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Japan Times
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Oct 22, 2010

Hill, Apache ready for season to tip off

The Tokyo Apache and the Niigata Albirex BB begin the 2010-11 bj-league season a week later than the other 14 teams. And so they've both had extra time to make preparations for their first game.
BUSINESS / YEN FOR LIVING
Oct 20, 2010

Ramen chain widens definition of 'new graduates'

A ramen chain causes a stir by dropping the tradition of hiring from only this year's pool of graduates.
COMMENTARY
Oct 18, 2010

Japan's stingy approach to schools has not paid off

According to the World University Rankings 2010-2011, published by the Times Higher Education on Sept. 16, the number of Japanese universities ranking among the world's top 200 dwindled to five from 11 the previous year.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel
Oct 17, 2010

Okitsuru: An island in the middle of Yokohama

At a 2009 concert, Seijin Noborikawa, the grand-daddy of Okinawan folk music, told the audience about where he felt most at home when he visited mainland Japan. He described a neighborhood where passersby chatted in uchinaaguchi language, where shops served pig-trotter noodles and island songs seeped...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Oct 17, 2010

Friendship on death row; Dr. Doolittle revisited; CM of the week: JR East

Prison life is a popular theme this fall, and the latest drama series to utilize it is "Mori no Asagao" ("Morning Glory in the Forest"; TV Tokyo, Mon., 10 p.m.), which centers on the relationship between a rookie prison guard and a man on death row.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 16, 2010

Giants-Tigers series looks like a tossup

OSAKA — The Yomiuri Giants and Hanshin Tigers have the fiercest rivalry in all of Japan. Their storied feud gets taken to a new level this year as they meet for the first time in the postseason.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Oct 15, 2010

Even with new faces, Phoenix favored in East

The defending champion Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix's two best players last season, bj-league MVP Wendell White and Billy Knight, are now playing for the Kyoto Hannaryz and Osaka Evessa, respectively.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 15, 2010

Marines outplay Hawks in Game 1

FUKUOKA — Conventional wisdom states that the Hawks are thought to have an overwhelming edge over the Marines with their one-win advantage, plus, with two of the best southpaw pitchers in the game in Toshiya Sugiuchi and Tsuyoshi Wada.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Oct 15, 2010

Event to get Sendai singing

In his wrap-up of the previous decade in music on Dec. 18, 2009, this newspaper's Philip Brasor identified harmony vocal groups as the "most enduring fad." Well, judging from the activities of a sizable group of young performers from northern Japan, the fad looks certain to continue.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Oct 3, 2010

Yokohama farm team will revert to using 'BayStars'

The current era of American managers in Japan has come to an end with Marty Brown out as skipper of the Rakuten Eagles, and another "era" is ending in Japanese baseball with the disbanding of the Shonan Searex.
SOCCER / J. League / J. LEAGUE NOTEBOOK
Sep 30, 2010

Gamba making late surge to join championship race

As another round of J. League games passes, another title contender emerges.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Sep 24, 2010

Sakamoto impressing with show of power

For pitchers facing shortstops, usually the main worry is letting them get on base, where their speed can create problems.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 22, 2010

Sakamoto's heroics carry Giants to win

Shortstop Hayato Sakamoto is becoming the Yomiuri Giants' go-to guy late in games.
From France to Mali, a deportee's struggle far from home
Moussa Sacko, a Malian deported from France — where he had lived since he was a young child — stands on a street in Bamako, Mali, in December. Compared with his home in France, Bamako feels like a different planet, Sacko said.
Trump announces Nippon Steel-U.S. Steel ‘partnership’ deal
U.S. President Donald Trump points as he boards Air Force One en route to New Jersey, at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on Friday.
Travelers avoid trips to Japan over viral comic book’s quake prediction
Visitors walk along Nakamise-dori as they visit Sensoji Temple in Tokyo's Asakusa district in March.
Tokyo's Yamanote Line resumes suspended train operations
All services on East Japan Railway's Yamanote Line in Tokyo were suspended for early Friday morning due to wire trouble.
Onosato set for yokozuna promotion after clinching Emperor’s Cup
Onosato after defeating Kotozakura at Ryokugikan in Tokyo on Friday. The win gave him a 13-0 record and clinched the Emperor's Cup, assuring him of promotion to yokozuna next week.
AI fiction is already here. Are humans ready?
After last year’s controversy over using AI to write about 5% of her novel, Rie Qudan was asked by an advertising magazine to write a short story where she uses AI for 95% of it. The resulting short story, “Kage no ame” (“Rain Shadow”), was published March 25.  
Six short films that capture our world in mere minutes
“Marion” provides a glimpse into the lives of bull dodgers, who perform a nonlethal version of bullfighting.
As Taiwan looks to boost ‘unofficial ties,’ Paraguay’s leader offers facilitator role
Paraguayan President Santiago Pena speaks during an interview with The Japan Times in Tokyo on Thursday.
GCAP next-gen fighter joint venture likely to be running by this summer
A concept model of the Global Combat Air Program's fighter jet is displayed during the DSEI Japan defense exhibition in the city of Chiba on Wednesday.
NTT develops world's first 'flying lightning rod' using drones
NTT's drone — aimed at triggering, then redirecting lightning — is described as a "flying lightning rod."

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A sinkhole in Yashio, which emerged in January, was triggered by a ruptured, aging sewer pipe. Authorities worry that similar sections of infrastructure across the country are also at risk of corrosion.
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