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BASKETBALL
Aug 23, 2006

Worlds are latest stop for Simon

HIROSHIMA -- If evaluating basketball talent is your job, the FIBA World Championship is a good place to be.
BASKETBALL
Aug 11, 2006

Japan faces Senegal in tuneup

Months of grueling training now come down to this: The Japan National Team wraps up its FIBA World Championship preparations with an exhibition game Sunday against Senegal.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Issues / THE ZEIT GIST
Aug 8, 2006

Japan media focus blurred on big issues

All the pain of the tragedy that has befallen their family is etched in the crumpled faces of Shigeru and Sakie Yokota.
SOCCER / J. League
Aug 4, 2006

Marinos spoils Nakamura's homecoming

YOKOHAMA -- Yokohama F. Marinos ruined Shunsuke Nakamura's homecoming with a convincing 3-0 win over Celtic in a friendly at Nissan Stadium on Thursday.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Art
Jul 20, 2006

"Robin Rhode "

Shiseido Gallery Closes in 11 days
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Jul 13, 2006

Antiestablishment for all

Founded in 1970 by director Sho Ryuzanji, the Engekidan company was a natural bridge between two major theatrical movements in postwar Japan: the 1960s underground scene of dramatists such as Shuji Terayama and Juro Kara and the so-called "small-scale theater movement" started in the 1980s by the likes...
EDITORIALS
Jul 9, 2006

A hero some find hard to swallow

Once again, Japan's Takeru Kobayashi has pulled off the dubious feat of winning the annual U.S. Independence Day hot-dog eating contest at New York's Coney Island. Mr. Kobayashi took home his sixth straight Yellow Mustard Belt by downing 53 3/4 fat-, sodium- and nitrate-laden frankfurters in 12 minutes...
COMMENTARY
Jul 8, 2006

A Germany not ashamed to wave the flag

BERLIN -- It was clear from the taxi ride into town from Hamburg airport that something was different: Most buildings had a German flag hanging from a balcony. More remarkable still were the cars with small German flags protruding from windows. By the time I got to Berlin, it seemed that every third...
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 29, 2006

WTO: a call for 'enlightened negotiators'

The current multilateral trade negotiations under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (WTO) are approaching the moment of truth. The major gridlock among key players, such as Japan, the United States, the European Union and Brazil seems, however, difficult to be unlocked at the series of ministerial...
Japan Times
ENVIRONMENT / OUR PLANET EARTH
Jun 28, 2006

Marine management is all at sea

Our oceans and seas are in deep trouble, and if the Japanese government is to be believed, part of the blame rests with the whales.
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 27, 2006

Zico's farewell anything but a party

Zico wanted to say goodbye.
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 25, 2006

JFA offers Osim job as Zico's replacement

Japan Football Association President Saburo Kawabuchi said Saturday the JFA is in talks with JEF United Chiba and former Yugoslavia coach Ivica Osim for the national team job, taking over from outgoing Brazilian coach Zico.
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 24, 2006

Brazil just too much for Japan

DORTMUND, Germany -- Brazil shattered Japan's World Cup dreams and ended coach Zico's reign in the cruelest of fashions Thursday night as the five-time champion handed out a 4-1 thrashing in their final Group F match.
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 22, 2006

Boys in Blue surprisingly confident heading into Brazil match

DORTMUND, Germany -- There have been some noble sentiments coming out of the Japan camp in days leading up to their final Group F game on Thursday against Brazil, one which Zico's men have to win by at least two clear goals if they are to have any chance of advancing to the next round.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 16, 2006

Zarqawi myth proved useful

LONDON -- The convenient emergence and sudden disappearance of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi signals the end of an era. Although Washington and London insist on telling us that the "good news" of his death doesn't necessary mean an end to Iraq's bloodshed, the giddiness in British Prime Minister Tony Blair's...
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 13, 2006

Bando POW camp: chivalry's last bastion

NARUTO, Tokushima Pref. — At 2:30 p.m. on Aug. 23, 1914, despite opposition among many pro-German military officers and politicians, Japan honored a 1902 treaty with Britain and declared war on Imperial Germany.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Jun 13, 2006

The beautiful game inspires sartorial sins

Soccer might be known as the beautiful game, but it has never inspired beautiful design. As the World Cup in Germany gets into full swing, patriotic fervor will move millions of fans to purchase their team's jersey, resulting in innumerable crimes against good taste.
COMMENTARY
Jun 8, 2006

Big lessons from a small town

LONDON -- Al Gore has been visiting Hay-on Wye. Who is Al Gore and where is Hay-on-Wye?
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Jun 3, 2006

Chelsea's spending spree may backfire in the end

LONDON -- Chelsea has new tactics as it prepares to dominate European football next season.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Jun 2, 2006

Instinctive creation

Most people know Michael Nyman for "The Piano" soundtrack, but there's a great deal more to the British minimalist composer than his lush, romantic score for the 1992 Jane Campion film.
SPORTS / E-LIST
May 17, 2006

A WBC curse for Matsui?

No one should hate Hideki Matsui. Save that for the New York Yankees as a whole and for George Steinbrenner, who can be a decent guy if you're a schoolkid from Iowa. But for the part of the world not obsessed with the Bronx Bombers, it is a little bit easier.
SOCCER / World cup
May 13, 2006

Zico's boys need big win

SAITAMA -- One goal won't cut the mustard for Japan against Scotland in their Kirin Cup decider. Two ain't that helpful, either.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
May 11, 2006

Grappling with gravity

At the Dairakudakan performance space in Kichijoji, a group of female performers move with the particular deliberateness of the butoh dance style. Their partners in the dance are snow-white noh masks, fully true to tradition but with one important modification: lurid red tongues extend and curl from...
EDITORIALS
Mar 28, 2006

Skating on thin ice

Shizuka Arakawa's Olympic triumph and the media hype surrounding women's figure skating belies the grossly inadequate training environment that Japan's top skaters face and the escalating training costs they shoulder in the absence of meaningful support from the government or corporations.
MORE SPORTS
Mar 26, 2006

Skating wasn't part of Mom's original plan for Mao, Mai

All parents have dreams for their children.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Stage
Mar 2, 2006

TIF pushes theater's borders

With guest productions from as far afield as Kuwait, Israel, Germany and the United States, this year's 12th annual Tokyo International Arts Festival (TIF) is delivering a challenging program of theater and dance from some of the world's leading dramatists. In doing so, TIF -- held for the first time...

Longform

After pandemic-era border regulations eased, Indian migrants began returning to Japan. Their population now stands at more than 50,000 across the country.
How remote work is rewriting the migrant experience in Japan