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JR CENTRAL

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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 15, 2014
Tigers wipe out Giants' advantage with Game 1 win
The Hanshin Tigers were behind the Yomiuri Giants before even stepping on the field, but the Kansai club didn't waste any time getting even.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 14, 2014
Archrivals Giants, Tigers ready for Climax Series showdown
The Yomiuri Giants worked out in a mostly empty Tokyo Dome, with neither fans nor the Hanshin Tigers anywhere in sight. The Big Egg will be rocking the next time they're in it, as they square off with their oldest rivals for the right to participate in the Japan Series.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Oct 12, 2014
Playoff system selling Japanese baseball short
The Hanshin Tigers and Hiroshima Carp on Sunday played a hotly contested, tense, and entertaining game full of momentum shifts and almost everything anyone — anyone who likes pitching and defense at least — would want out of a playoff game in which one team's season was on the line.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 12, 2014
Tigers advance to Central League finale despite tie
The Hanshin Tigers advanced to the final stage of the Central League playoffs on Sunday thanks to a 0-0 tie with the Hiroshima Carp in Game 2 of the Central League Climax Series first stage.
WORLD
Oct 12, 2014
Two killed, six peacekeepers wounded in Central African Republic
Two people were killed in fighting in the capital of the Central African Republic and six peacekeepers from Burundi and Cameroon were wounded in an ambush, a spokeswoman for the United Nations mission in the country said on Saturday.
WORLD
Sep 23, 2014
Afghan officer trio missing in U.S. after training may be seeking to defect
Three Afghan National Army soldiers who did not return to a U.S. military base in Massachusetts where they were being trained may be seeking to defect to the United States, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said on Monday.
WORLD
Sep 21, 2014
Afghan presidential rivals Abdullah, Ghani sign up to power-sharing deal
Afghanistan's rival presidential candidates on Sunday signed a deal to share power after months of turmoil over a disputed election that destabilized the nation at a crucial time as most foreign troops prepare to leave.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 14, 2014
Signpost says more eurozone deficit financing
The only question about European Central Bank President Mario Draghi's recent speech to central bankers in which he implied that avoiding a eurozone breakup will require increased fiscal deficits is how openly that reality will be admitted.
EDITORIALS
Sep 9, 2014
Reform key to eurozone growth
The surprise move by the European Central Bank to lower its main lending rate from 0.15 to 0.05 percent and to push the overnight deposit rate further into negative territory indicates the central bank's fear that the stagnating eurozone economy will fall into deflation.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 8, 2014
Japanese investors buy most British, Aussie debt since 2011
Japanese investors bought the most British and Australian long-term sovereign bonds since 2011 in July, while dumping German Bunds in the first seven months of the year amid unprecedented European Central Bank stimulus.
BUSINESS / Markets
Sep 5, 2014
Yen hits six-year low as ECB jumps on stimulus bandwagon
The yen sinks close to a six-year low after the European Central Bank announces a decision to engage in unprecedented monetary easing, weakening the euro.
JAPAN
Aug 25, 2014
Shinkansen section halted by power outage
A power failure on Sunday night briefly suspended Tokaido Shinkansen Line trains between Mishima Station and Shizuoka Station in Shizuoka Prefecture.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 24, 2014
Central bankers try harder to speed up growth, dealing with issues treated as taboo until now
Six years after the near-collapse of the global financial system and more than five years into one of the strongest bull markets in history, the answer still taxes the ingenuity of central bankers who now sound more determined than ever to get faster growth.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Aug 19, 2014
As Taliban push for territory quickens, Afghan troops get new kill orders
As U.S. forces withdraw from Afghanistan, the battlefield they leave behind is changing dramatically and becoming more deadly.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Economy
Aug 2, 2014
Texas to get shinkansen system
A privately funded group in Texas is aiming to build a shinkansen line between Dallas and Houston by 2021 with help from JR Tokai.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jul 19, 2014
DiMuro has witnessed umpire challenges, changes over the years
Back in 1972, in the early years of NFL's "Monday Night Football" on ABC, the broadcasting trio of Frank Gifford, Howard Cosell and "Dandy" Don Meredith were calling the gridiron action. A play occurred whereby, because of a rule change, the result was substantially different than what it would have...
BUSINESS / Economy
Jul 15, 2014
BOJ stays the course toward 2% inflation
The Bank of Japan on Tuesday kept its record stimulus unchanged and forecast inflation will pick up to its 2 percent price target.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Jun 27, 2014
Defense revamp imperils Afghan aid: doctor
Physician Tetsu Nakamura, 67, tries to take a different route to work each day and varies his departure times because that is the safest way to live in Taliban-troubled eastern Afghanistan.
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WORLD / Politics
Jun 24, 2014
Senior Afghan poll official quits, opens way for Abdullah return to race
Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah, who pulled out of the race alleging vote-rigging, indicated he might return after a senior election official resigned Monday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 14, 2014
Taliban shifting from religious group to criminal enterprise: U.N.
The Taliban's reliance on extortion and kidnappings, along with narcotics and illegal mining operations, is transforming it from a group driven by religious ideology into a criminal enterprise hungry for profit, U.N. sanctions monitors said in a new report.

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