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SPORTS SCOPE

SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Aug 16, 2001
Five years later, a friend remembered
He was probably the greatest basketball player you have never heard of. Such was the fate of my friend Derek Smith, who died five years ago last week at the age of 34, while on a cruise from New York to Bermuda.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Aug 9, 2001
Teetering Toto scores on own goal
A rush of adrenaline ran through my inebriated body when I read the Toto results one Saturday evening a few months back. Hang on, better check that again, was my thinking at the time. According to the numbers on my computer screen, I had all the day's numbers correct with only three games to be played...
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jul 19, 2001
Midsummer notes and anecdotes
It was refreshing to see Japan's Shigeki Maruyama notch his first PGA Tour victory last Sunday at the Greater Milwaukee Open. Maruyama, one of the most charismatic and likable of any of the nation's professional athletes who play overseas, put an end to a miserable streak by Japanese golfers on the U.S....
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Jul 12, 2001
New dawn for Mukai and his merry men
In 1999, the year of the last Rugby World Cup, Japan won the Pacific Rim Championship, recording a 37-34 victory over Samoa along the way. At the time many thought the victory marked the re-birth of Japanese rugby, and there was talk of Japan reaching the quarterfinals of the World Cup. Sadly, that was...
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jul 5, 2001
A vote of confidence for MLB balloting
Kudos to Ichiro Suzuki. The Seattle Mariners right fielder was recently selected by fans to start the 50th All-Star Game in the Emerald City next week. Not only did he lead the majors with 3,373,035 votes, he becomes only the 13th position player in league history to start the mid-season classic as a...
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jun 28, 2001
Tuffy enjoying a hair-raising season
It's Opening Day 1994 at venerable Wrigley Field in Chicago. You're playing for the hometown Cubs and facing Dwight Gooden of the New York Mets, one of the premier power pitchers in Major League Baseball. By the end of the day, you'll have have homered in your first three at-bats of the season and added...
MULTIMEDIA / SPORTS SCOPE
Jun 21, 2001
S. Korea must buck up before World Cup
If you read Kumi Kinohara's "On The Ball" column on Tuesday you'll know that Japan still has a bit of work to do before next year's World Cup.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jun 14, 2001
Swallows likely to command $5 million for Ishii
Kazuhisa Ishii is a man in demand.
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Jun 7, 2001
Minding your P's and Q's
"F*** your mother"
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
May 31, 2001
Drop your drawers and give me 20 (ml, that is)
Mark Heppelle is a 37-year-old Canadian currently living in Japan with his wife and two kids where he runs a small English school. But that's not his only source of income. Heppelle also has a rather unique sports-related job, the results of which can be seen almost daily on sports pages across the globe....
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
May 25, 2001
Contribution to game will put Nomo into the Hall of Fame
"When he tossed his second career no-hitter on April 4 against the Baltimore Orioles, Nomo assured his entrance to the Baseball Hall of Fame."
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
May 24, 2001
Perez is talking the talk in Japan
All it took for Eduardo Perez to learn the names of his Hanshin Tigers teammates was one embarrassing moment.
MULTIMEDIA / SPORTS SCOPE
May 17, 2001
Time for the young ones to leave the nest
Philippe Troussier on the J. League: "The Japanese are soft and the players are soft and the referees are soft. One little bump in a game and it's a foul. These would never be fouls in Europe, in Spain or England."
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
May 10, 2001
Nomo still getting job done his own way
As interest in Major League Baseball in Japan grows exponentially with each passing day, it could be easy to forget the man who is most responsible for the current tidal wave of attention the game in North America is enjoying here.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
May 3, 2001
Tackling the man without the ball
Japan entered the home leg of the World Sevens Series hoping to put itself on the international rugby map and to give the sport in this country a much-needed morale boost.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Apr 26, 2001
Japan looking for a little respect at hockey World Championships
Call them cannon-fodder if you like, but Japan's national ice hockey team doesn't plan on just rolling over at the IIHF World Championships.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Apr 19, 2001
Here's why MJ will stay away
Michael Jordan is "99.9 percent sure" he won't return to the NBA. I can do one-tenth better: I'm 100 percent.
MULTIMEDIA / SPORTS SCOPE
Apr 12, 2001
Playing politics is no game
It's a pity for the 24 Americans being detained on Hainan island in China that their little contretemps with the Chinese air force didn't take place a month ago, before the International Olympic Committee inspectors paid a visit to Beijing to check on its bid for the 2008 Games.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Apr 5, 2001
Halfhearted effort at hosting half a World Cup
Why not let South Korea host the whole thing?
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Mar 29, 2001
The ABCs of Japanese sportsu
As I'll be heading back to Canada next month, this will be my last Sports Scope. I thought I'd write some sort of reflection on what covering sports in Japan has meant to me, but all I kept coming up with were buzzwords and catchphrases.
Japan to revise consumption tax exemption for overseas tourists
Tourists walk through Nakamise shopping street near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo in April
Japan's tourism industry hit by cancellations after megaquake alert
A beach closed due to a megaquake alert in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, from Friday to Thursday.
Focus shifts to incoming typhoon as Tropical Storm Maria dissipates
Newly formed Tropical Storm Ampil, which is forecast to approach eastern Japan this weekend, is seen on the left side of this satellite image.
Kishida to step down in September in bid to show ‘LDP has changed’
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.
Publisher finds surprise audience after translating history textbooks
Yamakawa Shuppansha president Takeshi Nozawa holds the publisher's textbook on Japanese history — used in high schools across Japan — alongside the new English version in Tokyo on May 23.
Economic security is about strengthening and sustaining growth, former minister says
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi says changes in the international balance of power, along with deepening economic interdependence, have led some countries to attempt to use their economic power to impose their will on others.
Ice bandanas, convenience store breaks: Running under Japan’s summer sun
Blistering heat is becoming a fixture of summer in Japan, but a few tweaks to your routine can make your outdoor runs bearable — if not enjoyable — until cooler temperatures return.
Japan issued its first-ever megaquake alert. What does that mean?
Naoshi Hirata (center), chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
France brings down the curtain on its Olympic party with Tom Cruise and Leon Marchand
Fireworks are set off during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics at Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Sunday.
Japan fuels U.S. LNG boom even as climate targets and impacts loom
Flaring at the Cameron LNG export terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana. Flaring, a common sight at LNG plants, is a controlled burning of gas for reasons ranging from depressurizing equipment to disposing of gas that can’t be used. The practice is a "waste of money" and negatively impacts climate change and human health, says the International Energy Agency.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
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Sociologist Gracia Liu-Farrer argues that even though immigration doesn't figure into Japan's autobiography, it is more of a self-perception than a reality.
In search of the ‘Japanese dream’
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