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Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, ...
Tonkatsu is comfort food, gourmand grub — not a gourmet delicacy. So what are those hearty, unpretentious deep-fried breaded pork cutlets doing in an elegant little bar-style restaurant above one of Ginza’s temples to high-end consumption? Katsuzen has come a long way from its ...
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...
It is a tricky deal being an authorized biographer. Charles Moore’s big advantage over those who have previously tackled Margaret Thatcher is that he has been provided with material denied to them. Of the arrangement that he was offered by his subject, he writes: ...
Unbelievable energy. Splendid self confidence. Never-wavering faith in his abilities or his teammates. Those are ingredients to success for Draelon Burns, the Yokohama B-Corsairs’ super substitute. Burns buried a remarkable three buzzer-beating shots to close out the three final quarters, and his team needed ...
The Yokohama B-Corsairs accomplished great things as an expansion franchise last season, defying the odds by reaching the Final Four. Power forward Justin Burrell received the regular-season MVP award, starting all 52 games and averaging 18.7 points and 9.8 rebounds. Reggie Geary earned the ...
The Gunma Crane Thunders recorded a loss in the first regular-season game in franchise history on Sunday, but coach Tadashi Hayashi’s club proved to be a worthy challenger against the Toyama Grouses in the teams’ bj-league season opener. Toyama topped visiting Gunma 96-90. The ...
The bj-league’s eighth season tipped off on Saturday with three games, and the defending champion Ryukyu Golden Kings defeated the host Kyoto Hannaryz 82-73 in Koto Toyama’s first game at the helm. Toyama coached the Miyazaki Shining Suns during the past two seasons before ...
The Japan Times features periodic interviews with players in the bj-league. Jeff Newton of the Ryukyu Golden Kings is the subject of this week’s profile. Position: Power forwardAge: 31Ht: 205 cm; Wt: 95 kgHometown: AtlantaCollege: Indiana Noteworthy: Newton has played in all seven bj-league ...
Bob Nash has been around the game long enough to know that he doesn’t need to go out of his way to complicate things. His basic approach is this: Each day provides another opportunity to take one small step in the right direction. As ...
Just as the Japan Basketball League is preparing to re-brand itself as the National Basketball League (NBL) for 2013-14, it is also coping with the planned loss of one of Japan’s most successful basketball clubs, the Panasonic Trians. Panasonic Corp.’s financial woes — losses ...
High-scoring forward Josh Peppers has returned to the Rizing Fukuoka, the bj-league team he played for during the Kyushu franchise’s inaugural season. The announcement was made on Thursday. Peppers, a University of Central Florida product, suited up for the Rizing in 2007-08, before bouncing ...
The Osaka Evessa and bj-league office claimed that Lynn Washington, one of the league’s original superstars, retired on April 9 after he was exonerated of all charges following his arrest and 18 days in Osaka Prefectural Police custody. The former Indiana University forward, however, ...
Shimane Susanoo Magic forward Michael Parker, the four-time reigning scoring champion, predicted on Monday he won’t win the scoring title this season. “I would be surprised if I am the top scorer again,” Parker told a news conference in Tokyo’s Shibuya Ward, where players ...
The Japan Times periodically features interviews with personalities in the bj-league. Coach Zoran Kreckovic of the Osaka Evessa is the subject of this week’s profile. Age: 53Country: Serbia Coaching background: Kreckovic served as head coach for IMT Beopetrol in Serbia from 1997-2000, with a ...
The expansion Tokyo Cinq Reves fell to 0-4 in exhibition play on Sunday, losing 86-69 to the Sendai 89ers in the second day of the Tohoku Cup in Akita. Kevin Coble paced the 89ers with 25 points and Takuya Komoda scored 21 points and ...
Sharpshooter Wayne Arnold, one of the top all-around performers for the Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix during the past three seasons, has joined the Shiga Lakestars. The move became official late Saturday night. The Tennessee State product averaged 15.0 points per game for the bj-league championship ...