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BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jan 13, 2010

Lakers looking to acquire Bosh from Raptors

NEW YORK — Today's NBA Report is 99.9 percent pure basketball, "triggered" by trade winds.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Jan 8, 2010

Coach says Phoenix players focus on team

With 20 games in the books and 17 victories to date, the Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix are on pace to have the finest season in bj-league history. The Ryukyu Golden Kings went 41-11 in the 2008-09 season en route to the team's first championship.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Jan 6, 2010

Arenas deserves lifetime ban for gun incident

NEW YORK — Even in a world long gone mad . . . what an unfathomable, boundary-crossing, guns-in-the-Wizards locker-room Gilbert Arenas-Javaris Crittenton grudge confrontation story.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Jan 1, 2010

Making Takeno starter keyed Niigata's charge

Niigata Albirex BB point guard Makoto Hasegawa, the league's second-oldest player, began the season in the starting lineup.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Dec 25, 2009

All-Star Game squads announced by league

The votes have been counted, players have been notified and now the bj-league is putting the finishing touches on preparations for the 2009-10 All-Star Game on Jan. 31 in Rifu, Miyagi Prefecture.
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Dec 18, 2009

Tennichi seeks solutions as Evessa's woes continue

Two seasons removed from their third consecutive championship, the Osaka Evessa are struggling to find a winning formula.
BASKETBALL
Dec 17, 2009

Newton lifts Golden Kings to victory in championship game rematch

Time after time, championship teams make in-game adjustments better than your run-of-the-mill opponent.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Dec 13, 2009

Tribute to mystery author Seicho Matsumoto; antique appraisal; and winter ghost stories

The hundredth anniversary of the birth of mystery author Seicho Matsumoto, who wrote the original story on which the current movie hit "Zero no Shoten" is based, continues to be celebrated on the small screen this week with a new version of his classic tale "Chuo Ryusa" (Central Quicksand; TBS, Mon.,...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Dec 13, 2009

Tuffy hopes to extend career in Japan another year

It remains to be seen if Tuffy Rhodes will return to play a 14th season in Japanese baseball in 2010. The all-time leader among foreign players in home runs and RBIs says he's ready for another year — or two — but, if he is unable to attract an offer from a Pacific or Central League club, he will...
SOCCER / World cup
Dec 6, 2009

Path to sixth World Cup win may be tough for Brazil

CAPE TOWN, Okada stands firm: Page 16 (AP) Five-time winner Brazil was stung by a tough draw for the 2010 World Cup on Friday while co-favorite Spain was given an easy ride through to the second round.
BASKETBALL
Dec 6, 2009

Ito, UP Pilots off to strong start

Senior guard Taishi Ito, who hails from Mie Prefecture, has helped the University of Portland (Ore.) men's basketball team earn a spot in The Associated Press Top 25 rankings for the first time since 1959.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE PLAYERS OF THE MONTH
Dec 5, 2009

Parker earns November accolades

Do-it-all forward Michael Parker plays a starring role for the Rizing Fukuoka.
BASKETBALL / NBA / NBA REPORT
Dec 2, 2009

Signing Iverson would be mistake for Philly

NEW YORK — Other than generating some desperately (the operative word) needed excitement among the missing masses and possibly selling enough tickets for the remainder of the 76ers' 5-11 season to rationalize investing in a pro-rated $1.3 million veteran minimum contract, I can't visualize anything...
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHO'S WHO
Dec 1, 2009

Entrepreneur taps his foreign nature

Harry Hill, president of TV shopping channel operator Oak Lawn Marketing Inc., received a lot of discouraging comments from Japanese when he thought about selling the "Billy's Boot Camp" exercise DVDs.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Nov 29, 2009

Rowsom says Lottich signing key addition for Oita

The Oita HeatDevils' reclamation project is far from finished.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Nov 27, 2009

'The Informant!'

Steven Soderbergh's latest, "The Informant!," comes off like the smartest, funniest kid in the class — a wiz at everything he does from physics to basketball, but somehow friendless.
BASKETBALL
Nov 18, 2009

Rising Suns set for team tryouts

The Rising Suns are looking for men's basketball players for the 2010 Quai 54 International Streetball Championship in France. Sponsored by Air Jordan, it is billed as the largest annual streetball tournament in the world.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Nov 14, 2009

Time for Albirex to consider replacing Hirose as coach

When should a team fire a head coach?
BASKETBALL
Nov 10, 2009

No place like home for Sendai's hoop wizards

For basketball fans in Tohoku and the Sendai 89ers, an unforgettable line from "The Wizard of Oz" succinctly summarizes the bj-league team's success this season: "There's no place like home."
BASKETBALL
Nov 6, 2009

Rizing duo helps beat Lakestars

Every basketball coach will tell you it's better to have a potent one-two scoring punch than a single offensive force in the lineup.
BASKETBALL
Nov 2, 2009

Broncos beat Grouses for first win of season

Terrence Woodyard's valiant effort carried the Saitama Broncos to their first victory of the season on Sunday.
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Oct 30, 2009

Teams need true home venues for legitimacy

The Toyama Grouses are listed as the home team at nine venues for the bj-league's 2009-10 season. The Rizing Fukuoka and Osaka Evessa are both listed as the home team at eight different venues, while the Oita HeatDevils are scheduled to use seven home venues this season.
BASKETBALL
Oct 22, 2009

Palmer making impact for Evessa

After a two-year absence, David Palmer has made a successful return to the bj-league.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Oct 14, 2009

Albirex's efficient attack too much for Apache

The Tokyo Apache are struggling to find a collective identity and successfully combine all the elements of new coach Motofumi Aoki's game plan.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Oct 7, 2009

White comes through in crunch time to help Phoenix top Apache

Wendell White showcased his shooter's touch in crunch time on Tuesday.
BASKETBALL
Oct 1, 2009

West skips Cavaliers' first practice

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) Less than 24 hours after saying he was focused on basketball, Delonte West skipped Cleveland's first day of practice.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Sep 23, 2009

Murray rips Rawl for reneging on offer to coach Oita

The Oita HeatDevils were in shambles last season, including in the team's front office. Not only did the club manage to lose a league-worst 44 games (it played 52), it also created unnecessary headaches for the bj-league.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHO'S WHO
Sep 15, 2009

For TV anchor, learning the lingo is key

Gene Otani, a Japanese national who attended an international school in Kobe throughout his youth, had to take Japanese lessons as a salaried worker when he realized he needed more skill in reading and writing.
The unstoppable rise of konbini tourism
Guests typically follow Ryo Ito’s lead as he weaves through the narrow, colorful aisles of convenience stores.
More Japanese universities pushing toward teaching in English
Waseda University in Tokyo
A narrow Pacific waterway at heart of U.S. plans to choke China’s vast navy
Philippine and Australian troops fire an M777 howitzer during live fire exercises as part of joint military drills in Laur, Nueva Ecija, the Philippines, in August.
Trump would make U.S. Supreme Court history by attending tariffs case
There is no record in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 235-year history of a sitting president ever attending arguments, according to Clare Cushman, director of publications and resident historian at the Supreme Court Historical Society.
Dodgers clinch back-to-back World Series titles as Blue Jays downed in thriller
Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto and teammates celebrate after winning the World Series against the Blue Jays. Yamamoto was named MVP for the series.
How airlines are refining their in-flight food in Japan's tourism boom
All Nippon Airways' gourmet program, The Connoisseurs, showcases the Japanese concept of "shun" (peak season for ingredients), giving passengers a preview of the refined cuisine that awaits them in Japan.
The unstoppable rise of konbini tourism
Guests typically follow Ryo Ito’s lead as he weaves through the narrow, colorful aisles of convenience stores.
Anime isn’t competing with Hollywood — it’s beating it
After its July release, “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba — Infinity Castle,” an animated feature adapted directly from a TV arc, became the highest-grossing Japanese film ever.
Oasis returns to Japan after 16 years — and fans can still sing every word
Liam Gallagher commanded the stage with effortless charisma during Oasis' Tokyo Dome set on Saturday.
At Japan Mobility Show, BYD gears up to conquer Japan's EV market
BYD Auto Japan President Atsuki Tofukuji unveils the Racco at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo on Wednesday.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Once smoky, male-dominated spaces, today's net cafes, like Kaikatsu Club, are working to make their operations more attractive to women customers.
The second life of Japan's net cafes
By Alex K.T. Martin

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