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A sit-in by visa violators and their families entered its second day Tuesday in front of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau with protesters seeking government good will. The action at the bureau in Minato Ward is being organized by the Asian People’s Friendship Society, ...
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
“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, ...
Takashi Miike's blood-soaked vengeance tale, one of two Japanese films being shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, draws the biggest boos so far, with critics savaging it as overacted and cliched.
Have you ever given your best effort while striving to achieve something but felt like what you were doing was futile? That’s the feeling I’m getting about Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics. With just over three months to go until the IOC ...
Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters youngster Kenshi Sugiya and his father, Mitsuru, are a unique father-son tandem. Both of them have been professional athletes. Mitsuru Sugiya was a Japan featherweight champion boxer, who also fought in a WBC world title match, in the mid-1980s. But ...
You could call it a coincidence, but going into Game 3 of the Japan Series on Tuesday there was a chance something uncanny could happen in baseball on both sides of the Pacific. Both the Giants of the United States and Japan had the ...
On Sunday night, Masaru Takeda was the last man standing for the Fighters in their 1-0 loss to the Yomiuri Giants. The southpaw had a magnificent performance in a hostile atmosphere at Tokyo Dome. Unfortunately, he got an “L” instead of a “W.” However, ...
Despite a lopsided 8-1 loss to the Yomiuri Giants in Game 1 of the Japan Series, Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters manager Hideki Kuriyama came out in front of the media throng in a cheerful mode before Sunday’s Game 2 at Tokyo Dome. And the ...
Perhaps Shuichi Murata is the one who’s psyched up the most on the 21-time NPB champion Yomiuri Giants in the Japan Series. The 31-year-old slugger joined the club via free agency before this season after playing for nine years with the always-struggling Yokohama BayStars. ...
The Fighters simply preserved their momentum from the previous days, and the reigning Japan Series champion Hawks had no clue how to bounce back. The Nippon Ham offense came through early behind starter Brian Wolfe’s solid performance as the Fighters defeated the Fukuoka Softbank ...
Once a Yomiuri Giants star shortstop, Tomohiro Nioka’s game is limited to minimum duties now. Due to chronicle leg injuries over the last few years, he has not been able to field or even base-run when he gets on base. And the situation doesn’t ...
For the second night in a row, Yoshio Itoi bashed the ball beyond the fences. And with it, the Fighters are one win away from reaching their first Japan Series in three years. With Hokkaido Nippon Ham leading 1-0, Itoi launched an insurance two-run ...
With teams playing cautiously, postseason ball often tends to be an endurance contest. On Wednesday night, it appeared that the Hawks would prevail at one point, but their opponents just refused to give in. Yoshio Itoi launched a game-tying two-run homer and pinch hitter ...
Without a captain, a boat can’t depart from port. Samurai Japan finally has one. As had been reported, former Hiroshima Carp great Koji Yamamoto was officially named manager of the Japanese national team for the 2013 World Baseball Classic on Wednesday. “I received a ...
Antonio Lang said he had a chance to become an assistant coach for his mentor Mike Krzyzewski at his alma mater Duke University, but chose instead to stay in Japan to be an assistant for the Mitsubishi Diamond Dolphins. It probably sounds crazy. Lang ...
Even though he fell short of reaching the NFL, former UCLA quarterback Kevin Craft doesn’t curse his past, but rather, embraces it. For him, football is football, whether it’s played at the Rose Bowl, or in France, or even in Japan. Craft, who played ...