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Fred Varcoe
For Fred Varcoe's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
SOCCER / J. League
Dec 12, 2000
Antlers capture J. League championship
Champions again. The Kashima Antlers, who won the Nabisco Cup last month, earned the J. League title before 44,665 fans at Tokyo's National Stadium on Saturday night with a 3-0 win over the Yokohama F. Marinos in the second leg of the J. League Championship final. The win gave them a 3-0 aggregate after last week's 0-0 draw in Yokohama.
SOCCER / J. League
Dec 10, 2000
Antlers hoist J. League crown
Think of them as champions. The Kashima Antlers earned that right before 44,665 fans at Tokyo's National Stadium on Saturday night with a 3-0 win over the Yokohama F. Marinos in the second leg of the J. League Championship final. The win gave them a 3-0 aggregate after last week's 0-0 draw in Yokohama.
MORE SPORTS
Dec 4, 2000
Al Hilal beats Shimizu S-Pulse in first leg of Asian Super Cup
SHIMIZU, Shizuoka Pref. -- Shimizu S-Pulse's hopes of joining Jubilo Iwata in the Club World Championship were dealt a severe blow after a 2-1 defeat to Saudi Arabian team Al Hilal in the first leg of the Asian Super Cup at Nihondaira Stadium on Sunday.
SOCCER / J. League
Dec 3, 2000
First leg ends scoreless
YOKOHAMA -- One of the arguments against the J. League having a two-stage format is that the first-stage champion spends the entire second stage coasting.
SOCCER / J. League
Nov 30, 2000
Alex: Dreadlocks in deadlock at S-Pulse
SHIMIZU, Shizuoka Pref. -- It's an image that sticks very firmly in the mind. Sixty seconds into a crucial game against the Yokohama F. Marinos, a brilliant 60-meter pass out of defense by Kazuyuki Toda catches a flurry of dreadlocks on the run.
SOCCER / World cup
Nov 29, 2000
Boca Juniors crowned club champs
If Real Madrid's Luis Figo is worth $56 million, what price Juan Roman Riquelme of Boca Juniors?
SOCCER / World cup
Nov 28, 2000
Boca skips practice on eve of Toyota Cup
Boca Juniors failed to turn up for their scheduled Toyota Cup practice at Tokyo's National Stadium on Monday night. No explanation was given, although several players from both Boca and Real Madrid have reportedly been harassed by Argentine supporters while in Tokyo.
MORE SPORTS
Nov 28, 2000
The charm of an autocratic Frenchman
The big mistake many Japanese people make with Philippe Troussier is thinking he doesn't have a sense of humor. If he didn't, he probably wouldn't have survived over two years of dealing with the Japan Football Association.
SOCCER / J. League
Nov 27, 2000
Antlers clinch stage after scoreless draw
The setup was perfect: The last day of the J. League's second stage, a beautiful autumn day at a sold-out National Stadium in Tokyo, the top team against the second-placed team with the latter needing a win to clinch the stage.
COMMUNITY
Nov 19, 2000
A woman with universal appeal
Ines Ligron was not pleased with The Japan Times. In particular, she was unhappy with an editorial suggesting that the winners of the Miss Universe contest are "celebrities of the fluffier variety."
SOCCER / World cup
Nov 16, 2000
FIFA boss wraps up Tokyo trip
FIFA president Sepp Blatter breezed through Tokyo Tuesday and Wednesday for a series of meetings aimed at resolving a number of issues concerning the 2002 World Cup and next year's Confederations Cup.
SOCCER / World cup / SPORTS SCOPE
Nov 15, 2000
Reasons to be fearful: Part 1
For Calvin in the cartoon Calvin and Hobbes there are always monsters under the bed. You can't see them, but you know they're there.
SOCCER / J. League
Nov 5, 2000
Nakata, Bismarck kick Antlers to victory in Nabisco Cup final
After 2 1/2 months of inactivity for Division One of the J. League due to the Olympics and Asian Cup, the Nabisco Cup final kicked off the remaining portion of the soccer season at Tokyo's National Stadium on Saturday.
MULTIMEDIA / SPORTS SCOPE
Oct 26, 2000
Who decides on who decides?
When I interviewed Terry Venables in June, I asked him the obvious questions about his future: "Do you want to manage again?" and "Would you manage England again?"
MORE SPORTS
Oct 16, 2000
Halard-Decugis, Schalken claim Japan Open tennis titles
It was death by a thousand cuts or, to put it another way, victory by a thousand errors.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 15, 2000
Lapentti, Schalken book spots in Japan Open tennis final
With the top three seeds out of contention, it was left to the fourth seed, Ecuador's Nicolas Lapentti, to lead the way into the final of the Japan Open tennis tournament on Saturday, and the world No. 16 duly obliged with a clinical 6-3, 6-4 victory over Slovakia's Dominik Hrbaty.
MORE SPORTS
Oct 5, 2000
Seles, Serena pass first tests at Toyota Princess Cup tennis
Monica Seles and Serena Williams, the first and second seeds, respectively, who both had byes in the first round, cruised through their first tests at the Toyota Princess Cup on Wednesday to advance to the quarterfinals.
SOCCER / J. League
Sep 24, 2000
Perryman to quit S-Pulse
Shimizu S-Pulse manager Steve Perryman is to leave the club at the end of the current season.
MULTIMEDIA / SPORTS SCOPE
Sep 13, 2000
Talking Olympic tennis with Japan's best-ever player
For some, tennis is not a sport that should be in the Olympics. Its players have been professional for a long time, they earn millions of dollars a year, and they have their own major international championships.
SOCCER / J. League
Sep 6, 2000
Fiery Japan squad gets past Morocco
It may not be as good a sendoff for the Japanese Olympic team as Saturday's 6-0 victory over Kuwait, but Tuesday's 3-1 win over Morocco's Olympic team at Tokyo's National Stadium was just the kind of workout Philippe Troussier's team needed before heading for Sydney.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
In Japan, regional revitalization fails to halt population decline
Sakiyama elementary school in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, in March .Over the past decade, the government has directed efforts toward policies designed to give young people incentives to base themselves in rural areas.
Number of homeless in Japan hits record low
Homeless people sleep on the street in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward in August 2021.
Ukraine is far from doomed
When comparing Ukraine’s military situation in 2024 to Europe’s in 1941, Russia’s defeat seems entirely possible.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Tokyo's Koto Ward by-election a race unlike any other
Natsumi Sakai, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan’s candidate and one of four female candidates running in the by-election, touts her experience as a cancer survivor and midwife as having prepared her to tackle issues that women currently face.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Top U.S. and China diplomats talk tough amid warnings of new ‘downward spiral’
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing on Friday

Podcast

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