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PREMIER 12

Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Dec 23, 2016
Arsenal up to old tricks as season nears midway point
Arsenal FC — An Apology.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Dec 16, 2016
Teams with best goalkeepers likely to decide title race
The Premier League title race is becoming a little like an Agatha Christie play. Initially there are six suspects, then one by one they disappear for whatever reason.
Japan Times
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Dec 12, 2016
Costa returns Chelsea to top of league
Chelsea striker Diego Costa's class shone through as he fired his team back to the top of the Premier League on Sunday with a 1-0 win over West Bromwich Albion as the previous day's goal glut turned into a trickle.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Dec 9, 2016
Bradley set to be made scapegoat for Swansea's woes
Even by the madcap standards of a sport in which too many lunatics have taken over their respective asylums, the news that Swansea City manager Bob Bradley could be facing the sack after just seven matches beggars belief.
Japan Times
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Dec 5, 2016
Errors cost Liverpool, United points
Premier League heavyweights Liverpool and Manchester United were caught by late sucker punches in two games that finished far more dramatically than they began on Sunday.
Japan Times
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Dec 2, 2016
Guardiola, Conte set to match wits in tactical battle
Pep Guardiola kept up with the progress of a penalty shootout with a difference this week. It was in the World Chess Championship between Norway's Magnus Carlsen, the reigning champion, and Russian grandmaster Sergey Karjakin.
Japan Times
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Nov 28, 2016
Mourinho sent off on bad day for United
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho was sent off for the second time in a month on Sunday as the controversial coach watched his side draw 1-1 at home to West Ham United and lose more ground in the Premier League title race.
Japan Times
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Nov 21, 2016
Costa sends Chelsea into first place
Chelsea replaced Liverpool at the top of the Premier League table with a comfortable 1-0 win at Middlesbrough thanks to a first-half Diego Costa strike on Sunday.
Japan Times
SOCCER
Nov 20, 2016
Toure returns to lift City past Palace
Yaya Toure returned to Manchester City's ranks on Saturday after a public apology to manager Pep Guardiola and scored twice in a 2-1 win at Crystal Palace that took the team to the top of the Premier League alongside Liverpool.
SOCCER
Nov 11, 2016
Rangers part ways with Barton
Joey Barton's tumultuous spell at Rangers was ended on Thursday as the club announced it had terminated the midfielder's contract with immediate effect.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 28, 2016
Premier League teams remain behind rest of Europe
The Premier League is awash with money. Middle-class clubs can afford to pay fees of £30 million. Never has the top flight been so prosperous.
Japan Times
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Oct 23, 2016
Okazaki gets first goal of season in Leicester victory
Shinji Okazaki reveled in his first goal of the season on Saturday as champions Leicester downed Crystal Palace 3-1 at home in the Premier League.
Japan Times
SOCCER / PREMIER REPORT
Oct 21, 2016
Mourinho's match tactics not the most entertaining
If Jose Mourinho sets up Manchester United at Stamford Bridge on Sunday as he did against Liverpool on Monday, his return to Chelsea should carry a government health warning: "Watching Manchester United can severely damage your health."
Japan Times
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Oct 17, 2016
Austin double sends Southampton past Burnley
Southampton's rich vein of form in the Premier League continued as it beat Burnley 3-1 with two goals from Charlie Austin on Sunday while another promoted side, Middlesbrough, fared just as poorly, losing 1-0 at home to Watford.
Japan Times
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Oct 2, 2016
Liverpool regroups in second half to rally past Swansea
Liverpool recovered from a poor start to beat Swansea 2-1 and move up to second in the Premier League table on Saturday, while Chelsea got back to winning ways against Hull.
Japan Times
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Sep 9, 2016
Mourinho, Guardiola set to renew bitter rivalry in Manchester Derby
The most toxic, incendiary and darkly entertaining managerial rivalry continues Saturday at Old Trafford when José Mourinho and Pep Guardiola resume hostilities. For the first time in a Manchester derby there will be as much attention on the technical area as the pitch.
SOCCER
Aug 27, 2016
Arsenal loans out Asano to Stuttgart
Japan forward Takuma Asano will open his first season in Europe in the second division of Germany's Bundesliga on a loan deal, Arsenal announced Friday.
Japan Times
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Aug 26, 2016
Strong managerial ranks highlight start of new season
This is the season the Premier League has been waiting for since its inception in 1992.
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Aug 10, 2016
Leicester's Ranieri signs new contract until 2020
Manager Claudio Ranieri has signed a new contract with Leicester City that would keep him at the club until June 2020, the Premier League champion announced on Wednesday.
SOCCER
Aug 6, 2016
Man City announces Moreno signing
Manchester City has completed the signing of 19-year-old Colombia international Marlos Moreno from Atletico Nacional, the Premier League team said on Saturday.
Japanese stripper bids to have her porn movies taken off internet
Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
Yen’s fragility raises specter of a new currency war in Asia
Suspected intervention to drag the yen off a 34-year low against the dollar is already seen as unlikely to have a lasting effect if Japan continues alone.
Online booking for Mount Fuji climb to open on May 20
Visitors climb the slopes of Mount Fuji, Japan's highest peak at 3,776 meters. From May 20, climbers will have access to a new online booking system for Mount Fuji's most popular Yoshida trail in Yamanashi Prefecture.
In Japan, 68,000 people over 65 projected to die alone at home this year
As Japan grapples with its population's rapid aging, supporting people who live and age alone is looming larger on the policy agenda.
Ex-METI bureaucrat given 10-year sentence for drugging and raping women
The Tokyo District Court on Monday sentenced a former industry ministry bureaucrat to 10 years in prison for drugging six women with sleeping pills and then raping or groping them in 2022.
Ishin struggles to set itself apart from other parties
Nippon Ishin no Kai Secretary-General Fumitake Fujita (right) speaks beside Yui Kanazawa, the party's candidate in the Tokyo 15th district by-election on April 28. Nippon Ishin lost in this by-election as well as another in Nagasaki held on the same day.
In a rare event, the Northern Lights show up in Hokkaido
The Northern Lights in Nayoro, Hokkaido, on Saturday
Is black the new green for Japan’s flagging tea farmers?
George Guttridge-Smith brews tea at Kyoto Obubu Tea Farm in Wazuka, Kyoto Prefecture, where he serves as head of international development.
Japan's logistics firms seek partnerships to cope with driver shortage
Japan Post CEO Tetsuya Senda (right) and his Seino Transportation counterpart Satoshi Takahashi announce their companies' agreement on joint long-haul truck operations, in Tokyo on Thursday.
How the discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan
Archaeologists say a 1,600-year-old wooden coffin at the Tomio Maruyama tumulus in the city of Nara was kept in good condition probably because it was protected by a layer of clay and copper ions that had seeped out of the mirrors that were buried together.

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