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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.
The Yokohama B-Corsairs controlled the tempo in crunch time and dominated key stretches of a 79-68 victory over the Sendai 89ers on Friday night in the bj-league. The B-Corsairs relied on their Big Three — Draelon Burns, Thomas Kennedy and Masayuki Kabaya — to ...
High-energy guard Masayuki Kabaya scored a season-high and game-best 28 points, canned 6 of 9 3-pointers and grabbed 10 rebounds in the Yokohama B-Corsairs’ 82-75 victory over the Sendai 89ers on Thursday night in the bj-league. Draelon Burns added 19 points, nine rebounds, five ...
The Ryukyu Golden Kings, not unlike a well-oiled machine, are the best squad in the league. And this week we examine how they stack up with the other nine teams in the Western Conference over the past 10 games, or roughly one-fifth of the ...
A week after forward T.J. Cummings officially parted ways with the Akita Northern Happinets, he moved on to the struggling Sendai 89ers, another Eastern Conference team in the bj-league. The move was announced Monday by the 89ers (5-10). The 31-year-old Cummings, son of longtime ...
The Yokohama B-Corsairs match up well against the Akita Northern Happinets, and have caused great headaches for coach Kazuo Nakamura’s squad. The B-Corsairs eliminated the Northern Happinets from the playoffs last season, putting a disappointing finish to the team’s second season, and first under ...
Center Dillion Sneed scored 20 of his game-high 24 points in the second half as the Iwate Big Bulls turned a close contest into a rout, beating the Saitama Broncos 111-94 on Saturday night at Tokorozawa Municipal Gymnasium. Iwate (12-5) snapped a three-game slide. ...
The Sendai 89ers-Niigata Albirex BB game on Friday was canceled due to the 7.3 magnitude earthquake (at 5:18 p.m.) and, the tsunami that followed in Tohoku. Sendai issued an announcement around 6:30 p.m., about 40 minutes before the scheduled tipoff of its bj-league series ...
The unbeaten Ryukyu Golden Kings added steady scorer Terrance Woodbury in the offseason, and the move paid off. The NBA Development League veteran is the team’s leading scorer, averaging 19.9 points per game (No. 5 in the league) and helping the Golden Kings chalk ...
Simple arithmetic played a part in the Niigata Albirex BB’s 100-82 road victory over the Sendai 89ers on Thursday. Niigata (11-6) canned 12 of 28 3-pointers and held Sendai to 6-for-22 from beyond the arc. Those extra points proved to be a big factor ...
Takatoshi “Big Bashi” Ishibashi served as the Shinshu Brave Warriors’ capable assistant coach during the team’s inaugural season under Motofumi Aoki, the 2006-07 bj-league Coach of the Year. And as expected, the Brave Warriors had an up-and-down 2011-12 season — 18 victories and 34 ...
Former Oita HeatDevils star Wendell White met with team officials on Tuesday and repeated his demands that the team honor his expired contract 14 days after his salary was due. After receiving approximately only 20 percent of his November salary last month — the ...
Sunday’s Oita HeatDevils-Ryukyu Golden Kings game was a farce from the get-go. And the 1,286 spectators in attendance weren’t treated to anything resembling a professional basketball contest. The result? Ryukyu 123, Oita 50. Oita trailed 35-6 after one quarter. It was 64-22 at halftime. ...