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Germany's Dennis Schroder lifts the trophy after his team's win over Serbia in the Basketball World Cup final in Manila on Sunday.
BASKETBALL
Sep 11, 2023
'Team-first' mentality carries Germany to first Basketball World Cup title
Both Germany and Serbia had already qualified for next year's Paris Olympics as the World Cup's two highest-placed European teams.
Team Canada celebrates after beating the United States in the bronze-medal match at the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Manila on Sunday.
BASKETBALL
Sep 10, 2023
Canada outlasts Team USA in OT for first-ever FIBA World Cup medal
Team USA, previously unbeaten in its four bronze-medal matches, recorded the most points it has ever conceded in a World Cup game.
Mikal Bridges of the U.S. lays up during a FIBA Basketball World Cup quarterfinal match against Italy in Manila on Tuesday.
BASKETBALL / Basketball
Sep 6, 2023
United States and Serbia cruise into Basketball World Cup semifinals
Team USA, the highest-ranked side still left in the tournament, trounced Italy 100-63.
Borisa Simanic (right) in action against China during the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Quezon City, the Philippines, on Aug. 26
BASKETBALL / Basketball
Sep 5, 2023
Serbia player loses kidney at Basketball World Cup
Simanic had an operation in a Manila hospital after being hit by a South Sudan player's elbow during a competition pool game on Aug. 30.
Canada's Shai Gilgeous-Alexander drives against Brazil's Alberto Diaz during their game at the Basketball World Cup in Jakarta on Sunday.
BASKETBALL
Sep 4, 2023
Canada knocks defending champion Spain out of Basketball World Cup
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 13 points in the decisive fourth quarter to lift Canada to the win.
South Sudan qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics as highest-placed African team at the Basketball World Cup.
BASKETBALL
Sep 3, 2023
Jubilant South Sudan qualifies for Paris Olympics
South Sudan coach Royal Ivey said the team had brought "unity, camaraderie, love and friendship" to the country.
Yuta Watanabe celebrates Japan's comback win over Venenzula at the Okinawa Arena on Thursday.
BASKETBALL
Sep 1, 2023
With victory over Venezuela, Japan inches closer to Olympics
In a nail-biter, Japan erases a nine-point gap to triumph over Venezuela. They are now just one win away from securing their Olympic dreams.
China's Peng Zhou on Wednesday after his team's defeat. China's women's team is a global powerhouse, but the men have failed to meet expectations in recent years despite an infusion of naturalized players from overseas.
BASKETBALL
Aug 31, 2023
Chinese fans despair over Basketball World Cup result
China needed to win their final group match on Wednesday night and hope the other results went their way, but were outclassed 107-89 by Puerto Rico.
Spain and Cavaliers point guard Ricky Rubio missed much of the 2022-23 NBA season due to an ACL injury.
BASKETBALL / NBA
Aug 6, 2023
Cavs' Ricky Rubio steps away from basketball, cites mental health
The 32-year-old has been in the public eye since he became a household name in Spain at 15, thanks to his flashy style of play.
Timberwolves forward Kyle Anderson (left) qualified for Chinese citizenship through his maternal grandmother, who was born in Jamaica to a Chinese father and Jamaican mother.
BASKETBALL
Jul 25, 2023
American NBA player Kyle Anderson to represent China at World Cup
The 29-year-old forward from New York is the latest elite athlete to gain Chinese nationality through naturalization and the first basketball player to do so.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA
Jul 7, 2023
U.S. to vie for World Cup without top NBA stars
The United States will compete at the Basketball World Cup in August with a team coached by Steve Kerr but without any of the NBA's top stars.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Jun 27, 2023
Victor Wembanyama to skip FIBA World Cup, focus on NBA rookie season
France is the reigning Olympic silver medalist with an eye on winning the World Cup in September.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Apr 19, 2023
Russia's men's basketball team banned from Olympic pre-qualification
Russia, which was 12th at the previous FIBA Men's World Cup in 2019, last qualified for the Olympics in 2012.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Feb 28, 2023
Fourth-ranked Argentina fails to qualify for FIBA World Cup
The South American side will not play in the Aug. 25-Sept. 10 tournament despite finishing as runner-up in the last edition.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Feb 27, 2023
Japan beats Bahrain in final FIBA World Cup qualifier
Japan cruised past Bahrain 95-72 in its final match of Asian qualifying for the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup on Sunday.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
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.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
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.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

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