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Dec 20, 2010

'Lost Boy' Lomong reflects

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — No one should be surprised that a movie is being made about Lopez Lomong's life. There is edge-of-your-seat drama, the horror of evil, the goodness of humanity. It is a lesson in how perseverance and a positive attitude, no matter what, can be rewarded with joy.
EDITORIALS
Dec 7, 2010

Japan's World Cup lobbying

FIFA has awarded Russia the right to host the World Cup in 2018 and Qatar in 2022. Japan, which wanted to host the event in 2022, was dropped in the second round of voting after Australia was eliminated in the first round. Japan received only two votes while South Korea garnered five. South Korea was...
SOCCER
Nov 6, 2010

Billionaire invests in amateur club

LONDON (AP) It's hardly on the same level as the takeovers of Liverpool or Manchester United.
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COMMUNITY
Sep 25, 2010

English teacher brings joy to orphans

Young kids running amok, dancing crazily, jumping on adults' backs demanding piggyback rides.
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SOCCER / SOCCER SCENE
Sep 23, 2010

Kagawa hits headlines as Jofuku becomes yesterday's news

In the ever-changing, always-moving world of soccer, reputations do not stand still for long. After a weekend of contrasting fortunes at home and abroad, Hiroshi Jofuku and Shinji Kagawa can attest to that.
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CULTURE / Film
Aug 13, 2010

'Secret'

Korean suspense thrillers are a little like Korean soccer games: rough, provocative and erupting with violence. Ultimately though, the scenes — like the soccer plays — are rigorously disciplined and calculated down to the tiniest detail. It goes without saying that both are extremely watchable. ...
SOCCER / SOCCER SCENE
Jul 29, 2010

Steady Japan works balancing act

With co-hosting in 2002 still fresh in the memory, Japan's bid to stage the World Cup for a second time in 2022 was always going to be a hard sell.
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SOCCER
Jul 25, 2010

New France coach wields ax

PARIS (AP) France coach Laurent Blanc will drop all 23 World Cup players for his first match next month as collective punishment for the team's embarrassing fiasco in South Africa.
EDITORIALS
Jul 2, 2010

Well-deserved praise for Japan

Japan's Blue Samurai deserve praise: In reaching the second round of this year's World Cup in South Africa, they did much better than expected. Tuesday's 5-3 defeat to Paraguay on a penalty shootout — after a grueling 120-minute contest without a goal — was heartbreaking. Although the team failed...
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COMMUNITY / Voices / VIEWS FROM THE STREET
Jun 15, 2010

Who do you think will win the 2010 World Cup?

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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 11, 2010

NPB commissioner Kato has big plans for game

Nippon Professional Baseball commissioner Ryozo Kato has a vision for Japanese baseball that stretches far beyond the nation's borders.
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LIFE / Style & Design / STYLE WISE
Mar 11, 2010

Revamps, re-openings, relocations and the return of Fashion Week

MISHA JANETTE Get ready for Fashion Week
SOCCER / World cup
Mar 4, 2010

Organizers: S. Africa nearly ready

DURBAN, South Africa (AP) South Africans proudly declared themselves nearly ready Tuesday, 100 days before they host the 2010 World Cup.
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LIFE / Style & Design / ON: DESIGN
Feb 25, 2010

Warm hearts and home comforts

Niimi stand goes to pot
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 21, 2010

Anxiety fuels the rise of European nativists

PARIS — A referendum in Switzerland forbids the construction of new minarets. Racial violence explodes in the southern Italian region of Calabria. An intense and controversial debate takes place in France on the issue of national identity. These events have little in common, yet they all point to a...
JAPAN
Nov 21, 2009

Couple's love story started in Africa

good faith. What language do you use to communicate with each other and your children?
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LIFE / Travel
Sep 20, 2009

Down by the waterside

Rivers, fountains, roses and art; they're all there on Nakanoshima Island in Osaka, just a stone's throw away but a world apart from the flashy neon and garish glitz of the city's bustling Dotonbori dining and entertainment hub.
LIFE / Travel
Sep 20, 2009

Down by the waterside

Rivers, fountains, roses and art; they're all there on Nakanoshima Island in Osaka, just a stone's throw away but a world apart from the flashy neon and garish glitz of the city's bustling Dotonbori dining and entertainment hub.
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Jun 9, 2009

Easter answers; credit crunch

The letter published in April about Easter in Japan — or rather the lack of it — provoked quite a response. The general consensus appears to be that Easter is too hard to pin down on the calendar for commercialization. Here are a couple of responses:
Reader Mail
Mar 15, 2009

South Africa ready for World Cup

I was disappointed to read The Observer article "Little feel-good for Africa's World Cup," published Feb. 12 on The Japan Times' Focus page. The writer's pessimistic and nit-picking assessment of the preparations for, and expectations of, the 2010 FIFA World Cup to be held in my country, South Africa,...
Reader Mail
Jan 18, 2009

Sports strategy for everyone

I read with amusement and sadness the Jan. 14 article "Plan afoot to raise Olympic athletes' medal prospects before '16." I've lived in Japan through five Olympics now, and it has been the same after each one: great frustration over the failure of Japanese athletes to do better than they did, mixed with...
SOCCER / World cup
Dec 21, 2008

Blatter lauds England 2018 World Cup bid

FIFA president Sepp Blatter praised England as a strong candidate to host the 2018 World Cup, adding he expects a competitive bidding process.
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JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Dec 2, 2008

Soka Gakkai keeps religious, political machine humming

What do movie star Orlando Bloom, who plays young pirate Will Turner in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, R&B diva Tina Turner and Shunsuke Nakamura, an ace midfielder for Scottish soccer team Celtic, have in common?

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