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BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Apr 8, 2007

Nice debut for 'Dice-K', Eagles day games, MLB events

Nice major league debut for "Dice-K," eh?
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 2, 2007

Hawks rough up Chiba Lotte's Shimizu

CHIBA -- The Chiba Lotte Marines' pitching staff got off to a rough start during their loss to the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks Saturday. They didn't fare so well Sunday, either.
EDITORIALS
Mar 23, 2007

Try learning from a critical mistake

It was revealed last week that Hokuriku Electric Power Co. failed to report a "criticality accident" at a nuclear-power plant in Shiga, Ishikawa Prefecture, eight years ago. The accident involved a 15-minute uncontrollable fission chain reaction.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jan 28, 2007

The rundown on foreign players in Japan for 2007 season

Spring training camps open for the 12 Japan pro baseball teams on Thursday, Feb. 1, and the Pacific and Central Leagues will welcome a total of 64 foreigners in uniform.
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle
Nov 21, 2006

Label not enough for a healthy diet

Next time you go grocery shopping, take a closer look at the beverages, yogurt and other packaged foods on display in the store you're visiting. You'll most likely find a number of products bearing a special logo and a carefully worded sentence touting their health benefits.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Oct 8, 2006

With a month to go, baseball season here far from over

Do you think the professional baseball season ends in Japan in October?
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 28, 2006

Lions win feels like a defeat

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. -- Extra innings, and all for nothing.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 20, 2006

Cabrera powers Lions in crucial victory

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. -- A day after Julio Zuleta took over Invoice Seibu Dome, Lions first baseman Alex Cabrera wasn't going to be shown up again.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 19, 2006

Zuleta slugs 3 homers in win

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. -- Ichi, ni, san.... Julio Zuleta has known how to count in Japanese for a few years.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Sep 10, 2006

Talented Ushijima's exodus comes too soon for struggling BayStars

Too bad about the resignation/firing of Yokohama BayStars manager Kazuhiko Ushijima. I thought he was one of the better young skippers to come along in many a year, but he's being shown the exit door after only two seasons at the helm.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 7, 2006

Ishii, Liefer smack clutch hits in first-place Lions' victory over Fighters

TOKOROZAWA ( Kyodo) Yoshihito Ishii hit a tiebreaking double in the third inning and Jeff Liefer added a two-run homer in the sixth, leading the front-running Seibu Lions past the Nippon Ham Fighters 9-3 on Sunday.
JAPAN
Jul 31, 2006

Unusually long rainy season appears over

This year's rainy season lasted longer than usual, but it seems to have ended Sunday in most of Japan except the Tohoku region, the Meteorological Agency said.
JAPAN
Jul 28, 2006

Telescope sees gas clouds that dwarf the Milky Way

Japan's huge Subaru telescope in Hawaii has spotted and captured the images of huge masses of molecular gas, each larger than the Milky Way galaxy, the National Astronomic Observatory of Japan said Thursday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 17, 2006

Miyade, Ramirez power Swallows

Ryuji Miyade hit a go-ahead two-run homer and Alex Ramirez drove in four runs, leading the Yakult Swallows to an 8-4 win over the Chiba Lotte Marines in interleague action Friday.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jun 11, 2006

Gaijin superstars nothing foreign to Sanyo All-Star Series

Continuing here from last week's column about Japan's upcoming Sanyo All-Star Series, this time with the focus on foreign players. There is a limit to how many gaikokujin can be included on the 28-man Central and Pacific League rosters, but with a bit of leeway.

Longform

A sinkhole in Yashio, which emerged in January, was triggered by a ruptured, aging sewer pipe. Authorities worry that similar sections of infrastructure across the country are also at risk of corrosion.
That sinking feeling: Japan’s aging sewers are an infrastructure time bomb