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BASKETBALL
Mar 14, 2009

Aisin's Takeuchi named JBL MVP

Aisin Sea Horses center/forward Kosuke Takeuchi is the Japan Basketball League's 2008-09 regular-season MVP, it was announced on Thursday.
JAPAN
Mar 14, 2009

Steam for Somalia, MSDF told

Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada issued the order Friday to send two Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyers on a patrol for pirates off Somalia.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Mar 14, 2009

Premier sides continue to shine in Europe

LONDON — In recent years there has been a call for a European Super League.
EDITORIALS
Mar 14, 2009

Fate of abductees

Ms. Yaeko Taguchi was abducted by North Korea in 1978 at the age of 22. Earlier this week Mr. Koichiro Iizuka, her son, and Mr. Shigeo Iizuka, her elder brother, met Ms. Kim Hyon Hui, a former North Korean agent, in Busan, South Korea. Ms. Kim told the Iizukas that she believed that Ms. Taguchi was alive....
JAPAN
Mar 14, 2009

DPJ seeks new rules on donations

Amid the political fundraising scandal involving the arrest of party President Ichiro Ozawa's chief secretary, Democratic Party of Japan executives are calling for a rule barring companies that bid on public works projects from donating to political parties.
BUSINESS
Mar 14, 2009

Power generation drops again

Domestic power generation dropped for a seventh straight month in February, falling 16 percent year on year as factories and businesses cut production because of the deepening recession.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Mar 14, 2009

Japan Cat Network seeks help in Tokyo expansion project

American Susan Roberts, of the Kansai-based Japan Cat Network, met with a dozen interested persons March 8 in Tokyo as part of the animal welfare group's expansion to the capital and its plans to open a cat rehoming center in west Tokyo's Hachioji.
BUSINESS
Mar 14, 2009

Astellas on fence over hostile CV bid

Astellas Pharma Inc. is considering whether to raise or abandon its unsolicited $1.1 billion bid to buy CV Therapeutics Inc. after the company agreed to a higher offer from a rival.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Mar 14, 2009

Diet tours to Japan

Paul Christie runs "Walk Japan," and Ken Mitchell and Greg Cope from Australia run "Trainaway Tours": touring Japan by train. What's next in small, niche-market tours?
JAPAN
Mar 14, 2009

Aso slams North launch plan but wary of sanctions

Prime Minister Taro Aso on Friday condemned North Korea's plan to send up a rocket that will cross Japan, but stopped short of calling on the United Nations to impose further sanctions on the country.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Mar 14, 2009

From the New York streets to the king of Japanese pop

Joey Carbone has been bugging me for the last 20 years. In fact, he was bugging me even before I met him. Like a constant itch, he gets inside your head and stays there.
BUSINESS
Mar 14, 2009

Issuance fears have bondholders favoring Aso

Prime Minister Taro Aso, whose approval rating has slumped, may still have the support of bondholders due to perceptions that the current administration is more reluctant to sell debt than a new government formed by the opposition might be.
BUSINESS
Mar 14, 2009

Gazprom mulls buying into utilities

OAO Gazprom, Russia's largest gas company, is considering investing in Japanese power utilities in a bid to expand fuel sales to the country, its chief financial officer said.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Mar 14, 2009

Aso calls for third stimulus plan

Prime Minister Taro Aso ordered a third spending plan aimed at easing what may be the nation's worst recession since World War II.
BUSINESS
Mar 13, 2009

Minor GDP upgrade fails to lift gloom

The economy shrank a bit less than first estimated in the fourth quarter, but the revised data released by the government Thursday offer little good news and only underscore an increasingly grim picture.
MORE SPORTS
Mar 13, 2009

Aoh takes home featherweight title

Challenger Takahiro Aoh defeated champion Oscar Larios by unanimous decision Thursday to capture the WBC featherweight title.
JAPAN
Mar 13, 2009

Rural Hokkaido scandal trio's home

The eastern Hokkaido region of Tokachi has become scandal-central.
CULTURE / Art
Mar 13, 2009

Bourgeois cinema

Since the recent meltdown of the global capitalist system, it wouldn't be surprising if many people have flirted with the idea of Marxism. Perhaps not that they would go the whole hog and attempt to storm the bastions of corporate Japan, but they might be inclined to cast a few wistful glances at the...
Japan Times
CULTURE / Music
Mar 13, 2009

AA=

While most young acts tend to start off in smaller venues and work their way up, AA= opted to do the opposite. The new solo project from Takeshi Ueda, bassist with apparently now-defunct tech-metal heroes The Mad Capsule Markets, played their first-ever concerts to thousands at the massive Intex Osaka...
JAPAN
Mar 13, 2009

DPJ election win no longer a sure bet

Ichiro Ozawa's efforts to persuade voters to end the Liberal Democratic Party's almost-uninterrupted 50 years of rule and bring his party to power may be set back by reminders of his links to disgraced former LDP lawmakers.

Longform

An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.
A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo