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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.
It was kind of a shocker to hear the news on Oct. 28 that the sale of the Yokohama BayStars franchise was not going through. The transfer of ownership had been anticipated for more than a month, and the talks between the potential buyer ...
The team colors are yellow and black, but the adopted color is red and, when the final out was recorded of the Pacific League Climax Series last week, Fukuoka fans were blue-shocking blue. Their team had just completed a stunning collapse after it appeared ...
As the 2010 Japan pro baseball season draws to a close with its Climax and Japan Series, the thought occurred to me that maybe it is time for the Central League to join its Pacific League cousins and include the designated hitter rule in ...
Every year about this time, I am usually asked two questions about the off-season. One is, “What do you do over the winter when there is no baseball?” The second is, “How do you find material for columns after the season ends?” My answer ...
The current era of American managers in Japan has come to an end with Marty Brown out as skipper of the Rakuten Eagles, and another “era” is ending in Japanese baseball with the disbanding of the Shonan Searex. The Yokohama BayStars have announced the ...
Matsui, Matsui and Iwamura. No, not a Tokyo law firm but three Japanese players at a crossroads in their careers with a big decision to make for 2011: Do they continue trying to extend their stays in North America? Or is it time to ...
We are taking a look this week at topics covered in this column at various times throughout the 2010 season, and updating them to see what, if any, progress has been made. • The Kansas City Royals without Hillman: On June 13, the Baseball ...
From the e-mail box this week comes a request from Mike Berger of Tokyo who wrote, “I would love to read about the retro uniforms we’ve been seeing in Japan pro ball recently. What’s the history behind those white Giants uniforms, and how about ...
Baseball news reports last week indicated Los Angeles Dodgers legendary play-by-play announcer Vin Scully has decided to return for another year behind the microphone in 2011. The 82-year-old Hall of Famer will be in his 62nd season calling Dodgers games in a career that ...
From the authors of “Haunted Baseball” we have what is essentially a Volume 2 of that book. Mickey Bradley and Dan Gordon have come out with “Field of Screams: Haunted Tales from the Baseball Diamond, the Locker Room and Beyond.” It is another collection ...
The Nippon Professional Baseball commissioner’s office on Aug. 9 released the results of its recent survey whereby current players, coaches and managers selected the greatest games and most memorable moments in the 76 years of Japanese professional baseball history. In the best game category, ...
Much has been reported and written about the year of the no-hitter in Major League Baseball this season, with no less than five thrown in the American and National Leagues in 2010. Tampa Bay Rays right-hander Matt Garza tossed the fifth one on July ...