place Yomiuri Giants and now have a magic num... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2016/08/31/baseball/japanese-baseball/rookie-yabuta-helps-carp-move-closer-to-pennant/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/e30db990208c7c0141bd1987ce26f42362399816e82c1a389931ab92f12b1cd5.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:15:02 | null | 2016-08-26T17:30:57 | Japan, China and South Korea need to realize that tensions over their differences rise in the absence of top-level diplomatic contacts. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fopinion%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Feditorials%2Fimproving-ties-northeast-asia%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/themes/jt_theme/library/img/logo-japan-times_square.png | en | null | Improving ties in Northeast Asia | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | That foreign ministers of Japan, China and South Korea met in Tokyo this week to jointly urge North Korea to stop provocative acts such as its repeated ballistic missile launches and nuclear weapons tests shows that the three countries are better off coming together to deal with common regional challenges than in givin... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2016/08/26/editorials/improving-ties-northeast-asia/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/05460b97936e20e578dd260370a0dd35d250aee4ed0d47273807b8bfd31e75d5.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T04:48:58 | null | 2016-08-27T12:05:00 | Seven months after a federal judge ordered the State Department to begin releasing monthly batches of the detailed daily schedules showing meetings by Hill | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fnews%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fworld%2Fpolitics-diplomacy-world%2Fu-s-wont-finish-releasing-details-clintons-meetings-secretary-state-election%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/f-clintoncal-a-20160828-870x578.jpg | en | null | U.S. won't finish releasing details of Clinton's meetings as secretary of state until after election | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Seven months after a federal judge ordered the State Department to begin releasing monthly batches of the detailed daily schedules showing meetings by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state, the government has told The Associated Press it won’t finish the job before Election Day.
The department has so fa... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/27/world/politics-diplomacy-world/u-s-wont-finish-releasing-details-clintons-meetings-secretary-state-election/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/19010edc687940e5c290823f8b7bac1693aeae0a7b7e55fdbba6ddd6f1452e39.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T10:50:02 | null | 2016-08-29T17:09:36 | The government could finally pull the plug on the troubled Monju fast-breeder reactor after calculating that readying it for restart would cost several hundred billion yen. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fnews%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fnational%2Fjapan-considers-scrapping-fast-breeder-reactor-costs-mount%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/n-monju-a-20160830-870x584.jpg | en | null | Japan considers scrapping fast-breeder reactor as costs mount | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | The government is considering scrapping the troubled Monju fast-breeder reactor after calculating that readying it for restart would cost several hundred billion yen, sources said Monday.
A political decision on decommissioning the reactor is now in sight, with Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga joining talks to de... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/29/national/japan-considers-scrapping-fast-breeder-reactor-costs-mount/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/b1142a710b64ee31f982a3ca16ae3b07a72c949706b2ea8c8c6d0b0b9796007a.json |
[
"Leonid Bershidsky"
] | 2016-08-31T10:50:47 | null | 2016-08-31T18:12:32 | Kept relatively peaceful by a handful of aging authoritarian leaders, the region is a ticking time bomb. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fopinion%2F2016%2F08%2F31%2Fcommentary%2Fworld-commentary%2Fcentral-asia-less-stable-appears%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/themes/jt_theme/library/img/logo-japan-times_square.png | en | null | Why Central Asia is less stable than it appears | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Important news rarely comes from countries whose names end with “stan,” but the hospitalization of Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov after he suffered a stroke last weekend is noteworthy indeed. Karimov, 78, who has run the country since 1988, has done nothing to ensure a smooth succession; and his country is probably... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2016/08/31/commentary/world-commentary/central-asia-less-stable-appears/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/36cfaf978b7fe87f1543a8b296b8f56e1c263438cf1593967961ecdd4eeb12fa.json |
[
"Doug Bandow"
] | 2016-08-29T10:50:26 | null | 2016-08-29T19:07:21 | It's time to kick America's prosperous and capable friends off the U.S. defense dole and let them take responsibility for their own security. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fopinion%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fcommentary%2Fworld-commentary%2Ftrump-upset-u-s-allies%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/themes/jt_theme/library/img/logo-japan-times_square.png | en | null | Trump has upset U.S. allies | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | America collects allies like Americans collect Facebook friends. As a result, Washington defends more than a score of prosperous European states, several leading Asian nations and a gaggle of Middle Eastern regimes.
Yet most of the countries on the Pentagon dole appear to be perpetually unhappy, constantly demanding re... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2016/08/29/commentary/world-commentary/trump-upset-u-s-allies/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/07a03359d0c9543c8e3cec062ef50f9ffeddf4fc4dfed81b02ee8e53f659e2bc.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T10:50:32 | null | 2016-08-30T17:37:14 | Wayne Rooney will remain as England captain but his midfield experiment with the national team is over, with the Manchester United veteran set to revert to | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fsports%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fsoccer%2Fallardyce-retains-rooney-captain%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sp-rooney-a-20160831-870x1097.jpg | en | null | Allardyce retains Rooney as captain | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Wayne Rooney will remain as England captain but his midfield experiment with the national team is over, with the Manchester United veteran set to revert to playing as a deep-lying forward under new coach Sam Allardyce.
“Wayne has been an excellent captain for England and the manner in which he has fulfilled the role ma... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2016/08/30/soccer/allardyce-retains-rooney-captain/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/27064fd6cc6c7ebd79fa56c3efd42d91491d8dd4cbed070694b83bb02d589dce.json |
[
"Kevin Rafferty"
] | 2016-08-28T10:49:30 | null | 2016-08-28T18:28:36 | Buying or building your dream home in Japan can be nearly impossible. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fopinion%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fcommentary%2Fjapan-commentary%2Fbuilding-dreams-japan%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/themes/jt_theme/library/img/logo-japan-times_square.png | en | null | Building dreams in Japan | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Priory Cottage in the heart of London’s Islington borough was more than a house and a home; it was a slice of history. To sell it was a wrench; but to buy a property in Japan was a weird and wonderful adventure through a series of misadventures on the other side of a perverse looking glass.
The old classical brick hous... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2016/08/28/commentary/japan-commentary/building-dreams-japan/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/5a5fbe57835939c4351861cc524973f4e12aeca61942538d5a26b4ffe01c4ba1.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T08:50:41 | null | 2016-08-31T15:27:26 | Myanmar has a unique opportunity to end decades of ethnic rebellions in various parts of the country, leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Wednesday as she promise | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fnews%2F2016%2F08%2F31%2Fasia-pacific%2Fmyanmar-unique-chance-forge-peace-suu-kyi-says%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/f-myanpeace-a-20160901-870x674.jpg | en | null | Myanmar has unique chance to forge peace, Suu Kyi says | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Myanmar has a unique opportunity to end decades of ethnic rebellions in various parts of the country, leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Wednesday as she promised that her government will guarantee rebel groups equal rights and respect in historic peace talks.
Suu Kyi was speaking at the start of the five-day negotiations ai... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/31/asia-pacific/myanmar-unique-chance-forge-peace-suu-kyi-says/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/4eaa3c79c41da0c6cd4b46b8de873d3945642d0da7bdb9a6869dbecf26b35d51.json |
[
"Naomi Schanen"
] | 2016-08-26T13:13:19 | null | 2016-08-03T18:10:41 | A week after the launch of "Pokemon Go," Naomi Schanen asks six people on the streets of Tokyo whether they thought the augmented reality game is still a big thing. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fcommunity%2F2016%2F08%2F03%2Fvoices%2Fviews-tokyo-pokemon-go-stay-just-fad%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/p8-views-g-20160803.jpg | en | null | Views from Tokyo: Is 'Pokemon Go' here to stay or just a fad? | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Simon Brewer
English teacher, 30 (British)
It’s dying off a little bit, but I’m sure the creators’ have a few things up their sleeve, like plans on releasing new Pokemon. Compared to existing augmented reality games on the Nintendo 3DS, the accessibility of this game means it’s more likely to stay.
Takao Miura
Consulta... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2016/08/03/voices/views-tokyo-pokemon-go-stay-just-fad/ | en | 2016-08-03T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/3a1b7be08998d227d6a2a2632802c374ab0713250aefd5333b3ff01b92b636b3.json |
[
"Alastair Wanklyn"
] | 2016-08-28T16:49:34 | null | 2016-08-28T19:08:12 | A JAL jet averted tragedy by fractions of seconds when it landed on a runway that was blocked by a maintenance vehicle. It accelerated and took off, missin | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fnews%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fnational%2Fair-inquiry-faults-control-tower-jal-near-miss-car%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/n-tokushima-a-20160829-870x588.jpg | en | null | Air inquiry faults control tower after JAL near-miss with car | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | A JAL jet averted tragedy by fractions of seconds when it landed on a runway that was blocked by a maintenance vehicle. It accelerated and took off, missing the vehicle by a few meters, a Japan Transport Safety Board report said in a final report Friday.
An air traffic controller cleared the Boeing 767 to land at Tokus... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/28/national/air-inquiry-faults-control-tower-jal-near-miss-car/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/9c1b09772be672c73204742f5e56b579ca233bd148ec3ccc1921674351acb204.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T10:50:41 | null | 2016-08-31T16:45:58 | In the latest of a long series of gaffes, Finance Minister Taro Aso has hit out at brokerage workers — a profession he's responsible for overseeing. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fnews%2F2016%2F08%2F31%2Fbusiness%2Ftaro-aso-labels-brokerage-workers-shady-types%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/b-asogaffe-a-20160831-870x582.jpg | en | null | Gaffe-prone Aso brands brokerage workers 'shady types' | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | In the latest of a long series of gaffes, Finance Minister Taro Aso has hit out at brokerage workers — a profession he’s responsible for overseeing.
“People have a preconception that investing in bonds and stocks is dangerous, and that’s correct,” Aso said at a forum Tuesday in Tokyo. “Most of my classmates who worked ... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/31/business/taro-aso-labels-brokerage-workers-shady-types/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/61da23e5ecd9221cce4bbcfb298aab39d2968ed09aa9f049e0e37fdc4b34af1e.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T10:50:06 | null | 2016-08-29T17:51:56 | Midway through his first at-bat Sunday, Blue Jays slugger Josh Donaldson was hopping around in pain after fouling a ball off his right knee. From there, he | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fsports%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fbaseball%2Fmlb%2Fblue-jays-donaldson-hits-three-home-runs%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sp-al-a-20160830-870x962.jpg | en | null | Blue Jays' Donaldson hits three home runs | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Midway through his first at-bat Sunday, Blue Jays slugger Josh Donaldson was hopping around in pain after fouling a ball off his right knee.
From there, he was all smiles.
Donaldson had his first career three-homer game, Troy Tulowitzki also went deep and the Blue Jays beat the Twins 9-6 on Sunday to complete a three-g... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2016/08/29/baseball/mlb/blue-jays-donaldson-hits-three-home-runs/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/8b90ffd3234aeb3d484523383e35976d9eb34bace1ef1c5581ddc46681547b17.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T12:49:34 | null | 2016-08-28T17:10:46 | Fukushima scenario involves token 11,000 residents; real-life exodus could be chaotic | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fnews%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fnational%2Ffukushima-scenarios-used-evacuation-drills-two-japanese-nuclear-plants%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/themes/jt_theme/library/img/logo-japan-times_square.png | en | null | Fukushima scenarios used in evacuation drills at two Japanese nuclear plants | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Some 11,000 thousand residents of Fukui and Kyoto prefectures participated in two major disaster drills on Saturday and Sunday centered on hypothetical nuclear accidents at Kansai Electric Power Co.’s Takahama and Oi nuclear power stations.
The exercises were jointly organized by the central government and the prefectu... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/28/national/fukushima-scenarios-used-evacuation-drills-two-japanese-nuclear-plants/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/3367a2d8ae01595611a4a7712040dff08f5f2b687dd612e40003bb60af0d43fb.json |
[
"Monami Yui"
] | 2016-08-31T08:50:55 | null | 2016-08-31T13:02:53 | Competition to sate Japanese nicotine addicts is heating up. Philip Morris International Inc. and Japan Tobacco Inc. have rolled out products that are heat | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fnews%2F2016%2F08%2F31%2Fnational%2Fjapan-tobacco-playing-catchup-nation-takes-vaping-big-way%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/n-tobacco-z-20160901-870x580.jpg | en | null | Japan Tobacco playing catchup as nation takes to vaping in big way | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Competition to sate Japanese nicotine addicts is heating up.
Philip Morris International Inc. and Japan Tobacco Inc. have rolled out products that are heated — not burned — in battery-charged devices, seeking to appeal to smokers who want their nicotine fix without the usual smell and smoke. The move, part of the rapid... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/31/national/japan-tobacco-playing-catchup-nation-takes-vaping-big-way/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/732bc5f7cee058ff3e68910c405cdca50b76801edd8bf529cb2430ca86b79590.json |
[
"Hiroshi Ikezawa"
] | 2016-08-28T14:49:35 | null | 2016-08-28T21:10:35 | Devin Gardner's X League debut turned out to be a bittersweet experience. The former Michigan quarterback threw a touchdown pass to Jeremy Gallon, another | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fsports%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fmore-sports%2Ffootball%2Fgardner-shines-debut-fails-lead-rise-win%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sp-hiroshi-a-20160829-870x707.jpg | en | null | Gardner shines in debut but fails to lead Rise to win | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Devin Gardner’s X League debut turned out to be a bittersweet experience.
The former Michigan quarterback threw a touchdown pass to Jeremy Gallon, another ex-Wolverine, and scored another, but failed to lead his Nojima Sagamihara Rise to a victory over the Obic Seagulls, who came from behind to win 14-13 on Sunday at F... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2016/08/28/more-sports/football/gardner-shines-debut-fails-lead-rise-win/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/d8108b9d536b22266e704357277a4149b9fb1889d493f9b4cb3b366083ffa45c.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:16:27 | null | 2016-08-23T19:30:24 | Prime Minister Abe needs to show that Japan is serious about seeking a world free of nuclear weapons. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fopinion%2F2016%2F08%2F23%2Feditorials%2Ftwisted-stance-nuclear-weapons%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/themes/jt_theme/library/img/logo-japan-times_square.png | en | null | Twisted stance on nuclear weapons | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Two recent developments concerning nuclear weapons highlighted Japan’s twisted position — of advocating the abolition of nuclear arms as the sole nation in history to have experienced atomic attacks while depending on the “umbrella” of the nuclear arsenals of its ally, the United States, for its own security. Tokyo abs... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2016/08/23/editorials/twisted-stance-nuclear-weapons/ | en | 2016-08-23T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/98fd6efd5e8dccfcd3c0631760b19080baeab20884a079c4404920f874d51bd7.json |
[
"Katsuyo Kuwako",
"Finbarr Flynn"
] | 2016-08-29T10:49:52 | null | 2016-08-29T18:15:32 | Tokyo's Imperial Hotel, the luxury inn that counts Marilyn Monroe among past guests, raised room rates last year to levels it last charged before the bubbl | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fnews%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fbusiness%2Fmarilyn-monroes-tokyo-honeymoon-spot-frets-impact-yen-rise%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/b-imperialhotel-a-20160830-870x588.jpg | en | null | Marilyn Monroe's Tokyo honeymoon spot frets over impact of yen rise | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Tokyo’s Imperial Hotel, the luxury inn that counts Marilyn Monroe among past guests, raised room rates last year to levels it last charged before the bubble economy imploded in the early 1990s. A surging yen now threatens those gains.
With signs of spending from foreign tourists starting to wane as a result of the stro... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/29/business/marilyn-monroes-tokyo-honeymoon-spot-frets-impact-yen-rise/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/0e2c509543d956bb78e6eeb199a4424df0349fb3f57cde7eca2feff41d7c6323.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:10:21 | null | 2016-08-26T14:29:51 | A second death has been attributed to motorists playing the absorbing smartphone game "Pokemon Go." A Vietnamese woman in her 20s from Kasugai, Aichi Prefe | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fnews%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fnational%2Fcrime-legal%2Fsecond-deadly-road-accident-linked-pokemon-go-japan%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/n-pokemon-z-20160827-870x576.jpg | en | null | Second deadly road accident linked to 'Pokemon Go' in Japan | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | A second death has been attributed to motorists playing the absorbing smartphone game “Pokemon Go.”
A Vietnamese woman in her 20s from Kasugai, Aichi Prefecture, died Thursday, just over two weeks after being hit by a car while riding a bicycle, police said Friday.
The first reported death was on Tuesday in the city of... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/national/crime-legal/second-deadly-road-accident-linked-pokemon-go-japan/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/4bfab725df1d250cd5c27560c8294a117ea8bd70f81a851e357b80ee36c46916.json |
[
"Jesse Johnson"
] | 2016-08-26T13:12:59 | null | 2016-08-26T18:04:03 | In a rare bright spot for strained Sino-U.S. relations, the U.S. Coast Guard has confirmed that it conducted joint operations in the Pacific with its Chine | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fnews%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fasia-pacific%2Fchinese-u-s-coast-guards-perform-joint-operations-rare-bright-spot-sino-american-relations%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/f-uschinaex-a-20160827-870x489.jpg | en | null | Chinese, U.S. coast guards perform joint operations in rare bright spot for Sino-American relations | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | In a rare bright spot for strained Sino-U.S. relations, the U.S. Coast Guard has confirmed that it conducted joint operations in the Pacific with its Chinese counterpart this summer, part of annual patrols to deter illegal fishing.
In a statement to The Japan Times, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said the USCG Mellon “re... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/asia-pacific/chinese-u-s-coast-guards-perform-joint-operations-rare-bright-spot-sino-american-relations/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/fb4ec1ff77bd7ad970b936e83fe767a752b509c6c16f0d7c413f4201cb2c0b30.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T10:50:49 | null | 2016-08-31T19:24:12 | Masahiro Tanaka allowed two runs in five innings but did not figure in the decision in the New York Yankees' 5-4, 10-inning win over the Kansas City Royals | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fsports%2F2016%2F08%2F31%2Fbaseball%2Fmlb%2Fyankees-edge-royals-after-strong-outing-by-tanaka%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sp-mlb-a-20160901-870x688.jpg | en | null | Yankees edge Royals after strong outing by Tanaka | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Masahiro Tanaka allowed two runs in five innings but did not figure in the decision in the New York Yankees’ 5-4, 10-inning win over the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday.
Tanaka, who had won his four previous starts, was going for his 12th win of the season, but did not return to the mound after a 59-minute rain delay at ... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2016/08/31/baseball/mlb/yankees-edge-royals-after-strong-outing-by-tanaka/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/5183ec801ebe4557246d2aa24baf42b87607c640d49ace23587fcc1825677ef0.json |
[
"Mark Jarnes"
] | 2016-08-29T10:50:08 | null | 2016-08-29T19:00:28 | Emperor Akihito's choice of words and presentation speak volumes about how the relationship between the Imperial family and the people of Japan has evolved since his father's address to the nation in 1945. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Flife%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Flanguage%2Femperors-speech-lucid-appropriately-indirect%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/p7-bilingual-a-20160830-870x680.jpg | en | null | The Emperor's speech: lucid but appropriately indirect | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | At noon on Aug. 15, 1945, the people of Japan gathered solemnly around their radios. It was the first time that the nation had heard the Emperor’s voice. Japan had surrendered to the Allies.
The 玉音放送 (Gyokuon Hōsō, Jewel Voice Broadcast) given by 裕仁天皇 (Hirohito Tennō, Emperor Hirohito) — posthumously known as 昭和天皇 (Shō... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2016/08/29/language/emperors-speech-lucid-appropriately-indirect/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/87606d2c061905fedf13467709cded7ca193a92f2c248e3f93be34ed5c6b675e.json |
[
"John L. Tran"
] | 2016-08-30T12:50:29 | null | 2016-08-30T19:39:00 | Tokyo Station Gallery is showing a pick 'n' mix exhibition, "12 Rooms 12 Artists," comprising a variety of modern and contemporary art acquisitions from th | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fculture%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Farts%2Fsubtle-messages-lie-hidden-corporate-collection%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/p9-tran-ubsartcollection-a-20160831-870x477.jpg | en | null | Subtle messages lie hidden in a corporate collection | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Tokyo Station Gallery is showing a pick ‘n’ mix exhibition, “12 Rooms 12 Artists,” comprising a variety of modern and contemporary art acquisitions from the UBS art collection. There is no explicit curatorial imperative to connect or compare the works, so you’re free to enjoy the visual confections in your own way.
The... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/08/30/arts/subtle-messages-lie-hidden-corporate-collection/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/9959fce25ff1a9bc66f8e4d81909845818a8e1d2cb5906c25e8e0da24f5cffb5.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:05:40 | null | 2016-08-25T21:14:41 | Disgraced former FIFA president Sepp Blatter appeared before sport's highest tribunal, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), on Thursday to appeal agai | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fsports%2F2016%2F08%2F25%2Fsoccer%2Fblatter-makes-appearance-cas-appeal-six-year-ban%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sp-blatter-a-20160826-870x580.jpg | en | null | Blatter makes appearance at CAS to appeal six-year ban | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Disgraced former FIFA president Sepp Blatter appeared before sport’s highest tribunal, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), on Thursday to appeal against his six-year ban from soccer.
The 80-year-old, who headed soccer’s global governing body for 17 years until he resigned in June 2015, was banned from all soccer-... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2016/08/25/soccer/blatter-makes-appearance-cas-appeal-six-year-ban/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/4a4d2fecae46900a5e970ddb0de85622d38bef333860a98a83ec85eaa1678862.json |
[
"Hiroaki Sato"
] | 2016-08-28T10:49:37 | null | 2016-08-28T18:29:48 | Figuring out when wars start and end isn't always as obvious as it might seem. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fopinion%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fcommentary%2Fworld-commentary%2Flongest-u-s-conflict-defining-war%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/p8-sato-a-20160829-870x652.jpg | en | null | The longest U.S. conflict and defining a war | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Soon the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks will come around; so will that of the Oct. 7, 2001, invasion of Afghanistan prompted by those attacks. But, unlike the former attacks, few in the United States are likely to commemorate the latter with events, let alone with anything like 9/11, even though the U.S. name... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2016/08/28/commentary/world-commentary/longest-u-s-conflict-defining-war/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/398f455a1eb9bb52e02ef77eeccfe70f64d964656598c7cee7341fdc9932d31f.json |
[
"Kaori Shoji"
] | 2016-08-26T13:15:11 | null | 2016-08-24T18:58:07 | Seventy-one years after Japan surrendered in World War II, a taboo in Japan has been broken, or, more precisely, ripped apart. A movie specifically about t | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fculture%2F2016%2F08%2F24%2Ffilms%2Fbig-issues-little-boy%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/p9-shoji-little-boy-a-20160825-870x459.jpg | en | null | There are some very big issues with 'Little Boy' | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Seventy-one years after Japan surrendered in World War II, a taboo in Japan has been broken, or, more precisely, ripped apart. A movie specifically about the U.S-Japan conflict that more than mentions the atomic bombs, directed by Mexico’s Alejandro Monteverde, is opening this weekend. For many Japanese, “Little Boy” c... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/08/24/films/big-issues-little-boy/ | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/4f8a61bc9ee663e03ecd4370942efa91e7172c4dfe8cd8aefa122061b95803f0.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:54:49 | null | 2016-08-26T19:09:11 | The Saitama District Court rules that an owner of a cellphone equipped with the One Seg mobile TV function has no obligation to sign a subscription fee contract with NHK. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fnews%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fnational%2Fcrime-legal%2Fcourt-rules-tv-capable-cellphones-dont-require-nhk-contracts%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/n-nhk-y-20160827-870x576.jpg | en | null | Court rules that TV-capable cellphones don't require NHK contracts | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | The Saitama District Court ruled Friday that an owner of a cellphone equipped with the One Seg mobile television function has no obligation to sign a subscription fee contract with public broadcaster NHK.
The latest case could set a precedent that would also affect many in the public who own handsets with TV functions.... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/national/crime-legal/court-rules-tv-capable-cellphones-dont-require-nhk-contracts/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/d9b26aeb6817c24dec806ff1ad6f10fc52358a1f4fc8c3a3dfec9c2179dfc990.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:06 | null | 2016-08-25T17:48:50 | Colin Kaepernick is on track to make his first appearance of the preseason for San Francisco on Friday night against the Green Bay Packers after his tired | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fsports%2F2016%2F08%2F25%2Fmore-sports%2Ffootball%2Fkaepernick-return-green-bay%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sp-nfl-a-20160826-870x679.jpg | en | null | Kaepernick could return against Green Bay | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Colin Kaepernick is on track to make his first appearance of the preseason for San Francisco on Friday night against the Green Bay Packers after his tired shoulder made it through a full week of practice without any limitations.
“Everything has been going great,” Kaepernick said Wednesday. “Everything has been going as... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2016/08/25/more-sports/football/kaepernick-return-green-bay/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/66aa26b855b98b3937b4fc00efd016b25172792a6b07d90129d8089a2db7523e.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T14:49:34 | null | 2016-08-28T19:33:01 | Japan forward Yoshinori Muto scored for Mainz late on but Shinji Kagawa's Borussia Dortmund won 2-1 on Saturday to kick-start its new Bundesliga campaign. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fsports%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fsoccer%2Fmuto-target-mainz-loss%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sp-muto-a-20160829-870x759.jpg | en | null | Muto on target in Mainz loss | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Japan forward Yoshinori Muto scored for Mainz late on but Shinji Kagawa’s Borussia Dortmund won 2-1 on Saturday to kick-start its new Bundesliga campaign.
Muto, who scored seven goals last season before he was ruled out in February with a right-knee ligament injury, came on with nine minutes to go and headed home Pablo... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2016/08/28/soccer/muto-target-mainz-loss/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/a212999f8093297e2f9dd45bd7ec2015492879a8a4937f3a83d99b8ddb4d296c.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T10:50:48 | null | 2016-08-30T18:59:37 | The best hope for peace is an agreement that gives the disarmed and demobilized rebels a genuine voice in Colombian politics. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fopinion%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Feditorials%2Fpeace-last-colombia%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/themes/jt_theme/library/img/logo-japan-times_square.png | en | null | Peace at last for Colombia | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | The government of Colombia and Marxist guerrillas signed a peace agreement last week that ended more than five decades of civil war. The deal followed nearly four years of difficult negotiations; Cuba played a crucial role in mediating the talks. The agreement includes a detailed timeline that identifies the steps need... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2016/08/30/editorials/peace-last-colombia/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/2803b9ba00ec8db1e0e9047928d0c46723fe77418ddaa7fd0ed158591dbb7bad.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T00:50:31 | null | 2016-08-31T07:58:31 | Residents of Hawaii's Big Island are bracing for what could be the first hurricane to make landfall in the state in decades. Hurricane Madeline, now a majo | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fnews%2F2016%2F08%2F31%2Fasia-pacific%2Fbig-island-braces-category-3-hurricane-madeline-draws-dangerously-near%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/f-hurricane-a-20160901-870x580.jpg | en | null | Big Island braces as Category 3 Hurricane Madeline draws dangerously near | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Residents of Hawaii’s Big Island are bracing for what could be the first hurricane to make landfall in the state in decades.
Hurricane Madeline, now a major Category 3 storm, is expected to weaken but likely to remain a hurricane as it passes the state, said meteorologist Chevy Chevalier of the National Weather Service... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/31/asia-pacific/big-island-braces-category-3-hurricane-madeline-draws-dangerously-near/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/e864deeb916296db9c05f1e395dbc39c82bf28ba09915b3954a9a8bd38a5f961.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T14:48:57 | null | 2016-08-27T22:24:29 | Brazilian striker Diego Oliveira scored a first-half hat trick as Kashiwa Reysol clipped high-flying Kawasaki Frontale's wings with a 5-2 win in the J. Lea | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fsports%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fsoccer%2Fj-league%2Foliveiras-rapid-fire-hat-trick-powers-reysol-past-frontale%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sp-jsoccer-a-20160828-870x585.jpg | en | null | Oliveira's rapid-fire hat trick powers Reysol past Frontale | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Brazilian striker Diego Oliveira scored a first-half hat trick as Kashiwa Reysol clipped high-flying Kawasaki Frontale’s wings with a 5-2 win in the J. League first division on Saturday.
Oliveira struck twice in the first five minutes and Akimi Barada grabbed a third for the visitors after Kentaro Moriya had pulled one... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2016/08/27/soccer/j-league/oliveiras-rapid-fire-hat-trick-powers-reysol-past-frontale/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/2a016c694ad5bd76001c8c12bcba9d440722d6107fb784bb027f88b64d3fc39f.json |
[
"Jkristi Eaton"
] | 2016-08-26T13:10:30 | null | 2016-08-20T22:54:22 | The boat zips across the water starting early in the morning, picking up local villagers and dropping them off at various points around the lake. A few pas | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Flife%2F2016%2F08%2F20%2Ftravel%2Fexperience-mayan-culture-guatemalas-lake-atitlan-region%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/p16-guatemala-a-cap-20160821-870x580.jpg | en | null | Experience Mayan culture in Guatemala's Lake Atitlan region | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | The boat zips across the water starting early in the morning, picking up local villagers and dropping them off at various points around the lake. A few passengers wear traditional Mayan dress in a kaleidoscope of colors, heading to the town of Panajachel in hopes of selling their handmade crafts to tourists.
Located in... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2016/08/20/travel/experience-mayan-culture-guatemalas-lake-atitlan-region/ | en | 2016-08-20T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/4555982bdee1c606279b20c79a3552ba328170214791194f4546c7ce7c67ff33.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T00:50:32 | null | 2016-08-31T08:32:21 | Police Wednesday morning were trying to persuade the suspect in a fatal Monday shooting at a construction company in the city of Wakayama to surrender and | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fnews%2F2016%2F08%2F31%2Fnational%2Fcrime-legal%2Fsuspect-wakayama-shooting-placed-wanted-list%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/n-wakayama-a-20160831.jpg | en | null | Wakayama gunman sought in fatal shooting holed up in flat surrounded by police | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Police Wednesday morning were trying to persuade the suspect in a fatal Monday shooting at a construction company in the city of Wakayama to surrender and end the standoff at an apartment building.
Yasuhide Mizobata, 45, a former employee of the company and the second son of the company’s president, has two guns and fi... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/31/national/crime-legal/suspect-wakayama-shooting-placed-wanted-list/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/5566fbe294628a93c8bb4a63923dca95d0c5da7fbe5dced316a57d6aecad9600.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:08:30 | null | 2016-08-26T15:03:04 | U.S. federal officials are seeking a ban on swimming with Hawaii's spinner dolphins, saying the encounters popular with tourists are harming the sleeping h | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fnews%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fworld%2Fscience-health-world%2Fu-s-government-seeks-ban-swimming-hawaii-dolphins%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/f-dolphins-a-20160827-870x608.jpg | en | null | U.S. government seeks ban on swimming with Hawaii dolphins | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | U.S. federal officials are seeking a ban on swimming with Hawaii’s spinner dolphins, saying the encounters popular with tourists are harming the sleeping habits of the nocturnal creatures.
The proposal by the National Marine Fisheries Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) would ban swimm... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/world/science-health-world/u-s-government-seeks-ban-swimming-hawaii-dolphins/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/011d13e135b71167ee18dfec541468a8723ee9e43ea17e8149f01e36c6c9348b.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T06:50:14 | null | 2016-08-30T13:42:52 | Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike has decided to postpone plans to relocate the aging Tsukiji fish market to the capital's Toyosu waterfront in November, a metropoli | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fnews%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fnational%2Ftsukiji-fish-markets-relocation-plan-postponed-source%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/n-tsukiji-a-20160831-870x573.jpg | en | null | Tsukiji fish market's relocation plan to be postponed: source | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike has decided to postpone plans to relocate the aging Tsukiji fish market to the capital’s Toyosu waterfront in November, a metropolitan government source said Tuesday.
The local government will make a decision about the date of the relocation after assessing in January the result of a groundwater... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/30/national/tsukiji-fish-markets-relocation-plan-postponed-source/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/e80d4a1d2338ef620f4e544dfa501fa63a96234c8ca5808e29bcd809cfeaa2b0.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T14:50:26 | null | 2016-08-30T22:44:23 | Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Japan in December, his first visit here since 2005, the Kremlin says. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fnews%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fnational%2Fpolitics-diplomacy%2Fputin-visit-japan-december-kremlin-says%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/n-putin-a-20160831-870x676.jpg | en | null | Putin to visit Japan in December, Kremlin says | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Russian President Vladimir Putin will visit Japan in December as Moscow and Tokyo strive to ease lingering tensions over the territorial dispute, the Kremlin said Tuesday.
“Vladimir Putin’s long-delayed visit to Japan will take place in December,” Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov told reporters. “The time and date have alread... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/30/national/politics-diplomacy/putin-visit-japan-december-kremlin-says/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/6163941fa726fd31d39f0d17997422c543f94b074c3370f77ab5382185818e2a.json |
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"Howard Fendrich"
] | 2016-08-28T08:49:30 | null | 2016-08-28T12:18:54 | Despite everything Serena Williams has won and done, her sense of self can still fluctuate based on the outcome of a particular match. Doesn't always seem | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fsports%2F2016%2F08%2F28%2Fmore-sports%2Ftennis%2Fserena-keeps-things-in-perspective-ahead-of-u-s-open%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sp-tennis-a-20160829-870x542.jpg | en | null | Serena keeps things in perspective ahead of U.S. Open | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Despite everything Serena Williams has won and done, her sense of self can still fluctuate based on the outcome of a particular match.
Doesn’t always seem to matter that she owns a record-tying 22 major singles titles heading into the U.S. Open, which begins Monday with a retractable roof at Arthur Ashe Stadium for the... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2016/08/28/more-sports/tennis/serena-keeps-things-in-perspective-ahead-of-u-s-open/ | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/d8e160ce17b6fc06ad19913e7c661d30251f09d51704068224413a3e6600c6d1.json |
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"Ayako Mie"
] | 2016-08-26T12:56:30 | null | 2016-08-26T20:25:48 | For Reina Saiki, 28, the world is her oyster. The Ivy leaguer who studied counterterrorism and Arabic at Brown and Harvard universities had been given chan | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fnews%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fnational%2Fpolyglot-u-s-born-comic-sheds-cloak-dagger-shtick%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/n-reina-a-20160827-870x723.jpg | en | null | Polyglot U.S.-born comic sheds cloak, dagger for shtick | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | For Reina Saiki, 28, the world is her oyster.
The Ivy leaguer who studied counterterrorism and Arabic at Brown and Harvard universities had been given chances to work for the CIA and FBI. With interning experience at the Clinton Foundation and Interpol, she could have taken any job to fulfill her goal of making the wor... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/national/polyglot-u-s-born-comic-sheds-cloak-dagger-shtick/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/7640bbbb0e48c02998b318c0b5cd51a0ff273cfa2c22d47340d35bc7f0c3e2b9.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T04:50:38 | null | 2016-08-31T12:36:33 | When hackers penetrated a secure authentication system at a bitcoin exchange called Bitfinex earlier this month, they stole about $70 million worth of | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fnews%2F2016%2F08%2F31%2Fbusiness%2Ffinancial-markets%2Fcryptocurrency-exchanges-attack-risking-repeat-mt-gox-debacle%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/b-bithreat-a-20160901-870x629.jpg | en | null | Cryptocurrency exchanges under attack, risking repeat of Mt. Gox debacle | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | When hackers penetrated a secure authentication system at a bitcoin exchange called Bitfinex earlier this month, they stole about $70 million worth of the virtual currency.
The cybertheft — the second largest by an exchange since hackers took roughly $350 million in bitcoins at Tokyo’s Mt. Gox exchange in early 2014 — ... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/31/business/financial-markets/cryptocurrency-exchanges-attack-risking-repeat-mt-gox-debacle/ | en | 2016-08-31T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/d0c92df99726232672081cf3dbf1ea1b4746d640542244ee12fba51414bc44fa.json |
[
"Kris Kosaka"
] | 2016-08-26T13:15:53 | null | 2016-08-23T21:10:53 | Surrender to the heat of September as the Antonio Gades Company brings its sultry blend of ballet and flamenco to Tokyo, showcasing three of its classic wo | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fculture%2F2016%2F08%2F23%2Fstage%2Fflamenco-fusion-set-fire-tokyo%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/p7-flamenco-a-20160824-870x567.jpg | en | null | Flamenco fusion set to fire up Tokyo | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Surrender to the heat of September as the Antonio Gades Company brings its sultry blend of ballet and flamenco to Tokyo, showcasing three of its classic works in two separate programs at Bunkamura’s magnificent Orchard Hall.
Japan has long been a hotspot for ballet and also flamenco — Spain’s traditional performing art... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/08/23/stage/flamenco-fusion-set-fire-tokyo/ | en | 2016-08-23T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/fbfc0a6ac8e8dee3399fafe96390ed187d2c48f669d39387552b15c5a156c51d.json |
[
"J.J. O'Donoghue"
] | 2016-08-26T13:13:54 | null | 2016-08-26T17:25:48 | For most people, Shin-Osaka Station is a transit stop rather than a destination. That's understandable as there's not too much to stick around for. But if | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Flife%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Ffood%2Fatariya-makes-stopping-shin-osaka-station-treat%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/p12-donoghue-atariya-a-20160827-870x580.jpg | en | null | Atariya makes stopping at Shin-Osaka Station a treat | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | For most people, Shin-Osaka Station is a transit stop rather than a destination. That’s understandable as there’s not too much to stick around for. But if you’re at a loss for food options, at least there’s Atariya, a family-run soba restaurant that’s a 10-minute walk from the station.
Like many good soba places, Atari... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2016/08/26/food/atariya-makes-stopping-shin-osaka-station-treat/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/3be76427760aecc1c7c4fac8482f1ebe4c884bd1db7c064d5dcf0c62b83b5354.json |
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"James Hadfield"
] | 2016-08-26T13:15:43 | null | 2016-08-25T18:30:17 | For the past few weeks, visitors and residents in Koenji have been haunted by a song — a plaintive, pentatonic melody that seems to circle endlessly, | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fculture%2F2016%2F08%2F25%2Fgeneral%2Fkoenjis-awa-odori-festival-celebrates-60-years%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/z1-hadfield-koenji-a-20160826-870x580.jpg | en | null | Koenji's Awa Odori festival celebrates 60 years | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | For the past few weeks, visitors and residents in Koenji have been haunted by a song — a plaintive, pentatonic melody that seems to circle endlessly, never quite resolving. You can hear it playing over speakers on the station platform just before the train doors close. It’s there again as you walk down the Pal shopping... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/08/25/general/koenjis-awa-odori-festival-celebrates-60-years/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/f5f0bcbecd7fa7394307a55ee94ba96a4d187d8021a3501e1ab07c85d27c5e64.json |
[
"Christopher Davies"
] | 2016-08-26T13:04:48 | null | 2016-08-26T18:29:36 | This is the season the Premier League has been waiting for since its inception in 1992. It boasts the most glittering array of Hollywood managers with expe | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fsports%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fsoccer%2Fstrong-managerial-ranks-highlight-start-new-season%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sp-premier-a-20160827-870x582.jpg | en | null | Strong managerial ranks highlight start of new season | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | This is the season the Premier League has been waiting for since its inception in 1992.
It boasts the most glittering array of Hollywood managers with expensively assembled supporting casts and tempting fate as it may be, it is virtually impossible not to visualize a titanic struggle between the heavyweights of English... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2016/08/26/soccer/strong-managerial-ranks-highlight-start-new-season/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/4da2cc12a32310a6fdca7749ff3d664bbe4628ff7b68cbafef5030e33fc122a0.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:05:59 | null | 2016-08-20T22:30:56 | Do you want me to take you to go vote? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fcommunity%2F2016%2F08%2F20%2Fvoices%2Fvoting-ones-feet%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/themes/jt_theme/library/img/logo-japan-times_square.png | en | null | Voting with one's feet | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Sixty-three-year-old Japanese man: Do you want me to take you to go vote?
Ninety-one-year-old Japanese woman: If I had enough energy to go vote, I’d go to the doctor’s.
— Utsunomiya, Tochogi Prefecture. Overheard by a Japan Times On Sunday reader on the day of the Upper House elections on July 10.
Overheard a conversat... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2016/08/20/voices/voting-ones-feet/ | en | 2016-08-20T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/3861b3417e20566fc1be5a469299d2970c800bcade8f38ba377b7828b6bd2665.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:03:45 | null | 2016-08-26T13:17:11 | She became the face of Italy's earthquake: Sister Marjana Lleshi, blood staining her veil as she texted her family and friends in her native Albania that s | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fnews%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fworld%2Fnun-iconic-italian-quake-photo-texted-friends-adieu%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/f-marjana-a-20160827-870x603.jpg | en | null | Nun in iconic Italian quake photo texted friends 'adieu' | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | She became the face of Italy’s earthquake: Sister Marjana Lleshi, blood staining her veil as she texted her family and friends in her native Albania that she was alive.
In an interview Thursday at the mother house of her religious order, the 35-year-old nun recounted how she thought she would die when her convent walls... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/world/nun-iconic-italian-quake-photo-texted-friends-adieu/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/192a3683ce4c31fb709e586c3c8a4526c7e1a35bfc872ddc46d59a2ca9bb203c.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:55 | null | 2016-08-26T16:37:31 | Olympic 100-meter champion Elaine Thompson took center stage in the absence of her Jamaican teammate Usain Bolt in the first Diamond League meet after the | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fsports%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fmore-sports%2Ftrack-field%2Folympic-champ-thompson-triumphs-lausanne-100%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sp-track-a-20160827-870x580.jpg | en | null | Olympic champ Thompson triumphs in Lausanne 100 | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Olympic 100-meter champion Elaine Thompson took center stage in the absence of her Jamaican teammate Usain Bolt in the first Diamond League meet after the Rio de Janeiro Games on Thursday.
Thompson timed 10.78 seconds with a slight tailwind at Athletissima — just .07 outside her time in the 100 final in Rio and .08 beh... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2016/08/26/more-sports/track-field/olympic-champ-thompson-triumphs-lausanne-100/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/8daab496d5eb0a472772afd5e82cad3c537474d8de7b222f132f56b4ada9e01b.json |
[
"Miyuki Murakawa"
] | 2016-08-26T13:15:19 | null | 2016-08-26T18:04:51 | The Supreme Court acquittal in June of a nightclub owner indicted for unlawfully allowing customers to dance at the venue had special significance for a me | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fculture%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fmusic%2Fnightclub-trial-helped-defense-lawyer-rediscover-love-break-dancing%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/p7-murakawa-breakdance-b-20160829-870x532.jpg | en | null | Nightclub trial helped defense lawyer rediscover love of break dancing | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | The Supreme Court acquittal in June of a nightclub owner indicted for unlawfully allowing customers to dance at the venue had special significance for a member of the defense team.
Before becoming a lawyer, Motonobu Ishigaki was a member of a world-renowned break-dancing team. His first-ever public break-dancing perfor... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/08/26/music/nightclub-trial-helped-defense-lawyer-rediscover-love-break-dancing/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/23d72377cfe50a9a73ccd6defbd4d9ca3cc3ac371ef4265534ebcb8c9c27705a.json |
[
"Clive Crook"
] | 2016-08-26T13:15:34 | null | 2016-08-24T18:00:36 | Is Britain's less-than-full-hearted commitment to the European adventure best pursued as an increasingly anomalous member of a broken EU or as a concerned and friendly neighbor? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fopinion%2F2016%2F08%2F24%2Fcommentary%2Fworld-commentary%2Fbrexit-question-nobody-asked%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/themes/jt_theme/library/img/logo-japan-times_square.png | en | null | The Brexit question that nobody has asked | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Mervyn King, former governor of the Bank of England, has written the best article I’ve read on Britain’s exit from the European Union. In an essay for the New York Review of Books he makes many excellent points, but one is of surpassing importance. It’s an obvious point, or ought to be, that nonetheless has been almost... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2016/08/24/commentary/world-commentary/brexit-question-nobody-asked/ | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/590c2ddb342e1061f0d37d7bbfa4037a43e38f18aa09051a8a94d1db59e2dc48.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T04:48:42 | null | 2016-08-27T11:42:10 | Senior Japanese and Russian officials have held talks on concluding a post-World War II peace treaty as the two countries make final arrangements for a mee | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fnews%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fnational%2Fpolitics-diplomacy%2Fsenior-japanese-russian-officials-hold-talks-ahead-abe-putin-meet-vladivostok%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/themes/jt_theme/library/img/logo-japan-times_square.png | en | null | Senior Japanese, Russian officials hold talks ahead of Abe-Putin meet in Vladivostok | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Senior Japanese and Russian officials have held talks on concluding a post-World War II peace treaty as the two countries make final arrangements for a meeting between Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Vladimir Putin early next month in Russia.
A territorial spat over Russian-held, Japanese-claimed islands off Ho... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/27/national/politics-diplomacy/senior-japanese-russian-officials-hold-talks-ahead-abe-putin-meet-vladivostok/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/86e96b8fd38e25ee1021de01baad3b7ab1ac0e7e924d65bdb6002111cece3f48.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T10:49:00 | null | 2016-08-27T18:02:53 | The government has some hard choices to make when it comes to implementing changes in the law on privacy protection. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fopinion%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Feditorials%2Fbig-data-privacy-protection%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/themes/jt_theme/library/img/logo-japan-times_square.png | en | null | 'Big data' and privacy protection | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Draft rules and regulations to flesh out last year’s amendment to the law on protecting personal information have been disclosed for public comment, waiting to be formally approved by the Cabinet this fall for implementation as early as next spring. That will set the stage for the amendment’s goal of facilitating great... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2016/08/27/editorials/big-data-privacy-protection/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/53dc9933bd69ebf901c72833e60d166f73f240f1f6af080c4979369ff84db217.json |
[
"Stephen Mansfield"
] | 2016-08-26T13:16:05 | null | 2016-08-20T22:36:03 | Academic Norma Field spent the summer of 1995 in Tokyo, observing the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. This is the book that came out of that e | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fculture%2F2016%2F08%2F20%2Fbooks%2Fbook-reviews%2Fgrandmothers-bedside-sketches-postwar-tokyo%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/p22-mansfield-grandmother-a-20160822.jpg | en | null | From My Grandmother's Bedside: Sketches of Postwar Tokyo | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Academic Norma Field spent the summer of 1995 in Tokyo, observing the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II. This is the book that came out of that experience, a compilation of observations, snatched dialogues, musings, anecdotes, fragments and ruminations. The author had already published the highly acclaimed, “... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/08/20/books/book-reviews/grandmothers-bedside-sketches-postwar-tokyo/ | en | 2016-08-20T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/79eaac11e73aae8ac9f29b6703d1dc148d486e6f09ce676c9e851c91360abaec.json |
[
"Robbie Swinnerton"
] | 2016-08-26T13:15:17 | null | 2016-08-19T17:08:12 | Premium ice cream is never out of season. But the timing could hardly have been better for the arrival of Handels Vagen at the start of this summer. Locate | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Flife%2F2016%2F08%2F19%2Ffood%2Fhandels-vagens-frozen-treats-will-singing-handels-messiah%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/p10-swinnerton-handels-a-20160820-870x686.jpg | en | null | Handels Vagen's frozen treats will have you singing Handel's 'Messiah' | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Premium ice cream is never out of season. But the timing could hardly have been better for the arrival of Handels Vagen at the start of this summer. Located in the basement of the new Tokyu Plaza in Ginza, it boasts a modest footprint that seems appropriate to the artisan production scale of very superior gelatos and s... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2016/08/19/food/handels-vagens-frozen-treats-will-singing-handels-messiah/ | en | 2016-08-19T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/ccd5958b3864bb15c18d3c1dee6d44e89eb421fcde09b07f57c47a12646bc490.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T10:50:41 | null | 2016-08-30T18:22:37 | Yu Darvish worked into the seventh inning, allowing three runs for the Texas Rangers in a 6-3 win over the division rival Seattle Mariners on Monday. Darvi | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fsports%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fbaseball%2Fmlb%2Fdarvish-outduels-iwakuma%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sp-mlb-a-20160831-870x598.jpg | en | null | Darvish outduels Iwakuma | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Yu Darvish worked into the seventh inning, allowing three runs for the Texas Rangers in a 6-3 win over the division rival Seattle Mariners on Monday.
Darvish (5-3) struck out nine, while allowing six hits in 6⅔ innings to get the better of compatriot Hisashi Iwakuma. Darvish also walked two batters.
“My fastball locati... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2016/08/30/baseball/mlb/darvish-outduels-iwakuma/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/59fa2fcc15d0250363831c7ca6c00e423f2ec88360b7a1c54666ace3036a51f7.json |
[
"Gwynne Dyer"
] | 2016-08-29T10:50:17 | null | 2016-08-29T19:09:30 | Making the act of deliberately "destroying cultural heritage" a crime is a step in building an international human rights law that applies to everybody. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fopinion%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fcommentary%2Fworld-commentary%2Ficonoclast-timbuktu-world-court%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/p8-dyer-a-20160830-870x570.jpg | en | null | The iconoclast of Timbuktu and the world court | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Nobody got punished for blowing up the giant Buddhist statues in Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Valley in 2001. Nobody has been sent to jail for blowing up much of the ancient city of Palmyra in Syria after the Islamic State group captured it in May 2015. (It was recaptured last March.) But Ahmed al-Mahdi is going to jail for a... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2016/08/29/commentary/world-commentary/iconoclast-timbuktu-world-court/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/03768e09dff3f1cf035c976247114173a803a9c68cdd1cb0eff35baa0225d1ce.json |
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"Robert Samuelson"
] | 2016-08-29T10:50:30 | null | 2016-08-29T19:05:16 | Middle-wage workers are the fastest growing segment of the U.S. labor market, but can America's education system to provide the skills that the economy now demands? | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fopinion%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fcommentary%2Fworld-commentary%2Fcomeback-middle-wage-jobs-america%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/themes/jt_theme/library/img/logo-japan-times_square.png | en | null | The comeback of middle-wage jobs in America | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | One of the U.S. economy’s bright spots is the job market — and it may be even brighter than it seems. Not only are there more jobs (1.3 million so far in 2016), but they may be better-paying, according to a new analysis by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The Fed economists report that middle-wage wo... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2016/08/29/commentary/world-commentary/comeback-middle-wage-jobs-america/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/a47780b9acac6713e936fa2fa5cef7a082bd199e974d219fa14e994d6a31b65d.json |
[
"Jiro Yamaguchi"
] | 2016-08-29T10:50:23 | null | 2016-08-29T19:08:56 | A full-scale debate on the Constitution needs to begin with a discussion on the significance of Japan's wartime defeat and the postwar reforms, and involve historical and philosophical explorations on the nation's postwar path. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fopinion%2F2016%2F08%2F29%2Fcommentary%2Fjapan-commentary%2Fpostwar-polity-crossroads%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/themes/jt_theme/library/img/logo-japan-times_square.png | en | null | Postwar polity at crossroads | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Now that political forces in favor of revising the Constitution have secured two-thirds majorities in both chambers of the Diet, the Abe administration is expected to embark on concrete steps toward initiating an amendment. Meanwhile, Emperor Akihito’s televised message to the people indicating his wish to abdicate is ... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2016/08/29/commentary/japan-commentary/postwar-polity-crossroads/ | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/dfb8e98c2766ec08472d24213dc90470dda7773c931c94057adf630c30c608bf.json |
[
"J.J. O'Donoghue"
] | 2016-08-26T13:07:23 | null | 2016-08-26T17:24:18 | In an attempt to stand out from the multitude of pubs and restaurants packed in between Takatsuki's two train stations, Nikusakaba Buzz describes itself as | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Flife%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Ffood%2Fcheap-meat-everyones-talking-nikusakaba-buzz%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/p12-donoghue-buzz-a-20160827-870x580.jpg | en | null | Cheap meat is what everyone's talking about at Nikusakaba Buzz | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | In an attempt to stand out from the multitude of pubs and restaurants packed in between Takatsuki’s two train stations, Nikusakaba Buzz describes itself as neither a steakhouse, bar nor restaurant — it’s just a chill place to enjoy meat and booze.
Despite the surfeit of staff, conversations between them can take preced... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2016/08/26/food/cheap-meat-everyones-talking-nikusakaba-buzz/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/135a7b866b146c6e53e45897e404314a97fa7c95fbd2671e4863d7bcdb047851.json |
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"Chananthorn Kamjan",
"Noppamat Sirilert"
] | 2016-08-26T13:02:04 | null | 2016-08-26T17:27:19 | These days it isn't unusual to see groups of various ages gathering to play "Pokemon Go" at department stores and other public places in Thailand. The wide | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fnews%2F2016%2F08%2F26%2Fbusiness%2Ftech%2Fthai-society-learns-cope-pokemon-go-fever%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/c-kamjan-pokemon-a-20160827-870x579.jpg | en | null | Thai society learns to cope with 'Pokemon Go' fever | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | These days it isn’t unusual to see groups of various ages gathering to play “Pokemon Go” at department stores and other public places in Thailand. The widely popular smartphone game debuted here, and in many other Asia-Pacific countries, in early August.
Word spread among the Thai gaming community and, when paired with... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/08/26/business/tech/thai-society-learns-cope-pokemon-go-fever/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/1ed696a6e17ed243926dbc6a6d1bcf7bac534befeceb4c5b6fa0140d1113abe7.json |
[
"Nicolas Gattig"
] | 2016-08-26T13:10:39 | null | 2016-08-24T19:10:46 | You see it often in Tokyo: the attentive Japanese woman and the Western man filling silence. In fact, a lot of them end up married, sharing a house and 1,000 meals, albeit hardly a life of the mind. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fcommunity%2F2016%2F08%2F24%2Fvoices%2Fbeyond-silence-lessons-learned-japanese-spouse%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/p8-gattig-a-20160825-870x745.jpg | en | null | Beyond silence: lessons learned from a Japanese spouse | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Once, on a warm Tokyo night, as we sat with drinks at a bar in Shibuya, my Japanese date asked me something I had never considered before.
“When you watch TV by yourself, do you laugh when there is something funny?”
Conversation hadn’t been smooth. She was intelligent and spoke good English, yet my thoughts on Japan’s ... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2016/08/24/voices/beyond-silence-lessons-learned-japanese-spouse/ | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/69d5b70b4392f3381b361c2ed846d956bd3fac87aed4a909eac449c474b1a37c.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T04:50:14 | null | 2016-08-30T11:40:01 | Southampton defender Maya Yoshida says Japan must treat the United Arab Emirates "like Brazil" in its final-round World Cup qualifier in Saitama on Thursda | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fsports%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fsoccer%2Finternational-soccer%2Fjapan-hoping-fast-start-uae%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sp-soccer-a-20160831-870x785.jpg | en | null | Japan hoping for fast start against UAE | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Southampton defender Maya Yoshida says Japan must treat the United Arab Emirates “like Brazil” in its final-round World Cup qualifier in Saitama on Thursday and has warned the Blue Samurai that they cannot afford a repeat of the start they made against UAE in their quarterfinal defeat at last year’s Asian Cup in Austra... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2016/08/30/soccer/international-soccer/japan-hoping-fast-start-uae/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/be38c2f6d4738718b9d0cc07059db3189b4329316c4eba47a4b88aacbd831310.json |
[
"William Pesek"
] | 2016-08-30T10:51:02 | null | 2016-08-30T19:00:34 | Haruhiko Kuroda's use of primitive monetary policy tools makes him the Fred Flintstone of central bankers. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fopinion%2F2016%2F08%2F30%2Fcommentary%2Fjapan-commentary%2Fboj-stuck-stone-age%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/p11-pesek-a-20160831-870x580.jpg | en | null | BOJ stuck in the Stone Age | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Think of him as the caveman with a heart of gold. No, not Fred Flintstone, the protagonist of one of history’s most-beloved animated sitcoms. We’re talking about Haruhiko Kuroda.
The Bank of Japan governor just returned from Jackson Hole, Wyo., where he roamed the Grand Tetons with his central bank peers. There, they s... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2016/08/30/commentary/japan-commentary/boj-stuck-stone-age/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/df35dea2fe1b4c4a34be492dfcd08328d23cef3cc03ac39688ff10081e6d9333.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T14:48:53 | null | 2016-08-27T23:02:18 | Yuki Yanagita erupted for five RBIs as the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks hammered the Chiba Lotte Marines for the second straight day on Saturday, winning 14-3 to | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.japantimes.co.jp%2Fsports%2F2016%2F08%2F27%2Fbaseball%2Fjapanese-baseball%2Fyanagita-pounces-on-marines-again%2F.json | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/sp-jball-a-20160828-870x669.jpg | en | null | Yanagita pounces on Marines again | null | null | www.japantimes.co.jp | Yuki Yanagita erupted for five RBIs as the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks hammered the Chiba Lotte Marines for the second straight day on Saturday, winning 14-3 to stay at the top of the Pacific-League standings.
Yanagita, who had four RBIs on Friday in the Hawks’ 11-3 rout of the Mariners, was again at the center of SoftBank’... | http://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2016/08/27/baseball/japanese-baseball/yanagita-pounces-on-marines-again/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.japantimes.co.jp/d201002d142cf2b994fab7c41f94529a5d35353fcbb386af091afb3d28b4ec18.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:03:21 | null | 2015-03-27T16:14:40 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fqueenstribune.com%2Fpodcast%2Fepisode-21-queens-has-questions-we-might-have-answers%2F.json | http://queenstribune.com/podcast/episode-21-queens-has-questions-we-might-have-answers/ | en | null | Episode 21- Queens has questions, we (might) have answers | null | null | queenstribune.com | Share 0
The news in Queens has been as erratic as the weather. The Tribune reporting staff take you through the last week’s top news stories including the DOT’s ambitious plan to create faster bus service on Woodhaven and Cross Bay boulevards, but will it lead to slower traffic? Will a Flushing gem that has been abando... | http://queenstribune.com/podcast/episode-21-queens-has-questions-we-might-have-answers/ | en | 2015-03-27T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/2bfcc3313de1cb6f50e5ef79a4f52ee9f9caa7eb7b7535cc5f3007ef21ee846a.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:02:32 | null | 2015-04-27T13:39:32 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fqueenstribune.com%2Fpodcast%2Ftribcast-episode-25-this-is-only-a-test%2F.json | http://queenstribune.com/podcast/tribcast-episode-25-this-is-only-a-test/ | en | null | TribCast Episode 25- This Is Only A Test | null | null | queenstribune.com | Share 0
As students all over Queens take their state standardized tests, we discuss the few who aren’t because their parents opted out, why they choose to, and what affect that might have on education policy, if any. The Main Street bus lane is dead, but only for a section of the proposed route in Kew Gardens Hills. We... | http://queenstribune.com/podcast/tribcast-episode-25-this-is-only-a-test/ | en | 2015-04-27T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/8a8e8ff59cc0ef3c245a9aaf29d44295368fe11477cb657bddfda2463a99f83f.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:00:13 | null | 2015-10-09T14:09:17 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fqueenstribune.com%2Fpodcast%2Ftribcast-10-09-were-back-finally%2F.json | http://queenstribune.com/podcast/tribcast-10-09-were-back-finally/ | en | null | TribCast Episode 26: We’re Back…Finally (Oct. 9, 2015) | null | null | queenstribune.com | Share 0
The TribCast Returns!
Meet the new crew as we discuss some of the biggest stories the Tribune and Press Of Southeast Queens staff covered this week including a Queens Library system on the rebound; Uber’s growing popularity in Southeast Queens; the fast-changing Astoria commercial scene and the launching of Que... | http://queenstribune.com/podcast/tribcast-10-09-were-back-finally/ | en | 2015-10-09T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/042868b1a409eba70cb707abac413f639ea9ea22e5c7f432778161000dfb4b44.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T14:45:33 | null | 2016-08-26T10:13:15 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fqueenstribune.com%2Ftribpix-aug-25th-2016-issue%2F.json | http://queenstribune.com/nextgen-attach_to_post/preview/id--32398 | en | null | Tribpix Aug. 25th, 2016 Issue | null | null | queenstribune.com | null | http://queenstribune.com/tribpix-aug-25th-2016-issue/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/c746936c5b9648eed3e0fc86d672fe43d0f5101c49abbee04e8c4c27e86cdb21.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:56:54 | null | 2016-07-21T12:57:19 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fqueenstribune.com%2Frichmond-hill-gets-125k-computer-lab%2F.json | http://queenstribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/HS-Richmond-Hill-Computers.jpg | en | null | Richmond Hill Gets $125K Computer Lab | null | null | queenstribune.com | Share 0
BY JON CRONIN
Editor
Richmond Hill High School students have received a $125,000 upgrade to their computer technologies program.
Last Wednesday, Jamaica-based Zara Realty, the $125,000 contributor, along with high school administrators and local officials celebrated the opening of the school’s new computer lab ... | http://queenstribune.com/richmond-hill-gets-125k-computer-lab/ | en | 2016-07-21T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/6d745e5893a72fae16358a594a4ab6563ad2b03725abbbef84e0768d058193d8.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:02:56 | null | 2015-04-10T13:49:31 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fqueenstribune.com%2Fpodcast%2Fepisode-23-census-sense-of-queens%2F.json | http://queenstribune.com/podcast/episode-23-census-sense-of-queens/ | en | null | Episode 23- Census' Sense of Queens | null | null | queenstribune.com | Share 0
Queens lost a key leader this week when Jack Friedman, executive director of the Queens Chamber of Commerce and longtime civic leader passed away suddenly Thursday.
Also this week, the Trib crew discusses recent Census numbers that show Queens is gaining population, even while tens of thousands are still leavin... | http://queenstribune.com/podcast/episode-23-census-sense-of-queens/ | en | 2015-04-10T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/1f4d74f985875094bd6268d7723400b495373301bc8e5edee862c72ead094409.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:01:35 | null | 2015-03-13T16:21:21 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fqueenstribune.com%2Fpodcast%2Ftribcast-episode-19-ides-of-march%2F.json | http://queenstribune.com/podcast/tribcast-episode-19-ides-of-march/ | en | null | Tribcast Episode 19 - Ides of March | null | null | queenstribune.com | Share 0
Winter is fading and spring is coming. Time to get outside! Joined by new Editor-in-Chief Domenick Rafter, the Tribune news crew discusses the friction in South Richmond Hill’s Hindu community that led to the Phagwah Parade, the Hindu celebration of Spring, being postponed and possibly cancelled; a new events s... | http://queenstribune.com/podcast/tribcast-episode-19-ides-of-march/ | en | 2015-03-13T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/cdb11b674bb61aa9a2250d2c76cc4fdae042a379335b24d3ef9716373b8127d2.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:57:47 | null | 2015-04-03T15:36:43 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fqueenstribune.com%2Fpodcast%2Ftribcast-episode-22-the-mets-and-all-their-neighbors%2F.json | http://queenstribune.com/podcast/tribcast-episode-22-the-mets-and-all-their-neighbors/ | en | null | TribCast Episode 22- The Mets, and all their neighbors | null | null | queenstribune.com | Share 0
March went out like a lion on the news front in Queens. Willets Point business owners reached a settlement with the city for their move to the Bronx in preparation for a massive redevelopment of the area next to Citi Field, but some are not part of the deal, and are still standing firm on a promise that they wi... | http://queenstribune.com/podcast/tribcast-episode-22-the-mets-and-all-their-neighbors/ | en | 2015-04-03T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/feab788f1be52247368d59b18086cc7a3562300a3de928f68320bdba41cfedc5.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:55:58 | null | 2016-08-04T12:19:53 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fqueenstribune.com%2Fhomeless-shelter-open-maspeth%2F.json | http://queenstribune.com/homeless-shelter-open-maspeth/ | en | null | Homeless Shelter To Open In Maspeth | null | null | queenstribune.com | Share 1
BY JON CRONIN
Editor
A Maspeth homeless shelter at the Holiday Inn, 59-40 55th Road, was discussed Wednesday morning with the Department of Homeless Services, the Mayor’s office, community residents and local elected officials.
The homeless shelter, which DHS plans to open in 60 days, would lodge 110 families o... | http://queenstribune.com/homeless-shelter-open-maspeth/ | en | 2016-08-04T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/9d3b39adc4900dfd02e7cebb3ddaeba026bcaf6823315d5090a516e37a100cac.json |
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"Raymond Mcgarvey"
] | 2016-08-26T12:59:15 | null | 2016-08-11T11:17:27 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fqueenstribune.com%2Fopen-letter-mayor-bill-de-blasio%2F.json | http://queenstribune.com/open-letter-mayor-bill-de-blasio/ | en | null | An Open Letter To Mayor Bill de Blasio | null | null | queenstribune.com | Share 0
BY COUNCILWOMAN ELIZABETH CROWLEY
I write in strong opposition to your administration’s proposal to turn Maspeth’s Holiday Inn Express into a homeless shelter. It is a shortsighted, fiscally irresponsible and completely inadequate plan for the homeless and for the Maspeth community. Hotel rooms are by no means ... | http://queenstribune.com/open-letter-mayor-bill-de-blasio/ | en | 2016-08-11T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/7bf07eab0b269ee8f005a29efdbe92736916b07d653c4b175d48ab3b69b1202d.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:00:38 | null | 2015-10-23T16:12:55 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fqueenstribune.com%2Fpodcast%2Ftribcast-episode-28-were-on-the-scene%2F.json | http://queenstribune.com/podcast/tribcast-episode-28-were-on-the-scene/ | en | null | TribCast Episode 28- We're On The Scene | null | null | queenstribune.com | Share 0
We got breaking news for you. Our reporter Trone Dowd is on the scene of a water main break in Elmhurst that wrecked havoc on Queens Boulevard and Broadway.
We’ll also discuss some of the big news of the week, including a long-awaited honor for a slain cop the same week another one of NYPD’s finest lost his lif... | http://queenstribune.com/podcast/tribcast-episode-28-were-on-the-scene/ | en | 2015-10-23T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/55786b85839e9bd2eb50075a6ebbea4d9ac752e8acd92531fbfb2dc1937ae62b.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T18:45:40 | null | 2016-08-26T13:30:29 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fqueenstribune.com%2Fvideo-news-story-another-homeless-shelter%2F.json | http://queenstribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/proposed-site-of-shelter-300x225.jpg | en | null | Video News Story - Another Homeless Shelter? | null | null | queenstribune.com | null | http://queenstribune.com/video-news-story-another-homeless-shelter/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/e0f8d9c33bef42e43453348d31ce6a6918ea682106538b2d03333a615b0a451c.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:54:24 | null | 2016-08-05T00:00:00 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fqueenstribune.com%2Fresidents-voice-concerns-treetop%2F.json | http://queenstribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/5-Treetop.jpg | en | null | Residents Voice Concerns About Treetop | null | null | queenstribune.com | Share 0
BY JAMES FARRELL
Staff Writer
Residents from across seven Flushing buildings gathered at St. George’s Episcopal Church to voice concerns over recent actions by New Jersey-based development company Treetop Development, which owns the buildings in question. The corporation has been exploiting loopholes to raise r... | http://queenstribune.com/residents-voice-concerns-treetop/ | en | 2016-08-05T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/2d1820c45ccce2f445ee306427142574782c8ea631a63eed870386823e9976f3.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:52:56 | null | 2016-08-05T00:00:00 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fqueenstribune.com%2Fjamaica-hospital-now-trauma-ready%2F.json | http://queenstribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/5-Jamaica-Hospital.jpg | en | null | Jamaica Hospital Is Now Trauma Ready | null | null | queenstribune.com | Share 0
BY JAMES FARRELL
Staff Writer
Jamaica Hospital was verified as a level 1 trauma center by the American College of Surgeons, who reviews medical centers’ resources and capabilities and verifies their designation status. Level 1 is the highest designation, making it capable of providing care for every element of ... | http://queenstribune.com/jamaica-hospital-now-trauma-ready/ | en | 2016-08-05T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/cd1d2afb52bb061cdb097ea977ef953e6b0d45cd5f9729eec862207dfec3a3ce.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:02:04 | null | 2015-04-17T15:59:43 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fqueenstribune.com%2Fpodcast%2Ftribcast-episode-24%2F.json | http://queenstribune.com/podcast/tribcast-episode-24/ | en | null | TribCast Episode 24- We Get Around | null | null | queenstribune.com | Share 0
The TribCast crew will tell you this week why it may be harder to find a parking spot in the future, but maybe easier to find affordable housing. We will also discuss what’s going on with Community Board 9 and why, maybe, Borough President Melinda Katz chose to not reappoint one of its members. Also, are commun... | http://queenstribune.com/podcast/tribcast-episode-24/ | en | 2015-04-17T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/638eab13fc2f3236cc33d5bf1e04fc6c06f9667ff507284ce6a271d05a182583.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:53:55 | null | 2016-08-18T13:54:10 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fqueenstribune.com%2Fmaspeth-rallies-roars-shelter%2F.json | http://queenstribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/38-A-Holidy-Inn.jpg | en | null | Maspeth Rallies And Roars Against Shelter | null | null | queenstribune.com | Share 0
BY JON CRONIN
Editor
Over a 1,000 Maspeth residents flooded Martin Luther High School last week with the immutable message that they will do whatever it takes to prevent a homeless shelter from opening in their community.
Inside the packed, sweltering high school gymnasium residents sat fanning themselves while... | http://queenstribune.com/maspeth-rallies-roars-shelter/ | en | 2016-08-18T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/7ba005ba0ef3f4a2b976ff1a6267c8334ce7d37386ea1c55e9b6d5ea046c5082.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:49:12 | null | 2016-08-25T10:50:16 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fqueenstribune.com%2Fbullying-not-endured-alone%2F.json | http://queenstribune.com/bullying-not-endured-alone/ | en | null | Bullying Not To Be Endured Alone | null | null | queenstribune.com | Share 0
To The Editor:
Another case of bullying has happened again and this time with a young seventh grader named Daniel Fitzpatrick, who attended Holy Angels Catholic Academy in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.
He took his life at his Staten Island home on Thursday August 11th. This 13 year old had so much to live for and yet th... | http://queenstribune.com/bullying-not-endured-alone/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/9d7b402ed9d28a78ac0895d1ba13e27e1a792fb8999315b804fe154405e19a65.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:49:40 | null | 2016-08-25T10:37:28 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fqueenstribune.com%2Fastoria-park-receives-renovation-funding%2F.json | http://queenstribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Astoria-Park.jpg | en | null | Astoria Park Receives Renovation Funding | null | null | queenstribune.com | Share 0
BY ARIEL HERNANDEZ
Staff Writer
As if the outdoor tennis courts, track, band stand, basketball courts, trails, playgrounds and largest pool in the city weren’t enough to lure visitors from all five boroughs to Astoria Park, Mayor Bill de Blasio’s announcement to fund $150 million in major improvements to the fi... | http://queenstribune.com/astoria-park-receives-renovation-funding/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/01b09d91f25df229416223f22feb2d1b7b1ee18e87f57b4173349733f82095aa.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:51:19 | null | 2016-08-25T10:48:00 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fqueenstribune.com%2Flochte-stripped-medals%2F.json | http://queenstribune.com/lochte-stripped-medals/ | en | null | Lochte Should Be Stripped of Medals | null | null | queenstribune.com | Share 0
To The Editor:
The Olympic Committee should immediately revoke those medals won by swimmers Ryan Lochte and his three teammates for the abysmal conduct they exhibited in Rio De Janeiro last week. Not only did they lie about being held up and robbed at gunpoint, they urinated in public near the city, and caused ... | http://queenstribune.com/lochte-stripped-medals/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/284418c648727459b3d4dd1aa50253dde66ebe3927c4edfee7b0fae592d6f72d.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:48:18 | null | 2016-08-06T00:00:00 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fqueenstribune.com%2Faugust-25-2016%2F.json | http://queenstribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/6-Dogs-Will-Be-Dogs171.jpg | en | null | August 25, 2016 | null | null | queenstribune.com | null | http://queenstribune.com/august-25-2016/ | en | 2016-08-06T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/a9b6f9b4e07d5d6e710d4af65aba9a3da736a82c05ae213e5eb16992c732fd89.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:50:13 | null | 2016-08-03T00:00:00 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fqueenstribune.com%2Fozone-park-may-get-homeless-shelter%2F.json | http://queenstribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/3A-shelter.jpg | en | null | Ozone Park May Get A Homeless Shelter | null | null | queenstribune.com | Share 1
BY JON CRONIN
Editor
Queens may see yet another homeless shelter, this one for 50 adults opening on Atlantic Avenue at the old Dallis Bros. coffee bean factory in Ozone Park at an undetermined time.
At a meeting of Community Board 9’s Health and Safety Committee, representatives from Breaking Ground, a nonprofi... | http://queenstribune.com/ozone-park-may-get-homeless-shelter/ | en | 2016-08-03T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/d23fbe88cb74934fa49edbf448cb13d89c77881737136723688cb16501298873.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:56:25 | null | 2016-08-11T13:44:54 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fqueenstribune.com%2Fkew-gardens-post-office-will-stay%2F.json | http://queenstribune.com/kew-gardens-post-office-will-stay/ | en | null | Kew Gardens Post Office Will Stay | null | null | queenstribune.com | Share 0
A longtime Kew Gardens post office had its lease renewed last Wednesday, alleviating concerns in a community that hoped to keep the post office alive, U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) announced on Thursday.
The Kew Gardens Post Office on Austin Street has been a fixture in the community since 1951. When its leas... | http://queenstribune.com/kew-gardens-post-office-will-stay/ | en | 2016-08-11T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/c5f14fa3e8be29e214c8cf0375c6c1b67deabb09423bf2a604a3cb3b6c11d2e2.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:52:26 | null | 2016-08-14T00:00:00 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fqueenstribune.com%2Fcaring-queens-beyond%2F.json | http://queenstribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/14-ParkerJewish2.jpg | en | null | Caring For Queens And Beyond | null | null | queenstribune.com | Share 0
BY RODNEY D. GANTT
For more than 100 years the nonprofit organization Parker Jewish Institute for Healthcare and Rehabilitation has worked to meet the needs of adults in communities throughout New York City, including those living in Southeast Queens.
Established in 1907 by a group known as the Daughters of Isr... | http://queenstribune.com/caring-queens-beyond/ | en | 2016-08-14T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/d8813fb0cb7d638d2d6c992f514e301f1759ddfc26c168b105c0de3ec0b5b989.json |
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"Pedro Valdez Rivera Jr."
] | 2016-08-26T12:58:53 | null | 2016-08-09T00:00:00 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fqueenstribune.com%2Fresidents-keep-fighting-sbs-plan%2F.json | http://queenstribune.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/9-SBS-Rally.jpg | en | null | Residents Keep Fighting SBS Plan | null | null | queenstribune.com | Share 0
BY MATT SHORTALL
Local residents and members of the Woodhaven Residents’ Block Association met in Queens this past Saturday to protest plans for the expansion of Selective Bus Service (SBS) routes. The Department of Transportation is planning an overhaul of Woodhaven Boulevard that would remove two lanes of tra... | http://queenstribune.com/residents-keep-fighting-sbs-plan/ | en | 2016-08-09T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/0a2a1913e1b64b94f0af2cf36896575fb4ed36a17d69497cec7b4bb569ff7a5b.json |
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BY JAMES FARRELL
Staff Writer
An assault on a Bangladeshi immigrant should be prosecuted as a hate crime, attorney Ali Najmi argued on Monday at a press conference in front of the Queens Criminal Court in Kew Gardens.
Immigrant Gazi Rahman was allegedly assaulted by a stranger, later identified as a man named C... | http://queenstribune.com/attorney-calls-jamaica-attack-hate-crime/ | en | 2016-08-04T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/c9abc3dc2ab5e8b25fbe3eec31d06dc8ab52856e1c37d7a1f70dd89ad5626a15.json |
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BY MATT SHORTALL
The annual Honey Harvest Festival was held at the Voelker Orth Museum, Bird Sanctuary and Victorian Garden in Murray Hill this week, where visitors not only enjoyed sampling the locally sourced honey, but also learned why honeybees are a critically important component of our ecosystem.
The annu... | http://queenstribune.com/honey-harvest-festival-abuzz-history-tasting/ | en | 2016-08-22T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/477579eca667a087572d57fefa6fa849f30cb9b9e4d0c755879b685f56da6d5e.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T12:55:30 | null | 2016-08-01T10:46:20 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fqueenstribune.com%2Fhistoric-rko-keiths-theatre-bought-chinese-developer%2F.json | http://queenstribune.com/historic-rko-keiths-theatre-bought-chinese-developer/ | en | null | Historic RKO Keith's Theatre Bought By Chinese Developer | null | null | queenstribune.com | Share 2
BY JAMES FARRELL
RKO Keith’s, the historic and long-defunct theater in downtown Flushing, was purchased by a Chinese developer, Xinyuan Real Estate Co., for $66 million on Monday, the company announced in a press release.
The announcement marks the next chapter in a long history of changing hands and stalled de... | http://queenstribune.com/historic-rko-keiths-theatre-bought-chinese-developer/ | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/d7357b2884aa1c63b866c39e68a2fe9fcf02ff6632d0cde330b466b25f40d5ff.json |
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BY DAVID RUSSELL
The Museum of the Moving Image screened Hoop Dreams on Sunday, as part of its “Kartemquin at 50” series. The Chicago-based company has been making documentaries for half a century, perhaps none more popular than the 1994 entry Hoop Dreams, the three-hour documentary about two amateur basketball... | http://queenstribune.com/hoop-dreams-doc-interview-moma/ | en | 2016-08-22T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/4f7d179bbbc4e8018a4b4854d2bfcdb2ddc96cc4aca538baa42e4e62b7886eb4.json |
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As winter (very gradually) turns into Spring, join the Queens Tribune crew as we discuss the annual New York political rite of spring- state budget negotiations and how education has become the nucleus of this year’s debate. We’ll explore proposals to toll the free East River bridges and discuss a Jamaica woman... | http://queenstribune.com/podcast/tribcast-episode-20-spring-has-kinda-sprung/ | en | 2015-03-20T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/3ad690f5bba2a64dc5982ca9d3c63e77bcf59d0390d14d3d1b5e506a27eaa0ef.json |
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"Mike In Glendale"
] | 2016-08-28T02:47:47 | null | 2016-08-11T13:32:38 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fqueenstribune.com%2Fcrowley-envisions-glendale-entrance-forest-park%2F.json | http://queenstribune.com/crowley-envisions-glendale-entrance-forest-park/ | en | null | Crowley Envisions Glendale Entrance To Forest Park | null | null | queenstribune.com | Share 0
BY JON CRONIN
Editor
To determine what a new Glendale entrance to Forest Park would look like, Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley (D-Glendale) held a visioning session to garner community input on what they would like to see at the entrance.
The entrance in question is located at the corner of Myrtle Avenue and Uni... | http://queenstribune.com/crowley-envisions-glendale-entrance-forest-park/ | en | 2016-08-11T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/45b75a0c3168dbf8df52714f8cb69a9bc19f183b3d741ba75d87f12d697bf02d.json |
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Mayor Bill de Blasio was in Queens this week to meet the new NYPD recruits and things went far more amicably than last time. On the other side of the borough, the second coffee meeting between the cops at the 113th Precinct and South Jamaica residents also proved amicable and the NYPD unveils its new initiates ... | http://queenstribune.com/podcast/tribcast-episode-27-meet-the-cops/ | en | 2015-10-16T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/c10ba7efc932e41bae4fc78b22ea397f9f9f5cc07bfc757456780cd97974c0ae.json |
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The beginning of the school year is less than two weeks away. Parents and children are busy shopping for spiral notebooks and bouquets of number-two pencils as the dog days of summer begin to break.
Although many can see this time of year through a haze of sweet nostalgia, for some like Danny Fitzpatrick it was... | http://queenstribune.com/burden-bullying-carries-adulthood/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | queenstribune.com/86c4c64ce39b824dbf45231a6ad09845391a56db7a0c32838905f45809220ace.json |
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"Agence France Presse"
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A thorn in the side of President Francois Hollande’s Socialist government, the reform-minded minister handed in his resigna... | http://www.arabnews.com/node/977596/world | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.arabnews.com/8c2d3377d10a3416a2421758a29c342bb124938142df6b96a7fc9b18cd6a9412.json |
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"The Associated Press"
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Wolfram Gottschalk, 83, of Surrey, British Columbia was put in an assisted living home in January ... | http://www.arabnews.com/node/976351/offbeat | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.arabnews.com/adef371d08f1539cccd1eed49794e2d71b331ab4c4f4631f2e6e1808b5566a66.json |
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"Agence France Presse"
] | 2016-08-28T14:47:07 | null | 2016-08-28T13:15:24 | MEDAN, Indonesia: A knife-wielding man stabbed a Catholic priest and tried to set off an explosive device at a church in Indonesia on Sunday, police said, the latest attack on religious minorities in the mainly Muslim country.Priest Albert Pandiangan was holding a mass in the city of Medan on the western island of Suma... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arabnews.com%2Fnode%2F976596%2Fworld.json | http://www.arabnews.com/sites/default/files/28/08/2016//indo.jpg | en | null | Indonesian priest injured in church attack | null | null | www.arabnews.com | MEDAN, Indonesia: A knife-wielding man stabbed a Catholic priest and tried to set off an explosive device at a church in Indonesia on Sunday, police said, the latest attack on religious minorities in the mainly Muslim country.
Priest Albert Pandiangan was holding a mass in the city of Medan on the western island of Sum... | http://www.arabnews.com/node/976596/world | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.arabnews.com/5965c94290a825c2612572ce6b17d888c69b2fbf9440aa3e443442b41d801ded.json |
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"The Associated Press"
] | 2016-08-28T20:48:44 | null | 2016-08-28T03:00:00 | LOS ANGELES: Corey Seager hit his 23rd home run to set a season record for Los Angeles Dodgers shortstops, helping his team to a 3-2 win against the Chicago Cubs in Saturday’s clash of National League division leaders.The Dodgers stretched their lead over San Francisco in the NL West to two games, while the Cubs’ imper... | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arabnews.com%2Fnode%2F976666%2Fsports.json | http://www.arabnews.com/sites/default/files/28/08/2016//3638845350627369.jpg | en | null | Seager sets shortstop record as Dodgers down Cubs 3-2 | null | null | www.arabnews.com | LOS ANGELES: Corey Seager hit his 23rd home run to set a season record for Los Angeles Dodgers shortstops, helping his team to a 3-2 win against the Chicago Cubs in Saturday’s clash of National League division leaders.
The Dodgers stretched their lead over San Francisco in the NL West to two games, while the Cubs’ impe... | http://www.arabnews.com/node/976666/sports | en | 2016-08-28T00:00:00 | www.arabnews.com/cc039a4a9f1687f51b172eb5047f258f5cc79c7d5ea19e491858120feb155d60.json |
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"Arab News"
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and land in hospital.
The two boys were playing one Saturday morning recently when a rocket fired by the Houthis fell at the residence of a member of the Al-Abbas tr... | http://www.arabnews.com/node/977046/saudi-arabia | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.arabnews.com/246abc306aff6aa17d717b5c1779b8f9adddc4a5a1c0d6889c0e2e00d34c926e.json |
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