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Mar 5, 2005

Okada looking to conquer Japan, Asia and rest of world

YOKOHAMA -- Yokohama F. Marinos manager Takeshi Okada has set his sights on a domestic and continental title double in 2005.
COMMUNITY
Dec 26, 2004

Revealing 'The Japanese Sensibility': Humanism

What could be said for the human being after Nanking, Dresden, Auschwitz, Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Whatever the motivation, this is what we did to each other, and continue to do to this very hour. How can a writer write about goodness when people of all nations, autocratic or democratic, take up murder...
Features
Dec 5, 2004

Revealing 'The Japanese Sensibility': Intimacy

To punish men for their sins The smoothest skin The longest black hair All that Is me
SOCCER / World cup
Nov 23, 2004

Japan, South Korea separated in draw for World Cup qualifiers

Archrivals Japan and South Korea will be separated into two different groups as the top-seeded countries in the upcoming draw for the final round of Asian zone qualifiers for the 2006 World Cup finals in Germany.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art / CERAMIC SCENE
Oct 13, 2004

Mino for the modern world

The traditional Mino pottery styles of Shino, Oribe, Yellow Seto and Black Seto have been the pride of the Japanese ceramic world since the Momoyama Period (1568-1615). However, Mino pottery just isn't what it used to be. Gone are its chadogu (tea wares) days of the 17th-19th century, when it was used...
SOCCER / World cup
Oct 10, 2004

Japanese wrestlers smash field to claim third World Cup title

Japan demolished the competition to claim its first title in two years and third overall with an unbeaten record at the women's wrestling World Cup on Saturday.
Japan Times
Features
Sep 12, 2004

Heights of cleanliness

What must it be like to stand on top of the world's highest mountain? To battle through driving snow and across deadly glaciers, to scale icy rock walls and risk falling thousands of meters while being hit full-on by raging, freezing winds -- aware that an avalanche could, at any moment, swat you into...
EDITORIALS
Aug 30, 2004

An example for the real world

Peace is the central message of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. The Olympic flame -- the symbol of that message -- will be extinguished late Sunday night (early Monday in Japan), about five months after it was lit in Olympia, the site of the ancient Olympics. In a world riven with hatred and violence,...
JAPAN
Jul 17, 2004

Homeless team heads for Sweden to battle in second futsal world cup

Thirty years of ups and downs -- the last five of which he has spent living in a park -- have not rusted Takashi Ito's ball-control skills as much as he had thought they would.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 9, 2004

Japan owners reject Baseball World Cup

Japan's baseball owners have decided to reject Major League Baseball's World Cup concept in which the U.S. commissioner's office and the Major League Baseball Players Association would be in charge of the tournament.
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Apr 21, 2004

Japan eyes hosting 2011 World Cup

Japan will apply to the International Rugby Board (IRB) to become a candidate to host the 2011 Rugby World Cup, rugby sources said Tuesday.
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Apr 14, 2004

Japan wants to host 2007 World Cup

The American Football Association of Japan said Tuesday it has been moving forward in a bidding process that will make Japan a candidate to host the 2007 American Football World Cup.
SPORTS
Nov 23, 2003

England wins Rugby World Cup

SYDNEY - The unerring boot of Jonny Wilkinson had been the talk of the 2003 Rugby World Cup to date and in a fitting end to an epic final it was his magical right-footed drop goal that won England the William Webb Ellis Trophy for the first time in Sydney on Saturday night.
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Nov 17, 2003

England boots France

SYDNEY -- England set up a repeat of the 1991 Rugby World Cup final with a 24-7 semifinal win over France at a wet Telstra Stadium in Sydney on Sunday.
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Oct 27, 2003

Cherry Blossoms plan to leave Rugby World Cup in style

SYDNEY -- Japan coach Shogo Mukai and a number of his staff will bid the national team farewell on Monday when the Cherry Blossoms take on the U.S. in Gosford in their final game at the Rugby World Cup.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Oct 22, 2003

It's a man's, man's world . . . unfortunately

Last week I looked at two plays depicting the lives of women. This week, the focus is two excellent contemporary comedy dramas about modern Japanese history -- and that means it's big-shot male politicians, bureaucrats and gangsters who hold center stage.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 24, 2003

Peacenik taps art world to parody war

Tetsuya Ozaki is trying to wage peace in a unique theater of war -- the theater of the absurd.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Sep 24, 2003

The dark, radiant world of Rembrandt van Rijn

It doesn't look like the face of a man who paints religious scenes. Fleshy, with that famously crumpled nose, he sports a jaunty hat and a look of shabby dandyism. In his later years -- more than two decades after he engraved this 1631 self-portrait -- the artist would be forced into bankruptcy, unable...
COMMUNITY
Sep 13, 2003

Blue-eyed singer brings heart of Japan to world

Greg Irwin looks back to the year 2000 and can hardly believe how his life has turned around. "I was ready to quit singing doyo. I was not happy in my personal life. I was questioning living in Japan and my career seemed to have hit the glass ceiling."
COMMENTARY
Aug 9, 2003

Political world prepares for fall showdown

The first half of 2003 was volatile both internationally and domestically. Severe acute respiratory syndrome hit China, other Asian countries and Canada at the beginning of the year and spread around the world. Then, in the Middle East, war broke out when the United States and Britain invaded Iraq, overthrew...
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Jul 15, 2003

Japan triumphs in American football World Cup

Yuichi Tomizawa connected with former NFL Europe receiver Masato Itai for a game-tying touchdown and linebacker Kanehito Tamai returned an interception 33 yards to give Japan the lead for good as Japan defeated Mexico 34-14 on Saturday to win the American Football World Cup in Hanau, Germany.
SOCCER / World cup
Jul 13, 2003

Japan secures final spot in Women's World Cup with victory over Mexico

Japan secured the final spot in this fall's Women's World Cup soccer finals in the United States after defeating Mexico 2-0 in the second leg of their qualification playoff in Tokyo on Saturday.
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Apr 28, 2003

Kitajima misses out on world mark

Kosuke Kitajima posted an easy victory Sunday in the men's 100 meters breaststroke final but missed out on setting a world record on the final day of Japan's national swimming championships.

Longform

Atsuyoshi Koike, the president and CEO of Rapidus, says there is a “sense of urgency” when it comes to Japan’s efforts in manufacturing semiconductors. “We have to make sure we are successful,” he says.
Atsuyoshi Koike’s big game: Fourth down and 2 nanometers to go