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 ...
The Tokyo Cinq Reves have taken their fair share of bumps and bruises during their inaugural season, but coach Motofumi Aoki is guiding the team in the right direction. With an 8-12 record to date, the Cinq Reves (French for “five dreams”) are within ...
The Sendai 89ers gave their loyal fans a special Christmas treat: back-to-back home victories over the Shinshu Brave Warriors. The series finale, an 83-76 Tuesday evening triumph for the 89ers, saw T.J. Cummings scored a game-high 25 points and Yasuaki Arai, a key offseason ...
Before his 35th birthday, Iwate Big Bulls coach Dai Oketani had already guided his former club, the Ryukyu Golden Kings, to a pair of bj-league championships. After losing the series opener by five points on Saturday against the expansion Tokyo Cinq Reves, the visiting ...
The Japan Times features periodic interviews with players in the bj-league. Draelon Burns of the Yokohama B-Corsairs is the subject of this week’s profile. Position: Guard Age: 27 Ht: 194 cm; Wt: 95 kg Hometown: Milwaukee College: DePaul Noteworthy: Burns, who was named to ...
Matt Garrison worked countless hours to hone his shooting skills throughout his career as a professional basketball player, and he expects the same of his Niigata Albirex BB players. Now in his second year at the helm, Garrison, a former Niigata standout, has pushed ...
Before the Ryukyu Golden Kings ever played a game and before Okinawa proved to be a terrific location for a Japanese professional basketball team, Cohey Aoki had already established himself as a fan favorite in the bj-league. The league’s first-ever All-Star Game, held in ...
A ringing endorsement from someone who has worked at the elite level in his chosen profession probably couldn’t hurt, eh? Well, former NBA guard Jay Humphries, who’s seriously interested in coaching in the bj-league, can thank a pair of veteran sideline supervisors for dishing ...
This season, the Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix were expected to be one of the Western Conference’s elite teams after four banner campaigns in the bj-league’s Eastern Conference. That hasn’t changed. In fact, the former Eastern powerhouse squad is still improving — a scary thought for ...
You’ve got to start somewhere. For the expansion Gunma Crane Thunders, it was inevitable: At some point, the team would win its first regular-season home game. That occurred on Saturday night, an 82-73 victory over the visiting Tokyo Cinq Reves. The Crane Thunders had ...
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 ...
