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Miguel Sano’s Family: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
Minnesota Twins third baseman Miguel Sano joins an exciting lineup for the 2017 Home
Run Derby. Here's more on his family. 2017-07-10 19:41 5KB heavy.com
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Brillante picks films for Tokyo fest
The 30th Tokyo International Film Festival will showcase the works of “the next
generation” of filmmakers from Southeast Asia in the Crosscut Asia section.
2017-07-10 21:35 2KB entertainment.inquirer.net
3 1.2 Japan leader Abe on Nordic tour talks with Danish
leader
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe held talks on free trade and North Korean missile
tests Monday in Copenhagen with his Danish counterpart Lars Loekke Rasmussen, at
the end of a Nordic tour which also took him to Sweden and Finland. 2017-07-10 19:08
3KB www.washingtontimes.com
4 0.0 Japan's Shinzo Abe dives in polls after scandal,
threats
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is plunging in the polls following a series of
scandals that have placed his office in the spotlight. 2017-07-10 18:59 3KB www.upi.com
5 0.4 Dentsu Promises to ‘Eliminate Long Working Hours’
as Company Faces Indictment Over Employee’s Suicide
The Tokyo-based network has spent the last year and a half embroiled in controversy
over alleged violations of Japanese labor laws. 2017-07-10 16:38 4KB www.adweek.com
6 2.2 22 dead, many missing as floods swamp southern
Japan
Days after Typhoon Nanmadol swept across country, almost two dozen still missing
and feared dead under deluge 2017-07-10 16:30 3KB www.cbsnews.com
7 0.9 New Pokemon Movie ‘I Choose You’ Drops Ash’s
Friends, Misty And Brock
It is Pokemon ‘s 20th anniversary, and this month, the Japanese franchise is set to
release its new movie Pokemon: I Choose You. The movie will serve as a retelling of
Ash Ketchum’s... 2017-07-10 15:37 3KB www.inquisitr.com
8 0.5 Madza makes your Facebook feed a car-crash in
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Japanese auto company Mazda is experimenting with an immersive ad format on
Facebook that sees an out-of-control car skeet across the newsfeed. 2017-07-10 15:26
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9 1.0 Japanese formula for happiness and long life seems
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Many of us can spend our whole lives searching for happiness. We tell ourselves we’ ll
be happy “when” “if” or “one day.”... 2017-07-10 15:05 2KB nypost.com
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Miguel Sano’s Family: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
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Miguel Sano of the Minnesota Twins will
participate in the 2017 Home Run
Derby.
Minnesota Twins third baseman Miguel
Sano joins an exciting lineup for the
2017 Home Run Derby. The 24-year-old
currently has 18 home runs in 69 games
this season.
As he showcases his power in the
national spotlight, here’s more on the
Minnesota Twins slugger and his family.
Getty Oswaldo Arcia of the Minnesota
Twins pours water on Miguel Sano after Sano hit a walk-off single against the Cleveland Indians
during the ninth inning of the game on April 26,2016.
Sano was born in San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic, to a poor Haitian and Cocolo
family.
He lived a “small, run-down house with eight people, ” according to Fox Sports.
“Well the neighborhood where we lived is a poor neighborhood, ” Sano told Fox Sports. “We
were a very poor family. My dad and mom pushed themselves a lot, and my grandma, to raise
all of my siblings working hard.”
Sano’s talent on the baseball field drew the attention of major-league scouts as a teenager.
He chose to begin to play baseball with the name Sano, his mother’s family name over using his
official surname of his father, which is Jean, out of respect to the Dominican Republic.
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Getty Sano’s daughter was one week old when she died of a heart defect in the Dominican
Republic.
In November 2014, Sano and his wife, Daniela, had their first child, a daughter named Angelica.
Tragically, Angelica lived for only one week due to a heart defect.
According to USA Today, Sano said his daughter’s death made him want to quit baseball until
his family and a man he knew from his native San Pedro de Macoris intervened.
“I was lost in the world, and there was this temptation to harm myself,’ ’ Sano told USA Today.
“And he sat down with me and said, ‘Calm down. Just like she left, some more will arrive.’ He
gave me some positive advice.”
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Getty Sano reacts after striking out in the fourth inning against the Washington Nationals at
Nationals Park on April 22,2016 in Washington, DC.
Sano underwent Tommy John surgery to repair a partially torn ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) in
his right elbow in 2014. As a result, he did not play a single game that season. It was the same
year he lost his infant daughter.
While rehabbing from surgery in Fort Myers, Sano flew home after his daughter’s birth in
November. He had returned to Florida when his mother called him with the tragic news.
“I know God took my baby, ” Sano told the Pioneer Press . “It’s crazy. He gave her to me. Then
he took her back.”
After missing the 2014 season, Sano bounced back and earned a major league callup in July
2015.
“I got hurt, I had surgery, and I lose the baby — it was a bad year for me, ” he told the Star
Tribune . “Really bad. But I’ m here now. I’ m OK. My wife and I will go on.”
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Getty Sano hits a two run home run in the seventh inning against the New York Yankees on
August 18,2015 at Yankee Stadium.
While Sano still mourns the loss of his daughter, he told USA Today that he reminds himself to
stay strong for his wife, Daniela and son.
Sano and his wife have a nine-month old son, Dylan Miguel and look forward to expanding their
family.
“We want to make more. Ten babies — maybe 10 babies, ” he told the Star Tribune.
Getty Sano went to a tattoo artist in the Dominican to give tribute to his late daughter.
After Angelica’s passing, it was too difficult for Sano to discuss his lost child.
“It was hard, ” he told Pioneer Press . “I would cry every day about that. My first baby, she died.”
Sano has a large tattoo on his right forearm in memory of Angelica. “Angelica R. I. P.” it reads in
large script.
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Brillante picks films for Tokyo fest
The 30th Tokyo International Film Festival will showcase the works of “the next generation” of
filmmakers from Southeast Asia in the Crosscut Asia section.
In the first three editions of this section, films from different
Southeast Asian countries were featured: Thailand, the
Philippines and Indonesia.
In an interview with the Inquirer during last year’s festival,
director general Yasushi Shiina said that “instead of just
focusing on one country, Crosscut Asia [will] highlight a
common theme or subject in the region.”
Now on its fourth year, the 2017 edition of Crosscut Asia has
been dubbed “What’s Next from Southeast Asia?” and will be
mounted by the Tokyo fest in collaboration with The Japan
Foundation Asia Center.
Organizers recently announced that four “maestros” from the region have been tapped to select
the movies to be included in the program that will also commemorate the 50th anniversary of the
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) .
Award-winning Filipino filmmaker Brillante Ma Mendoza will join colleagues Tran Anh Hung of
Vietnam, Apichatpong Weerasethakul of Thailand and Garin Nugroho of Indonesia in
“recommending works by young filmmakers from Southeast Asia.”’
Mendoza’s films were featured in Crosscut Asia’s Philippine retrospective in 2015. The Canneswinning Filipino director was also part of the omnibus film, “Asian Three-Fold Mirror 2016:
Reflection.”
Ten films from seven to eight countries will be included in the lineup.
This year’s Tokyo fest will be held from Oct. 25 to Nov. 3 in Roppongi Hills and other venues in
the Japanese capital.—BAYANI SAN DIEGO JR.
2017-07-10 21:35 Philippine Daily entertainment.inquirer.net
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Japan leader Abe on Nordic tour talks with Danish
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HELSINKI (AP) - Japanese
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
held talks on free trade and
North Korean missile tests
Monday in Copenhagen with
his Danish counterpart Lars
Loekke Rasmussen, at the
end of a Nordic tour which
also took him to Sweden and
Finland.
The meeting between Abe
and Danish Prime Minister
Lars Loekke Rasmussen
was the first one-on-one meeting in Denmark between Denmark’s head of government and a
Japanese prime minister.
Earlier in Helsinki, after talks with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto, Abe pledged to increase
cooperation on Arctic issues and on furthering Russian relations. He said Japan would increase
its role in the Arctic Council by “positively contributing more than in the past to (its) activities.”
“We will be enhancing our cooperation in the area of the environment regarding the Arctic
regions, ” Abe said in prepared statements by the two leaders.
Niinisto told Finnish media later Monday that the Arctic was facing increasing commercial
“pressures” from various countries including Japan, which has observer status at the eightmember council now chaired by Finland .
“They (Japanese) are particularly interested in the Northeast Passage, ” Niinisto said, referring
to the Arctic shipping route that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
After discussing bilateral relations, international issues and economic cooperation, the two
countries signed several agreements, including on developing environmental cooperation.
Abe noted that Japanese tourists were increasingly flocking to Finland. He attributed the interest
partly to Japanese children’s affinity to the “Moomins, ” the popular Finnish book and comic strip
characters, and to Santa Claus, who is known in Japan to live in Finnish Lapland.
He congratulated Finland on its 100th anniversary of independence from Russia, with which it
shares a 1,300-kilometer (800-mile) border.
“We reaffirmed our close collaboration in our relationship with Russia, ” Abe said without
elaborating the content of his talks with Niinisto.
Before arriving in Finland, the Japanese leader met with Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven
in Stockholm, where the two leaders demanded that North Korea halt missile tests, and pledged
increased cooperation in the U. N. Security Council.
2017-07-10 19:08 By JARI www.washingtontimes.com
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Japan's Shinzo Abe dives in polls after scandal, threats
July 10 (UPI) -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is plunging in the polls following a series
of scandals that have placed his office in the spotlight.
Abe, who recently returned from the G20 summit in Hamburg, is now facing the lowest approval
rating since returning to his position in 2012, the Financial Times reported Monday.
According to a poll taken by the Yomiuri Shimbun, only 36 percent of survey respondents said
they support the prime minister, down 13 percentage points from a month ago, when the poll
was last conducted.
The approval rating is down by 25 percentage points from May, according to the report, and is
lower than the 41 percent approval rating Abe garnered in September 2015, when he pushed
for the passage of a security bill that would allow Japan's forces to fight overseas.
The prime minister's steep drop in
popularity comes at a time when his
government has been discouraging
freedom of expression in the media,
according to the U. N. Special
Rapporteur
on
freedom
of
expression.
His
administration
has
also
threatened to punish staffers for
leaking documents pertaining to
recent scandals.
The most recent scandal, involving
Kake Gakuen, was brought to light by anonymous leakers in Abe's government, and by a former
administrative vice education minister, Kihei Maekawa, The Japan Times reported in June.
Maekawa has interviewed with local television network NHK regarding the scandal, involving
the transfer of zero-cost land to the Okayama University of Science, owned by Kotaro Kake, a
close friend of Abe and the owner of Kake Gakuen.
But Maekawa's interview with NHK did not air in June, and the Yomiuri reported Maekawa
visited a "shady dating bar" in Tokyo, days before he was scheduled to appear at a news
conference.
Maekawa has said Abe's office "was involved" in the Yomiuri report, and suggested the article
was published to smear his reputation.
At a parliamentary hearing on Monday, Maekawa said he did not bring the school scandal to
light during his term in government because he was "embarrassed and ashamed" by his
findings.
The former Japanese government official, who resigned in January, said he is supporting the
claims of leaked documents because he felt the public must know of the incident, South Korean
newspaper Segye Ilbo reported.
2017-07-10 18:59 Elizabeth Shim www.upi.com
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Dentsu Promises to ‘Eliminate Long Working Hours’ as
Company Faces Indictment Over Employee’s Suicide
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The case against holding company Dentsu has moved into a new phase
more than 18 months after an employee attributed her own suicide to a
companywide culture of overwork.
According to reports in The Japan Times and The Asahi Shimbun, the
Tokyo District Public Prosecutors office announced Friday that it would
seek a summary indictment against Dentsu Inc. for suspected labor violations stemming from the
death of 24-year-old Matsui Takahashi, who killed herself in December 2015 after claiming on
social media that she had worked more than 100 hours of overtime in a single month.
Executives at the Tokyo-based company, however, will not face charges. According to the Japan
Times story, that decision stems in part from the fact that managers across the network regularly
violated Japanese labor laws, so no single individual could be held responsible.
The Japanese Labor Ministry raided Dentsu’s corporate offices multiple times in late 2016 as
outrage over Takahashi’s death spread, and former CEO Tadashi Ishii announced his
resignation last December after local media reported that officials had recommended
indictments against him and other unnamed executives. Toshihiro Yamamoto, who formerly
served as senior vice president, succeeded Ishii in January.
Dentsu had announced plans to launch a “Working Environment Reforms Commission” before
news of the raids broke, and according to a company spokesperson, those efforts will continue.
“We will move forward with an array of initiatives under our plan, including enhancing the
working environment, reforming business processes and cultivating human resources, ” read a
statement provided to Adweek. “We will thereby eliminate long working hours and ensure that
our operations in Japan fully comply with local labor regulations while endeavoring to foster
sustainable growth for our employees and the organization.”
A representative declined to elaborate or comment directly on the legal case. Dentsu has yet to
issue an official response. When news of the pending indictments broke last year, the company
took responsibility, saying, “We take this situation very seriously. We sincerely apologize to all
concerned parties for causing this situation.”
According to local reports, Dentsu will most likely face an unspecified fine for multiple labor
violations. But Takahashi’s mother was quoted in the Japanese media expressing
dissatisfaction with the decision, saying her late daughter’s supervisor escaped indictment
despite allegedly issuing orders that violated national labor laws.
The situation is unfolding amid an ongoing conversation about work-life balance, which has
been a topic of intense debate in the agency world for years. The most recent wave of headlines
was inspired in part by the February death of a young Ogilvy Philippines employee suffering
from pneumonia. The agency later disputed any connection between the staffer’s workload and
his unexpected death.
Dentsu, which is one of the world’s five largest agency holding companies in terms of revenue,
owns dozens of agencies around the world. According to its own estimates, it currently employs
more than 48,000 in 146 countries.
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22 dead, many missing as floods swamp southern Japan
TOKYO -- The death toll from heavy
rain and flooding in southern Japan
has risen to 22, Japanese media
said Monday, after rescue workers
managed to reach isolated villages
where at least 20 others were still
missing and feared dead.
Heavy rain warnings were still in
place over the weekend for parts of
the southern island of Kyushu, days
after Typhoon Nanmadol swept
across Japan, triggering floods and
mudslides that wrecked hundreds of
homes, roads and rice terraces.
Japan's national public broadcaster, NHK, said Monday that government officials had recorded
landslides at 41 different locations, and flooding at 38 in the five prefectures, or provinces, hit by
the disaster.
Most of the deaths were in Fukuoka prefecture, but bodies were also been found neighboring
Oita prefecture.
Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga said 12,000 troops, firefighters and other rescuers
searched over the weekend for the missing, clearing debris off roads and delivering fresh water
and food supplies for the displaced at a school gymnasium. They have reached most of the
previously inaccessible villages, Suga said.
Nearly 1,000 residents were rescued over the past two days, but dozens are still believed to be
stranded. The operation has been slowed by mudflows and floodwaters as the rain continued.
In the hardest-hit Asakura city in Fukuoka, the bodies of a woman, her daughter and a grandson
were found late Friday on the first floor of their house that was crushed by a mudslide, NHK said.
Footage showed inundated rice fields and collapsed homes. Roads and bridges were
damaged, covered with broken trees washed down from the mountainside. Hundreds of people
in remote villages were being airlifted by military helicopters while soldiers waded through
floodwater carrying elderly people on their backs.
Japan's royal family postponed the formal announcement of Princess Mako's engagement to a
college classmate Saturday out of consideration for the suffering of people in the affected areas,
palace officials said. A new date has yet to be decided.
Japan's Meteorological Agency said Fukuoka and Oita experienced unprecedented amounts of
rain.
2017-07-10 16:30 CBS/AP www.cbsnews.com
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New Pokemon Movie ‘I Choose You’ Drops Ash’s
Friends, Misty And Brock
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It is Pokemon ‘s 20 th
anniversary, and this month,
the Japanese franchise is
set to release its new movie
Pokemon: I Choose You.
The movie will serve as a
retelling of Ash Ketchum’s
adventures in the Indigo
League and will be based
on the original anime series.
However, fans would be
disappointed to know that
Ash’s two firm friends would
not be accompanying him
on his adventures.
According to Kotaku, Brock and Misty, Ash’s first cohorts in the original anime, are both absent
from Pokemon: I Choose You. In their place are two random children named Makoto and Souji,
who would be accompanying Ash on his hunt for Pokemon.
As this movie is meant to be a celebration of the series’ 20 th anniversary, Brock and Misty’s
absence didn’ t go down well with Pokemon ‘s longtime fans. Game Rant reports that not all
established characters from the Indigo League era were replaced in the movie. Pokecenter’s
mainstay Nurse Joy, who appears largely unchanged from when she first appeared in the series
is still in the movie, but it looks like the boy Souji would not be making a pass at her, which is
what Brock became known for.
Earlier this year, a promotional artwork for the movie was released and fans immediately noticed
that Misty and Brock seemed to be replaced by two new characters. Back then, they expressed
fears that the two strange kids were “replacements” for Ash’s friends, and it seems they were
right.
Comicbook reveals that while Ash earns gym badges, captures Pokémon and searches for
Legendary Pokémon Ho-Oh, he does appear to be traveling most of the time with Souji and
Makoto. Misty is even replaced by Makoto in one iconic scene from the original anime where
Ash and Pikachu fight off a flock of angry Spearow after leaving Viridian City.
Producers have not revealed the reason behind Brock and Misty’s absence in Pokemon: I
Choose You. Reports say that it could be because of “merchandising” since Makoto and Souji
have partner Pokemon which are more popular than Brock and Misty’s. On a less cynical
assumption, Comicbook says that it could also be the producers’ way to make it clear that this
movie exists outside of the show’s continuity.
Meanwhile, Brock and Misty still makes a cameo appearance in the movie as they are featured
during the end credits in a montage of all of Ash’s other companions through the years.
Pokemon: I Choose You comes out in Japan this month, and will be released in the US and
Europe sometime in the fall.
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2017-07-10 15:37 Alexa Bacay www.inquisitr.com
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Madza makes your Facebook feed a car-crash in safety
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Japanese auto company
Mazda is experimenting
with an immersive ad
format on Facebook that
sees an out-of-control car
skeet across the newsfeed.
The ‘Distracted Driving’
campaign
from
BBR
Saatchi & Saatchi is
looking to inform Facebook
users that fiddling with your
phone while driving opens
up a substantial risk of danger for those in – and outside – the car.
The ad, a full page screen takeover, sees a car skid across the newsfeed and supposedly crack
the phone screen accompanied by the mantra 'Don’ t Scroll and Drive'.
It appears on Facebook as shown below in the following YouTube video.
Credits:
Air Date: July 2017
Agency Credits: BBR Saatchi & Saatchi
CEO: Yossi Lubaton
CCO: Idan Regev
Creative Team: Ran Even, Roy Zoaretz, Gal Mamalya, Idan Kligerman, Ori Hasson
VP Client Services: Ben Muskal
Account Supervisor: Aviv Benzikri
Account Executive: Gil Gershon
VP Content & Production: Dorit Gvili
Strategy Supervisor: Lora Goichman
Creative Coordinator: Eva Hasson
2017-07-10 15:26 All John www.thedrum.com
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Japanese formula for happiness and long life seems
kind of obvious
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Many of us can spend our whole lives searching for happiness. We tell
ourselves we’ ll be happy “when” “if” or “one day.” We read books about it
and watch movies with endings we wish were our own.
We want it so much that even thinking about it can be so confusing we
give up and try retail therapy instead.
The Japanese have a concept called “ikigai.” It’s pronounced aki-gay-aai and everyone has
one. It means purpose.
The Guardian reports there will be a flurry of books on the topic later this year. If that’s sparked
your interest, look out for “Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life” by Hector
Garcia or “The Little Book of Ikigai” by Ken Mogi.
What does it all mean?
Living authentically. Living true to yourself, finding what really makes you tick. What is your
sense of purpose?
“Practitioners must fill in the overlapping circle that covers motivation, fulfillment, what they earn
and what improves their life, ” the concept says. “The answer at the center will be the key to a
happy and long life, whether one cleans trains or owns railways.”
Is now a good time to mention that Japanese women have the highest life expectancy in the
world? The average age is 87 years old. Yes, the diet helps too, but don’ t we all want to find our
ikigai anyway? Reckon it’s the exact opposite of feeling stressed out even by the thought of
taking time off work.
2017-07-10 15:05 By WHIMN nypost.com
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