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Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, ...
Tonkatsu is comfort food, gourmand grub — not a gourmet delicacy. So what are those hearty, unpretentious deep-fried breaded pork cutlets doing in an elegant little bar-style restaurant above one of Ginza’s temples to high-end consumption? Katsuzen has come a long way from its ...
Life in Japan just seems tailor-made for certain foreign residents, who slip into the fabric of this society as smoothly as a hand slides into a glove. American Curtis Patterson, a professional koto player and music teacher, is a case in point. Not only ...
It is a tricky deal being an authorized biographer. Charles Moore’s big advantage over those who have previously tackled Margaret Thatcher is that he has been provided with material denied to them. Of the arrangement that he was offered by his subject, he writes: ...
Unbelievable energy. Splendid self confidence. Never-wavering faith in his abilities or his teammates. Those are ingredients to success for Draelon Burns, the Yokohama B-Corsairs’ super substitute. Burns buried a remarkable three buzzer-beating shots to close out the three final quarters, and his team needed ...
No matter how much money they had to pay to acquire this guy, it was wise investment for the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks. “I’m so excited,” said Uchikawa, who signed a four-year contract with the Hawks last December after playing for the Yokohama BayStars for ...
All he needed was one strong swing. After the inning, he ended up coming out of the dugout to wave his hat to the excited fans. Pinch hitter Nobuhiko Matsunaka smacked the first pitch from Seibu reliever Kazuhisa Makita into the right-field stands for ...
In a sense, the Hawks know how big it is to do damage to an opponent first in a postseason more than anybody else in Japanese baseball. After all, they’ve historically dropped Game 1s and this has spoiled their ambition of advancing to the ...
After all was said and done, this weekend completely reflected the way both teams played toward the end of the pennant race. The Seibu Lions maintained their momentum from their surge late in the regular-season surge, while Hokkaido Nippon Ham failed to regain its ...
The Lions offense came through late. And their rally was well deserved in the end. Hideto Asamura drove in a game-tying run in the bottom of the ninth, and designated hitter Jose Fernandez came up with a go-ahead two-run single in the 11th as ...
True, it is a best-of-three series. But it looks like the first game will be the pivotal battle. With the first stage of the Pacific League Climax Series getting under way on Saturday, the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters and Seibu Lions took the field ...
Are the Chunichi Dragons really the hottest team in the Central League? Maybe. But the Yomiuri Giants look just as hot as the first-place Dragons and might cause them a problem in the upcoming postseason. MVP slugger Alex Ramirez led the Giants’ 12-hit attack ...
For Ariko Iso, a stint with one of the NFL’s perennial powerhouses may have only been a path to achieve her ultimate goal. Iso, who worked for the six-time Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers as an assistant athletic trainer for the past nine seasons, ...
It’s been a decade since the Tokyo Yakult Swallows’ last pennant and Japan Series title, but the leadership and experience of veteran Shinya Miyamoto is as precious as anything else for the Central League-leading ballclub. Yet Miyamoto humbly rejects the idea that he’s leading ...
Shingo Kawabata did it again. So did the Swallows. Left-handed 23-year-old hitter Kawabata came up with a go-ahead two-run double in the Swallows’ four-run eighth inning as Tokyo Yakult sank the Hanshin Tigers 7-4 at Jingu Stadium on Thursday night. With the win, the ...
His quickness and elusive moves certainly place him on a different sphere. He’s also one of the few Japanese players to have had real National Football League experience. After nearly a couple of years of a layoff, Noriaki Kinoshita was back on the gridiron, ...
Head coach Thomas Wisman said that the Japan men’s national team has attempted to “regain respectability” since he took the helm last year. And now it’s time for the team to time to show what it has achieved and earn some respect. As the ...