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BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Feb 22, 2011

Pitchers in command on mound could make big strides this year

In a preview of the upcoming MLB season, through the prism of fantasy baseball, ESPN's Tristan Cockcroft argued that looking past wins, losses and ERA and at a pitcher's command numbers (strikeouts, walks etc.) was a great way of predicting future performance.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Feb 20, 2011

Kroon a character who won't soon be forgotten

Marc Kroon will be missed.
LIFE / Digital / TECH_JAPAN
Feb 16, 2011

Battle over cooking-website users is a recipe for all out war

Although things have been changing in recent years — as more Japanese women continue to work after marriage — in Japan it is still usually women who are expected to prepare meals for the family. And whether it be making bento (lunch boxes) for their husbands or children, or preparing the evening...
Reader Mail
Feb 10, 2011

Choreographed entertainment

Regarding the Feb. 4 article "Match-throwing final nail in sumo coffin?": As a youngster in upstate New York, I loved watching World Wrestling Federation (now called the World Wrestling Entertainment) matches on weekends. Hulk Hogan, Captain Lou, Andre the Giant, Junkyard Dog, Rowdy Roddy Piper — those...
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JAPAN
Feb 9, 2011

Sumo-rigging born of necessity?

The sumo bout-fixing unearthed in seized cell phone texts points to a practice that, according to at least one expert, was born out of a need by young wrestlers to survive a short-lived career where the spoils at the top are elusive and the threat of demotion and loss of pay is ever-present.
Reader Mail
Feb 6, 2011

Gun-control logic not so obvious

In his Jan. 27 letter, "Living with the fear of being shot," Ivor Paul affixes blame for murders on inanimate objects and not on murderers. Following this logic, we should address the problem of mothers drowning their own children by immediately banning bathtubs. Of course, most bathtub owners are not...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Feb 6, 2011

Focusing on Masayoshi Son and Eiga Mura; CM of the week: My Land

In the earlier half of the previous decade, Japan seemed almost overrun with entrepreneurs heading digital and cyber businesses. Few, however, have succeeded as well as Masayoshi Son, the founder and president of SoftBank, one of Japan's three leading mobile phone carriers and the only one built from...
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Feb 4, 2011

Old faces appear in new places as camp opens

Hichori Morimoto has dressed as an alien, a muay thai fighter and a popular cartoon character over the past few years.
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 27, 2011

Facing the specter of famine

SINGAPORE — In India, a potentially huge economic and social crisis is in the making, involving extensive rewriting of recipe books to exclude a favorite ingredient. Onions are in short supply and their prices have risen by 80 percent, too expensive for many Indians to afford as part of their daily...
Japan Times
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Jan 25, 2011

Giants' pool of foreign players will have to earn their spot on roster

The Yomiuri Giants may be trading Tokyo's cool temperatures and concrete facade for sunny and scenic Miyazaki, but the team's spring camp won't feel like much of a vacation for some of the newest Kyojin.
Reader Mail
Jan 20, 2011

Offer of time and skills to a child

Regarding the Jan. 12 Kyodo article "More anonymous 'cartoon hero' donors leave gifts for kids in need": I was pleased to hear about local donations to orphanages across Japan. It has long been something that has been behind closed doors and it is good to see an increased awareness of it in the public...
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MULTIMEDIA
Jan 19, 2011

Orix seeks 10% profit on equity by 2014

Financial services firm Orix Corp. is targeting a 10 percent return on equity in three years and a gradual increase in payments to shareholders, after cutting its dividend by 71 percent in the wake of the credit crisis.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Jan 17, 2011

Fighters rookie Saito in spotlight at practice

The next generation of NPB stars has hit the field.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Jan 11, 2011

Taking stock of a generation of changes

Ch-ch-ch-ch-changesTurn and face the strangeCh-ch-changesPretty soon now, you're gonna get older
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CULTURE / Film
Jan 7, 2011

'Sabi Otoko Sabi Onna (Groovy Guys, Groovy Girls)'

Japanese omnibus films — collections of similarly themed shorts — were more common a decade or two ago than now. They've always been risky box-office bets, and film distributors want a surer thing in today's fiercely competitive market.
EDITORIALS
Dec 29, 2010

Japan's 'hot' year

The kanji "sho" for "hot" has been chosen by the Japanese people as best representing 2010 in a poll organized by the Kyoto-based Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation. No doubt the memory of last summer's record-breaking heat is still fresh in people's minds, but ironically the summer also brought...

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