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Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto aims to retract his remark that U.S. servicemen in Okinawa should use its adult entertainment industry to avoid committing sex offenses.
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.
As the sand continues through the hourglass and the days until the Vancouver Olympics dwindle, Mao Asada’s chances at the gold medal seem to continue to dissipate. Her fifth-place finish at the Rostelecom Cup in Moscow last month cost her a spot in next ...
Those who have had the chance to see a young athlete come into their own can tell you it is truly a sight to behold. Brian Orser, the coach of world champion Kim Yu Na, has a ringside seat for history as the South ...
NAGANO — Miki Ando continued her resurgence by capturing her second Grand Prix title of the season on Saturday night at Big Hat. Ando, who went three years without a GP victory, has now won two in the past 15 days. Her win here ...
NAGANO — Despite falling on a planned triple flip, Miki Ando was well-positioned for her second Grand Prix title of the season after finishing second in the short program at the NHK Trophy on Friday night at Big Hat. Skating to Mozart’s “Requiem,” Ando ...
When Miki Ando takes the ice at the Big Hat in Nagano on Friday she will be looking to notch a Grand Prix victory for Nikolai Morozov’s stable of skaters for the fourth straight weekend. Ando, who opened her season with a victory at ...
In the wake of Mao Asada’s poor showing at the Rostelecom Cup in Moscow last weekend, Japan Skating Federation president Seiko Hashimoto has requested a meeting with the embattled skater. Speaking after Mao’s news conference in Russia on Sunday, Hashimoto was quoted by Daily ...
Sometimes you have to throw the game plan out the window. After Mao Asada’s disastrous outing at the Rostelecom Cup in Moscow over the weekend, it is pretty obvious that something is going to have to be done fast if she is to have ...
Coming off an uneven performance at the Japan Open, Mao Asada will get an early test as she begins her Grand Prix season on Friday at the Trophee Eric Bompard in Paris, where world champion Kim Yu Na will be waiting. Mao debuted her ...
I hate to say I told you so . . . but I did. Just over three years ago, when the Japan Olympic Committee formally announced its ill-fated bid for Tokyo to host the 2016 Olympic Games, I called the plan a “pipe dream” ...
Last weekend was a banner one for Japanese skaters, and not the ones you might think. While Mao Asada, Miki Ando, Daisuke Takahashi and Nobunari Oda continue preparations for the start of the Grand Prix season, Japan’s junior contingent pulled off a rare triple ...
The Japan Skating Federation, which has been found wanting in its support of skaters in the past, is once again being called out for its lack of commitment. This time, the mother of ice dancers Cathy and Chris Reed — who will represent Japan ...
“Don’t judge a person until you have walked in their shoes.“ Never could a saying be more apropos than for Miki Ando. Growing up in front of the nation as a skating prodigy, she has taken her share of knocks, but has always come ...