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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 21, 2006

Cuba confident going into WBC final against Japan

SAN DIEGO -- Meet me in the middle. Cuba and Japan will meet Monday night in the World Baseball Classic finals, bringing Asia and Caribbean together at Petco Park in a finals pairing few expected. That includes at least one of the teams involved.
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Mar 13, 2006

Japan's Ota 2nd in World Cup foil

Japanese fencer Yuki Ota posted his second podium finish on the World Cup circuit Sunday when he came runner-up to German Peter Joppich in the men's individual foil.
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Mar 13, 2006

Japan Skating Federation marks huge loss

The Japan Skating Federation recorded a huge loss over a period of several years up to 2003 in its international operations, a senior federation official said Sunday.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Mar 13, 2006

Koreans hope semi spot enough for military release

PHOENIX -- Grab a uniform and do it for your country. Whether it is in the army or in the World Baseball Classic, several members of Team Korea will do just that soon enough. Or they will already have done both.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Mar 12, 2006

Lefebvre has Team China improving

A few paragraphs to start off this week's column about Jim Lefebvre, manager of the China National Team which competed last weekend against Japan, Korea and Taiwan in the Asia Round of the World Baseball Classic at Tokyo Dome.
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Mar 10, 2006

Olympic champ Arakawa pulls out of world c'ships

Olympic figure skating champion Shizuka Arakawa has opted to sit out the upcoming world championships, the Japan Skating Federation said Thursday.
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Mar 7, 2006

A good cause

While Japan has no tradition of high-priced events for the wealthy to raise money for charity, expatriate communities here regularly lay on glitzy, high-profile parties as a means of raising money for the less fortunate.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 3, 2006

Unselfish Matsunaka putting it all on the line for 'Hinomaru' in WBC

Team Japan cleanup hitter Nobuhiko Matsunaka doesn't care how he swings the bat. Numbers are subordinate in the mind of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks star, especially in the World Baseball Classic.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 1, 2006

Japan aiming for top spot in first round of World Baseball Classic

Make no bones about it. Japan more than plans to make it to the second round of the World Baseball Classic.
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Mar 1, 2006

Injured Inoue to return to action in early April

Japanese heavyweight judoka Kosei Inoue said Tuesday he plans to return from an injury layoff at the national weight-class championships on April 2.
OLYMPICS
Feb 28, 2006

U.S. sliders turn in dreary show

CESANA, Italy (AP) By any measure, this was not what the U.S. sliding contingent wanted entering these Olympics. There was only one medal. One star retired. Two athletes were seriously injured. Shauna Rohbock and Valerie Fleming will head home happy; they won a silver medal in women's bobsled, capping...
OLYMPICS
Feb 28, 2006

U.S. skaters set to rebuild

TURIN, Italy (AP) A generation of U.S. speedskaters is stepping aside, leaving a major hole in a sport that has always been a consistent American medal producer at the Winter Olympics. Who will step up to replace them? That's a concern to Chris Witty and Casey FitzRandolph, both heading into probable...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Feb 25, 2006

Software aids communication in cultural context

Nils Plett, president and CEO of QE Tech, is tall. While angling my camera skyward to get his picture, walking alongside requires two steps to his every stride.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / BEST BAR NONE
Feb 24, 2006

A guide for doing the Nakameguro stroll

Naka-Meguro is one express stop southwest of Shibuya on the Tokyu Toyoko Line. And, like its one-stop counterparts on other commuter lines, the shopping streets closest to the station tend to attract a high concentration of eateries and bars all vying for your post-work cash. But like anywhere in Tokyo,...
OLYMPICS
Feb 23, 2006

Manninen's drought continues

TURIN, Italy (AP) Hannu Manninen has a record 42 wins in Nordic combined World Cup events, but his Olympic career is likely over without the Finnish great ever winning an individual medal. The three-time World Cup champ finished Tuesday's large hill sprint event in 12th place and said he's likely done...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Feb 23, 2006

Ichiro steps up to the plate in Fukuoka

FUKUOKA -- Ichiro Suzuki is back in Japan, and he is feeling good. The Seattle Mariners star painted the right-field stands at Yahoo Dome from both cages during batting practice at Japan's World Baseball Classic training session Wednesday, looking at ease before, during and after his time at the plate....
Japan approves ¥21.9 trillion stimulus plan
The policy chiefs of the Democratic Party for the People, Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito — Makoto Hamaguchi (left), Itsunori Onodera (center) and Mitsunari Okamoto — shake hands after reaching an agreement on an economic stimulus package on Wednesday.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Saitama court bans demonstrations over anti-Kurd hate speech
Kurdish people in Japan in 2015. A court injunction has banned acts that defame the Japan Kurdish Cultural Association and are disrespectful, such as putting up banner flags or handing out fliers with hate speech like “Refugees should go back to their home countries.”
China reinstates visa-free travel for Japanese nationals
Beijing Daxing International Airport
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
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.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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