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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 3, 2010

Brazell's long homer propels pesky Tigers

Craig Brazell hit a home run so deep, it flew beyond the playing field, beyond the flight of steps behind the center-field fence and ricocheted off a wall underneath the Tokyo Dome scoreboard.
JAPAN
Jun 30, 2010

World's tweet is Japan's 'mumble' on hit Twitter

Twitter is a hit in Japan, succeeding where other social networking imports like Facebook have foundered as millions "mumble" — the translation of tweet — and give miniblogging a distinctly Japanese flavor.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 23, 2010

Consistent Ramirez reaches a milestone

To reach his latest milestone, Alex Ramirez went back to where it all began.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Jun 21, 2010

Big (Only) in Japan? 'Greensleeves'

Thank you for calling. All of our operators are busy. Please listen to 'Greensleeves' for an eternity.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jun 18, 2010

Lack of funds fail to stop Tokyo's young theater brigade

As a promising playwright, director and actor, 31-year-old Junichi Hirota highlights a cruel fact running through Japan's theater world — namely that once technicians such as lighting engineers, sound people and set-builders are paid from box-office profits, there's often little or nothing left for...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 13, 2010

Higashide, Otake ignite Carp to win over Lions

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. — Kan Otake might've been on the road, but it probably felt like a home game at times.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 2, 2010

BayStars break out of slump, defeat Lions

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. — The Yokohama BayStars finally found some offense.
BUSINESS
May 13, 2010

Son vows overseas flat rate for Softbank devices

Softbank Mobile Corp. President Masayoshi Son said recently on Twitter the company will consider a flat-rate unlimited mail and Web service for people taking its mobile gadgets overseas, responding to customer complaints that network fees are expensive when they go outside Japan.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 1, 2010

BayStars exhibit gumption in comeback triumph over Swallows

The 2010 Yokohama BayStars are out to show the NPB they can't be knocked around anymore.

Longform

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