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FFXV director Hajime Tabata talks leaving Square Enix to make the first Paralympic game【Interview】

• Master Blaster
  Jun 24, 2021
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Tabata and JP Games hope to make the world a brighter place, one game at a time.

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• Global, Japan
• (business • Final Fantasy XV • Hajime Tabata • interviews • JP Games • Pegasus Dream Tour • sports • video games)

Please drink alone in your room and don’t have sex, Tokyo Olympics tells athletes

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 22, 2021

Organizers don’t want people getting randy or rowdy in the Olympic Village.

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• Japan
• (2020 Olympics • 2021 Olympics • alcohol • COK • health • Olympics • sports • Tokyo Olympics)

Killing Machine appears at Japanese baseball stadium, Dragon Quest fans thrilled【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 15, 2021

Video game monster brings the heat with a sizzling fastball.

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• Japan
• (awesome • baseball • cool • crazy • Dragon Quest • Seibu Lions • sports • video • video games)

What event did you hate most in elementary school? Survey asks Japanese adults

• Katie Pask
  Jun 7, 2021

Those less sportingly inclined had a hard time.

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• Japan
• (elementary school • events • Japanese schools • marathon • school • society • sport • sports • Sports Day • survey)

Naomi Osaka withdraws from French Open, discusses experiences with depression

• SoraNews24
  Jun 1, 2021

Decision comes days after tennis star says she would not speak with reporters during event.

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• Japan
• (COK • depression • French Open • mental health • Naomi Osaka • sports • tennis)

Retired sumo champion swaps loincloth for a baker’s apron and their bread wows us 【Taste Test】

• Ingrid Tsai
  May 29, 2021

More ways than one to get that bread.

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• Japan
• (bakeries • food • Ikuna Kamezawa • Onokuni Yasushi • Ryōgoku Kokugikan • sports • Sumo • sumo wrestlers • sweets • Tokyo)

Naomi Osaka refuses to talk to reporters at next tennis tournament, doesn’t care about fines

• SoraNews24
  May 27, 2021

“I’m just not going to subject myself to people that doubt me.”

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• Japan
• (COK • French Open • Naomi Osaka • sports • tennis)

This hotel in the mountains of Japan has an awesome hi-tech ski/snowboard simulator【Videos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 24, 2021

Family-run Nagano inn that’s been in business for more than 50 years has a very modern, very cool amenity.

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• Japan
• (cool • crazy • hotels • Nagano • Shiga Kogen • skiing • snowboarding • sports • technology • travel • video)

High school students rapidly losing interest in sumo teams because too “painful,” “scary,” and “naked”

• Master Blaster
  May 20, 2021

Those three words sound like a good time to me, but I guess I’m the weird one…

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• Japan
• (coronavirus • COVID-19 • culture • high school sports • school • sports • Sumo • tradition)

Sports cake developed by legendary Japanese castella company

• Master Blaster
  May 10, 2021

Let them run with cake.

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• Japan
• (Bundmeido • cake • castella • exercise • food • sports • V! Castella)

En garde! Fencer Taxi begins in Tokyo, Saitama, and Kanagawa

• Master Blaster
  May 3, 2021

“Pointless” you say? Touché…

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• Japan
• (2020 Tokyo Olympics • crazy • Fencer Taxi • fencing • Kanagawa • Saitama • Sanwa Kotsu • sports • taxis • Tokyo • transportation • weird)

Japanese high school kendo coach caught forcing students to pay birthday-tribute money

• Ingrid Tsai
  Apr 22, 2021

Typically, students are encouraged to report bullying to the adults, but what do you do when the adult is the bully?

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• Japan
• (crime • Ehime • extracurricular activities • high school students • Kendo • martial arts • news • schools • sports • Teachers)

Tokyo Olympic torch flame goes out twice on first day of relay, filling commenters with dread

• Casey Baseel
  Mar 26, 2021

This isn’t the first time this sort of thing has happened, though.

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• Japan
• (2020 Olympics • 2021 Olympics • COK • crazy • Olympic flame • Olympic torch • Olympics • sports • Tokyo Olympics • weird)

Japanese supercomputer finds the reason some baseball pitches can suddenly drop near home plate

• Master Blaster
  Mar 24, 2021

Why have a supercomputer if you can’t use it to figure out how a two-seamer works?

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• Japan
• (baseball • computers • cool • forkball • four-seamer • Magnus effect • physics • pitching • science • splitter • sports • Tokyo Institute of Technology • two-seamer)

Tokyo Olympics Village looks like an eerie ghost town

• SoraNews24
  Mar 23, 2021

Athletes Village could be the real-life setting for a disaster film right now.

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• Japan
• (2020 Olympics • 2021 Olympics • athletes • athletes village • buildings • Construction • Harumi Flag • Olympics • Olympics Village • sports • Tokyo Olympics)

What’s it like to watch a sumo tournament in Tokyo during the pandemic?

• Oona McGee
  Mar 18, 2021

We take you through a day at the sumo, with all-new procedures, restrictions and perks for spectators.

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• Japan
• (COK • Ryōgoku Kokugikan • SNJO • sports • Sumo • sumo tournaments • sumo wrestlers • Tokyo)

Tokyo Olympics losing volunteers even after president’s resignation for sexist remarks

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 28, 2021

Games are scheduled to start in less than five months.

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• Japan
• (2020 Olympics • 2021 Olympics • COK • controversy • Olympics • sports • Tokyo Olympics • volunteers • Yoshiro Mori)

Tokyo Olympics organizing committee president resigns over sexist remarks

• SoraNews24
  Feb 12, 2021

Yoshiro Mori apologizes, insists “I have supported all women.”

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• Japan
• (2020 Olympics • 2021 Olympics • controversy • gender • Olympics • scandal • sexism • society • sports • Tokyo Olympics • Yoshiro Mori)

Female politicians stage “white action” protest against Tokyo Olympic head’s misogynist remarks

• SoraNews24
  Feb 10, 2021

Group takes inspiration from similar protest in the U.S.

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• Japan
• (2020 Olympics • 2021 Olympics • controversy • politicians • politics • society • sports • Tokyo Olympics • Yoshiro Mori)

Captain Tsubasa anime character cleared of gender-based violence charges by Chilean court

• Casey Baseel
  Feb 5, 2021

Judge rules slapping girl in the face did not constitute promoting violence towards women.

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• Japan, S America
• (anime • Captain Tsubasa • Chile • COK • gender • lawsuits • manga • soccer • sports)

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