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Kudo Higashinamed to squad for Australia match
Kashiwa Reysol’s in-form striker Masato Kudo and FC Tokyo midfielder Keigo Higashi received their first callups as Japan coach Alberto Zaccheroni named a 26-strong squad on Thursday for the upcoming World Cup qualifier against Australia. Kudo has scored 13 goals in the J.League and the Asian Champions League this season, including Kashiwa’s third in a 3-2 win over Jeonbuk Hyundai ...
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Murton maintains torrid pace in Chiba
Hot as a midsummer day: Hanshin's Matt Murton goes 4-for-4 with two RBIs on Thursday at QVC Marine Field. The Tigers defeated the Chiba Lotte Marines 7-1, and Murton went 7-for-9 in the two-game series. | ...
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Pens rout Sens take 3-1 series lead
OTTAWA - Sidney Crosby was careful not to get too far ahead of himself after helping the Pittsburgh Penguins rout the Ottawa Senators for a 3-1 lead in the Eastern Conference semifinal series. ';I’m not talking about anything ahead of Game 5,'; the Pittsburgh captain said when asked about a potential Eastern Conference final against the Boston Bruins. But after the ...
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Miyazaki’s departure means 21 teams again next season
Another offseason of major change is already in full swing. As a wizened comic might blurt out, ';There no end to the chaos.'; The Miyazaki Shining Suns have exited the bj-league after three seasons of financial woes and an accumulation of outstanding debt to the league. The announcement was made official on Wednesday, though it was expected for weeks after the cash-strapped ...
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LeBron saves Miami in OT
MIAMI - LeBron James caught the inbounds pass, changed direction and immediately attacked the rim. There was no one in his way. There was no stopping him, either. James made a layup as time expired in overtime, capping a 30-point, 10-rebound, 10-assist effort as the Miami Heat found a way to outlast the Indiana Pacers 103-102 in a wildly back-and-forth Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals ...
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Chomp your way through spring
www.hilton.co.jp/tokyo), has in store for the diminutive fruit. Taking place through July 13 at the lobby-level Marble Lounge, the American Cherry With Movie Sweets Fair features an array of 30 desserts, including favorites such as cherry pie, sponge cake and the British oat bar known as the flapjack. A fun twist: Sakakura has re-created a quartet of classic sweets featured in Hollywood films, ...
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Springtime beans aim for the sky
Growing up: Soramame (fava beans) gain their Japanese name from their tendency to point skyward as they grow. They can be served as kakiage (a variation on tempura, above) or simply with rice. | MAKIKO ...
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Japanese afternoon tea Beatles and disco dinner party eat off Kutani porcelain
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent an aide, Mr. Isao Iijima — a former secretary to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi — to North Korea last week in an effort to make progress on unresolved bilateral issues, including the past abduction of Japanese nationals by North ...
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Shizuoka theater festival courts the avant-garde
Kazuhiro Shiraishi, 66, is a guest-house manager in the Izu-kogen Highlands, a famous resort area on the Izu Peninsula of Shizuoka Prefecture. Looking out onto the Pacific Ocean, and just 90 minutes by train from Tokyo, Izu has a warm climate all year round ...
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‘Celeste and Jesse Forever’
You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. This banal platitude is the essence of ';Celeste and Jesse Forever,'; a romcom that recalls those heartwarmin,’ chick-pleasin’ love stories of the 1990s and early 2000s. Cowritten by Rashida Jones (Quincy Jones’ daughter, who also plays the titular Celeste), this is an old-school romcom with old-school ...
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‘The Place Beyond the Pines’
';I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
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Son of Cronenberg debuts with sickly body horror
As far as debuts go, Shohei Otani's delivered. The celebrated rookie pitched fairly well on Thursday night, and though he finished outside the decision, he left the mound with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters well within striking distance of the Tokyo Yakult ...
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Electric fireflies to light up river
Light the way: Thousands of bulbs float down Tokyo's Sumida River during last year's Tokyo Hotaru Festival. | AMANOGAWA PROJECTE_SRTM/© TOKYO ...
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Mr. Murakami’s tale of redemption
Mr. Haruki Murakami’s latest novel, ';Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage,'; his first since the publication of ';1Q84″ about three years ago, sold a million copies in seven days after it hit the stands. The publisher, Bungei Shunju, printed 500,000 copies in advance of the April 12 publication date in anticipation of huge demand — an ...
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An overture to Pyongyang
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent an aide, Mr. Isao Iijima — a former secretary to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi — to North Korea last week in an effort to make progress on unresolved bilateral issues, including the past abduction of Japanese nationals by North Korean agents. Japan has made it clear to North Korea that the abduction issue as well as the issue of the North’s ...
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Global call to women standing on the sidelines
Hardly a day goes by without a news story on some violation of women’s rights. In recent months, appalling incidents of violence against women and girls — from Delhi to Johannesburg to Cleveland — have sparked public outrage and demands to tackle these horrific abuses. In Bangladesh and Cambodia, the shocking loss of life by garment factory workers, many of them women, sparked ...
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No heroes in AP news leak
Whoever provided the initial leak to the Associated Press in April 2012 not only broke the law but caused the abrupt end to a secret, joint U.S./Saudi/British operation in Yemen that offered valuable intelligence against al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula. One goal was to ...
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Liberia Govt Silent Over Reported Sale of Japanese Donated Rice in Guinea
The Government of Liberia (GOL) through the Ministry of Commerce & Industry is yet to comment on the reported sale of a huge consignment Japanese donated rice to Liberia in neighboring Guinea. Last week, the Heritage, based on cogent reports obtained from officialdom, reported that the United Commodities Incorporated (UCI) recently sold huge consignment of the Japanese donated rice to ...
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On Top Of The World At 80 Japanese Climber Summits Everest
A photo from May 22 shows Yuichiro Miura, 80, right, and his son, Gota at their South Col camp at 26,247 feet during their climb to the top of Mount Everest. Miura became the oldest man to reach the ...
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Panic sees Tokyo shares drop 7.3
Panicky investors dumped shares on the Tokyo market Thursday, sending the main index plunging more than 7 percent on weak Chinese data after months of sharp climbs.The Nikkei 225 index closed at the day's low of 14,483.98, down 1,143.28 points, or 7.32 percent. It was the biggest daily fall since March 15, 2011, in the wake of a huge earthquake-tsunami and the nuclear crisis.In terms of ...
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Japan’s companies to blame for debt
Japan's government is up to its neck in debt. That, however, is not because the government has been overly profligate, but because Japanese companies have been deleveraging for a long time. If Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's policies revive private investment, the government's track record suggests it will tighten its belt.If the private sector increases savings, the government must ...
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Is Japan The New Apple
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan, Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007, in Sydney. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Many big hedge fund investors have in recent years had a very hard time keeping up with the U.S. stock market and other financial benchmarks against which they are judged. The big market drop in Japan will probably make things even harder for some of ...
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Japanese octogenarian becomes oldest person to summit Everest
A team of climbers, including 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura, stand on the summit of Mount Everest this morning. Photograph: ...
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World stocks slump as Japans Nikkei loses 7
Financial markets around the world were roiled Thursday after Japanese stocks suffered their biggest slide since the country was hit by a devastating tsunami more than two years ago. Several reasons have been blamed for the 7.3 percent fall in the Nikkei index to 14,483.98, including a spike in Japanese government bond yields and unexpectedly weak Chinese manufacturing figures. Mixed messages ...
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Plunge in Japans Nikkei stock index sparks global sell-off
The Dow Jones industrial average shed 107.1 points, or 0.7%, to 15,200.07 shortly after the opening bell in New York. The broader Standard & Poor's 500 index tumbled 17.77 points, or 1.1%, to 1,637.58. The technology-heavy Nasdaq was off 33.37 points, or 1%, 3,429.93. Weak Chinese manufacturing data helped send ...
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Osaka sees first InterContinental hotel built
Osaka is a major travel destination within Japan and the wider Asian region for business travelers and leisure tourists alike. The city is an economic powerhouse and part of the backbone of the Japanese economy. It makes sense for InterContinental to finally open a hotel here then.
Osaka is the second command center of the Japanese economy after Tokyo, with a daytime and nighttime population that reflects the massive draw of the city as an economic powerhouse. Read more
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