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EDITORIALS
Dec 11, 2007

'Student' comes before 'athlete'

Sports are supposed to build a sound mind and a sound spirit. But recent marijuana incidents involving rugby players at Kanto Gakuin University raise the suspicion that many student athletes have forgotten the true meaning of sports. Rugby fans may ask: Where is the pride of rugby players whose tenets...
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Dec 3, 2007

Wrathful gods bear down on sinful global economy

'W rath of Gods" is the title of an award-winning documentary directed by Jon Gustafsson, the Iceland-born filmmaker. It could equally be the title of a documentary about the state of the global economy as it stands in November 2008.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Nov 25, 2007

Carp manager Brown optimistic despite loss of key players

In 2008, Hiroshima Carp manager Marty Brown will be entering his third season as skipper of the Central League club without his two best players.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 13, 2007

Ochiai plans ahead after Asia triumph

There's no rest for the weary. That's a lesson Chunichi Dragons manager Hiromitsu Ochiai is learning the hard way this year.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 11, 2007

Marines' Fukuura opts to re-sign

Chiba Lotte Marines infielder Kazuya Fukuura has decided not to exercise his right to free agency and will re-sign with the Pacific League club, baseball sources said Saturday. The 31-year-old Fukuura will make ¥30 million less than this year on a one-year deal worth an estimated ¥150 million plus...
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.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 9, 2007

Dragons downed by Wyverns

The Chunichi Dragons were flying high after their recent win in the Japan Series but the SK Wyverns brought them back to earth in a hurry.
Reader Mail
Nov 8, 2007

Review of NHK's offerings

Encouraged by timely letters Oct. 30, may this resident of over 50 years register his rage at some of the recent behavior of NHK with the hope of some kind of rectification?
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 8, 2007

NPB committee approves draft

The Nippon Professional Baseball executive committee on Tuesday approved a proposed return to a unified draft for high school, collegiate and corporate players. The approval came after a draft reform committee agreed in early October to have a unified draft from next year. Under the current draft system...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Nov 2, 2007

Dragons clinch Japan Series

NAGOYA — It was almost the perfect ending to 53 years of heartbreak.
EDITORIALS
Oct 30, 2007

Skewed attitudes in sports

A teenage sumo wrestler just embarking on his career is bullied and hazed to death, yet nothing is done about it for months by either the Japan Sumo Association or the police — even after flags are raised. A sumo grand champion is banned for a perceived infraction, and then comes down with a stress...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 29, 2007

Dragons even series in runaway victory

SAPPORO — The Chunichi Dragons got another huge performance out of one of their starting pitchers — and this time they didn't waste it.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 29, 2007

Cool customer: Seguignol keeps composed, produces in big games

SAPPORO — Channeling his anger into production, that's what Fernando Seguignol exhibited in his first at-bat of the 2007 Japan Series.
BASKETBALL / ONE-ON-ONE WITH ...
Oct 28, 2007

Kawachi confident as bj-league begins third year

In an exclusive interview with The Japan Times, Toshimitsu Kawachi, the bj-league commissioner, spoke at length about the challenges the third-year league has in achieving long-term success, the structural problems of the Japan Basketball Association (JBA) and his vision for future expansion in the league....
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Oct 28, 2007

Having rebuilt Fighters, Hillman faces new challenge in K.C.

Outgoing Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters manager Trey Hillman obviously has only one thing on his mind right now — beating the Chunichi Dragons again and winning a second consecutive Japan Series title.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 27, 2007

Fighters yearn to repeat; Dragons want different outcome

SAPPORO — A lot of the faces may be the same, but this year's Japan Series is showing just how quickly things can change.

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