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Reference / SO WHAT THE HECK IS THAT
Jul 18, 2006

Morijio

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JAPAN
Jul 15, 2006

Mercury tops 38 in many areas; three people die

Three people died Friday after a heat wave swept across Japan, sending temperatures above 38 in many locations in the Kanto and Tokai regions Friday, police said.
EDITORIALS
Jul 8, 2006

Payback time after merging

The drama triggered when the Murakami fund, managed by maverick investor Mr. Yoshiaki Murakami, purchased a large chunk of Hanshin Electric Railway Co. shares came to an end last week as shareholders of both Hanshin and Hankyu Holdings Inc. voted for a merger. It is the first merger of major railway...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jul 2, 2006

Desperate Giants bring in Japan veteran Arias from Mexico

Not sure what to make of the Yomiuri Giants signing infielder George Arias just three days prior to the June 30 Japan pro baseball deadline for acquiring new foreign players.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 1, 2006

Tigers hand Giants 10th straight loss

Osamu Hamanaka, Andy Sheets and Akihiro Yano each homered and the Hanshin Tigers piled on misery in an 11-0 blanking Friday, sending the beleaguered Yomiuri Giants to their 10th consecutive defeat for the first time in 31 years.
JAPAN
Jul 1, 2006

Tokyo, Fukuoka apply for '16 Olympics

is all smiles Friday with Tsunekazu Takeda, chairman of the Japanese Olympic Committee, at the JOC secretariat in Shibuya Ward as he submits the capital's proposal to host the 2016 Olympic Games. KYODO PHOTO
CULTURE / Music
Jun 30, 2006

Summer Sonic

W hen & Where: Summer Sonic takes place Aug. 12-13 at Chiba Marine Stadium, Makuhari Messe in Chiba Prefecture; and WTC Open Air Stadium, Osaka Intex and Zepp Tokyo in Osaka. Shows begin at 11 a.m. on both days. The lineups on Saturday switch cities on Sunday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 17, 2006

Miyade, Ramirez power Swallows

Ryuji Miyade hit a go-ahead two-run homer and Alex Ramirez drove in four runs, leading the Yakult Swallows to an 8-4 win over the Chiba Lotte Marines in interleague action Friday.
SPORTS / E-LIST
Jun 15, 2006

Can CL train keep a rollin'?

As if by clockwork, the Central League standings have emerged from a humdrum one-star show featuring the Yomiuri Giants to a three-dog race with Chunichi and Hanshin poking their heads in -- and Yakult not out of it either. The E-List loves competition, parity, stories without predetermined endings,...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 14, 2006

Osaka school wins national title

Ryuji Shoji went 3-for-4 and drove in five runs as Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences edged defending champion Aoyama Gakuin University 7-6 in the final of the national collegiate baseball championship Tuesday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jun 8, 2006

Behind the scenes is where he preferred to be

"I founded the school in the first place because my father taught me I should do something for young people when I reached the age of 50.'' -- Shohei Imamura (in an interview with a former student in 1994)
JAPAN
May 31, 2006

Antinuclear activist Kawai, wife found dead in house fire

The stabbed bodies of antinuclear activist Tomoyasu Kawai and his wife, Yumiko, were found Tuesday in their burned house in Tokyo along with another body believed to be of their son, police and firefighters said.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
May 28, 2006

Japan sleepwalks by design toward peace-renouncing poll

The Japanese people may soon be asked to make a momentous decision in a nationwide referendum. As I write this, the major political parties are at loggerheads over conditions under which that referendum will be conducted. Behind the closed doors of the Diet, but barely touched on in the media, this debate...
EDITORIALS
May 21, 2006

Mr. Matsui's apology

'Mind the gap," the British warn commuters stepping off trains. It's good advice in East-West relations, too, since there are some gaps that appear to be unbridgeable. A rather wide one was revealed last week in the hubbub in the United States over the apology of New York Yankees left fielder Hideki...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
May 19, 2006

Mount Koya -- Japan's holy retreat

The young priest Kukai made his perilous journey to China as a member of a Japanese diplomatic mission in 804. Records indicate that he was already a master at dealing with bureaucratic superiors, not only by securing a place on the mission in the first place, but by negotiating (in accomplished Chinese)...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 16, 2006

Nippon Ham's Ogasawara available for free agency

Nippon Ham Fighters infielder Michihiro Ogasawara has fulfilled the requirements to become a free agent but said Monday he has not considered what course of action, if any, he will take with the Pacific League club.
CULTURE / Books
May 14, 2006

Asia needs to fill its brand deficit

ASIAN BRAND STRATEGY by Martin Roll, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, 272 pp., $42.50 (cloth). Shizuka Arakawa's graceful spins and spirals enthralled a nation as she won Japan the gold medal in women's figure skating at the Winter Olympics. But few would have cheered more loudly than Tokyo rice producer Toyorice...

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