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Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2007

PCs getting pushed aside by other, powerful gadgets

Masaya Igarashi wants ¥20,000 headphones for his new iPod Touch, and he's torn between Nintendo Co.'s Wii and Sony's PlayStation 3 game consoles. When he has saved up again, he plans to splurge on a digital camera or flat-screen TV.
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.
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Nov 4, 2007

New Broncos coach Benoit is eager to guide basketball team to successful season

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. — A big smile flashes across David Benoit's face as he takes a break from running the Saitama Broncos' evening practice.
MORE SPORTS
Nov 3, 2007

Yanagimoto's squad sweeps Dominicans in opening match

Japan coach Shoichi Yanagimoto said his national team charges are peaking at the perfect time as the Women's Volleyball World Cup got under way on Friday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Nov 3, 2007

International group helps shed light on shadows of injustice

Monday to Friday, 9 to 5, you can pretty much expect to find Akiko Mera in the second-floor Oxfam office in a gray, nondescript building in Ueno, Tokyo, surrounded by a half-dozen desks piled high with papers, pamphlets and books. It looks very much like many other decades-old offices, where the daily...
COMMENTARY
Nov 3, 2007

A blow to the budding India-U.S. alliance

LONDON — Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's response made perfectly good sense. If his allies in Parliament were willing to bring the government down to block the nuclear deal with the United States that he had spent two years negotiating, he would drop the deal. "One has to live with certain disappointments,"...
BASKETBALL
Nov 2, 2007

With key players moving, Eastern Conference wide open as bj-league tips off

The nights are getting cooler, the days are growing shorter and professional basketball competition is heating up around Japan.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 2, 2007

'Always Zoku 3-chome no Yuhi'

Are the Japanese more nostalgic than the rest of us? It's hard to say, but here cinematic look-backs tend to be more bittersweet than in the West, especially films set in Tokyo, which was obliterated in World War II and has undergone several reincarnations in the six decades since.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 2, 2007

'F**k'

There's a great scene in "The Big Lebowski" where Sam Elliott leans over a bar counter next to Jeff Bridges and asks: "Just one thing, Dude. Do you have to use s'many cuss words?" To which The Dude replies, "What the f**k are you talkin' about, man?" That was but one of 281 times the F-word was used...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Nov 1, 2007

Skin goes only so deep

Nothing has changed since Aristotle noted a couple of thousand years ago that "it is not possible without considerable disgust to look upon the blood, flesh and similar parts of which the human body is constructed." Much here in "Skin of/in Contemporary Art," at the National Museum of Art, Osaka, until...
BASKETBALL
Oct 31, 2007

Evessa crush Rizing in season-opening game

Playing with the swagger and productivity of a champion, the Osaka Evessa routed the Rizing Fukuoka 91-71 on Tuesday night in the bj-league's third season opener.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 31, 2007

Wie to miss Japanese tourney

Michelle Wie will skip the Japanese tour's Casio World Open golf tournament next month while she recovers from hand injuries. "We have concluded that it is important for her to fully recover from her hand injuries before playing to her potential," said Yuichi Miyakawa, a spokesman for tournament sponsor...
BUSINESS
Oct 31, 2007

Battery recall charge stings Matsushita's bottom line

Saddled with losses stemming from a recall of lithium-ion batteries in Nokia mobile phones, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Tuesday its group net profit for the April-September period dropped 8.7 percent from a year ago to ¥105.1 billion.
BUSINESS
Oct 31, 2007

Takeda shares slide most in 20 years on drug delay fears

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. shares on Tuesday fell their farthest in 20 years in Tokyo trading over concern one of its most promising experimental medicines will be delayed.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 30, 2007

Darvish receives prestigious accolade

NAGOYA — Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters pitcher Yu Darvish was outstanding this season. So it's no surprise that the accolades have started rolling in.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 29, 2007

Young star Darvish impresses Dragons

SAPPORO — One day after Yu Darvish put on one of the greatest shows in Japan Series history the Chunichi Dragons were still a little awe-struck.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 28, 2007

Morozov: Maturity key to Miki's comeback

The transformation was nothing short of phenomenal.
EDITORIALS
Oct 26, 2007

Deadbeat life insurers

The nation's 38 life insurance companies have failed to pay ¥91 billion of insurance money and other due payments in about 1.2 million cases over five years since the 2001 fiscal year. This backlog will surely increase public worry following the reported nonpayment problem at nonlife-insurance companies...
CULTURE / Music
Oct 26, 2007

Vashti Bunyan "Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind"

Thirty-five years — that's how long it took for singer-songwriter Vashti Bunyan to be convinced there was an audience ready for a followup to her long-lost 1970 classic, the Joe Boyd-produced "Just Another Diamond Day." Among this swelling fan base was the likes of latter-day hip folkies such as Devendra...
30 minutes with Yuzuru Hanyu
Yuzuru Hanyu smiles during an interview in his hometown of Sendai in between performances of his latest tour, Ice Story.
Eight students recovering after hammer attack at university in Tokyo
Police investigate the scene after eight people were injured by a hammer-wielding woman on Hosei University's Tama campus in Tokyo on Friday afternoon.
Stage set for action-packed New Year Basho with yokozuna promotion battle
Kotozakura is in position to fight his way to a promotion to yokozuna going into the New Year Basho.
Race circuit and resort among post-event proposals for Osaka Expo site
A portion of the Grand Ring at the site of the Osaka Expo during a media tour late last month
Japan's health ministry reports record-high flu cases
A busy street in Tokyo on Dec. 30. The number of influenza patients per clinic, on average, in the final week of December was the highest since health ministry records began in 1999.
Isekai anime offers a key to understanding globalization
“The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic” centers on three teenage protagonists who are transported into a fantasy world where they must grapple with a foreign culture.
Japanese space startup readies for second lunar lander launch
Ispace CEO Takeshi Hakamada with the countdown clock for the launch of the startup's lunar lander, in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on Thursday
Emanuel leaves reform legacy amid historic shifts in U.S.-Japan alliance
Rahm Emanuel professes that the biggest thing he has brought to the U.S.-Japan relationship might be a fresh injection of vitality.
‘Unbound’ breaks NHK period drama tradition with a hero of the common folk
NHK’s latest taiga period drama, “Unbound,” centers on Tsutaya Juzaburo (Ryusei Yokohama), a commoner who becomes a successful bookseller and publisher.
Real wages fall for a fourth month, squeezing Japanese households further
Prices continue to outpace wage increases in Japan.

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