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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.
Japan to revise consumption tax exemption for overseas tourists
Tourists walk through Nakamise shopping street near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo in April
Japan's tourism industry hit by cancellations after megaquake alert
A beach closed due to a megaquake alert in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, from Friday to Thursday.
Focus shifts to incoming typhoon as Tropical Storm Maria dissipates
Newly formed Tropical Storm Ampil, which is forecast to approach eastern Japan this weekend, is seen on the left side of this satellite image.
Kishida to step down in September in bid to show ‘LDP has changed’
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.
Publisher finds surprise audience after translating history textbooks
Yamakawa Shuppansha president Takeshi Nozawa holds the publisher's textbook on Japanese history — used in high schools across Japan — alongside the new English version in Tokyo on May 23.
Economic security is about strengthening and sustaining growth, former minister says
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi says changes in the international balance of power, along with deepening economic interdependence, have led some countries to attempt to use their economic power to impose their will on others.
Ice bandanas, convenience store breaks: Running under Japan’s summer sun
Blistering heat is becoming a fixture of summer in Japan, but a few tweaks to your routine can make your outdoor runs bearable — if not enjoyable — until cooler temperatures return.
Japan issued its first-ever megaquake alert. What does that mean?
Naoshi Hirata (center), chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
France brings down the curtain on its Olympic party with Tom Cruise and Leon Marchand
Fireworks are set off during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics at Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Sunday.
Japan fuels U.S. LNG boom even as climate targets and impacts loom
Flaring at the Cameron LNG export terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana. Flaring, a common sight at LNG plants, is a controlled burning of gas for reasons ranging from depressurizing equipment to disposing of gas that can’t be used. The practice is a "waste of money" and negatively impacts climate change and human health, says the International Energy Agency.

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

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Sociologist Gracia Liu-Farrer argues that even though immigration doesn't figure into Japan's autobiography, it is more of a self-perception than a reality.
In search of the ‘Japanese dream’
By Thu-Huong Ha

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