AP A car bomb exploded outside a mosque Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding another 141 in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi — the third mass-casualty attack on the minority sect in the country this ...
It's a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chinese warships in the East China Sea challenged Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces patrols in a manner deemed threatening. And on Feb. 12 came North Korea's nuclear test.
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome. Japan improved to 2-0 following a tough win over Brazil in Saturday evening’s ...
Matt Garrison did not set forth to reinvent the wheel when he was hired as the Niigata Albirex BB head coach for the 2011-12 season. So after replacing longtime bench boss Masaya Hirose, who was at the helm for 11 seasons in the team’s ...
Formed as a six-team breakaway circuit from the old-guard JBL, the bj-league aimed to usher in a new era of pro basketball in Japan in 2005.
The tragic death of a 17-year-old Osaka high school student and basketball captain in December sheds light on a disturbing aspect of Japanese culture that has existed for decades: corporal punishment. It’s not a secret; most Japanese know about it, experienced the humiliation associated ...
It’s time to look ahead to 2013 as each of the bj-league’s 21 teams search for ways to improve. So here’s one columnist’s suggested New Year’s resolutions for all teams. The Ryukyu Golden Kings, league champions in 2011-12, are off to a brilliant start ...
A ringing endorsement from someone who has worked at the elite level in his chosen profession probably couldn’t hurt, eh? Well, former NBA guard Jay Humphries, who’s seriously interested in coaching in the bj-league, can thank a pair of veteran sideline supervisors for dishing ...
The Sendai 89ers are lending a helping hand to a 17-year-old South Dakota student’s fight against cancer. Halfway around the world, Conrad Adam, a high school basketball player, has his own team of supporters, the 89ers. In fact, they are part of a larger ...
Luke Zeller, one of three brothers to earn the prestigious Mr. Basketball title during his Indiana schoolboy days, was undrafted after a steady but unspectacular four-year collegiate career at Notre Dame. He began his professional career with the Shiga Lakestars in 2009. And now, ...
Gary Payton played point guard as fearlessly and with as much intensity on defense as anyone has ever done. He’s equally as bold when it comes to dishing out his opinions about the sport he still loves. The nine-time NBA All-Star believes he could ...
Just as the Japan Basketball League is preparing to re-brand itself as the National Basketball League (NBL) for 2013-14, it is also coping with the planned loss of one of Japan’s most successful basketball clubs, the Panasonic Trians. Panasonic Corp.’s financial woes — losses ...
Yao Ming’s success in the NBA, short-lived but significant, sparked widespread interest in basketball in China. Furthermore, India has placed a growing emphasis on growing the sport at all levels. In summary, that’s about one-third of the earth’s potential number of athletes that may ...
Kevin Durant has become the premier scorer in the world. Though the Olympic basketball tournament can’t measure up to the NBA playoffs, when Durant scores 28 points in 22 minutes against Argentina, a respectable foe, like he did on Monday, the only appropriate reaction ...
Here’s something I do know: Adel Tlatli is a name unknown to most people following the Olympics. In Tunisia, though, he is a hero, not to be confused with English pop sensation Adele. Tlatli, a bespectacled 54-year-old, guided Tunisia to its first Olympic basketball ...
