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MORE SPORTS
Feb 2, 2007

Sharapova sluggish in beating Schiavone

A verbal volley from her coach after a shaky second set gave Maria Sharapova the impetus needed to win a tough opening match at the Toray Pan Pacific Open.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 2, 2007

On-court coaching on display in Tokyo

Women's tennis is looking for ways to ramp up the razzmatazz.
BASKETBALL / BJ-LEAGUE PLAYERS OF THE MONTH
Feb 2, 2007

Ward, James take honors for January

The best defense is a strong offense, someone with a clipboard, a whistle and a captive audience once said.
BASEBALL / MLB
Feb 2, 2007

Cashman, Levine take show from China to Japan

The New York Yankees were global even before Kei Igawa, Wang Chien-ming and Hideki Matsui donned the pinstripes, but diversifying the roster is only the beginning for the well-known club.
JAPAN
Feb 2, 2007

JETRO takes credit for airport sales of developing nations' specialties

near Nagoya, Haneda airport in Tokyo and Osaka's Itami airport. As of mid-December, about 260,000 people had visited the stores. Sales totaled about 71 million yen.
COMMENTARY / World
Feb 2, 2007

Declining tolerance of dangerous words

NEW YORK -- Nowadays, words are often seen as a source of instability. The violent reactions last year to the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in a Danish newspaper saw a confused Western response, with governments tripping over their tongues trying to explain what the media should and should...
BUSINESS
Feb 2, 2007

Besieged Nikko Cordial lowers its 2004 earnings figures again

Nikko Cordial Corp., threatened with delisting from the Tokyo Stock Exchange over accounting irregularities, on Thursday again lowered its earnings figures for its 2004 business year.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Feb 2, 2007

Soprano gets in romantic mood

This Valentine's Day in Mito City, Ibaraki Prefecture, celebrated Bulgarian mezzo-soprano Vesselina Kasarova will serenade an intimate audience with suitably romantic melodies from the opera world. Famed for her rich voice and intense characterization, Kasarova draws in audiences in their thousands in...
JAPAN
Feb 2, 2007

DPJ, allies boycott over Yanagisawa

Opposition parties boycotted the Thursday opening session of the House of Representative's powerful Budget Committee, saying they will not participate in Diet deliberations until health minister Hakuo Yanagisawa steps down for calling women "child-bearing machines."
EDITORIALS
Feb 2, 2007

Freedom to edit

The Tokyo High Court has ordered NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp.) and two production companies to pay 2 million yen in compensation to a women's rights group for altering the content of a documentary program on Japan's wartime military sex slaves. The ruling, which pointed out that NHK officials' excessive...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Feb 2, 2007

Song, story and shamisen

The International House of Japan in Roppongi, Tokyo, will bring a 270-year-old genre of music to life when it presents "Song, Story and Shamisen: Tokiwazu and the Soul of Japanese Music" on Feb. 9. Tokiwazu, a type of music known mainly for providing the accompaniment to kabuki, dates from the mid-18th...
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Feb 2, 2007

Early works by Kitano, Kurosawa trace current J-film boom

Last year witnessed a boom in the Japanese film industry, with nearly 30 local films taking more than 1 billion yen at the box office. The trend doesn't look likely to end soon, either, with two much talked about films -- "Soredemo Boku wa Yattenai," directed by Masayuki Suo (who drew international attention...
BUSINESS
Feb 2, 2007

Daiei cracks into market for eggshell advertisements

Supermarket chain Daiei Inc. on Thursday began selling eggs whose shells sport an ad for Nissin Food's Chicken Ramen.
LIFE / Travel / WALKING THE WARDS
Feb 2, 2007

Cabbages and kings

Those who live and work in Itabashi are hesitant when it comes to tallying up the highlights of this northwestern Tokyo ward. "There's really nothing remarkable here," says ballerina and homemaker Chieko Muraoka, 37. "It's quiet and small-scale, but we like it that way."
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Feb 2, 2007

'Dororo'

Big-budget period dramas, often set a millennium or more ago and based on a famous legend or historical incident, are the coin of the Asian coproduction realm.
BUSINESS
Feb 2, 2007

Matsushita net profit up 60% in quarter

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. said Thursday its net profit jumped 59.7 percent to 78.7 billion yen in the three months to December, thanks to vigorous sales of its plasma display TVs.
Japan Times
Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Feb 2, 2007

A sensuous 'V-Day' shimmy

With men around the country eagerly anticipating their Valentine's Day treats, a Tokyo-based collective of bellydancers is aiming to shift some of that day's focus back to the female populace by presenting "V-Day" on Feb. 11 at Cozmos Cafe in Shibuya, Tokyo.

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