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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 30, 2006
SubMarine no longer under radar
CHIBA -- Shunsuke Watanabe is a rabbit's foot, a twisting, turning good luck charm who gets it done.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 26, 2006
Buffs black Seibu's eye on Opening Day
TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. -- Buffalo beef tastes great, no matter the bull.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 22, 2006
Japan faces difficulty in hosting later round games for 2009 event
SAN DIEGO -- Results aside, it could be tough for Japan to host later round games for the next World Baseball Classic in 2009.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 22, 2006
Japan defeats Cuba to win first World Baseball Classic
SAN DIEGO -- So much for history. Well, for reliving it anyway.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 22, 2006
Ichiro calls victory 'greatest moment'
SAN DIEGO -- For Team Japan to be No. 1, Ichiro Suzuki had to bat No. 3.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 21, 2006
Cuba confident going into WBC final against Japan
SAN DIEGO -- Meet me in the middle. Cuba and Japan will meet Monday night in the World Baseball Classic finals, bringing Asia and Caribbean together at Petco Park in a finals pairing few expected. That includes at least one of the teams involved.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Mar 21, 2006
Japan, Cuba battle against the odds to make it to WBC final
SAN DIEGO -- The baseball giant who couldn't and the world-class unknown that almost wasn't allowed are getting ready to play for the World Baseball Classic championship. How perfect.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 20, 2006
Japan beats S. Korea for final berth
SAN DIEGO -- Team Japan absolutely had to beat South Korea.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 20, 2006
Cubans down Dominicans
SAN DIEGO -- Team Cuba didn't come all the way to Petco Park to get smoked.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 19, 2006
Japan players primed for semi with S. Korea
SAN DIEGO -- Team Japan's got the big smile down. All it needs now is the big win.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 18, 2006
Clemens issues cryptic statement
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Roger Clemens' muddy future may have cleared up a little bit after Thursday's 2-1 World Baseball Classic loss to Mexico.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 18, 2006
Japan on way to semis after Mexico tops U.S.
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- What a wonderfully lazy Thursday afternoon for Team Japan.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 17, 2006
S. Korea stifles Japan
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Not even prayer could help Team Japan.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 17, 2006
Lee having a blast in the WBC
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Lee Seung Yeop sure knows how to party.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 16, 2006
Japan downs Mexico
Team Mexico may actually be glad to see Roger Clemens after facing Team Japan.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 16, 2006
Protest peters out after disputed call
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Nippon Professional Baseball's formal protest was dead in the water before it left Japan.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 15, 2006
Japan set to protest 'loss' to Team USA
FULLERTON, Calif. -- Team Japan still can't outrun Sunday night.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 15, 2006
S. Korea downs U.S.
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- By now, Lee Seung Yeop is pretty much unstoppable.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 14, 2006
WBC Notebook
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Ichiro Suzuki saw daylight for one at-bat, but now he's back in the dark.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 14, 2006
Korea downs Mexico on Lee's two-run blast
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Lee Seung Yeop didn't leave his power stroke at Tokyo Dome.
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.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
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