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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 14, 2006

Decision time for Ogasawara

Winning the inaugural World Baseball Classic, Pacific League championship, Japan Series, and Asia Series, means the 2006 season has been the best year in Michihiro Ogasawara's baseball career without any doubt.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 11, 2006

Inada, Fighters rally in 8th

The little things can kill you.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Nov 11, 2006

Mourinho, Chelsea show appalling lack of class in Poll row

LONDON -- Congratulations to Chelsea for becoming more disliked than it was at the time of last week's column.
JAPAN
Nov 11, 2006

Sanctions pain or nuclear confidence?

Reports from Pyongyang say North Korea has recently put up banners across the capital hailing its arrival as a nuclear state, following its declared underground atomic explosion on Oct. 9
BUSINESS
Nov 10, 2006

ACCJ seeks to deepen U.S.-Japan economic ties

Japan and the United States should revitalize their economic partnership by creating a new bilateral mechanism to ensure sustained growth, the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan said in a report Thursday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Nov 10, 2006

Zoobombs redefine borderline pop

There's a story behind every song -- but like all tales, some are more compelling than others.
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Nov 10, 2006

Hats off to expansion Grouses for road win in first game ever

Talk about a great start.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Nov 10, 2006

Fixer plays it by no rules

You might have heard of Boredoms, the anarchic noiseniks from Osaka who toured with Nirvana, signed to major label Warner's and became the most written-about Japanese band in the West in the 1990s.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 9, 2006

Revolution in market values

LONDON -- "Economic reform" has been the banner slogan of Japanese governments for the last 10 years, and the new government promises more of it.
EDITORIALS
Nov 9, 2006

Outrageous transplant alternative

A hospital in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, which found itself in hot water recently after a recipient of a transplanted kidney and his lover were arrested on suspicion of paying cash to the kidney donor, has landed in another scandal.
BUSINESS
Nov 9, 2006

JAL's first-half operating profit dives 48% as fuel, passenger woes continue

Japan Airlines Corp. said Wednesday its consolidated operating profit for the April-September half dropped 48.3 percent from the same period last year to 8.1 billion yen.
COMMENTARY
Nov 9, 2006

Engaging India to contain it

NEW DELHI -- Managed competition is likely to define the relationship between the two demographic titans, India and China, in the years ahead, even as they seek to expand bilateral cooperation.
EDITORIALS
Nov 7, 2006

Rough patch for Sony

Sony Corp., which has built its fame through a global brand presence and innovative products, appears to be facing a difficult time. The Sony group's operating profit in the six-month period through September nosedived by 90.9 percent from a year before to 6.22 billion yen, although sales were up 9.7...
COMMUNITY / How-tos / LIFELINES
Nov 7, 2006

Driving and social security

As everything get more convenient, things also, in other ways, become more difficult.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Nov 6, 2006

Keidanren lauds Abe's first 40 days in office

Forty days have passed since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe took office Sept. 26, and the administration, judging by the actions of the first new prime minister in 5 1/2 years, appears to be off to a very good start.

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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