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Eric L. Due
JAPAN
Jun 20, 2010
Around alone No. 8 finally near end for sailor, 76
Aloha hey. Seven-time solo sailing circumnavigator Minoru Saito, 76, is poised to reach Honolulu to pick up some heart meds, provisions, get a quick fix and a trim before departing on the homestretch to Yokohama to complete his eighth, and arguably most arduous, ordeal yet.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 10, 2008
Saito set for eighth solo around
Plan A: Sail dead south from Yokohama, turn right past Tasmania, duck under Australia, skirt the Cape of Good Hope, pound farther south, keep the hairy Cape Horn just off to the right, then turn right again and beat a rhumb line northwest back home — all without stopping and alone.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 5, 2008
Kamakura farmers hit food-waste plan
KAMAKURA, Kanagawa Pref. — The truck farmers market in the center of this ancient capital has been an experiment on many fronts: It is a rare no-middleman link to consumers, engaging in a communal shared rotation of stalls and offering an ever-expanding bounty to please the city's worldly palates....
Japan Times
JAPAN
Dec 27, 2007
A last hurrah at some of the year's political howlers
Inasmuch as newspapers routinely wrap up their year with top-10 news, sports and other stories, perhaps it would also be a good time to hark back on, say, roughly 10 memorable moments in blunder-speak, when political figures funded by the taxpayer blurt out nuggets guaranteed to show how not to earn...
Japan Times
Reference / Special Presentations / WITNESS TO WAR
Oct 10, 2007
Hellcat bent for leather — a navy flyboy's tale
From 26,000 feet he punched through a hole in the overcast over Tokyo early on a freezing Feb. 12, 1945, rolled into a roaring 60-degree dive and fired his rockets at a Mitsubishi engine plant.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / WEEK 3
May 20, 2007
Set on a course to be gone with the wind
Trundling homeward in the dark, cheeks-to-cheeks and pondering the meaning of life in a steamy train carriage. The conductor up front, immaculate and deadpan in a climate-controlled cubicle oblivious to Japan Rail's rolling Apache sweat lodge.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Feb 10, 2007
Asia's honored sailor sets sights on eighth circumnavigation
An angler yanks a fish out of the drink and it flops and flaps on the deck of a boat, pop-eyed, its gills wondering where the water went.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Jul 30, 2006
New horizons beckon legendary sailor
This story is part of a package on "Growing old healthily." The introduction is here
JAPAN
Jun 7, 2005
Nonstop circumnavigator, 71, sails into record books
MISAKI, Kanagawa Pref. — Sailing legend Minoru Saito cruised into the record books Monday evening when his aging, battered sloop Shuten-dohji II crossed a line off the port of Misaki, ending a 7 1/2-month, nonstop unassisted solo circumnavigation and making him at 71 the oldest person ever to perform...

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