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BASEBALL / MLB
Apr 5, 2003

Daiei spoils Hillman's home debut as Hawks beat up Fighters

Kazumi Saito went the distance, scattering six hits and notching eight strikeouts, as the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks spoiled Nippon Ham manager Trey Hillman's home debut with a 5-1 win Friday night before a crowd of 24,000 at Tokyo Dome.
BASEBALL / MLB
Apr 3, 2003

Hsu goes the distance as Lions maul Orix

Hsu Ming-chieh (1-0) scattered three hits over the distance while fanning nine batters en route to his first win of the year as the Seibu Lions beat the Orix BlueWave 6-4 at Yahoo BB Stadium on Wednesday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Apr 2, 2003

Rampaging Buffaloes notch fifth straight

Kintetsu slugger Yuji Yoshioka smashed a three-run homer off Daiei rookie starter Tsuyoshi Wada to cap a four-run first-inning burst as the Buffaloes defeated the Daiei Hawks 5-3 at Osaka Dome on Tuesday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Apr 1, 2003

Buffs stomp Hawks, ace rookie Arakaki

Naoyuki Omura hit a bases-clearing double in the sixth inning as the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes came from behind to beat the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks 5-2 Monday at Osaka Dome and spoil Nagisa Arakaki's Pacific League debut.
BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 30, 2003

Irabu makes winning return

Hideki Irabu made a successful return to Japanese baseball Saturday, picking up a win in his first game after spending six years in the major leagues.
BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 30, 2003

JAL signs on as MLB sponsor

Japan Airlines System Corp. said Friday it has become an official sponsor of Major League Baseball.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Mar 30, 2003

Lock & key

KAZUYOSHI UEHARA -- not the Kazuyoshi Uehara -- rang the doorbell. He sensed a pause, a hesitation, an interrupted action -- his imagination no doubt -- and tensed slightly as approaching footsteps grew audible.
BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 29, 2003

Fighters tame Matsuzaka to win debut for Hillman

Carlos Mirabal went seven innings Friday as the Nippon Ham Fighters downed the defending Pacific League champion Seibu Lions 4-1 to give rookie manager Trey Hillman a win in his managerial debut in Japan.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Mar 25, 2003

Rugby boys pack down for sevens extravaganza

Tradition has it that in 1883 the Melrose rugby club in Scotland was casting around for ideas to help the club's finances when the suggestion of a rugby football tournament was put forward by the now legendary "Ned" Haig.
COMMUNITY
Mar 23, 2003

By the people, for the people

Pop into any bookstore and you'll find shelves overflowing with comic books about samurai, yakuza, war, business, baseball, soccer, golf, examination hell, high-school romance, office affairs -- in every genre from sci-fi to porn. And that's just the tip of Japan's manga iceberg.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Mar 5, 2003

Yokohama's Furuki ready for stardom

The start of the season may be four weeks away, but there's one player everyone should keep an eye on.
JAPAN
Mar 1, 2003

Inmate abuse draws reprimands

Justice Minister Mayumi Moriyama punished 11 ministry officials on Friday, including Vice Minister Keiichi Tadaki, in connection with the death and serious injuries of two Nagoya Prison inmates last May and September.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / ON THE BOOK TRAIL
Feb 17, 2003

"Holes," "Love That Dog"

"Holes," Louis Sachar, Bloomsbury; 2000; 233 pp. It's hard to say why life is so downright unfair to some children. Take Stanley Yelnats: He gets bullied at school and is ignored by his teachers. And then one day, he gets hit on the head by a pair of sneakers that seems to fall out of the sky. He doesn't...
JAPAN
Feb 15, 2003

Gang of teens attacks homeless men

OSAKA -- About 30 teenagers wielding steel pipes and baseball bats assaulted 10 homeless men sleeping in a park in Osaka Prefecture early Friday, inflicting various injuries, police said. The teenagers, who appeared to be either junior high or high school students, arrived on scooters and bicycles at...
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / NETWISE
Feb 13, 2003

Japanese get real on 2 Channel

It was 1975 when University of North Carolina graduate student Steve Bellovin developed a handful of short programs to facilitate communication via UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy) between the University of North Carolina and Duke University. The scripts were later rewritten in the computer language "C" and...
COMMUNITY
Feb 9, 2003

Academy aims to bring out the best

Golfer Shigeki Murayama is just one of many Japanese sportsmen and sportswomen to have flown the coop and set up base overseas in recent years. Like his counterparts in baseball, soccer and rugby, the "Smiling Assassin" realized he could only do so much on the professional golf circuit in Japan, and...
JAPAN
Feb 4, 2003

Hiroshima mayor wins re-election with ease

Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba and Aichi Gov. Masaaki Kanda sailed to re-election Sunday, while former Kofu Mayor Takahiro Yamamoto won a narrow victory in the Yamanashi gubernatorial race.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
Feb 2, 2003

Effects of aging on TV, film and romance

February marks the 50th anniversary of the first public television broadcast in Japan, and NHK will celebrate the anniversary with an extensive historical survey of its archives.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jan 31, 2003

Matsui's agent warns of 'pressure cooker'

Matsui's agent warns of 'pressure cooker'
BASEBALL / MLB
Jan 30, 2003

Matsui to leave for U.S. on Monday

Hideki Matsui, who officially signed a three-year, $21 million contract with the New York Yankees two weeks ago, will leave for the United States next Monday ahead of the start of spring training, baseball sources said Wednesday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jan 22, 2003

Saito to remain with BayStars

Free-agent pitcher Takashi Saito has weighed his options and chose to re-sign with the Yokohama BayStars over major league clubs for the upcoming season, baseball sources said Monday.
EDITORIALS
Jan 22, 2003

Sumo needs a clear vision

Yokozuna Takanohana has finally bowed out of the dohyo. Looking back over his active career, he certainly made spectacular achievements. There can be no objections to his being described as one of the all-time great grand champions of sumo.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jan 21, 2003

Matsui works out in Kawasaki

Hideki Matsui had his first workout before the media Sunday after being introduced as a New York Yankee last Tuesday following the signing of a three-year, $21 million free-agent deal.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami
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.
Counting the reasons why there are so few American cars in Japan
Tesla's store in Tokyo's Shibuya district. While sales of American cars in Japan appear to be shrinking, Tesla's presence in the country is growing.
Shohei Ohtani's example could change Japan's views on paternity leave
Shohei Ohtani and Mamiko Tanaka announced the birth of their first child on April 19.
Nearly half of workers in Japan engage in ‘quiet quitting’
"Quiet quitting" is most common among the younger generation, with 46.7% of respondents to a survey in their 20s identifying with the practice, reflecting a less-motivated workforce more focused on work-life balance.
China seizes disputed reef near key Philippine military outpost
China Coast Guard officers unfurl a national flag on Sandy Cay reef, near the Philippine-held Thitu Island, in disputed waters of the South China Sea this month in this screen shot taken from Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.
Shohei Ohtani's example could change Japan's views on paternity leave
Shohei Ohtani and Mamiko Tanaka announced the birth of their first child on April 19.
Counting the reasons why there are so few American cars in Japan
Tesla's store in Tokyo's Shibuya district. While sales of American cars in Japan appear to be shrinking, Tesla's presence in the country is growing.
Nearly half of workers in Japan engage in ‘quiet quitting’
"Quiet quitting" is most common among the younger generation, with 46.7% of respondents to a survey in their 20s identifying with the practice, reflecting a less-motivated workforce more focused on work-life balance.
U.S. secretary of the navy weighs ‘dual-use’ shipbuilding with Japan
John Phelan at a Senate confirmation hearing for U.S. secretary of the navy in Washington in February
Expo '25 gives the world a masterclass in mascots
2025 Osaka Expo mascot Myaku-Myaku dances on the stage during the event's official opening ceremony on April 12.

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