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Tokyo Skytree will celebrate its first anniversary Wednesday but has not yet completed its prime mission of reliably broadcasting to households in the capital and its suburbs. Since December, the world’s tallest free-standing tower, at 634 meters high, has been making test broadcasts to ...
If you work in an office, you probably spend a fair part of your time sitting at a desk, which, of course, isn’t very healthy. To combat that the Pomodoro technique recommends that you work in intervals with regular breaks — for example, 25 ...
“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, ...
“Outsider art” is relatively new in Japan and, as a genre, works made by self-taught Japanese artists are still not very well known on the category-delineating, label-loving international art scene. Now, though, “Souzou: Outsider Art from Japan,” an exhibition on view (through June 30) ...
After all these years, Rafael Nadal still knows how to dominate Roger Federer. In the 30th meeting between the two tennis greats, Nadal controlled the final from start to finish to win 6-1, 6-3 Sunday for his seventh Italian Open title. “Rafa was just ...
A lot has changed since May 2006, when the Toyama Grouses made guard Takanori Goya the No. 1 pick in the bj-league draft. The Grouses were an expansion team putting the pieces together for their inaugural season, which began five months later when the ...
In their first head-to-head matchup of the season, the Iwate Big Bulls took care of business against the visiting Akita Northern Happinets on Saturday. Coach Dai Oketani’s Big Bulls prevailed 76-74 in overtime and improved to 10-1 on the young season. Akita (6-1) suffered ...
The Rizing Fukuoka have been on a roll over the past few weeks, winning five straight games and bouncing back from a three-game slide to start the season. Coach Atsushi Kanazawa’s club triumphed twice last weekend against the Takamatsu Five Arrows to jump into ...
Decades from now, Adrian Thomas will still remember Sunday’s game at Hamamatsu Arena, when the spotlight shined on him from start to finish. With his teammates setting him up for shot after shot and a green light from coach Ryuji Kawai to do what ...
Shimane Susanoo Magic coach Zeljko Pavlicevic made an emotional return to his team this week following the death of his 82-year-old mother, Zora, on Oct. 28. The veteran bench boss had gone home to Croatia, but came back to lead the club to a ...
The Iwate Big Bulls have been the Eastern Conference’s top team this season, winning all eight of their games in October. Ceter Dillion Sneed, a major offseason acquisition, is the team’s leading scorer at 18.6 points per game and is shooting at a 62.5 ...
The once-mighty Osaka Evessa’s spiraling-out-of-control reputation has taken another major hit. And FIBA, basketball’s world governing body, entered the picture for this latest incident. Threatened with a lawsuit for allegedly refusing to honor its contract with center Larry Cox, the Evessa agreed to make ...
The winless Gunma Crane Thunders, who have been handed 35-, 38- and 43-point losses, fired original coach Tadashi Hayashi and named Ryan Blackwell his successor, the Eastern Conference squad announced Thursday. Gunma (0-8) plays host to the Yokohama B-Corsairs (2-2) this weekend. Blackwell was ...
The expansion Tokyo Cinq Reves have released center Ilija Milutinovic, the bj-league team announced on Wednesday. The 211-cm Serbian had previously been let go by the Gunma Crane Thunders, another first-year franchise, during the preseason before joining coach Motofumi Aoki’s club. The 24-year-old played ...
Luke Zeller, one of three brothers to earn the prestigious Mr. Basketball title during his Indiana schoolboy days, was undrafted after a steady but unspectacular four-year collegiate career at Notre Dame. He began his professional career with the Shiga Lakestars in 2009. And now, ...
You probably didn’t know that Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix newcomer Kevin Galloway attended USC, College of Southern Idaho, Kentucky and Texas Southern before embarking on a pro career last year. But this much is clear: Galloway is a natural playmaker, as evidenced by his 10.7 ...
Center Dillion Sneed sored 33 points on 12-for-15 shooting and raked in 13 rebounds to lead the host Iwate Big Bulls to a 102-67 victory over the winless Gunma Crane Thunders on Saturday in the bj-league. Kenichi Takahashi scored 17 points, connecting on 3 ...