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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.
Like every midseason showcase, the 1997 NBA All-Star Weekend in Cleveland was a marquee event, not only for its collection of active players — Michael Jordan, Karl Malone, Hakeem Olajuwon, et al — but also for the much-planned celebration of the league’s storied history. ...
Draelon Burns and Thomas Kennedy both made 9 of 14 shots from inside the 3-point arc and led the Yokohama B-Corsairs to a 92-81 victory over the Akita Northern Happinets in their bj-league series opener on Tuesday. Burns, who’ll play in Sunday’s All-Star Game ...
The Chiba Jets enter the All-Star break on a roll, picking up their fourth straight victory by thumping the Saitama Broncos 98-66 on Sunday afternoon at Funabashi Arena. The Jets didn’t rely on outside shooting — an aspect of the game that many bj-league ...
The Osaka Evessa took care of business at both ends of the court on Saturday evening, defeating the visiting Shiga Lakestars 79-64. Rick Rickert led the Evessa (5-18) with 18 points and 13 rebounds and Mike Bell and Masashi Obuchi each scored 13 points. ...
Kimitake Sato again tormented the Sendai 89ers, scoring a game-high 24 points in the Niigata Albirex BB’s 86-73 triumph over the hosts on Friday. The veteran standout knocked down 6 of 8 3-point shots in the rematch as Niigata improved to 20-7, becoming the ...
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 ...