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Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto aims to retract his remark that U.S. servicemen in Okinawa should use the local adult entertainment industry to avoid committing sex crimes.
Kan Yasuda's art somehow draws in the landscape, and entices in people, so that it is natural to explore the view through his structures and keyholes, to sit awhile atop a sculpture or to pose within their frames.
If you don’t get into the ring once or twice, then you’re a coward, Geoffrey Ima says as he describes people’s attitudes toward boxing in his hometown in Uganda. Ima has been in the ring hundreds of times and came to love boxing so ...
It may seem perverse to express nostalgia for a category of mental illness, but many sufferers, as well as some psychiatrists, regret the passing of “manic depression.”
Getting slapped by a a coach has always been, as far as I could see, simply another aspect of sports training in Japan.
Japan coach Alberto Zaccheroni hailed his players’ determination to try and finish off Uzbekistan after the Asian champions came from behind to earn a share of the spoils in a World Cup qualifying 1-1 draw in Tashkent on Tuesday. Japan was outplayed on a ...
Japan captain Makoto Hasebe is relishing the prospect of putting one over on Uzbekistan when the joint Group C leaders lock horns in the third round of Asian qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup on Tuesday. Japan clinched a berth at last summer’s World ...
Coach Alberto Zaccheroni has called for total control when Japan kicks off its 2014 World Cup qualifying campaign against North Korea, and says he is confident that monsoon-like conditions forecast for Friday’s match will not affect the Asian champions’ performance in Saitama. “We have ...
Borussia Dortmund star Shinji Kagawa stole the show with a double on his return to the national team as Japan whipped archrival South Korea 3-0 on Wednesday in its final warmup ahead of the qualifying campaign for the 2014 World Cup. Playing his first ...
Sanfrecce Hiroshima striker Tadanari Lee is hoping to finally get the chance to realize a boyhood dream and play against South Korea on Wednesday night — as a Blue Samurai. Lee was not used in Japan’s 3-0 penalty shootout semifinal win over South Korea ...
The Japanese soccer world was in mourning Thursday after former national team defender Naoki Matsuda lost his fight for life two days after he collapsed during training. The 2002 World Cup defender had been in a critical condition after suffering a cardiopulmonary arrest on ...
Late heroics from Masakatsu Sawa enabled Kashiwa Reysol to cling on to top spot with a dramatic 1-0 win over visiting Vegalta Sendai on Saturday night. Sendai looked all set for a hard-earned draw, a result that would have seen Kashiwa surrender pole position ...
Substitute Kazuma Watanabe hit a superb winner as Yokohama F. Marinos came from behind to claim local bragging rights with a 2-1 defeat of Kawasaki Frontale in the J. League on Sunday. Kawasaki led through a freak 22nd-minute goal on a sultry evening at ...
Keisuke Honda says Japan has nothing to lose from continuing to test an unfamiliar 3-4-3 formation, but the CSKA Moscow star fears it may take more than two friendlies before World Cup qualifying begins for the team to properly adjust to the new shape. ...
Eiji Kawashima is relishing the prospect of going up against Chelsea goalkeeper Petr Cech when Japan meets the Czech Republic in the final game of the Kirin Cup in Yokohama on Tuesday. Kawashima was chiefly responsible for preserving Alberto Zaccheroni’s unbeaten record as Japan ...
Highly-rated teenage striker Takashi Usami is close to a move to German Bundesliga giant Bayern Munich from Gamba Osaka, Kyodo News learned Thursday. “Nothing is finalized yet but he (Usami) has a clause in his contract to move if a foreign team comes in ...
YOKOHAMA — Promising teenage striker Ryo Miyaichi is confident he can succeed where Junichi Inamoto failed when he joins English Premier League powerhouse Arsenal next month after impressing in a trial with the Gunners. The last time Arsenal looked to the Far East for ...