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CULTURE / Film
Jul 9, 2003

Try keeping your head through this

"Battle Royale," Kinji Fukasaku's last completed film, created what is a rarity in the Japanese movie business: a scandal. Based on a best-selling novel, this film about 42 school kids forced to play a murder game by a repressive government made guardians of public morals see red, even before its December...
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Jun 7, 2003

Australia A rips Japan 63-5

Australia A exploded for nine tries en route to a 63-5 romp over Japan's national XV in a friendly match on Thursday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / NOTES FROM THE SMOKE
May 27, 2003

Japan's cup, it runneth over

This week, Notes From the Smoke features a saucy deviation from the usual format.
COMMENTARY
May 26, 2003

Megawati deserves greater U.S. support

LOS ANGELES -- What country has the largest population while probably remaining the least known among Americans? It's Indonesia -- an awesome archipelago of maybe 13,000 islands and some 220 million people. Most of them are moderate Muslims, and there are more of those in Indonesia than anywhere.
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May 26, 2003

Russians hand Japan 43-34 defeat

Japan's build up toward the 2003 Rugby World Cup suffered yet another setback on Sunday with a 43-34 loss to Russia in a Super Powers Cup game at Tokyo's Chichibunomiya Stadium.
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Apr 15, 2003

Toyota cruises to win in Japan Sevens

Toyota Motors, led by former New Zealand fullback Adrian Cashmore, scored five tries in the final to beat Sanix 35-24 for its second straight victory and second overall in the Japan Sevens rugby tournament on Sunday.
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Feb 17, 2003

Suntory juggernaut rolls into All Japan Championship final

The Suntory juggernaut kept on rolling on Sunday at Toyko's Chichibunomiya Stadium with a 52-24 win over Ricoh in the semifinal of the All Japan Championship. The Goliath, which is now unbeaten against Japanese opposition since January 2001, will face NEC in the final, following its surprise 29-5 victory...
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Jan 30, 2003

Samurais set to face Tomahawks

The Japan Rugby League has announced that its national team, the Samurais, will play the United States Tomahawks at the Yokohama Country and Athletic Club on Saturday, March 29.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Jan 12, 2003

Media should learn from refs, not rip them

LONDON -- One of the attractions of football is the argument that controversial incidents can provoke.
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Dec 22, 2002

Secom still alive in run for final 8

Secom kept alive its, albeit slim, hopes of reaching the last eight of the 55th Company Clubs Rugby Football Championship with a 26-19 win over Coca Cola West Japan at a cold, wet and miserable Chichibunomiya Stadium in Tokyo on Saturday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Oct 26, 2002

Social entrepreneur targets cross-cultural themes

Ken Nakamori has a dream: a vision of deepening the understanding between people of different countries and creating a new bridge of communication through digital media communities.
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 11, 2002

Irish media not too Keane on McCarthy

LONDON -- It is difficult to imagine a coach can be under pressure after his team made a positive impression at the World Cup finals, has lost only three of its last 27 games and just seven of 41 competitive matches during his 6 1/2 years in charge.
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Sep 16, 2002

Winning start for Suntory

Japan champion Suntory got off to a good start to the new season, by beating newly promoted Japan IBM 90-17 in the opening match of the East Japan Company Rugby Union League at Chichibunomiya Stadium on Sunday.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Jun 15, 2002

Phil Richardson

Long, long ago, in a preflight age, diplomats and expatriate businessmen in Japan expected their lives to be leisured until the arrival of the next ship with its communications from home offices. Phil Richardson does not belong to such a remote past, but his timing places him at the end of another era...
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Jun 7, 2002

Samurais hoping to play Kiwis

The Japan Rugby League announced on Wednesday that it was hoping to stage a test match between the Japanese Samurais and New Zealand in Tokyo in October.
Japan Times
LIFE / Food & Drink / TOKYO FOOD FILE
May 26, 2002

Enough to make Spanish eyes smile

In case you hadn't noticed, Spanish food is big right now -- or at least that's what the vernacular magazines would have us believe. This, of course, is not the first time it's been touted as the next big thing. But somehow a critical mass of popularity was never achieved, and Spain's culinary profile...
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May 21, 2002

Japan hammers Russia 59-19

Japan opened its build-up toward the 2003 World Cup with a resounding 59-19 win over Russia at the National Stadium in Tokyo on Sunday.
LIFE / Language / FOR KIDS
Mar 15, 2002

Join the global St. Patrick's Day party

How would you like to spend Sunday afternoon dancing jigs to Irish pipes? Or marching with a group of baton-twirling cheerleaders? Or making friends with leprechauns?
LIFE / Language / FOR KIDS
Mar 1, 2002

The boy who dreamt of dragons

More than a century ago, there was a 7-year-old boy who dreamt of a "green great dragon" and wrote his first short story about it.
COMMUNITY
Feb 17, 2002

Waseda and Keio: rivals to the core

It was Oct. 22, 1933, at the Jingu Baseball Stadium. The winner of the day's So-Kei (Waseda vs. Keio) match would lift the trophy for the year.
Japan Times
COMMUNITY
Feb 16, 2002

Towels, tea & sympathy under CLAIR umbrella

I have arranged to meet Shingo Ishida, a program coordinator in the Guidance and Counseling Division of the JET Program Management Department in the Council of Local Authorities for International Relations. (Gulp, what a mouthful!) But after colleague Nicola Chilton -- working in a similar capacity under...
SOCCER / THE BALD TRUTH
Oct 30, 2001

Nakata not doing the business for Parma

Hidetoshi Nakata is in serious danger of turning into the "Plonker of Parma." Or worse still, the Japanese Nigel Clough.
JAPAN
Oct 20, 2001

Suspected coed-killer confesses

A 29-year-old former construction worker from Sapporo pleaded guilty Friday to stabbing to death a female junior college student on a street in Tokyo's Taito Ward in April.

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