Transport authorities launched a full-fledged investigation Sunday into the derailment of a bullet train on the Akita Shinkansen Line in Daisen, Akita Prefecture, on Saturday afternoon.
It's a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chinese warships in the East China Sea challenged Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces patrols in a manner deemed threatening. And on Feb. 12 came North Korea's nuclear test.
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome. Japan improved to 2-0 following a tough win over Brazil in Saturday evening’s ...
In 10-game increments, you can get a pretty good measure of how a team is playing during the long, 52-game bj-league regular season. Everyone will agree that the Yokohama B-Corsairs’ 9-1 record over their past 10 games is impressive, whereas as the Oita HeatDevils’ ...
Kimitake Sato lit up the scoreboard for a game-high 32 points, including 5 of 10 3-pointers, to lead the visiting Niigata Albirex BB to an 88-72 victory over the Sendai 89ers on Thursday in the opener of a three-game bj-league series. The series was ...
The Saitama Broncos did enough things right to pick up a 72-68 victory over the visiting Sendai 89ers on Sunday, ending a 12-game slide. Forward Dameion Baker, a key player on the now-defunct Tokyo Apache’s two championship runnerup teams during the Joe Bryant era, ...
The Yokohama B-Corsairs capitalized on the dynamic one-two punch of Draelon Burns and Masayuki Kabaya in their first game of 2013. They combined for 49 points and buried 8 of 15 3-point attempts as Yokohama edged the Niigata Albirex BB 75-74 on Saturday to ...
The Yokohama B-Corsairs and Niigata Albirex BB enter this weekend’s marquee matchup as the hottest teams in the bj-league’s Eastern Conference. Yokohama, which has won eight straight games, plays host to a team that ended 2012 with seven consecutive victories Credit B-Corsairs sixth man ...
The Ryukyu Golden Kings began 2013 the same way they ended last year, the bj-league’s premier team proving that point against one of its foes. Ryukyu completed a series sweep on Thursday afternoon in Naha, Okinawa Prefecture, beating the Kyoto Hannaryz 87-64. The reigning ...
Sure, there are others who can call Jim Boeheim a mentor or a source of inspiration. In the bj-league, only Gunma Crane Thunders coach Ryan Blackwell can really make that claim. Blackwell, after all, played for the Syracuse University men’s basketball bench boss from ...
Forward Thomas Kennedy, a 19.0 point-per-game scorer, shot a disappointing 3-for-12 from the field in the Yokohama B-Corsairs’ series opener on Saturday against the Tokyo Cinq Reves. But they won, and that was the important thing, he admitted a day later. On Sunday, in ...
This was a simple formula for success on Saturday afternoon: Draelon Burns scoring 30 points and the Yokohama B-Corsairs turning the ball over only eight times. The result? A 76-59 victory over the visiting Tokyo Cinq Reves that extended Yokohama’s win streak to seven ...
It’s time to look ahead to 2013 as each of the bj-league’s 21 teams search for ways to improve. So here’s one columnist’s suggested New Year’s resolutions for all teams. The Ryukyu Golden Kings, league champions in 2011-12, are off to a brilliant start ...
