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SOCCER
Mar 31, 2008

Becks, Galaxy routed in season opener

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) Christian Gomez scored on a penalty kick and the Colorado Rapids beat David Beckham and the Los Angeles Galaxy 4-0 on Saturday night in the season opener for both teams.
BASKETBALL
Mar 31, 2008

Osaka stakes claim to first place in win

The Takamatsu Five Arrows were co-leaders of the bj-league's Western Conference for less than 24 hours.
BUSINESS
Mar 31, 2008

Group plans to bury Tokyo's elevated 'shuto'

A group of business executives is floating the idea of burying all of Tokyo's elevated highways 60 meters underground. The megaproject also includes a sweeping greening of the space they will leave behind and large-scale redevelopment at key highway ramps.
BUSINESS / JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Mar 31, 2008

The vacancy at the BOJ and the merits of emptiness

Nature abhors a vacuum. So said Aristotle. Human beings also abhor a vacuum. Especially when they are LDP politicians in search of a new governor for the Bank of Japan.
JAPAN
Mar 31, 2008

Lehman Brothers to sue Marubeni over alleged fraud

The U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. plans to file a lawsuit against the trading company Marubeni Corp. to recover hundreds of billions of yen it lost to alleged investment fraud, a company official said Sunday.
EDITORIALS
Mar 31, 2008

Land prices up for a second year

Average residential land prices nationwide increased 1.3 percent for the year as of Jan. 1, up from the 0.1 percent rise a year before, according to the land ministry. Average commercial land prices also gained for the second straight year, rising 3.8 percent, up from the previous year's 2.3 percent...
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 31, 2008

Dominating the headwaters

SINGAPORE — The recent anti-Chinese protests in Tibet and several surrounding provinces in China have been watched with concern by governments in nearby South and Southeast Asia, especially India. But unlike faraway Europe and the United States, their priority in Tibet is stability, not human rights....
EDITORIALS
Mar 31, 2008

Bailout of Tokyo's bank

The Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly on Friday decided to inject an additional ¥40 billion of taxpayer money into the money-losing Shinginko Tokyo. The Liberal Democratic Party and Komeito supported the capital bailout while three groups, including the Democratic Party of Japan and the Japan Communist Party,...
BASKETBALL
Mar 30, 2008

Takamatsu moves into tie for first with Osaka

With five regular-season games remaining, the Takamatsu Five Arrows now occupy a share of first place in the bj-league's Western Conference.
SOCCER / SOCCER SCENE
Mar 30, 2008

Okada should call up Tulio to help solidify shaky backline for Oman match

Japan's disappointing 1-0 World Cup qualifying defeat to Bahrain this week came with no foreign-based players on the field, but it was the absence of one J. League stalwart that hit the hardest.
JAPAN
Mar 30, 2008

Japan Times receives Genesis Bardot award

The Japan Times was among a select band of U.S. and international media outlets announced Friday as the winners of the 22nd Genesis Awards at a star-studded ceremony in Beverly Hills, Calif.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 30, 2008

Last stand before Russia's next chance

WASHINGTON — On Wednesday through Friday, NATO will hold its biggest summit ever in Bucharest, the capital of its new member, Romania. Incredibly, NATO has invited its fiercest critic, Russian President Vladimir Putin, to attend. For the first time since 2002, he will. His presence is an embarrassment...
JAPAN
Mar 30, 2008

Tokyo-area gets last PAC-3 battery

Japan installed the final piece of a missile defense system for Tokyo on Saturday, a day after North Korea test-fired a barrage of missiles.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 30, 2008

Poverty in Japan scrutinized at multinational school event

About 2,000 people gathered Saturday at Tokyo's Kanda Hitotsubashi Junior High School to take in seminars, workshops, food, refreshment, music and films during a unique festival to address poverty in Japan.
Reader Mail
Mar 30, 2008

'Better services' claim rings hollow

Regarding the March 27 front-page article "Report urges closer watch on foreigners": It seems that neither the reporter nor the government panel involved in the story is aware of how the foreigner registration system currently works.
Reader Mail
Mar 30, 2008

Unhealthy focus on past wrongs

Regarding Peter Milward's March 27 letter, "A look back at the Elizabethan Era": To loosely paraphrase British statesman Winston Churchill and American civil rights leader Martin Luther King: Those who wallow in the history of racial wrongs are doomed to perpetuate the divisions they cause.
CULTURE / Books
Mar 30, 2008

Hatching out some teaching blues

TONOHARU: Part One, by Lars Martinson. Minneapolis: Pliant Press, 2008, 128 pp., $19.95 (cloth) This account, in comic-book form, of an assistant English teacher's experiences working at a junior high school in the Japanese outback is not bad. Neither, however, is it as good as it might have been, or,...

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