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SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 10, 2009

Capello looking at final choices for World Cup lineup

LONDON — England has the rare luxury of playing a World Cup tie away to Ukraine on Saturday with defeat meaning nothing in terms of qualification because Fabio Capello's team has already secured its place in South Africa next summer.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 20, 2009

Putin's preferred memory of World War II

CAMBRIDGE, England — Soviet ideology was always about the future. By contrast, today's official Russian ideology seems to be focused squarely on the past.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Aug 22, 2009

Activist preaches global education

Given the current global racial and religious tensions, it may sound utopian to envision a world in which people of diverse nationalities and cultural backgrounds live in peace and harmony by honoring the differences of others.
COMMENTARY
Aug 2, 2009

What the World War I vets left us

LONDON — In July 2007, there were 24 left. Now they are all gone, and there is nobody alive who fought in World War I.
EDITORIALS
Jun 10, 2009

Reaching out to the Muslim world

Few speeches in recent history have been as widely anticipated as the June 4 address of U.S. President Barack Obama to the Muslim world. The speech, delivered in Cairo, was the high point of a four-nation trip to the Middle East and Europe. The speech is intended to signal a "new beginning between the...
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 7, 2009

Consequences of hostility on the Peninsula

SEOUL — Once again, the Korean Peninsula is experiencing one of its periodic bouts of extremism, this time marked by the suicide May 22 of former President Roh Moo Hyun, and North Korea's second test of a nuclear device.
MORE SPORTS
Apr 19, 2009

U.S. captures first World Team Trophy championship

Behind strong performances from singles skaters Caroline Zhang and Rachel Flatt, the United States won the inaugural World Team Trophy on Saturday afternoon at Tokyo's Yoyogi National Gymnasium.
EDITORIALS
Apr 8, 2009

'A world without nuclear weapons'

U.S. President Barack Obama has committed his administration to the long-cherished dream of a world without nuclear weapons. In a landmark speech in Prague last weekend, Mr. Obama pledged that the United States would demonstrate "moral responsibility" and lead international efforts toward that goal....
BUSINESS / U.S. DIPLOMACY SYMPOSIUM
Feb 24, 2009

Introspective Europe may find it difficult accepting U.S.'s wider world view

Despite widespread public enthusiasm in Europe for the new U.S. administration of President Barack Obama, long-term worrying trends remain that confront the trans-Atlantic relationship, said James Goldgeier, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
SOCCER / World cup
Dec 21, 2008

Blatter lauds England 2018 World Cup bid

FIFA president Sepp Blatter praised England as a strong candidate to host the 2018 World Cup, adding he expects a competitive bidding process.
CULTURE / Books
Nov 23, 2008

Deadly disconnect in the 'Real World'

REAL WORLD by Natsuo Kirino, translated by Philip Gabriel. Vintage, 2008, 224 pp., £7.99 (paper) A high school student, unhappy with life, bludgeons his mother to death with a baseball bat. He is calm and appears removed, almost abstracted from the events. He leaves the scene and disappears into the...
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Nov 9, 2008

What a world of difference that one momentous day could make

The stunning victory of Barack Obama in last Tuesday's election is a cause of great joy not only for Americans but for people all over the world.
JAPAN
Oct 2, 2008

Merger creates ODA behemoth

The merger Wednesday of the Japan International Cooperation Agency with a part of the Japan Bank for International Cooperation is a significant development in the country's contribution to world stability and peace, Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone said.
JAPAN
Jul 5, 2008

Only world-record-setting Japanese plane remembered

On the evening of May 15, 1938, the Koken Long Range Monoplane, known as the Kokenki in Japan, landed on a runway in Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, to great public acclaim.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Jun 19, 2008

Azzurri send France packing in World Cup final rematch

ZURICH (AP) A big, bright rainbow stretched over the Letizgrund as Italian and French players walked solemnly on the field and sang their national anthems. It was a tantalizing moment, portending perhaps that for one of these soccer powers "the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jun 13, 2008

World Beat 2008

If New York City was the world, then the borough of Brooklyn would be Global Bohemia, the place where undiscovered international creative forces meet, get drunk together and make art. In terms of music, no Brooklyn indie band personifies this idea better than Gogol Bordello, the "gypsy punk" collective...
SOCCER / World cup
May 6, 2008

Verbeek vows to keep Aussies competitive in World Cup qualifying

Australia manager Pim Verbeek insists his side has a better understanding of Asian soccer since last year's Asian Cup, but is taking nothing for granted ahead of next month's crucial World Cup qualification matches.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Apr 11, 2008

The Tenori-on World Launch Tour

Words from the lexicon of visual arts have often been applied to the world of music, from the way 1960s British Mod band The Creation described their music as "red, with purple flashes" to the way modern electronic and ambient music is often described as "sound collages" and "aural landscapes."
BASEBALL / MLB
Dec 23, 2007

When World Series ball becomes chew toy, there's lesson to be learned

Leave it to a pooch to put things in perspective.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Nov 2, 2007

Shizuoka welcomes street performers' World Cup

World-class street performers descend on Shizuoka Prefecture for the annual Daidogei World Cup this week. Fourteen groups, who have survived a rigorous selection process, will compete for the 16th championship title.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 11, 2007

Little friends for the other world

Tomb artifacts have a powerful effect over their viewers, reminding us of the grandeur of the past. The design of tombs and funeral vaults on a monumental scale and with luxurious details stand as symbols of a desire for immortality.
JAPAN
Aug 15, 2007

World's oldest person dies

Yone Minagawa, who became the world's oldest person earlier this year, has died at a nursing home in Fukuoka Prefecture, an official said Tuesday. She was 114.

Longform

A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami