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SOCCER / J. League
Nov 4, 2007

Gamba earns Nabisco title

Teenage defender Michihiro Yasuda proved the hero with a second-half winner as Gamba Osaka edged Kawasaki Frontale 1-0 on Saturday to claim their first Nabisco Cup.
Reader Mail
Nov 4, 2007

Discrimination against Okinawans

Regarding the Oct. 23 Views From the Street question "Which minority groups face the worst discrimination in Japan?": As a nisei and former resident of Japan and Okinawa, I find it telling that there is no mention about the continued institutional discrimination against Ryukyuans.
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / ON THE ROAD
Nov 4, 2007

A thoroughly modern retro classic

1903 was an amazing year for motorized vehicles in America. Henry Ford started producing his first Model A, the Wright Brothers made the world's first successful powered flight — and Bill Harley and Arthur Davidson began building motorcycles.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Nov 4, 2007

It's where you live, and not where you're at, for those bureaucrats

Last week, the Cabinet rejected a recommendation from the National Personnel Authority to raise bonuses and special allowances for some government employees, believing that the public, disillusioned by a constant stream of money scandals involving politicians and bureaucrats, wouldn't stand for it. But...
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Nov 4, 2007

Who'd trust conservatives to conserve the countryside?

Farmers in many countries are icons of their nation's ethos. But "American Gothic," Grant Wood's famed 1930s painting of a gaunt, stoic-looking farming couple complete with pitchfork, is by no means the whole story. In fact, today it is not even part of it.
COMMENTARY
Nov 4, 2007

Something about a one-party approach

LOS ANGELES — Under the communist system — as history has taught — you get to persecute potential opposition parties, warehouse political prisoners and pervert the country's patriotism with a noxious Orwellian poison of prickly but pervasive paranoia.
CULTURE / Books / THE ASIAN BOOKSHELF
Nov 4, 2007

Rural living of an old man who does as he pleases

Late Poems Of Lu You, The Old Man Who Does As He Pleases: New Translations by Burton Watson. Burlington, Ontario: Ahadada Books, 2007, 74 pp., $12, ¥2,000 (paper) Lu You (Yu) (1125-1210), often referred to by his literary name of Lu Fangweng ("The Old Man Who Does as He Pleases"), is one of China's...
Reader Mail
Nov 4, 2007

Re-entry permit salts the wound

On Nov. 20, Japan's new immigration policy will begin treating all foreign nationals, including long-term residents, as suspicious aliens to be fingerprinted and photographed every time we re-enter the country. Offensive, retrograde and discriminatory though such a policy is, its implementation now seems...
BASKETBALL / HOOP SCOOP
Nov 4, 2007

New Broncos coach Benoit is eager to guide basketball team to successful season

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. — A big smile flashes across David Benoit's face as he takes a break from running the Saitama Broncos' evening practice.
BASKETBALL
Nov 3, 2007

89ers top Grouses, improve to 2-0

The Sendai 89ers defeated the host Toyama Grouses 100-87 in bj-league action on Friday night. Newcomers Nick DeWitz and Bobby St. Preux both scored 28 points for the 89ers, who opened their season with a 77-74 win over Toyama on Thursday. Sendai center Patrick Whearty had 19 points and 12 rebounds,...
BASKETBALL
Nov 3, 2007

Two-time champion Evessa, Five Arrows anchor Western Conference power base

The 2007-08 bj-league season tipped off on Tuesday night. It was the first game for the expansion Rizing Fukuoka. A crowd of 2,475 watched the Osaka Evessa post a 91-71 victory.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Nov 3, 2007

Points from 'Super League' matches crucial to title hopes

LONDON — They are becoming the games that the four participants dare not lose.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 3, 2007

Hillman bids farewell to Fighters

NAGOYA — The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters have hired a proven winner in Masataka Nashida to manage the team next year. That's good because the Trey Hillman era will be a tough act to follow.
MORE SPORTS
Nov 3, 2007

Yanagimoto's squad sweeps Dominicans in opening match

Japan coach Shoichi Yanagimoto said his national team charges are peaking at the perfect time as the Women's Volleyball World Cup got under way on Friday.
JAPAN
Nov 3, 2007

West Japan quake scenario: 42,000 die

About 42,000 people could be killed if a magnitude 7.6 earthquake were to hit western Japan, more than six times the toll from a devastating 1995 quake in the region, a government task force said.
COMMENTARY
Nov 3, 2007

End of the United Kingdom?

LONDON — Is Scotland on the way to separating from England, turning the United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland into something different, maybe a federal kingdom?
JAPAN / Q&A
Nov 3, 2007

Nova failure: Can teachers recoup lost pay, keep jobs?

When Japan's largest employer of foreigners effectively went bankrupt last week, thousands of instructors at the foreign-language school giant were left without jobs. Many now face complicated legal problems in a language not their own.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / MAKING A DIFFERENCE
Nov 3, 2007

International group helps shed light on shadows of injustice

Monday to Friday, 9 to 5, you can pretty much expect to find Akiko Mera in the second-floor Oxfam office in a gray, nondescript building in Ueno, Tokyo, surrounded by a half-dozen desks piled high with papers, pamphlets and books. It looks very much like many other decades-old offices, where the daily...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Nov 3, 2007

The joys of being 'one with nature'

While the other six people on board were sleeping down in the cabins, I was sleeping outside on the deck under the canopy in the cockpit of the boat. This is my favorite place to sleep because I can see the stars and the moon while being lulled to sleep by the gentle rocking of the boat in the ripples....
JAPAN
Nov 3, 2007

Nanjing survivor wins ¥4 million in libel suit

," the court said. Xia welcomed the ruling, telling reporters that Higashinakano "lied and spread wrongful information" in his publication. "Higashinakano is an insolent man," she said after the ruling.
EDITORIALS
Nov 3, 2007

Heat's on the food industry

Recent false-labeling scandals have not only caused people to lose their trust in food companies but also testify to the depth of the problems plaguing the industry. It is alarming that the scandals involve famous firms. Food companies should realize that these scandals have made consumers more conscious...

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