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Ed Odeven
Ed Odeven covers primarily basketball for The Japan Times. He reported on a wide range of sports from the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Summer Games for this newspaper. A native of the Bronx, N.Y., Odeven is a graduate of Arizona State University. He previously worked for the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff, Ariz., reporting on high school, collegiate, professional and Olympic sports (Flagstaff is a major international Olympic training site due to its high elevation) and writing a weekly column. His articles have appeared in Venezuela Online News, The Gleaner (Jamaica), the Monitor (Uganda), The Moscow Times, Swimming World Magazine and numerous other publications.
BASKETBALL
May 22, 2007
Takushi drafted No. 1 by Golden Kings
To build a house, you need to start with the foundation. To build a basketball team from scratch, you need a point guard — a capable floor leader.
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
May 18, 2007
Bryant: JABBA should end nonsense toward bj-league
Outsiders often have the best "inside" view. It enables them to see the big picture without having their perspective clouded by petty differences, politics or cliques.
BASKETBALL
May 9, 2007
Albirex's Hirose gets 1-year deal
Niigata Albirex BB coach Masaya Hirose has received a one-year contract extension for next season, the bj-league announced Tuesday.
BASKETBALL
May 8, 2007
Fukuoka team's nickname revealed
Toshimitsu Kawachi, the bj-league commissioner, announced Monday the Fukuoka expansion club will be known as the Rizing Fukuoka. The squad joins the league next fall along with the Okinawa-based Ryukyu Golden Kings, increasing the league's total to 10 teams.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
May 5, 2007
De La Hoya-Mayweather has all the makings of a classic
Believe the hype.
BASKETBALL
Apr 24, 2007
Teamwork makes Evessa worthy champs
This just in: The Osaka Evessa have officially mastered the art of celebrating a championship.
BASKETBALL
Apr 23, 2007
Evessa claims second straight bj-league c'ship
The joy of winning never grows old.
BASKETBALL
Apr 22, 2007
Five Arrows down Albirex in semifinal
The regular season was no fluke.
BASKETBALL
Apr 22, 2007
Evessa advance to bj-league championship game
The Osaka Evessa showed their championship mettle on Saturday when it mattered most: in the fourth quarter.
BASKETBALL
Apr 21, 2007
Tabuse ends solid season for Jam
Yuta Tabuse, the first Japanese-born player to appear in an NBA game, has been a solid role player for the Bakersfield Jam of the NBA Developmental League, which ends its regular season on Saturday.
BASKETBALL
Apr 21, 2007
Evessa primed to retain bj-league title
When you win a league's first-ever championship, you establish a standard of excellence for your coaching staff, your players and your fans.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Apr 20, 2007
Bryant analyzes bj-league's 'final four'
Tokyo Apache coach Joe Bryant knows the ins and outs of each of the bj-league's seven other teams.
BASKETBALL
Apr 20, 2007
Eyes on the prize: Davis wants bj-league title for Albirex
For the Niigata Albirex BB, there's been one unifying goal this season: to return to the bj-league championship game.
BASKETBALL
Apr 19, 2007
Sparks provides comic relief, big plays for team
Rasheed Sparks delivers passes and takes them away with equal precision. He also delivers some of the best punch lines in Japan.
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Apr 13, 2007
Life altering experience came early for Oita's Allen
They say the older you get, the wiser you become.
BASKETBALL
Apr 8, 2007
Aoki named to all-league team
Lynn Washington, the reigning bj-league league MVP and star power forward for the defending champion Osaka Evessa, is back where you'd expect him to be at the end of the regular season: on the all-league team.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Apr 7, 2007
Takamatsu's Sparks best player, James top defender
Power forward Lynn Washington was instrumental in leading the Osaka Evessa to the bj-league's first championship last April.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Apr 6, 2007
Okada best Japanese player, Goya top native rookie in league's 2nd season
As a professional sports league grows, players become established stars. Such is the case with the bj-league, where Japanese basketball players are becoming household names in their home country.
BASKETBALL
Apr 2, 2007
Osaka tops Tokyo in season finale
The Osaka Evessa ended the regular season with a 93-80 victory over the visiting Tokyo Apache, improving to a league-best 29-11 in the process.
BASKETBALL / ONE-ON-ONE WITH ...
Apr 1, 2007
Five Arrows coach Aoki salutes supporters
The Japan Times will be featuring periodic interviews with individuals in the bj-league -- Japan's first professional basketball circuit -- which is in its second season. Head coach Motofumi Aoki of the Takamatsu Five Arrows is the subject of this week's profile.
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.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
'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.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.

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