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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 ...
A professional sports team has essentially two goals: Trying to win a championship and promoting the team to attract fans. While the first is always unpredictable as luck plays a part, the latter can be achieved by persistent and strategic efforts. Promotions are a ...
The Chiba Jets, coming off a mediocre 18-34 inaugural season, are jumping ship to the JBL’s re-branded top league for the 2013-14 campaign. According to news reports, the Jets will be joined by the eight current JBL squads, a pair of JBL2 teams (Hyogo ...
As a goalkeeper for the national team, Eiji Kawashima doesn’t want to make a single error during a game. But off the pitch, he doesn’t think that making mistakes is as costly, like in learning a foreign language. In fact, he believes failure is ...
Just think about it. A 3-2 count, two outs in the ninth inning, and with a perfect game on the line — what would you do on your next pitch? Perhaps you would throw it in the strike zone. Maybe right down the middle ...
All Toshiya Sugiuchi needed was a “W” for his team, and as usual, he got it. Except this time he did it in spectacular fashion. The Yomiuri Giants southpaw tossed a no-hitter in a 2-0 victory over the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles at Tokyo ...
The Japan Basketball Association officially introduced Kimikazu Suzuki as the new head coach for the men’s national team on Wednesday in Tokyo. The 52-year-old Suzuki, the head coach of Japan Basketball League club Aisin Sea Horses, will be serving in his second stint with ...
Atsunori Inaba eloquently stated that he doesn’t play baseball to come up with 2,000 hits. He plays the game to win for his team. So instead of regretting coming up with just one hit on the night, the team-first veteran was pleased that one ...
It was a revealing contrast. It seemed that the more Sea Horses players ran out of gas, the more energetic the Alvark players would become. Toyota Motors came through at both ends of the floor in the second half as it captured its first ...
In the game of basketball, sometimes an unexpected hero comes through and wins a game for his team. Forward Takayuki Kumagai electrified the Alvark, coming off the bench and scoring 12 points in Toyota’s 79-70 win over the Aisin Sea Horses in Game 2 ...
Anthony Richardson scored 10 points and Takatoshi Furukawa sank a pair of key shots from behind the arch in the final quarter to help the Aisin Sea Horses come back from a 19-point deficit in their 73-70 win over the Toyota Motors Alvark in ...
This Toyota Motors Alvark team is a completely different team than the one that exited the floor in a losing fashion in the JBL championship series four years ago. The 2011-12 Alvark are a cheerful bunch, and they’ve created a feel-good, winning atmosphere. Meet ...
When you’ve been in the game a long time, you learn a thing or two. Longtime Mariners head athletic trainer Rick Griffin shared his thoughts on Japanese players in the Major League Baseball and their physical traits before Thursday’s game between Seattle and the ...