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SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Sep 9, 2005

Despite troubles, Gooden blessed

I got a bit choked up the other day.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 1, 2005

Woods slams Tigers as Dragons close gap

Tyrone Woods hit a grand slam in the third inning Wednesday as the Chunichi Dragons downed the Hanshin Tigers 7-5 at Koshien Stadium to pull within a half game of the Central League leaders.
JAPAN
Aug 21, 2005

Horie defies his own words to run for political office

Those who have read the book recently penned by Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie must be surprised by his intention to run in the upcoming general election.
JAPAN
Aug 17, 2005

'Horiemon' LDP's secret weapon?

In a move symbolic of the lengths it will go to win the Sept. 11 general election, the Liberal Democratic Party has asked Livedoor Co. President Takafumi Horie to be a candidate on its ticket, senior LDP members said Tuesday.
Japan Times
Features
Aug 14, 2005

Caught in the middle: an 'enemy' in service of the Emperor

Life in Japan during the war years was not easy for foreign-born persons of Japanese parentage, but relatively speaking it would seem that I had a fairly easy time.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Aug 7, 2005

Fuji TV presents docudrama "The August 12 JAL Crash: To My Child in Heaven" and more

I n the NHK drama "Nanako to Nanao-Ane to Ototo ni Nareru Hi (Nanako and Nanao: the Day They Became Sister and Brother)" on NHK-G, Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Yu Aoi plays high-school student Nanako, who is something of a social outcast, mainly because of her attitude. Nanako's philandering father died seven...
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Jul 24, 2005

NHK's "Sono Toki — Rekishi ga Ugoita," TV Asahi's " Kikujiro and Saki" and more

On Wednesday, NHK will explain one of the great ironies of the Pacific War on its history series, "Sono Toki -- Rekishi ga Ugoita" (That Time -- History was Changed; NHK-G, 9:15 p.m .). On Apr. 7, 1945, the Yamato, the biggest battleship ever built by the Japanese Imperial Navy, sank in the South Pacific...
JAPAN
Jul 20, 2005

'85 JAL crash still painful for the families

Relatives of the victims of the 1985 Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash have published a collection of essays as part of efforts to keep alive the tragedy -- which killed 520 people -- ahead of its 20th anniversary on Aug. 12.

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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