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BASKETBALL
Mar 17, 2008

Ellis leads Oita to victory

Andy Ellis, the bj-league scoring leader, had 33 points and 13 rebounds to guide the Oita HeatDevils to a 80-73 victory over the Sendai 89ers at Sendai Aoba Gymnasium on Sunday. Elsewhere, the Osaka Evessa shrunk the gap to two points with two seconds left in the game but failed to catch up as the Ryukyu...
COMMENTARY / World / SENTAKU MAGAZINE
Mar 17, 2008

Ozawa's troops are restless

Political insiders have begun suspecting that Ichiro Ozawa may be losing his grip on the Democratic Party of Japan after a head-on collision between the DPJ and the governing coalition was averted during 11th-hour mediation by the Lower House speaker and the Upper House president.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Mar 17, 2008

Five Arrows putting on aerial show

If occupying the air leads to domination of a game, the Takamatsu Five Arrows have a better advantage, because they excel at making the easiest shots — dunks — more than every other bj-league team.
EDITORIALS
Mar 17, 2008

Punishing bureaucratic neglect

The Supreme Court earlier this month upheld a suspended prison sentence for a former health ministry official who had been found guilty of failing to prevent the sale and use of HIV-contaminated blood products that resulted in the death of a patient suffering from impaired liver function. It concluded...
COMMENTARY
Mar 17, 2008

Tainted 'gyoza' poisoning bilateral ties

HONG KONG — The tainted "gyoza" dumpling scare in Japan has caused the delay of President Hu Jintao's visit to Tokyo and, if not properly handled, could result in the unraveling of the dramatic improvement in bilateral relations achieved since October 2006, when Shinzo Abe broke the ice by visiting...
SOCCER / SOCCER SCENE
Mar 17, 2008

Onfield results, off-field strife behind Osieck's sudden firing

Two defeats from their opening two J. League games hinted that something was seriously wrong at Urawa Reds. Now the crisis has been made official.
EDITORIALS
Mar 17, 2008

Deadlock in 'gyoza' probe

The investigation into food-poisoning incidents caused by insecticide-tainted "gyoza" dumplings imported from China is deadlocked because Japan and China have completely different views as to where the insecticide contaminated the gyoza. China opposes Japan's view that the possibility of the contamination...
JAPAN
Mar 17, 2008

G20 climate talks end divided

CHIBA — The Group of 20 environment and energy ministers vowed Sunday to continue their fight against global warming but fell short of reaching a consensus on a framework to succeed the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 16, 2008

Dancing with bears in Putin's shadow

Perhaps more than any other capital in the world, Beijing has closely observed the changing of the guard in the Kremlin. There are many reasons for Beijing's concerns: Russia's revival as a major power, its petro-politics approach to foreign relations, its management of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization...
BASKETBALL
Mar 16, 2008

Okada's 3-pointer lifts Five Arrows

The Takamatsu Five Arrows' dynamic backcourt flourished in Saturday's 80-76 win over the visiting Saitama Broncos.
TENNIS
Mar 16, 2008

Navratilova, Graf turn back clock in Dream Match 2008

Like so many times before, Steffi Graf and Martina Navratilova needed a tiebreaker to settle the score.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 16, 2008

Golden Eagles to rely on strong pitching staff again in 2008

Spring is the season of renewal and in baseball the excitement and hope heading into the new year permeates throughout every team during spring training.
Reader Mail
Mar 16, 2008

Realities of caring for pets

Regarding Philip Brasor's March 9 article, "Crown Prince could lead the way in effort for mutt emancipation": Thank you for this fantastic article. I was very pleased to see this oft-neglected issue receive good coverage. Japan is very behind in education regarding pets, and it does not help that we...
Reader Mail
Mar 16, 2008

Wrong answer to angry questions

Regarding Billy Fanska's March 9 letter, "Negative rhetoric defeats everyone": Fanska may be right in pointing out that the U.S. military in Japan has the lowest crime rate of any population group in Japan. So much so that he takes outright umbrage at the nation's over-reaction to the recent case in...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Mar 16, 2008

Jingu Stadium gets long overdue face-lift; Kaneda stops by

Have you been to an exhibition game yet this year at Jingu Stadium?

Longform

Bear attacks have dominated Japanese news headlines in recent months, with 13 people so far having been killed by the animals.
Japan’s bears have been on their killing spree for more than 100 years