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J LEAGUE

Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Oct 23, 2014
Rivalries growing with expansion of teams in Tohoku
Since the start of the 2010-11 season, the league's growth in Tohoku has been significant.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Oct 21, 2014
Kyoto forward Warren dedicates play to those battling cancer
It's not every day that you see a 202-cm forward wearing a pink headband during a men's pro basketball game.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Oct 19, 2014
Deers take revenge on Seagulls, win division
The Deers ended last season by losing to the Obic Seagulls 21-12 in the semifinals of the X League playoffs at Yokohama Stadium. It was also their last game as the Kajima Corporation-owned football team.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 18, 2014
Tigers advance to Japan Series for first time since 2005
Check the locks on all the Colonel Sanders statues in Osaka, because the Hanshin Tigers are headed back to the Japan Series and it was a big home run from a bearded foreign star that helped get them there.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 17, 2014
Gomez's bat, Tigers relievers secure victory in Game 3
The Hanshin Tigers fans were on cloud nine in the left-field stands, giddily peppering every player's ouenka (supporter's song) with chants of, "K.O., K.O., Giants!"
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 16, 2014
Tigers stand up to Giants with commanding performance in Game 2
The Hanshin Tigers are halfway home.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / NBA
Oct 16, 2014
Mavericks sign Togashi to contract; D-League assignment expected
The Dallas Mavericks have signed free agent guard Yuki Togashi to a contact, the NBA team announced on Wednesday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 15, 2014
Tigers wipe out Giants' advantage with Game 1 win
The Hanshin Tigers were behind the Yomiuri Giants before even stepping on the field, but the Kansai club didn't waste any time getting even.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 14, 2014
Archrivals Giants, Tigers ready for Climax Series showdown
The Yomiuri Giants worked out in a mostly empty Tokyo Dome, with neither fans nor the Hanshin Tigers anywhere in sight. The Big Egg will be rocking the next time they're in it, as they square off with their oldest rivals for the right to participate in the Japan Series.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Oct 12, 2014
Playoff system selling Japanese baseball short
The Hanshin Tigers and Hiroshima Carp on Sunday played a hotly contested, tense, and entertaining game full of momentum shifts and almost everything anyone — anyone who likes pitching and defense at least — would want out of a playoff game in which one team's season was on the line.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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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