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A sit-in by visa violators and their families entered its second day Tuesday in front of the Tokyo Regional Immigration Bureau with protesters seeking government good will. The action at the bureau in Minato Ward is being organized by the Asian People’s Friendship Society, ...
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
“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, ...
Takashi Miike's blood-soaked vengeance tale, one of two Japanese films being shown in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, draws the biggest boos so far, with critics savaging it as overacted and cliched.
Have you ever given your best effort while striving to achieve something but felt like what you were doing was futile? That’s the feeling I’m getting about Tokyo’s bid to host the 2020 Olympics. With just over three months to go until the IOC ...
Takashi Uchiyama successfully defends his WBA super featherweight title for the seventh time, knocking out the previously undefeated Jaider Parra of Venezuela in the fifth round.
Koki Kameda beats Panomroonglek Kaiyanghadaogym of Thailand to defend his WBA bantamweight title for the sixth time.
Koki Kameda will defend his WBA bantamweight title against Yonfrez Pareio of Venezuela in April, his gym announced on Thursday. The bout, to be fought on April 7 in Osaka, will be his sixth defense of the title since winning it when he beat ...
Naoko Yamaguchi, the WBA women’s super flyweight champion, will make her second title defense on April 10 against Italy’s Loredana Piazza, her gym said Tuesday. The 34-year-old has 13 career wins, including 11 knockouts, and two defeats. She won her world title and her ...
Nobuhiro Ishida announced Thursday he will fight for the WBA middleweight championship on March 30 in Monaco. The 37-year-old Ishida, a former WBC super welterweight interim champion, will take on Kazakhstan’s Gennady Golovkin, the WBA’s current middleweight champ. “A world title fight is the ...
Middleweight Ryota Murata, who became Japan’s first Olympic boxing champion in 48 years last summer at the London Games, revealed Saturday he is thinking of turning pro. “It’s true that I have been thinking about that world,” the 27-year-old told reporters. “But the truth ...
The rules will be more stringent at the upcoming World Baseball Classic tournament in consideration of the workload on pitchers. Pitchers will be limited to 65 pitches for the first round, 80 for the second round and 95 in the semifinals and final, FOX ...
WBC super flyweight champion Yota Sato said Tuesday he wants a title unification match against WBA champ Kohei Kono. Resuming open training for the first time since his second title defense on New Year’s Eve, Sato said, “I want to unify the titles.” “The ...
An autographed pair of Muhammad Ali’s gloves went on display in an exhibition of boxing memorabilia at Tokyo’s Korakuen Hall starting Saturday. In addition to the gloves of the legendary heavyweight champion, the exhibit has gloves belonging to Masao Oba, the WBA flyweight champion ...
Ninth-ranked Masayuki Kuroda will get his first crack at a world title when he faces WBA flyweight champion Juan Carlos Reveco of Argentina next month, his gym said Thursday. The 26-year-old Kuroda, who has moved up to flyweight after returning the Japan light flyweight ...
Manny Pacquiao vowed to “rise again” after arriving back in the Philippines Wednesday after a brutal knockout defeat that prompted some fans and experts to urge him to retire. “Don’t worry, we will rise again,” he told well-wishers as arrived in Manila from the ...
Boxer Ryota Murata demonstrated in 2011 that he can compete successfully on the world stage, placing runnerup as a middleweight at the world championships in Baku. A year later, Murata has a chance to become Japan’s first boxing gold medalist since the 1964 Tokyo ...