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BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Apr 4, 2010

Corey out to make most of second chance in Japan

Chiba Lotte Marines right-hander Bryan Corey is back in Japan for a second chance, following a turbulent half-season in 2004 with the Yomiuri Giants, and he is determined to make the most of this opportunity.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 2, 2010

Valdez gets win on Dragons debut

The beginning of Chunichi Dragons pitcher Edward Valdez's first game in Japan went all wrong. Thanks to teammate Masaaki Koike, the ending was just right.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Apr 2, 2010

Spring vegetables feature at open-air market

Look hard enough at the supermarket shelves today and you may find some obscure vegetables that you will hardly see at other times of the year. Whether it be taranome (shoots of Aralia elata, known also as the Japanese angelica-tree), urui (the young leaves of a plantain lily), or kogomi (the young shoots...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 31, 2010

Red-hot Buffaloes top Itokazu, Nippon Ham

A number of players made contributions to the Orix Buffaloes' victory over the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Mar 30, 2010

Time ripe for Fighters, Eagles to make moves in bullpen

There are fewer things more frustrating to baseball managers, players and fans than watching a lead slip away in the ninth inning.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 28, 2010

D'Antona, Sato carry Swallows past Giants

Jamie D'Antona finally gave himself something to hang his hat on at Tokyo Dome with a home run in the third inning.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Mar 28, 2010

Japan's preseason schedule growing ever smaller

The Central and Pacific Leagues have started their regular seasons, and it seems almost as if we went from the beginning of spring training right into the games that count.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Mar 24, 2010

Home runs could turn fun-loving Lions into a dancing machine

Dee Brown has the Saitama Seibu Lions partying like rock stars.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 21, 2010

Seventh-inning rally sparks Lions in PL opener

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. — The Saitama Seibu Lions failed to accomplish their goal of scoring early during the first game of the season.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2010 PACIFIC LEAGUE PREVIEW
Mar 20, 2010

Seibu aims for successful season

The following is first of a two-part preview for the upcoming Nippon Professional Baseball season. Team-by-team previews of the six Pacific League clubs are listed in order of predicted finish.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Mar 7, 2010

Southern swing through camps brings news, views

Spring training camps are finished, we're into the exhibition season and Opening Day is less than two weeks away, as the Pacific League gets set for its lid-lifters on March 20.
EDITORIALS
Mar 3, 2010

Signs of tsunami complacency

The magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile on Saturday prompted the Japanese Meteorological Agency to issue "major tsunami" alerts. The quake killed more than 700 people in the South American country. Of the estimated 350 people who died in the seaside resort of Constitucion, it is thought many were...
EDITORIALS
Mar 2, 2010

A promise the DPJ should forget

The Hatoyama administration has decided to abolish tolls for 50 sections of 37 expressways in Japan on a trial basis. This experiment, which covers some 18 percent of the nation's expressway network, will last from June to the end of March 2011. Making the nation's expressways toll-free was one of the...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Feb 13, 2010

Fighters counting on Nakata with move to outfield

The ongoing quest to get some value out of Hokkaido Nippon Ham's Sho Nakata is continuing at spring camp.
JAPAN
Feb 11, 2010

LDP struggling in vain to rebuild

Taking the podium last month at the Liberal Democratic Party's first convention since its fall from power at the hands of voters last summer, Katsuya Nomura, former manager of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles baseball team, had a few words of advice for the LDP.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Feb 7, 2010

Marines take a flyer on Imaoka

The No. 2 will be back at Chiba Marine Stadium this year. Albeit with a different owner.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Feb 1, 2010

Okada's 4-point intervention sparks West to bj-league All-Star victory

RIFU, Miyagi Pref. — All-Star games are a collection of highlight-reel plays and fan-friendly events — lots of autographs, fans and players posing for pictures, light-hearted competition — and everyone's agenda is required to include one item: plenty of smiles.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Jan 30, 2010

Lions rookie hurler Kikuchi sounds like a young man in a hurry

The NPB has ramped up its efforts to speed up games over the past few seasons.
JAPAN
Jan 25, 2010

LDP tries to build steam before poll

The opposition-leading Liberal Democratic Party held its annual convention Sunday, promising party reform and victory in the July Upper House election while assailing the ruling Democratic Party of Japan over recent money scandals dogging Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and Secretary General Ichiro Ozawa....
JAPAN
Jan 16, 2010

Funds scandals risk DPJ Diet plans

The Democratic Party of Japan-led government kicks off its first ordinary Diet session Monday focusing primarily on fighting the recession, but Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama will also be forced to deal with DPJ money scandals.
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.
Toyota considers making tiny trucks for U.S. market as demand booms
Toyota executives say the automaker is listening to U.S. dealer requests for a truck smaller than the brand’s best-selling Tacoma midsize and Tundra full-size pickups.
Japan taxi driver suspected of raping 50 women, reports say
Police have arrested a former taxi driver on suspicion of drugging and raping a female passenger, with media reports saying there could be dozens more victims.
Japan considers toughening rules on driver's license conversions
Liberal Democratic Party policy chief Itsunori Onodera (fourth from left) visits a driver's license center in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo, on Wednesday to see how foreign driver's licenses are converted into Japanese ones.
Trump’s wake-up call for India’s foreign policy
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Feb. 13. Trump’s coercive use of trade threats against India during the Pakistan military crisis has undermined trust in the U.S.-India partnership and exposed Washington as an unreliable security ally.
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."
Ishiba doubles down on weapons cooperation, says no country can go it alone
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba walks past members of the Philippine Coast Guard at the coast guard's headquarters in Manila on April 30.

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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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