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BASKETBALL
Apr 15, 2008

Apache outlast HeatDevils in OT; earn right to host wild-card game

Seconds before overtime started on Sunday afternoon at Ariake Colosseum, Tokyo Apache coach Joe Bryant told his players the good news: The Takamatsu Five Arrows had just beaten the Niigata Albirex BB 90-85.
Japan Times
LIFE / Style & Design
Apr 15, 2008

An outside eye on Japan

In a nation traditionally seen as a monoculture, there's a multinational range of flowers blooming in Japan's current cultural crop. In the last several years there has been an influx of foreign-born creators — whether architects, designers or writers — and they are thriving in the local scene.
BUSINESS
Apr 15, 2008

Japan Inc. is on a stock buyback spree

The good news about Japanese stocks is that corporations are buying back more of their shares than ever before. The bad news is everyone outside of Japan is selling the same equity, spurring concern that the market's world-beating rally may fizzle.
SOCCER / J. League
Apr 13, 2008

Resurgent Reds ready for Antlers

Urawa Reds manager Gert Engels is confident his resurgent side can maintain its push up the J. League table when unbeaten champions Kashima Antlers visit Saitama Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
Reader Mail
Apr 13, 2008

Headline is disrespectful

Your title for the April 4 story "Bin Laden was bad enough, but now this" is tasteless and anything but funny. Let me create a parallel for you. If you were reviewing a Godzilla movie where he went to Hiroshima, would you title the review something like "Come on man, we just finished rebuilding"?
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Apr 13, 2008

Early results not always a barometer for final standings

American baseball agent Alan Nero tells the story of his client, Randy Johnson, who thought he was going to the World Series when he joined the New York Yankees in 2005. The "Big Unit" figured he would help bolster the pitching staff of that powerhouse club and it would breeze to the championship.
Reader Mail
Apr 13, 2008

Respect citizens, not symbols

The attitude of Wilson Hartz toward the teachers who were punished for refusing to stand for "Kimigayo" is disturbing. I fail to see how simply excusing the dissenting teachers from public functions would do anything to settle the matter one way or the other, as their absence would still have to be explained....
SOCCER / J. League
Apr 13, 2008

Verdy's late own goal gives FC Tokyo victory in capital city derby

A last-minute own goal gave FC Tokyo a 2-1 win and bragging rights over Tokyo Verdy in a frantic capital city derby on Saturday.
Reader Mail
Apr 13, 2008

Teachers have a right to protest

Wilson Hartz's criticism of school teachers who disobeyed an order to stand and face the flag during the singing of "Kimigayo" at March graduation ceremonies shows, for me, a failure to understand the nuances of the debate ("Better to stay home than dis the flag," April 6). "Kimigayo" is usually associated...
BASKETBALL
Apr 13, 2008

Teams scramble for playoff spots

Like a boxing match that's decided in the final 10 seconds during a frenetic exchange of punches, the 2007-08 bj-league season will go down to the wire.
Reader Mail
Apr 13, 2008

The true meaning of patriotism

I was appalled by the simplistic and utterly condemnable view of patriotism expressed in the April 6 letter from Wilson Hartz. His glib remarks display a remarkable lack of appreciation for the complexity of the long and agonizing controversy in this country over national symbols. Hartz would have the...
LIFE
Apr 13, 2008

Art and life in a grain of rice

Artist Mitsuaki Tanabe is stubborn.

Longform

Ichiro Suzuki, one of the most iconic players in NPB and MLB history, was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame with 99.7% of the vote.
With Hall of Fame induction, Ichiro makes himself heard loud and clear