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SOCCER
Nov 15, 2007

Nagai leads Reds to ACL title

SAITAMA — Urawa Reds were crowned kings of Asia after a comfortable 2-0 win over Iran's Sepahan in the second leg of their AFC Champions League final on Wednesday evening.
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CULTURE / OTAKOOL
Nov 15, 2007

Remix this: anime gets hijacked

Tim Park sits at home in his one-man studio in Ontario, Canada surrounded by piles of anime DVDs and a ton of tech.
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CULTURE / Art
Nov 15, 2007

Out of exile, into a Tokyo art space

For artist Morio Matsui, life has almost turned full circle. After four decades in "exile" in France, this currently Corsica-based Japanese artist's ties with his homeland have strengthened with the opening earlier this year of an art space, Espace Morio Matsui, in Shimo-Meguro, Tokyo.
BUSINESS
Nov 15, 2007

Isuzu hit for repeated bus recalls

Isuzu Motors Ltd. received a warning from the transport ministry over the company's repeated recalls of buses.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 10, 2007

Dragons bounce back with win

Hirokazu Ibata drove in four runs and the Chunichi Dragons avoided a second consecutive upset loss by defeating the Uni-President Lions 4-2 in the fourth game of the Konami Cup Asia Series 2007 on Friday night at Tokyo Dome.
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CULTURE / Music
Nov 8, 2007

Underworld outside their comfort zone

Call it a midlife crisis. Five years ago, Underworld's Karl Hyde and Rick Smith — then aged 45 and 43, respectively — took stock of their careers and realized a change was due.
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CULTURE / Music
Nov 8, 2007

Dub and dope: Weatherall's weird science

He's been a key mover in every dance genre from acid house to techno and indie disco. But if you really want to know what gets DJ and producer Andrew Weatherall out of bed in the morning, it's a rather different type of music.
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JAPAN
Nov 6, 2007

Nova fall just simple math: it bled red

A 330-sq.-meter office with a double bed, sauna and tea room was where Nozomu Sahashi, ousted president of Nova Corp., worked as the language school chain steadily teetered near bankruptcy over the past few years.
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SOCCER / J. League
Nov 4, 2007

Gamba earns Nabisco title

Teenage defender Michihiro Yasuda proved the hero with a second-half winner as Gamba Osaka edged Kawasaki Frontale 1-0 on Saturday to claim their first Nabisco Cup.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Nov 3, 2007

Points from 'Super League' matches crucial to title hopes

LONDON — They are becoming the games that the four participants dare not lose.
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JAPAN
Nov 3, 2007

Activists comfort dying dolphins

Opponents of Japan's annual dolphin slaughter have taken their campaign to a new level of confrontation by paddling into the bloody waters off a western killing cove to comfort animals moments before their deaths.
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COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Oct 30, 2007

Nova crash adds to 'eikaiwa' wage woes

It's said that the bigger they come, the harder they fall, and it's difficult to imagine a harder fall than Nova's.
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JAPAN
Oct 29, 2007

Scandals in food industry shatter safety myth

Ocean fresh sushi? Quality marbled beef? Exquisite confectionaries? Think again.
EDITORIALS
Oct 28, 2007

A fresh defense scandal

The credibility of the nation's defense administration is at stake in the wake of a fresh scandal embroiling a former top bureaucrat of the Defense Ministry and a defense contractor. We welcome the nonpartisan decision, reached at a Lower House select committee last week, to summon former administrative...
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COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Oct 27, 2007

Ryozo Tanaka

A question often asked of Professor Ryozo Tanaka is "What made you so keen on English culture and tradition?"
EDITORIALS
Oct 24, 2007

Libya comes out of the cold

Libya has won a nonpermanent seat on the United Nations Security Council. Tripoli's victory is the clearest sign of its international rehabilitation and a possible lesson for other so-called rogue states: Returning and respecting international norms can pay real dividends.
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LIFE / Digital
Oct 24, 2007

Asimo steps closer to Honda's Astro Boy goal

Honda's humanoid robot Asimo is so amazingly graceful for a machine that it's hard to believe there isn't a man inside that walking spacesuit.
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ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Oct 24, 2007

'Gore's Nobel Prize is wonderful'

As soon as the rumors began that former U.S. Vice President Al Gore and the U.N. Intergovern- mental Panel on Climate Change were being considered for a Nobel Peace Prize it was easy to predict at least one thing: Win or not, the commentators, pundits and bloggers were going to have a field day.
COMMENTARY
Oct 22, 2007

Potential for Korean progress

HONOLULU — "It could have been worse, a lot worse!" This was my initial reaction to the Oct. 2-4 summit meeting in Pyongyang between South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun and North Korea's "Dear Leader" Kim Jong Il.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Oct 21, 2007

Denver fan from Japan proud of Kazuo Matsui, Rockies

I knew we would hear from Ken Shimada, the Japanese fan living in Colorado who always boasts about Kazuo Matsui and the Rockies. Ken's most recent e-mail states:

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