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Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jul 8, 2011

Daring stunts feature at circus

Come one, come all to the 109th Kinoshita Circus, complete with lions, elephants and tremendous feats of daring.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jul 8, 2011

Best news photos of 2010 go on world tour

A monk in Vietnam calmly sets himself ablaze as a protest in 1963. A man stands defiantly in front of a tank during China's Tiananmen Square incident in 1989. Both these images have stuck in our collective minds and have won the World Press Photography (WPP) organization's top award.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
Jul 3, 2011

Kotaro Horiuchi: A life spent in uncharted waters of boat design

Considering the current state of Japan's economy, it's remarkable to recall that 60 years ago there were hundreds of companies both old and new jockeying restlessly to fill the vacuum left after almost all the nation's cities were heavily bombed in World War II — jockeying, that is, with the kind of...
BUSINESS
Jul 1, 2011

Toyoda to U.S. dealers: Recovery under way

Toyota Motor Corp. Chief Executive Officer Akio Toyoda says production is rebounding ahead of schedule from the March megaquake and new versions of the Camry sedan and Prius will soon arrive to aid sagging U.S. sales.
Reader Mail
Jun 23, 2011

Unhealthy promotion of sports

Regarding the June 18 Kyodo article "First sports law since '61 enacted": How will promoting sports cut medical spending? Some of the worst injuries are caused by sports. If there was an incentive to exercise safely, that might help reduce unnecessary spending, but to suggest that pushing sports down...
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Jun 17, 2011

Nakamura hopes to bring winning ways to Akita

Fiery leader Kazuo Nakamura is officially on board as the Akita Northern Happinets' new head coach. The announcement, made earlier this week, was in the works for weeks.
BUSINESS
Jun 15, 2011

Honda and Toyota getting outgunned in U.S.

Stephen Ragsdale is no longer one of Honda's "Happy Drivers." A loyal owner for a decade, he ditched a 2009 Accord just 18 months after he bought it. The reason: He coveted his mother's stylish Kia Optima.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Jun 8, 2011

Apache pull plug on 2011-12 season

Due to financial problems, the Tokyo Apache have suspended operations for the bj-league's 2011-12 season, it was announced on Tuesday.
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Jun 5, 2011

Sadly, the pleasant diversion of literature is losing its appeal

Radiation and rubble — that's Japan's reality now and for the foreseeable future; the only escape is to seize the bull called "relevance" by the horns and fling it to the devil. Gladly I accept the challenge. If I need an excuse, the bimonthly magazine Brutus provides one. Its June 1 edition, 118 pages...
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Jun 4, 2011

Blatter's arrogance off the charts

Sepp Blatter has presided over the most corrupt era in the history of FIFA. While not suggesting he has been involved in any impropriety, he is certainly guilty of not noticing half his executive committee has done enough to either been found guilty of or implicated in backhanders, bungs and golden envelopes....
Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
May 29, 2011

Evessa's Washington is greatest player in bj-league history

Six years is a long, long time in professional sports. In a word, it's an era.
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / WILD WATCH
May 15, 2011

Japan's mammalian riches

I came across my first bumblebees of the season as they were busily draining the nectar from a broad swath of Blue Corydalis. The delicate flower stems nodding in a light breeze looked delightful in the sunshine, while above them frothy willow catkins were yellow with pollen and here and there birches...
BUSINESS
May 14, 2011

Chrysler to idle U.S. plants in June

Chrysler Group LLC, the automaker run by Fiat SpA, is forging ahead with summer shutdowns at some factories and canceling overtime at a plant in Mexico to conserve parts from suppliers affected by the March earthquake in Japan.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
May 8, 2011

Pedal-power pleasures on Kansai's byways

Spring is the perfect season to explore Kansai by bicycle. Going with the flow along largely flat cycle routes beside the Yodo, Katsura and Kizu rivers, it's possible to chart a comfortable six-day trip — or, in my case, a rather challenging four-day one — between the cities of Osaka, Kyoto and Nara....
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Apr 21, 2011

Orimo still chasing Olympic dream

Forty-year-old star shooter Takehiko Orimo has achieved pretty much everything he could've possibly hoped for in his stellar career in the Japanese hoop scene.
Japan Times
SOCCER / SOCCER SCENE
Apr 21, 2011

Japan has much to lose as well as gain from trip to Copa

There is much to be gained by Japan participating at this summer's Copa America, but given the concessions required to send a team to Argentina there could be even more to lose.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Apr 12, 2011

Japanese baseball finally ready to get season under way

"Gambaro Tohoku.''

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight