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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 26, 2010

Chono making most of starting chance with Giants

Yomiuri Giants rookie Hisayoshi Chono stays low-key no matter how he performs and whether he is in the starting lineup or not. All he cares about is how the team does.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 25, 2010

Late heroics carry Giants

Chunichi Dragons manager Hiromitsu Ochiai didn't watch Michihiro Ogasawara's last at-bat from the dugout. He didn't need to either. The cheers of the Yomiuri faithful told him all he needed to know.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 22, 2010

Victorious Giants make Tigers pay for miscues

Ryota Wakiya taught Hanshin Tigers rookie Takumi Akiyama one of the most important lessons a pitcher can learn.
SOCCER / J. League
Aug 22, 2010

Inui, Cerezo outplay Antlers in big match

KASHIMA, Ibaraki Pref. — Cerezo Osaka denied Kashima Antlers top spot in the J. League table and leapfrogged the defending champion into second place for good measure with a 1-0 win on Saturday.

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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past