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May 7, 2006

Eagle Kyowa retains WBC minimumweight title

Thai boxer Eagle Kyowa retained his WBC minimumweight crown after beating previously undefeated Filipino challenger Rodel Mayol by a unanimous decision on Saturday.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
May 7, 2006

Bungling F.A. suits have gone for second best in McClaren

After countless interviews, cloak-and-dagger meetings, secret talks and public humiliation for the Football Association after being turned down by Portugal's Luiz Felipe Scolari, Steve McClaren was named the next England head coach on Thursday -- 99 days after Sven-Goran Eriksson announced he was leaving...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
May 7, 2006

Giants pitcher Powell: 'Best month I ever had'

Congratulations to Yomiuri Giants pitcher Jeremy Powell on being named Central League Pitcher of the Month for April. Powell won all four of his starts on successive Tuesdays, April 4, 11, 18 and 25, finishing the month with a league-leading 1.03 ERA, two shutouts and three complete games.
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May 7, 2006

Oyama stretches lead at Salonpas World Ladies

Overnight leader Shiho Oyama played patiently in blustery conditions Saturday and stretched her lead to five shots going into the final round of the Salonpas World Ladies.
EDITORIALS
May 7, 2006

The making of a plagiarist

There is not much to be said in defense of 19-year-old Kaavya Viswanathan, the Indian-born Harvard student whose first novel was pulled from bookstores worldwide last month after she failed to disprove charges of plagiarism. But there is something.
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May 7, 2006

Zhang leads China to 5th straight Uber Cup title

Olympic gold medalist Zhang Ning edged archrival Mia Audina Tjiptawan and China went on to beat the Netherlands 3-0 to win its fifth straight Uber Cup women's world team badminton title and 10th overall on Saturday.
CULTURE / TV & Streaming / CHANNEL SURF
May 7, 2006

TV Tokyo's "Shujii ga Mitsukaru Shinryojo," TBS's "Zubari Iu Wa Yo!" and more

Prevention is said to be as important to medical care as treatment, but often it's difficult to know how effective certain preventive measures are. This week on TV Tokyo's medical variety show, "Shujii ga Mitsukaru Shinryojo (The Clinic Where You'll Find a Family Doctor)" on Monday at 8 p.m., the guest...
Japan Times
LIFE / Travel / NATURE TRAVEL
May 7, 2006

Not such a wild conservation idea?

It is late afternoon, and over sundowner drinks in the hunting lodge the talk around the table is of lions. Or, to be more specific, one particular lion -- "Old Black Mane," the night raider, cattle killer, and terror of the local tribesmen. Man eater!
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
May 7, 2006

So what did Yokota's trip to the United States really achieve?

National interest is in the eye of the beholder. For example, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi traveled to Ethiopia and Ghana last week to offer aid, but also to reinvigorate the African Union's support for reform of the U.N. Security Council, of which Japan still hopes to become a permanent member....
CULTURE / Books
May 7, 2006

Following the great haiku poet on the road

BASHO'S JOURNEY: The Literary Prose of Matsuo Basho, translated with an introduction by David Landis Barnhill. State University of New York Press, 2005, 191 pp., $19.95 (paper). The great haiku poet Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) was first represented to the West just over a century ago. This was in W.G. Aston's...
BUSINESS
May 7, 2006

Murakami rebuilds TBS stake to 4%

An investment fund led by financier Yoshiaki Murakami again became a major shareholder of Tokyo Broadcasting System Inc. as of the end of March, holding more than 4 percent of the broadcaster's outstanding shares, TBS sources said Saturday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 7, 2006

Giants ace Uehara deactivated with hamstring injury

Yomiuri Giants right-hander Koji Uehara was removed from the active roster Friday after suffering a right hamstring injury during a game Thursday.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
May 7, 2006

Japanese being ensnared in ill-suited U.S. trappings

Back in the 1960s and '70s, the Japanese people were being raked over the coals from West Virginia to the Ruhr Valley and beyond for, chiefly, two things.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / CLOSE-UP
May 7, 2006

May Shigenobu: A life less ordinary

In November 2000, May Shigenobu stood speechless in front of her TV set in Beirut, staring at crackly satellite images of her mother, Fusako Shigenobu, giving the thumbs-up and smiling as she was led away by police in Osaka, half a world away.
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May 5, 2006

Tour rookie Ueda takes early lead

Nineteen-year-old tour rookie Momoko Ueda shot a 5-under-par 67 Thursday to take a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Salonpas World Ladies tournament.
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May 5, 2006

China cruises into Uber Cup final

Odds-on favorite China beat Germany 3-0 to breeze into the final of the Uber Cup women's world team championship and will now face the Netherlands, which scored a 3-0 victory over Taiwan in the semifinals on Thursday.
EDITORIALS
May 5, 2006

Committing to U.S. strategy

Japan and the United States have finalized a plan to realign U.S. military bases in Japan by 2014. The plan, adopted at a "two-plus-two" meeting in Washington D.C. of the two countries' ministers in charge of foreign affairs and defense, has two objectives: One is to reduce the burden on local citizens...
JAPAN
May 5, 2006

Program develops Dutch dropouts' vocational, social skills

AMSTERDAM -- As Japan gropes for ways to motivate undereducated youths to look for jobs, other developed nations facing similar challenges are experimenting with steps to integrate them into the working population.
CULTURE / Music
May 5, 2006

New York-Tokyo Connection

Since Dave Pietro first came to Japan with the Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra as lead alto saxophonist in 1994, he has toured Japan almost every year. First he returned with Akiyoshi's Orchestra. Then, with old friend, pianist and Tokyo resident Jonathan Katz, he formed the New York Tokyo Connection....

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