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JAPAN U 23

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BASEBALL / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 13, 2013
Japan ends second round with win over the Netherlands
Two-time defending WBC champion Japan beats the Netherlands 10-6 in the final second-round, Pool 1 game, scoring eight times in the second inning.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 13, 2013
Flexibility key to resolving Japan's territorial disputes
Japan, now in severe dispute with every one of its neighbors, probably would resolve most of them if it could be persuaded to restrain its nationalists.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 12, 2013
Japan's assault on Netherlands surprises manager Yamamoto
Team Japan sure put it all together Sunday night. But who would have thought it would earn the victory with a slugfest?
Japan Times
BASEBALL / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 12, 2013
Nashida unruffled by WBC brawl
Japan head coach Masataka Nashida said Monday he had no worries about his team getting involved in any brawls such as the one that marred Saturday's first-round Pool D game between Mexico and Canada.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 11, 2013
Japan pounds Netherlands to reach WBC final round
Japan punches its ticket to the final round of the World Baseball Classic with a 16-4 rout of the Netherlands.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 10, 2013
Hurler Maeda gets call to start against Netherlands
It will take one more win to punch a ticket to San Francisco. But of course nothing's secured yet for Team Japan.
Japan Times
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Mar 10, 2013
TPP pests
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Mar 9, 2013
Power of poetry penned by survivors of 3/11 is showcased by ASIJ project
Kathy Krauth, a social studies teacher at the American School in Japan, admits she was never a huge fan of tanka, traditional Japanese poetry. "Tanka never really spoke to me. I dismissed it as early Japanese history with cherry blossoms." That all changed when Krauth sat in a classroom at the University...
Japan Times
BASEBALL / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 8, 2013
Tanaka searching for consistency on mound
So, which side of Masahiro Tanaka did we see on Wednesday night?
Japan Times
BASEBALL / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 7, 2013
Cuba tops Japan, remains unbeaten at WBC
Cuba defeats Japan 6-3 in the teams' final Pool A game at the World Baseball Classic.
EDITORIALS
Mar 7, 2013
Mr. Kuroda's high hopes
Bank of Japan presidential nominee Haruhiko Kuroda tells confirmation lawmakers that he will do anything he can to push Japan off its deflation path.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 7, 2013
The pope of Japanese finance
As with the deliberations at the Vatican, politics — not doctrinal debate — underpins the decision-making process for the next Bank of Japan governor.
BASKETBALL
Mar 7, 2013
Ex-NBA coach Herb Brown named Japan women's team adviser
The Japan Basketball Association said Wednesday it has decided to appoint former NBA coach Herb Brown in an advisory role to help revive the fortunes of the women's national team.
Japan Times
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Mar 7, 2013
King Abe Jester DPJ
Japan Times
BASEBALL / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 6, 2013
Japan, Cuba ready for marquee matchup
With both Japan and Cuba having already booked a spot in the second round of the World Baseball Classic, their clash on Wednesday at Fukuoka Dome presents a chance for an important tuneup against a dangerous foe.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Mar 6, 2013
Japan and Australia: natural allies in the changing Pacific
Does the U.S. pivot to the Pacific represent a necessary rebalancing, overbalancing or counter-balancing against China's growing wealth, power and assertiveness?
Japan Times
BASEBALL / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 4, 2013
Maeda regains pitching form, holds China scoreless for five innings
Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome.
BASEBALL / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 3, 2013
Uchikawa exhibits calm before WBC opener
After a four-year wait, the third edition of the World Baseball Classic has officially begun. Yet Seiichi Uchikawa kept his low-key manner one day before the two-time defending champions were set to face Brazil in Japan's tournament opener.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OLD NIC'S NOTEBOOK
Mar 3, 2013
Trying to get things done in the wake of 3/11
Two years have passed since the magnitude-9 Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, the devastating tsunami it triggered and the disgraceful and deadly fiasco at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant that followed.
Japan Times
CARTOONS / DAHL'S JAPAN
Mar 3, 2013
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