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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 27, 2007

Fighters yearn to repeat; Dragons want different outcome

SAPPORO — A lot of the faces may be the same, but this year's Japan Series is showing just how quickly things can change.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Oct 18, 2007

Putting students' works on the block

The evening was a festive red that illuminated the enthusiastic bidding by the 300-plus attendees at Japan's first ever university-run contemporary art auction. At the Kyoto University of Art and Design (KUAD) last Saturday, 18 students and three teachers, dressed in student-designed fire-red outfits,...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 17, 2007

Satozaki sizzler powers Marines

SAPPORO — Masaru Takeda has probably seen enough of Tomoya Satozaki to last him a lifetime.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 16, 2007

Woods: Dragons fire at perfect time

Kenichi Nakata and Kenshin Kawakami were the losing pitchers in the Chunichi Dragons' final games of 2006, dropping Games 4 and 5 of the Japan Series, respectively, against the champion Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 16, 2007

Big seventh inning propels Fighters

SAPPORO — The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters are a tight-knit group known for going that extra mile for one another. Against the Chiba Lotte Marines in Game 3 they went the extra mile and then some.
Japan Times
Reference / Special Presentations / WITNESS TO WAR
Oct 10, 2007

Hellcat bent for leather — a navy flyboy's tale

From 26,000 feet he punched through a hole in the overcast over Tokyo early on a freezing Feb. 12, 1945, rolled into a roaring 60-degree dive and fired his rockets at a Mitsubishi engine plant.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 9, 2007

Saito still struggling when it comes to playoffs

CHIBA — Softbank pitcher Kazumi Saito will have to wait for redemption a little while longer.
EDITORIALS
Oct 9, 2007

No. 1 — from violin to hot dogs

Around the world, Japanese have been competing and winning prize after prize. From the world of classical music to intense, if lighthearted, forms of competition, Japan's new international face is composed in part of the many globe-trotting, contest contenders. Clearly, the new generation of Japanese...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Oct 7, 2007

Pivotal seasons for Alex Ramirez & Marc Kroon

Neither of their teams made the Central League Climax Series, but the 2007 season has been a pivotal one for Yakult Swallows slugger Alex Ramirez and Yokohama BayStars reliever Marc Kroon. The contracts of both expire at the end of the current dragging out season, and there is doubt whether either club...
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Sep 30, 2007

Asashoryu fiasco illustrates incompetence of sumo's leaders

Enough already.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 26, 2007

Giants put on power show against Dragons, reclaim CL lead

When the Yomiuri Giants' offense is clicking the Kyojin are a hard team to beat. When they get the pitching to go along with that, they're almost unbeatable.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Sep 23, 2007

Nomura deserves credit for making Eagles respectable

A few words of praise this week for the 2007 performance of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 16, 2007

Takahashi lives up to 'ace' label

On a pitching staff that has been plagued by a string of bad games, Yomiuri Giants ace Hisanori Takahashi pitched eight shutout innings to lead the Giants to a 3-0 win over the Hiroshima Carp on Saturday night before a packed house at Tokyo Dome.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 14, 2007

Fighters' pitchers frustrate Marines

CHIBA — Hokkaido Nippon Ham jumped ahead in a four-run third and held on behind a strong performance from its pitching staff to defeat the Chiba Lotte Marines 4-1 on Thursday night at Chiba Marine Stadium.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Sep 11, 2007

Boot-camp bukatsu no place for the fainthearted

Coming out of the Japanese education system, one is thankful for one thing: No more bukatsu (after-school activities)! No more running 50 laps around the school grounds until your lungs are almost bursting out from your throat, no more kowtowing to the senpai (seniors) or having to spend most of one's...
Foreign nationals' presence in Japan emerges as key issue in Upper House poll
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a campaign speech next to a Liberal Democratic Party candidate for the Upper House (top center left) in Yokohama on Sunday.
Trump announces new tariff rate on Japan — and extension of deadline to Aug. 1
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a trade letter sent by the White House to Japan during a news conference at the White House in Washington on Monday.
China’s housing crisis is worse than it seems
Residential buildings under construction in Shanghai in July 2022. The Chinese government risks long-term decline by repeating Japan’s policy mistakes in handling its real estate and demographic crises.
Japan braces for more quakes as authorities dismiss doomsday hype
Evacuees from Akuseki Island, located in the Tokara island chain in Kagoshima Prefecuture, arrive at Kagoshima Port on Friday.
Japan stands its ground after Trump letter delivers 25% U.S. tariff shock
U.S. President Donald Trump (left) and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick at Morristown Airport, New Jersey, on Sunday. Trump on Monday sent letters to 12 countries notifying them of new "reciprocal" tariff rates effective Aug. 1.
Foreign nationals' presence in Japan emerges as key issue in Upper House poll
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba delivers a campaign speech next to a Liberal Democratic Party candidate for the Upper House (top center left) in Yokohama on Sunday.
Lawson to let visitors use larger parking lots as paid car campsites
A Lawson convenience store in Yachiyo, Chiba Prefecture. A new service from the company comes amid the rise in inbound tourists, making hotels and inns harder to book and more expensive.
The future is bright inside the visionary mind of architect Sou Fujimoto
The exhibition of Fujimoto’s architecture surveys his career to date, as well as looks ahead as shown in his proposal of a future floating city designed in collaboration with data scientist Hiroaki Miyata.
A tiny mountain hamlet keeps traditional log rafting afloat
Once a way to transport lumber from the mountains to the coast, log rafting is now Kitayama's biggest attraction.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Mount Fuji is considered one of Japan's most iconic symbols and is a major draw for tourists. It's still a mountain, though, and potential hikers need to properly prepare for any climb.
What it takes to save lives on Mount Fuji
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