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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 7, 2006
Hillman: Media reports are false
Trey Hillman just wants to worry about baseball.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 7, 2006
Super start: Pitching stars square off in Pacific League series opener
TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. -- The Seibu Lions are right where they want to be.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Oct 7, 2006
PL playoffs offer many questions
This time last year, a heck of a brew was being whipped up east of Tokyo.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 30, 2006
Buffaloes linked with move for Collins
Katsuhiro Nakamura is no longer in the Orix Buffaloes' plans, and the franchise's third manager in its three-year existence is likely to be a foreigner, according to reports in the Japanese media.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 28, 2006
Lions win feels like a defeat
TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. -- Extra innings, and all for nothing.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 27, 2006
Marines rough up Matsuzaka; Lions fail to grab No. 1 seed
TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. At least Daisuke Matsuzaka has the playoffs.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 20, 2006
Cabrera powers Lions in crucial victory
TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. -- A day after Julio Zuleta took over Invoice Seibu Dome, Lions first baseman Alex Cabrera wasn't going to be shown up again.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 19, 2006
Zuleta slugs 3 homers in win
TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. -- Ichi, ni, san.... Julio Zuleta has known how to count in Japanese for a few years.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 16, 2006
Aoki, Swallows give Romano tough time
It took getting ahead for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows to get even.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 14, 2006
Shima hot for fans, Hiroshima and torching the opposition
YOKOHAMA -- When it's time to hang up his spikes, he wants to be known as Mr. Hiroshima.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 6, 2006
MLB-NPB series set for November
To win the World Baseball Classic, Team Japan had to cross the Pacific Ocean and play in major league parks. Now the major leaguers are going to return the favor.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 6, 2006
MLB-NPB series set for November start
Major League Baseball has a black eye of sorts, and Ryan Howard is going to make it all better.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 6, 2006
Valentine critical of All-Star Series
CHIBA -- It was no accident that the announcement of the MLB-NPB All-Star Series came later in the year than it ever has.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 1, 2006
Ramirez slugs grand slam in 9th to defeat Kroon, BayStars
Alex Ramirez knew what was coming.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Aug 20, 2006
Airs and grimaces
You don't even need a guitar to let your hot licks hang out anymore. Duckwalk like Angus (Young; AC/DC), windmill like (Pete; The Who) Townshend and bow like (Jimmy; Led Zeppelin) Page -- no prob; all with air, but not like (Michael; Nike Air) Jordan.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 17, 2006
Riggs, Iwamura deliver big hits in Swallows' runaway victory
Alex Ramirez didn't have much to clean up Wednesday night.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 24, 2006
Fujimoto leads CL to sweep
MIYAZAKI -- There's power in the bottom of the lineup, especially in an All-Star game.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jul 24, 2006
Kyushu showers let up long enough for All-Stars to play ball
MIYAZAKI -- Kyushu, what a boulevard of broken sweat.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 22, 2006
Central League captures opener
Kyuji Fujikawa couldn't even get a save for his birthday.
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 27, 2006
Zico's farewell anything but a party
Zico wanted to say goodbye.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

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