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The head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said the building’s owner was the “main culprit” for the disaster because he violated construction codes. The cave-in of the eight-story Rana Plaza outside the capital last month killed ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
As far as debuts go, Shohei Otani's delivered. The celebrated rookie pitched fairly well on Thursday night, and though he finished outside the decision, he left the mound with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters well within striking distance of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
“One of the hardest missions for people is to face themselves in the mirror, to criticize themselves, to ask themselves really basic questions,” says ex-Israeli soldier Avichay Sharon. “No one wants to touch sensitive nerves, no one wants to go underneath, scratch underneath within ...
The two Americans who received this year’s Japan Prize did a first by appearing afterward at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan to highlight their visions — one of hope in medical breakthroughs and the other in the inevitable doom of mankind. The prize ...
FUNABASHI, Chiba Pref. — The stand rumbled with discontent Sunday as the horses reached the finish line in the Satsukisho — the first leg of the Japanese triple crown. The rumble arose from a feeling, albeit misplaced, of betrayal at the overwhelming favorite, Logi ...
Big names boosted this year’s top-level races to a powerful start and a four-way stretch battle gave the 2009 February Stakes a finish to remember with Success Brocken upsetting the top picks to win in a record time of 1 minute, 34.6 seconds. Success ...
FUNABASHI, Chiba Pref. — Daiwa Scarlet went wire to wire Sunday in a tremendous show of strength to top the Arima Kinen at Nakayama Racecourse by a length and three-quarters and become the first filly in 37 years to capture the yearend grand finale. ...
Screen Hero, a horse that had barely been in the picture before the race, managed to grab top billing Sunday with a half length win of the Japan Cup at Tokyo. Coming in second in the JC 28th running was race favorite Deep Sky, ...
Japan Cup weekend is upon us, but this year’s is not the double G1 combo of the past eight years. It’s the turf version only, Sunday at Tokyo Racecourse. The Japan Cup Dirt, normally run on the Saturday before the turf version, has been ...
Sunday promises to be a day of memories, some of them new, but most of them acquired from the past several decades of Japanese racing, and sure to be brought back to life by the sight of old familiar faces, both human and equine. ...
Vodka, that incredible filly that knocked the boys flat in the ’07 Derby and became the first filly to do so in over 60 years, carried a powerful kick again Sunday in the group I fall Emperor’s Cup, the 138th running of the Tennosho. ...
A search of the Web for Murasaki Babydoll will likely snag you a six-minute Time video from this year’s New York Burlesque Festival and with it a look at the Tokyo burlesque troupe’s festival debut. Just over four minutes into the video the host ...
“It’s the single most stressful job I’ve ever had. It’s also the best job,” says Briar Simpson of Tokyo’s Animal Refuge Kansai. “Just sending out one more e-mail can make the difference. It can mean 15 more years.” And in Simpson’s work, those 15 ...
When good things finally come your way they often just keep on coming. Such proved the case for jockey Hirofumi Shii Sunday at Tokyo Racecourse. The 35-year-old Shii, who, aboard Vodka, captured his first Derby on his 11th try last year, brought Deep Sky ...