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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 ...
Senegalese-born center Pape Faye Mour scored a season-high 21 points, including 9-for-10 at the free-throw line, and grabbed 11 rebounds to lead the visiting Yokohama B-Corsairs to a 97-83 victory over the Shinshu Brave Warriors on Saturday night. The B-Corsairs (23-8) climbed into first ...
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 ...
The Akita Northern Happinets have terminated forward Dan Fitzgerald’s contract, the bj-league club announced on Friday. The Marquette University product struggled to knock down shots since joining the team in December. Fitzgerald, who drained 146 3-pointers and shot 34.6 percent from beyond the arc ...
An individual’s all-around game can flourish when attention to details and a commitment to defense are ever-present. Similarly, the pursuit of defensive excellence can transform a good team into a championship-contending team. Nile Murry and the Niigata Albirex BB share the same goal: to ...
Can shot-blocking maestro Jeral Davis reach the NBA in his late 20s? It’s not impossible. After all guard Pablo Prigioni is a 35-year-old Argentine rookie with the New York Knicks. That said, the Shimane Susanoo Magic center, who turns 29 on Sept. 17, probably ...
All good things must come to an end. For the Chiba Jets, their nine-game winning streak ended on Monday in an 88-77 defeat to the visiting Iwate Big Bulls. Carlos Dixon scored 26 points on 8-for-13 shooting and went 8-for-11 at the free-throw line ...
The Osaka Evessa do not look like a championship contender. And it will probably take a minor miracle for the Western Conference club to qualify for the playoffs this season. But this much is certain: The Evessa are headed in the right direction under ...
The Niigata Albirex BB made exactly 50 percent of their shots from inside the 3-point arc on Saturday in their series opener against the host Tokyo Cinq Reves. And they were even better from beyond the arc, knocking down 13 of 25 shots (52 ...
High-scoring forward Ricky Woods, who once set the bj-league’s single-game scoring record with 52 points while playing for the Oita HeatDevils, is on the move again. The 28-year-old New Orleans native has joined the Tokyo Cinq Reves, the expansion team announced on Friday. The ...
Eight straight victories is an impressive feat in any pro sports league. Riding an eight-game winning streak, the Chiba Jets are unbeaten in 2013. Their last eight victories have not come against elite teams; in fact, those teams are a combined 21-67 through Sunday. ...
This season Rizing Fukuoka head coach Atsushi Kanazawa’s message to his players has been consistent. “Don’t back down,” or some similar expression has been the message, according to Rizing power forward Reggie Warren. And Warren was reminded of that during the hard-fought third quarter ...
Yuki Togashi won’t technically be an adult for almost six more months, at least that’s true according to Japanese custom. In his bj-leauge debut, the Akita Northern Happinets rookie point guard played well beyond his years in a 88-78 victory over the host Toyama ...