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BASKETBALL
Nov 15, 2009

White, Knight ignite Phoenix to easy win

Sometimes nicknames are created in the blink of an eye.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Nov 14, 2009

Time for Albirex to consider replacing Hirose as coach

When should a team fire a head coach?
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Nov 12, 2009

Discount Comme de Garcons, thermo threads, extreme styles and bohemian flair

Back to black
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Nov 11, 2009

Life in Japan can be a long and fraught train ride

Here's an illuminating little tale: In the early years of the Meiji Era (1868-1912), a Japanese official was sent to France to study the police system (which, incidentally, was replicated here). Traveling across the Paris suburbs in a crowded train one summer afternoon, the official was assailed by acute...
Japan Times
LIFE
Nov 8, 2009

Fashion fantasy meets form

With Japan Fashion Week shows now running concurrently with the Tokyo International Film Festival, it was hard sometimes not to liken the collections to films.
Reader Mail
Nov 8, 2009

Lots of playful college students

The anonymous Oct. 29 letter titled "Root causes of education problems" is enlightening as to Japan's education system flaws that afflict students before they enter their first university class. Certainly one cannot hope to improve education in this country without reforming the system at all levels....
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 6, 2009

Koyano continues to deliver in the clutch

Although he barely missed hitting the .300 mark, Eiichi Koyano was a big part of the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters' pennant-winning run with his MVP-type performance throughout the year.
Reader Mail
Nov 5, 2009

Kansai upends the gender rules

Regarding Koichi Ko's Oct. 28 article, "Be careful not to bend your gender in Japanese": While this is certainly a good article, as usual, I'm a bit bemused by the lack of acknowledgment that, at least in Kansai, wa is used almost as much by men as it is by women at the end of sentences. I guess I should...
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 5, 2009

Ogasawara busts out but keeps poker face

Watching Game 3 of the Japan Series must have been a bitter pill to swallow for Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters fans.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS / ICE TIME
Nov 4, 2009

Ando aims for second win of GP season at NHK Trophy

When Miki Ando takes the ice at the Big Hat in Nagano on Friday she will be looking to notch a Grand Prix victory for Nikolai Morozov's stable of skaters for the fourth straight weekend.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 3, 2009

Darvish shines despite injury

Yu Darvish went into the game in his worst shape, but left one of the best impressions of his legend-in-the-making career.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 1, 2009

Darvish creates stir during Saturday practice

SAPPORO — Whether he pitches or just walks onto the field, Yu Darvish still draws the biggest attention among the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Nov 1, 2009

Giants-Fighters Japan Series matchup a world away from 1981 clash

The ongoing Japan Series between the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters and the Yomiuri Giants marks the second time these two clubs have met to decide the championship of Japanese baseball. They also faced each other in 1981, and there have been a lot of changes since that first meeting 28 years ago.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / BACKSTREET STORIES
Nov 1, 2009

The haunting beauty that is Yushima

On a glowering October morning, I exit the Chiyoda Line at Yushima Station and stroll northwesterly through the back streets of Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Nov 1, 2009

Japanese food-safety label protects business foremost, and not people

It's wise to take any advertisement claim with a grain of salt, and some products invite not just skepticism but downright disbelief. Commercials for hair restoration aids may not actually state they will return your bald pate to a state of hirsute lushness, but they nevertheless get your hopes up toward...
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 31, 2009

Keane facing uphill battle with Ipswich Town

LONDON — Last April Ipswich Town sacked manager Jim Magilton and brought in Roy Keane for the last two games of the season. Ipswich's new owner Marcus Evans, who likes publicity as much as Superman enjoys kryptonite, wanted a big name. Instead, Ipswich is in a big mess.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 30, 2009

JSF chief requests Mao meet

In the wake of Mao Asada's poor showing at the Rostelecom Cup in Moscow last weekend, Japan Skating Federation president Seiko Hashimoto has requested a meeting with the embattled skater.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS / ICE TIME
Oct 28, 2009

Tarasova must go if Mao wants shot at Olympic glory

Sometimes you have to throw the game plan out the window.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 27, 2009

ESPN fires Phillips after sex scandal

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) Baseball analyst Steve Phillips was fired by ESPN on Sunday night less than a week after the former Mets general manager admitted having an affair with a production assistant at the cable network.
EDITORIALS
Oct 22, 2009

Unexpected Olympic pitch

The mayors of the atomic-bombed cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have announced their desire to invite the 2020 Summer Olympics to their cities and have called on the central government and the Japan Olympic Committee for support. Mayors Tadatoshi Akiba of Hiroshima and Tomihisa Taue of Nagasaki put...
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / IGADGET
Oct 21, 2009

Sony, Fujitsu computer models embrace Windows touch

The digital touch: Windows 7 is entrusted with delivering the Microsoft vision that Vista spectacularly failed to conjure. One promise of the new operating system is to help take the touch interface of Apple's iPhone and iPod products to a bigger stage. Sony has joined the ranks of computer-makers offering...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Oct 21, 2009

PlayStation 3 outsells Wii for first time in U.S.

Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 outsold Nintendo Co.'s Wii console for the first time following a $100 price cut, helping the U.S. video game market end six consecutive months of declining revenue.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 19, 2009

Pulling out all the stops for an Olympic bid

In an alternative universe, here's how Japan might have won the right to host the Olympic Games in 2016 with a glowing pitch to the International Olympics Committee (IOC) in Copenhagen.
Reader Mail
Oct 18, 2009

Balancing a foreign mom's roles

I was instantly drawn to Tomoko Otake's Oct. 6 article, " 'Outsider' shares unique take on life, prejudices in the 'real' Japan" — about Suzanne Kamada. I, too, am the blond-haired, blue-eyed wife of a Japanese man. We live in Michigan with our three kids, but visit family in Japan each summer. I lived...
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.
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.
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.
'Kohaku' still matters for J-pop bragging rights
Emerging Gen Z J-pop group ME:I will perform on this year's "Kohaku Uta Gassen," national broadcaster NHK’s New Year's Eve spectacle.
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.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
A boom for business tourism in Japan?
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