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LIFE
Nov 22, 2009

Our growing Earth?

The world is awash with wild theories, conjecture and speculation about everything you could imagine — and then some.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 10, 2009

Recalling the fall of the Wall 20 years later: 'Botched' press release changed the world

NEW YORK — For weeks, the scene has been re-played on TV screens around the world, as if the events were breaking news: joyous Berliners dancing atop the infamous Wall, toppled 20 years ago on Nov. 9, 1989.
LIFE / Digital
Oct 7, 2009

Beijing battles online 'disharmony'

Thousands of goose-stepping troops, rumbling rows of tanks and floats celebrating China's achievements paraded proudly in front of Tiananmen Square last week, all intended to convey the message that Beijing has everything under control.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Sep 4, 2009

Musical Renaissance man brings us his world

Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Egberto Gismonti will return to Japan this month.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Aug 8, 2009

Goalkeeper Foster set for World Cup audition

LONDON — Carlo Ancelotti takes charge of Chelsea in a senior game for the first time on Sunday when it plays Manchester United in the Community Shield at Wembley.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Jun 6, 2009

Nepalese 'VIP' advocates investing in disability

Nepalese Kamal Lamichhane chuckles when he describes himself as a VIP. "As I told the audience at Manchester Metropolitan University last month, I really am a VIP — a visually impaired person. Unlike those people who become very important because of what they achieve in life, I have been a VIP since...
Japan Times
LIFE
May 24, 2009

Happy Birthday Yokohama!

For untold generations it was a muddy little fishing village on present-day Tokyo Bay. Then the destiny of Yokohama (meaning "broad beach") changed forever when a U.S. naval squadron led by Commodore Matthew Perry dropped anchor there in February 1854.
SOCCER / World cup
May 3, 2009

Oliveira taps Osako for World Cup

Kashima Antlers manager Oswaldo Oliveira has tipped teenage striker Yuya Osako to play for Japan at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 21, 2009

Asia ready to make final push for world domination

SAN DIEGO — Before the start of the World Baseball Classic, Ichiro Suzuki said he wanted the world to see the power of Asian baseball.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Feb 8, 2009

World Baseball Classic's controversial 13th-inning rule problematic

The Steering Committee of World Baseball Classic, Inc., has approved a controversial rule to help break a potential tie in a long extra-inning game during next month's WBC tournament, and it does not sit well with at least one Italian fan.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Nov 25, 2008

Obama offers new Asia tack: Vogel

Japan will continue to be a friend of the United States, but incoming President Barack Obama may try to approach China more to solve international issues because Beijing can more quickly effect policy, according to a noted American expert on Japan and China.
CULTURE / Books
Oct 19, 2008

Paul Theroux backtracks through the world

GHOST TRAIN TO THE EASTERN STAR: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar, by Paul Theroux. Hamish Hamilton, 2008, 496 pp., £20 (cloth) Books about traveling in other people's footsteps are commonplace. We have Lesley Downer's "On the Road to the Deep North" and Patrick Symmes' motorbike journey through...
COMMENTARY
Sep 27, 2008

The world's new hot spot

BAKU, Azerbaijan — In this large Caspian city on the edge of Europe and Asia the problems of the Western world — shaky banks, financial upheavals, struggles with terrorism — seem far away.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Sep 21, 2008

The making of 'the world's most beautiful woman,' amatuer a capella, and house remodeling

Japanese contestants have figured prominently in recent international beauty pagents, in particular the Miss Universe contest, which endeavors to find the most gorgeous woman in the world. The runnerup in 2006 was Kurara Chibana, and last year the winner was Riyo Mori.
MORE SPORTS / ICE TIME
Sep 21, 2008

Mao aims to defend world title; Oda returns

The 2007-08 skating season got off to a figurative early start with the holding of the NHK Trophy news conference in Tokyo on Sept 8.
BUSINESS
Sep 13, 2008

Merrill's Kobayashi may head World Bank agency

Merrill Lynch & Co.'s top executive in Japan, Izumi Kobayashi, is in advanced talks with the World Bank to head its Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, sources said.
Reader Mail
Sep 11, 2008

Indian waiver good for the world

Regarding the Sept. article "Hiroshima, Nagasaki leaders hit India nuke waiver": As an Indian residing in Japan for the past eight years, I can understand the resistance many Japanese people have toward the nuclear deal between the Nuclear Suppliers Group and India. It must be noted, though, that India...

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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