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The head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said the building’s owner was the “main culprit” for the disaster because he violated construction codes. The cave-in of the eight-story Rana Plaza outside the capital last month killed ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
“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, ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
As far as debuts go, Shohei Otani's delivered. The celebrated rookie pitched fairly well on Thursday night, and though he finished outside the decision, he left the mound with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters well within striking distance of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
Before the Ryukyu Golden Kings ever played a game and before Okinawa proved to be a terrific location for a Japanese professional basketball team, Cohey Aoki had already established himself as a fan favorite in the bj-league. The league’s first-ever All-Star Game, held in ...
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 ...
This season, the Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix were expected to be one of the Western Conference’s elite teams after four banner campaigns in the bj-league’s Eastern Conference. That hasn’t changed. In fact, the former Eastern powerhouse squad is still improving — a scary thought for ...
You’ve got to start somewhere. For the expansion Gunma Crane Thunders, it was inevitable: At some point, the team would win its first regular-season home game. That occurred on Saturday night, an 82-73 victory over the visiting Tokyo Cinq Reves. The Crane Thunders had ...
The Yokohama B-Corsairs controlled the tempo in crunch time and dominated key stretches of a 79-68 victory over the Sendai 89ers on Friday night in the bj-league. The B-Corsairs relied on their Big Three — Draelon Burns, Thomas Kennedy and Masayuki Kabaya — to ...
High-energy guard Masayuki Kabaya scored a season-high and game-best 28 points, canned 6 of 9 3-pointers and grabbed 10 rebounds in the Yokohama B-Corsairs’ 82-75 victory over the Sendai 89ers on Thursday night in the bj-league. Draelon Burns added 19 points, nine rebounds, five ...
The Ryukyu Golden Kings, not unlike a well-oiled machine, are the best squad in the league. And this week we examine how they stack up with the other nine teams in the Western Conference over the past 10 games, or roughly one-fifth of the ...
Takatoshi “Big Bashi” Ishibashi served as the Shinshu Brave Warriors’ capable assistant coach during the team’s inaugural season under Motofumi Aoki, the 2006-07 bj-league Coach of the Year. And as expected, the Brave Warriors had an up-and-down 2011-12 season — 18 victories and 34 ...