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Rugby
Feb 3, 2007

Top League has hope heading into final

Katsuyuki Kiyomiya is no Ichiro Suzuki, but he may be just what the Top League needs.
BASKETBALL / ONE-ON-ONE WITH ...
Feb 3, 2007

Evessa coach Tennichi influenced by Westhead

The Japan Times will feature periodic interviews with players in the bj-league -- Japan's first professional basketball circuit -- which is in its second season. Head coach Kensaku Tennichi of the Osaka Evessa is the subject of this week's profile. He led the Osaka Evessa to the bj-league's first championship...
SOCCER
Feb 3, 2007

Magath spurns Hamburg job

FRANKFURT (AP) Felix Magath will not return to Hamburger SV as coach. The last-place German League club fired Thomas Doll on Thursday, one day after Magath was sacked at Bayern Munich.
MORE SPORTS
Feb 3, 2007

Sharapova slips into semis

Maria Sharapova may not be keen on on-court coaching, but it is doing her the world of good in her quest for a second Toray Pan Pacific Open title.
JAPAN
Feb 3, 2007

Telecom satellite has power glitch

One of the world's largest geostationary satellites has developed a glitch in an experimental telecommunications system, authorities said Friday.
JAPAN
Feb 3, 2007

Extra budget shoved through Lower House

The ruling bloc -- the Liberal Democratic Party and New Komeito -- rammed a supplementary budget through the Lower House on Friday after the opposition camp boycotted deliberations in protest of health minister Hakuo Yanagisawa.
JAPAN
Feb 3, 2007

Osaka plans another homeless eviction

OSAKA -- The Osaka Municipal Government is once again cracking down on the homeless, preparing to clear out a small group next week from a park that will be the site of a major international sporting event in August.
EDITORIALS
Feb 3, 2007

New hope for Nepal

The Himalayan kingdom of Nepal is undergoing a transformation that could lead to its rebirth as a peaceful nation. But the country's path will not be an easy one. Assistance from the international community for reconstruction will be indispensable.
COMMENTARY
Feb 3, 2007

Misplaced effort to cut carbon

LONDON -- Huge gales have been sweeping Britain, while temperatures have soared, leaving spring plants sprouting long before they should and wildlife bewildered. Its all part of global warming -- or so many people assert. Whether they are right will be impossible to judge for many years to come. Maybe...
BUSINESS
Feb 3, 2007

Costs, lack of new models dent Nissan's profit

Nissan Motor Co. announced Friday its group operating profit dropped 15.8 percent year-on-year to 531 billion yen in the nine months to December, as a dearth of new car models and rising raw materials costs cut its full-year operating profit forecast despite the weaker yen against the dollar and the...
MORE SPORTS
Feb 3, 2007

Yamaha renews Rossi's contract

Yamaha Motor Co. has extended its contract with seven-time motorcycling world champion Valentino Rossi through 2008, the company announced Thursday.
JAPAN
Feb 3, 2007

Woman's child-slaying trial starts

A 35-year-old woman charged with killing two of her daughter's kindergarten classmates in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, a year ago pleaded not guilty Friday in the Otsu District Court. Zheng Yongshan, on trial in the slaying of two kindergarteners, sits Friday in the Otsu District Court in Shiga...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Feb 3, 2007

Patricia Hill

Patricia Hill says she is unused to looking backward. "But I see threads running through my life," she said. "I see my love of different sports and of flowers and gardens.
COMMUNITY
Feb 3, 2007

Aikido fuels life of selfless service

Meet Kenkichi Futami, in many ways the archetypal Japanese salaryman of the postwar period whose sacrifice helped position Japan so productively in the world today.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / JAPAN LITE
Feb 3, 2007

Making the streets safe in Hokkaido

I came to Hokkaido for the winter to take a job in medical translation. I work in Niseko, the powder snow Mecca to skiers and snowboarders. And when they face plant in the powder, ski into a tree, or huck a cliff and land improperly, I go to the hospital and help interpret between doctor and patient....
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Feb 3, 2007

Love Stories: the five rules

All is fair in love and war, but still there are rules. At least -- according to a romance-reading colleague -- there are rules in love stories.
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.
Japan's cutting-edge railgun successfully strikes target vessel
The Defense Ministry’s Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Agency (ATLA) conducted a ship-board railgun shooting test from June to early July this year with the support of the Maritime Self-Defense Force.
Is America ready for Japanese-style 7-Elevens?
Convenience stores are a fixture of Japanese life and 7-Eleven, a chain that began in the U.S. in 1927, opened its first store in Japan in 1974 — and then became wholly Japanese-owned in 2005 through parent company Seven & I Holdings.
‘Fairytale’ Shirakawago ranked one of the world’s most beautiful villages
Forbes and Unforgettable Travel Company have ranked Shirakawago in Gifu Prefecture as Asia's most beautiful village.
People rush to make furusato nozei donations ahead of tighter rules
A booth from the town of Betsukai in Hokkaido at an Amazon Japan furusato nо̄zei promotion event, on Sept. 5 in Tokyo's Minato Ward.
Aging Japan’s centenarian population nears 100,000
Shigeko Kagawa, Japan's oldest person at 114, in Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, on July 30
Japan's major art events converge this fall
Shinji Ohmaki’s “Tokinokage” exhibited at Fuji Textile Week 2021 shows the use of fabric as art.
An aesthetic escape to Hakone’s art-drenched hills
Between traditional examples of fine art and sleek, modern exhibitions that blend with nature, Hakone offers a unique escape from Tokyo's urban sprawl.
Niinami’s ouster quick but not unusual as corporations protect reputation
Takeshi Niinami resigns as chairman and CEO of Suntory Holdings.
As Manila modernizes its military, new opportunities emerge for Tokyo
A Brahmos missile system is displayed during a rehearsal for a military parade in New Delhi in January. The Philippines will soon receive its second batch of the supersonic cruise missiles from India.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Longform

Figure skater Akiko Suzuki was once told her ideal weight should be 47 kilograms, a number she now admits she “naively believed.” This led to her have a relationship with food that resulted in her suffering from anorexia.
The silent battle Japanese athletes fight with weight
By Mai Yoshikawa

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 6th annual Sustainable Japan Award.
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 6th annual Sustainable Japan Award.

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