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SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Sep 20, 2008

Ashley proves business success irrelevant in soccer

LONDON — In the 1956 autobiography of former Newcastle striker Len Shackleton, one chapter was entitled "The Average Director's Knowledge Of Football."
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 15, 2008

Europeans draw wrong lesson from Munich

NEW YORK — Seventy years ago this month in Munich, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed a document that allowed Germany to grab a large chunk of Czechoslovakia. The so-called Munich Agreement would come to be seen as an abject betrayal of what Chamberlain termed "a far away country of...
SOCCER / J. League
Sep 14, 2008

Oita's stifling defense frustrates host Reds

Oita Trinita frustrated Urawa Reds with a stifling defensive performance to earn a 0-0 draw and stay firmly in the J. League title hunt on Saturday.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Sep 13, 2008

Capello masterful in England's victory over Croatia

LONDON — The impression is that if you told Fabio Capello he had just won a record lottery jackpot — or even had he discovered he had lost the winning ticket — his expression would not change.
SOCCER / SOCCER SCENE
Sep 5, 2008

Utilizing strong midfield key to success for Japan

With Japan still struggling for firepower with the final World Cup qualification round getting under way against Bahrain on Saturday night, a new wind blowing around Europe could help lighten the load.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Aug 31, 2008

Results in Beijing prove that baseball has a place in Olympics

After watching that cliff-hanging, nail-biter, barn-burner of a victory by South Korea over Cuba in the gold medal game at the Beijing Olympics, I am more convinced than ever that baseball — and softball — belong in the Games.
Reader Mail
Aug 28, 2008

Insular view of raw excitement

Although I was excited about the Olympics after they started and enjoyed watching many televised events and the superb sportsmanship that was displayed, but those feelings were replaced by exasperation at Japanese broadcasters' incredibly insular, boring and petty coverage. Let me say, first, that I...
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Aug 15, 2008

Firms strop goods as facial hair finds favor

Japanese men have long shunned facial hair, as many companies frowned on employees with beards or mustaches, or even prohibited them in the workplace.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
Aug 15, 2008

Heading to the pubs for beer and bangers

For lovers of good beer, the major event of the spring was the opening of the Nakameguro Taproom. No ordinary pub, Taproom is the Tokyo outlet for Baird beers, the craft brewery in Shizuoka Prefecture that many people — and the Food File, too — rate among the best in the country.
SPORTS / ODDS AND EVENS
Aug 14, 2008

'Underdog' Gay ready to face his date with destiny

BEIJING — I spent an hour listening to one of the three fastest men living on the planet speak in slow, articulate sentences earlier this week.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 10, 2008

Disturbing reasons to put a nation to death

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — Belgium is in danger of falling apart. For more than six months, the country has been unable to form a government that is able to unite the French-speaking Walloons (32 percent of the population) and Dutch-speaking Flemish (58 percent). The Belgian monarch, Albert II, is...
SOCCER
Jul 26, 2008

MLS stars take down West Ham

TORONTO (AP) Just making it to the Major League Soccer All-Star game was a "nightmare" for Dwayne DeRosario. Once he arrived, it turned into a night he'll never forget.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Jul 11, 2008

'Hot Fuzz'

Hercule Poirot once proclaimed that "the police in England are only adequate, but the English detective is a thing of marvel!" Sherlock Holmes would have agreed, having put up with the uninspired adequacy of Scotland Yard for most of his career. But no more: The English police or rather "the fuzz in...
SUMO / SUMO SCRIBBLINGS
Jul 8, 2008

Pounds equal prizes

There are several topics of note coming out of the upcoming Grand Sumo Tournament in Nagoya.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film / SHORT TAKES
Jul 4, 2008

"Miracle 7-go"

Director: Stephen Chow
SOCCER / J. League
Jun 29, 2008

Ota's 84th-minute tally propels Reysol to hard-earned win over Reds

A late goal from Keisuke Ota gave Kashiwa Reysol a well-deserved 2-1 win over Urawa Reds on Saturday as the J. League returned from its summer break in explosive style.
SOCCER / SOCCER SCENE
Jun 27, 2008

Qualifying round shows talent gap narrowing in Asia

Japan national team manager Takeshi Okada will be aware his seat at Friday's World Cup final Asian qualifying round draw in Kuala Lumpur has not come easy, but he will not be the only man in the room irked by such thoughts.

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Sumadori Bar on Shibuya Ward's main Center Gai street targets young customers who prefer low-alcohol drinks or abstain altogether.
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