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Sports
Japan’s Perfect Game Drought Ends With a 19-Strikeout Masterpiece
Roki Sasaki’s perfect game was a long time coming, the first in the Japanese majors since 1994. But the wait…
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Business
‘Tokyo Vice’ Revisits a Faded Underworld
TOKYO — These days there are few visible signs of the yakuza in Kabukicho, the storied entertainment and red-light district in the…
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World
Beating Japan at Its Own (Video) Game: A Smash Hit From China
TOKYO — Genshin Impact, one of the world’s hottest mobile video games, has all the characteristics of a Japanese invention:…
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World
Shintaro Ishihara, Outspoken Nationalist Governor of Tokyo, Dies at 89
Shintaro Ishihara, a Japanese author turned firebrand nationalist politician who served as the governor of Tokyo and famously stoked diplomatic…
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World
‘Call Me Dog Tag Man’: Pacific Island Is Full of War Relics and Human Remains
BIAK, Indonesia — On a remote coral island in Indonesia, a history lover who keeps a collection of old bombs…
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Arts
Review: What if ‘Star Wars’ Really Were Japanese?
“Intellectual property” probably wasn’t a term anyone thought to apply to “Star Wars” when the first movie premiered back in…
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