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Aug 27, 2007

Steeplechase kings

OSAKA — Few things in life are guaranteed, but there seems to be one automatic occurrence in athletics: a Kenyan-born athlete will win a major international steeplechase race.
SPORTS / ODDS AND EVENS
Aug 26, 2007

Murofushi, Tamesue thrill, disappoint fans

OSAKA — Within a span of an hour on Saturday night, Japanese spectators enjoyed the excitement of watching Koji Murofushi, the 2004 Olympic gold medal hammer thrower, and Dai Tamesue, a two-time bronze medal winner at the IAAF World Athletics Championships, in action.
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Aug 26, 2007

Worlds notebook; Day 1

OSAKA — News and notes from Day One of the 2007 IAAF World Athletics Championships:
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Aug 25, 2007

Distance great Bekele aims for more glory

OSAKA — Kenenisa Bekele is the greatest athlete you've probably never heard of.
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Aug 25, 2007

Japan women poised to retain dominance in major marathons

OSAKA — Will a new Japanese female marathon sweetheart emerge at the 2007 IAAF World Athletics Championships?
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Aug 25, 2007

Dedication, goodwill go far deeper than the skin

Hideoki Ogawa vividly remembers the tears and waving flags of the Chinese soldiers and hospital staff who turned out at the port of Tiangjin near Beijing to bid farewell to his father.
EDITORIALS
Aug 24, 2007

New effort to boost tourism

The government has decided on a basic plan to promote the tourist industry as one of Japan's main policy measures for the 21st century. The basic plan sets goals in 25 areas, including three main ones — increasing domestic tours by Japanese, attracting more tourists from abroad, and increasing the...
COMMENTARY
Aug 24, 2007

The unending humanitarian nightmare

NEW YORK — In August 2002, Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser under Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush, wrote a prescient article in The Wall Street Journal warning of the dire consequences of invading Iraq. His predictions are confirmed in a new report by Oxfam, the British aid agency...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 24, 2007

'Oyaji'

Action stars in Hollywood tend to have long shelf lives. Jackie Chan, born in 1954, is still making slick kung-fu moves in "Rush Hour 3," while Sylvester Stallone, born in 1946, returned to the ring this year in "Rocky Balboa." And Harrison Ford, born in 1942, is back again for a fourth round as Indiana...
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Aug 23, 2007

Moses certain Liu will shine in Osaka

Do you want an expert's prediction on the IAAF World Athletics Championships?
EDITORIALS
Aug 22, 2007

Surviving summer's heat waves

The hot weather last week certainly made some people wonder whether the Japanese archipelago is experiencing the effects of global warming. On Aug. 16, the city of Kumagaya in Saitama Prefecture and the city of Tajimi in Gifu Prefecture registered the highest temperature — 40.9 C — in the history...
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Aug 22, 2007

Can others save Earth despite Big Oil's blinkers?

How can an economic superpower founded on progress and innovation be so averse to change that would cut the greenhouse-gas emissions that are spurring global warming and climate change?
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 22, 2007

Nuclear deal fueling opposition to Singh

NEW DELHI — Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's political future has come under a cloud over a controversial civil nuclear cooperation agreement with the United States that has helped isolate his party in Parliament.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 21, 2007

Otsuji to head LDP Upper House ranks

Bidding for a fresh start following its crushing defeat in the last election, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party officially picked four-term lawmaker Hidehisa Otsuji to head the party's Upper House caucus Monday.
COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Aug 20, 2007

Why can't Americans give up their guns?

NEW YORK — Is there anything comparable to the numbing obstinacy, the utter blindness to reality, that politicians display toward the consequences of untrammeled gun ownership in this country? So I wondered, once again, when I stumbled upon President George W. Bush's answer to what some now call "the...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Aug 19, 2007

Kuwata, Igawa, Furuta share uncertain future as players

Too bad about the career of Masumi Kuwata apparently coming to an end after he was designated for assignment by the Pittsburgh Pirates, but success pitching in the major leagues for the 39-year-old right-hander was really a long shot, made even longer because of the ankle injury he had in a spring training...
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Aug 19, 2007

Moses trying to help less fortunate hurdle obstacles

Edwin Moses was an untouchable, unbeatable performer as a track and field superstar during his heyday in the 1970s and '80s.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 19, 2007

Something's up as 'buy' confidence slips

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut — The sharp drop in the world's stock markets on Aug. 9 — after BNP Paribas announced that it would freeze three of its funds — is just one more example of the markets' recent downward instability or asymmetry. The markets have been more vulnerable to sudden large drops than...
EDITORIALS
Aug 17, 2007

Calming global jitters

World stock markets have been on a roller-coaster ride in recent weeks. Defaults in the U.S. subprime mortgage market have rippled through the global economy, forcing central banks to inject liquidity into their banking systems as credit tightened. The jitters are another reminder of the interconnectedness...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Aug 17, 2007

'Vexille'

Back in 2004, when the sci-fi anime "Appleseed" was released, Studio Ghibli president Toshio Suzuki told me that it was the "future of animation." Not so much for the story, which was a retread of a Shirow Masamune manga about a half-human, half-bioroid (biological android) future society, as for the...
BUSINESS
Aug 17, 2007

MUFG to sell 'catastrophe bonds' linked to quake danger

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., Japan's biggest bank, plans to sell bonds linked to earthquake risk to tap demand from investors seeking higher returns and from companies to hedge the cost of potential damage.
COMMENTARY
Aug 16, 2007

Japan, India: natural allies

NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, weakened by a mortifying defeat in Upper House elections, will address the Indian Parliament later this month. This is an honor that U.S. President George W. Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao did not get during their state visits to India last year. India and...
Taiwan stuns Samurai Japan to capture Premier12 title
Japan starter Shosei Togo reacts after allowing a three-run home run against Taiwan in the fifth inning of the Premier12 final on Sunday.
Ishiba shelves proposal for liaison offices with North Korea amid rising tensions
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba speaks on Saturday in Tokyo at a rally that was held by a group of families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea decades ago to demand the immediate return of all abductees.
How Japan can exit the fossil fuel subsidies it can’t seem to quit
A man walks past a gasoline station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Woman dies after train collides with car in Tochigi
A Moka Railway train car
Japan beats Taiwan ahead of rematch in Premier12 final
Keita Sano celebrates with his teammates after scoring on Kotaro Kiyomiya's two-run triple against Taiwan during their Premier12 game at Tokyo Dome on Saturday.
An iconic 32-foot doughnut might give Randy’s an edge in Japan
Randy's Donuts in Inglewood, California. Replicas of the giant doughnut sculpture will be installed, where possible, at shops in Japan.
Tokyo’s newest three-star chef wants ‘harmony across every detail’
British-born Daniel Calvert earned his third Michelin star last month — a stunning achievement considering his restaurant, Sezanne, has only been open for just over three years.
133-year-old Kyushu railway station remains to be partially preserved
The remains of the original Moji Station in Kitakyushu
After Shohei Ohtani bump, Iwate ironware maker sees brighter future
Kaito Kikuchi's decision to send superstar Shohei Ohtani one of his company's traditional ironware tea kettles has paid off with a surge of interest from general consumers.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.

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