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Oct 7, 2006

Suzuki puts scare in Federer

With nothing to lose, Takao Suzuki played one of the games of his life. Unfortunately for him, it wasn't quite good enough against the world No. 1.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 7, 2006

Hillman: Media reports are false

Trey Hillman just wants to worry about baseball.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 7, 2006

McClaren's decision to possibly play 3-5-2 a real puzzler

LONDON -- To the best of my knowledge no team has ever won the World Cup, European Championship, Champions League or Premiership by playing a 3-5-2 formation.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 7, 2006

Super start: Pitching stars square off in Pacific League series opener

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. -- The Seibu Lions are right where they want to be.
COMMENTARY
Oct 7, 2006

Pyongyang's nuclear threat

HONOLULU -- North Korea announced on Tuesday that it "will, in the future, conduct a nuclear-weapons test," promising that it will be done under conditions where "safety is firmly guaranteed." While Pyongyang did not say when this test would occur, it made it clear that it felt compelled to take such...
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Oct 7, 2006

PL playoffs offer many questions

This time last year, a heck of a brew was being whipped up east of Tokyo.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Oct 7, 2006

Satohiko Sasaki

This summer, the Japan Academy awarded Satohiko Sasaki the Duke of Edinburgh Prize for his study of the physiology and ecology of tropical rain forest species and the development of rehabilitation technology. The award, made in the presence of the Emperor and Empress, was a crowning recognition of Sasaki's...
BUSINESS
Oct 7, 2006

Forex reserves again hit record

Kyodo News
BUSINESS
Oct 7, 2006

Aeon good partner for Daiei but road ahead is still rocky

With Daiei Inc. expected to take Aeon Co. as its business partner, analysts say Daiei still faces a big challenge to turn its business around.
EDITORIALS
Oct 7, 2006

Higher calling for top diplomat

South Korean Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Ban Ki Moon is a shoo-in for becoming the next secretary general of the United Nations. Succeeding Mr. Kofi Annan, Mr. Ban will take up his new job Jan. 1. His election as secretary general later this month by the 192-member General Assembly became certain...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Oct 7, 2006

Tell me, just whose festival is it, anyhow?

October is a great month for festivals in Japan and our island is no exception. The Shiraishi Aki Matsuri is my favorite event of the year. It's a time when you meet your neighbors at 8 a.m. and start toasting to the Shinto gods. The matsuri men come out and pull the mikoshi and all-day merriment follows....
EDITORIALS
Oct 7, 2006

Consequence of skating on thin ice

Mr. Katsuichiro Hisanaga, former head of the Japan Skating Federation, and two others have been arrested on suspicion of embezzling 5.8 million yen from the organization in 2002. The arrests are regrettable especially since Japan has produced world-class figure skaters in the past decade. This year Ms....
SOCCER / J. League
Oct 6, 2006

Osim: Give players more time

Three months seems like a decent amount of time for Japan's players to work out the tactics and strategies demanded by Ivica Osim, but Mrs. Osim might beg to differ.
SOCCER
Oct 6, 2006

Moscow gets final

LJUBLJANA (AP) Moscow will stage the 2008 Champions League final.
EDITORIALS
Oct 6, 2006

Crying for attention, again

North Korea has announced it will conduct a nuclear-weapons test, without saying when. In February 2005, the North announced it possessed nuclear weapons, but this is the first time the country has publicized its intent to carry out a test.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 6, 2006

Rock, dance collide at outdoor fest

Billing itself as an outdoor festival in Tokyo "under the sun," the seventh Nagisa Music Festival takes place Oct. 14-15.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / WALKING THE WARDS
Oct 6, 2006

Animal magic in the jungle of Setagaya

Taxi drivers claim that, unless you've lived there all your life, Setagaya is nearly impossible to navigate. Major thoroughfares pulse straight across the second largest of Tokyo's 23 wards, but off the highway a maze of tapering, winding one-way alleys will often as not dead-end you in someone's back...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Oct 6, 2006

She wanted to die, but war saved her life

Many recent Iranian films are about the Iran-Iraq War, which lasted from 1980 to 1988, claimed a million lives and, as journalist Robert Fisk noted, "touched every family in both countries."
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 6, 2006

Gypsy jazzer keeps Django flame alive

Paris-born Gypsy-swing jazz guitarist Tchavolo Schmitt starts his five-date Japan tour in Kita Kyushu on Oct. 9, before finishing up in Tokyo on Oct. 14. Born in 1954 to a violinist father and guitar-playing mother, Schmitt started learning his instrument aged 6, before beginning his career in earnest...
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 6, 2006

Oz wine, photography

In commemoration of the 2006 Australia-Japan Year of Exchange, Otemachi Cafe in Tokyo is currently hosting an Australia Festival. The festival features a wine evening tonight (Oct. 6, 7:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m.). The first 50 people to arrive can enjoy Australian wines for free.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Oct 6, 2006

Old school rappers look to new schools

Since hip-hop emerged in the late 1970s, it's been closely linked with basketball. But just as the United States is no longer the dominant force in international hoops, its dominance in the world of beats and rhymes is also waning.
BASKETBALL
Oct 6, 2006

Okinawa gets ninth bj-league team

An Okinawa basketball group has been approved by bj-league to join the eight-team circuit as an expansion franchise from the 2007-2008 season, the Japan professional basketball league announced Thursday.

Longform

Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes