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WORLD CUP

Japan Times
SOCCER / SOCCER SCENE
Jan 31, 2013
Japan looking to lay down marker for 2013 in Latvia friendly
Japan will face tougher tests over the year ahead than next Wednesday's season-opening friendly against Latvia, but with World Cup qualification virtually secured more than 16 months before the tournament begins, manager Alberto Zaccheroni will be keen to start building momentum on the road to Brazil....
Japan Times
SOCCER / SOCCER SCENE
Dec 20, 2012
Departure of Club World Cup strips Japan of valuable asset
The Club World Cup undoubtedly has its flaws, but as the competition ends its long association with Japan to set up home in Morocco for the next two years, the Japanese game would do well to consider what it is losing.
EDITORIALS
Sep 23, 2011
To the brink of worst case
More than six months since the crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant started, people not directly affected by it appear to be gradually losing their acute concern about the crisis.
EDITORIALS
Jul 26, 2011
Ensure food safety
On July 8, radioactive cesium in excess of the provisional government limit was detected in beef from a cow shipped from Minami Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, to a Tokyo slaughterhouse. Later beef from 10 other cows from the city was found to have been contaminated with such cesium.
EDITORIALS
Jul 17, 2011
Autumn admissions
Cherry blossoms have long accompanied the start of the school year in Japan, but that may soon change to autumn leaves. The University of Tokyo is looking into the possibility of beginning its school year in the fall rather than spring. If adopted, the change, which would likely be followed by other...
LIFE / Lifestyle / Japan Pulse
Jun 28, 2010
Japan by the numbers (06.28.10)
If you count the numbers, looks like some Japanese are having an identity crisis.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 21, 2009
Legacy of '89 digressed from the U.S. script
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the relatively nonviolent overthrow of communism throughout Central and Eastern Europe, optimists predicted a new golden age of a world filled with peaceful democracies. History, for some, seemed to have come to an end. But the optimists...
EDITORIALS
Apr 13, 2007
Working with China
Building upon the achievement of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese President Hu Jintao during their Beijing summit in October 2006, Mr. Abe and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao have agreed on concrete measures for promoting a "mutually beneficial strategic relationship" in such fields as economic cooperation...

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