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Farmers in the city of Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, have begun planting rice in a district once designated a no-go zone because of radioactive fallout ejected by the disaster-hit Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
Recently I was asked to write a blurb for a new liquid plant-nutrient. As soon as I saw the name of the product, 早根早起 （Hayane Hayaoki), I smiled at this example of linguistic creativity.
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 ...
Denmark’s Emmelie de Forest won this year’s Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday night with her ethno-inspired flute and drum tune “Only Teardrops,” despite tough competition from spectacular stage shows by performers from Azerbaijan and Ukraine. Juries and television viewers across Europe awarded the barefoot, ...
One team’s quest for a first title has ended. The other team’s fight will continue next season. The Yokohama B-Corsairs outplayed the Rizing Fukuoka in Sunday’s bj-league championship game, controlling the tempo for larger stretches and making enough timely baskets to fill an instructional ...
Defending champion Miami gets a big boost from Dwyane Wade in series-closing victory over Chicago.
LeBron James and the Miami Heat didn’t even give the Chicago Bulls room to breathe, practically squeezing the playoff life out of them to take a commanding lead in their Eastern Conference semifinal. Another effort like this will seal it. James scored 27 points ...
So much for South Beach style. The Miami Heat showed again they can get down and dirty. LeBron James came on strong down the stretch to finish with 25 points, Chris Bosh added 20 points and 19 rebounds, and the Heat followed up the ...
For the first time in these playoffs, the Miami Heat were facing some real adversity. They responded with a technical knockout. After nine technical fouls, two ejections and a whole lot of extracurricular pushing and shoving, the end results were as follows: The biggest ...
LeBron James took his MVP trophy from NBA commissioner David Stern moments before tipoff, hoisted it toward the Miami fans and they responded with deafening cheers. By night’s end, they were silent. Yes, those streakbusters from Chicago did it to Miami again. Nate Robinson ...
And we thought the Chicago Bulls last Wednesday breaking the Miami Heat’s 27-game winning streak, the second longest in NBA history, was the big news. Sort of, but not completely as LeBron James seemed to transcend it all, which may also tell you how ...