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HANSHIN

JAPAN / View from Osaka
Nov 16, 2013
Think caviar but brace for caveat
In one of the most memorable scenes of the late, and sorely missed, Juzo Itami's classic 1985 film "Tampopo" ("Dandelion"), Japanese businessmen enter a French restaurant. Confused by the exotic items on the menu, the elderly members of the party stick to what they know: sole meuniere, consomme soup...
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Nov 2, 2013
Hankyu Hanshin scandal is a by-product of the media's food fetishization
As with every food mislabeling furor, the point in the Hankyu Hanshin scandal isn't necessarily that people are eating bad-tasting or unsafe food, but that their pretensions have been exposed.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Nov 2, 2013
Prolific hitter Murton no lock for NPB return
Will Matt Murton return for a fifth season with the Hanshin Tigers?
JAPAN
Oct 25, 2013
Hotelier lays food scam to staff ignorant of law
Hankyu Hanshin Hotels Co. has been misrepresenting items on its menus for seven years at eateries in at least four prefectures, possibly scamming some 79,000 patrons in the process, and management is blaming the misdeeds on employees ignorant about the law.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 14, 2013
Swallows snap losing streak in wild encounter with Tigers
A prized rookie pitcher went head-to-head with a slugger on a historical pace before a fight broke out and before and a player dove across home plate to successfully execute a suicide squeeze.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Sep 14, 2013
Lessons on ballpark seating etiquette for Japanese baseball
Whose side are you on? Or, rather, which side are you on?
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 13, 2013
Balentien still waiting as Tigers beat Swallows
Wladimir Balentien said getting to 55 was "the hard part" in his quest to set a new single-season home run record.

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