Opportunistic Dragons take 2-1 series lead over Giants
Junki Ito turned 21 years old in January. That's three fewer years than his batterymate Motonobu Tanishige has been a professional baseball ...
View ArticleLucky Seven Itol carries Fighters to brink of Japan Series
SAPPORO — For the second night in a row, Yoshio Itoi bashed the ball beyond the fences. And with it, the Fighters are one win away from reaching their first Japan Series in three ...
View ArticleArrests mistaken in threat email cases
But NPA Commissioner General Yutaka Katagiri said he was unable to say for certain the arrests were a mistake as the investigation into the case is ...
View ArticlePrint show profits to fund scholarships
Print club: Prints by Kayoko Miyayama (above) and Koichi Maeda (below), will be included in the 57th College Women's Association Japan Print ...
View ArticleJeter recovery to take five months
DETROIT — Derek Jeter will have surgery on his broken left ankle, and the New York Yankees say the star shortstop could need four to five months to completely ...
View ArticleSuit aids nuclear workers
Put through its paces: A HAL robotic suit, designed to protect nuclear plant workers against radiation exposure, is shown Thursday at the Tokyo Big Sight convention center. ...
View ArticleTepco to expand compensation for tourism industry losses
Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Thursday it will include companies in the tourism industry in the Tohoku region prefectures of Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi, Akita and Yamagata in its list for compensation, ...
View ArticleNEC gets energy storage contract
NEC Corp. said Thursday it has received an Italian order for one of the largest electricity storage systems in Europe for a pilot smart-grid ...
View ArticleOkinawa group U.S. servicemen need restrictions
NAHA, Okinawa Pref. — A women's group in Okinawa called Thursday for restrictions on the behavior of American servicemen outside U.S. bases in the prefecture, following the alleged rape of ...
View ArticleOctober-December tour bookings to China South Korea down by half
Reservations as of late September for package tours to China and South Korea during the October-December period have plunged to less than half of year-earlier levels against the backdrop of ...
View ArticleHokkaido faces 5-10 power-saving target for winter other areas off hook
The government hopes to prevent unexpected blackouts in the event of an emergency, such as a halt of operations at a large thermal power plant. Hokkaido Electric Power Co. may also be asked to make ...
View ArticleSense of mission a hallmark of iconoclastic artists life work
These traits began in the 1960s, when he made wildly experimental "pinku" (soft-core porn) films, and continued in the 1970s as he allied himself with leftist radicals, including the ...
View ArticleTokyo prosecutors formally apply to have Mainali of Nepal acquitted of 1997...
The Tokyo High Public Prosecutor's Office has submitted a document requesting the acquittal of Govinda Prasad Mainali of Nepal at his coming retrial over the 1997 slaying of a woman in Tokyo, ...
View ArticleMarubeni inks Ukraine water deal
Marubeni Corp. said Thursday that it has signed a contract with a company funded by the Ukrainian government to offer Toray Industries Inc.'s groundwater-processing ...
View ArticleSentiment on Japan at three-year low
LONDON — Investors are most bearish about Japan in more than three years, according to October's Bank of America Merrill Lynch Fund Manager ...
View ArticleEngland held to draw by Poland in World Cup qualifier
WARSAW — England stumbled for the second time in World Cup qualifying on Wednesday, with Poland holding the dreary visitors to a 1-1 draw in a match delayed by a day due to a waterlogged ...
View ArticleNissan unveils proactive steering safety tech
Radar contact: A Nissan car swerves automatically to avoid a dummy using the automaker's new "autonomous emergency steering" technology Oct. 12 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture. ...
View ArticleAfter Olympics British parties find patriotism pays
The queen's Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics have made 2012 the year that Britain rediscovers its patriotism. In recent years, overt displays of national pride have not been the British ...
View ArticleCards down Giants go up 2-1
Carpenter hit a two-run homer after subbing for Carlos Beltran and the Cardinals chased Matt Cain before a 3½-hour rain delay in the seventh inning of a 3-1 victory over the San Francisco ...
View ArticleInjured Love out 6-8 weeks
MINNEAPOLIS — Kevin Love returned from the London Olympics determined to do what every one of his U.S. teammates have already done — lead his team to the ...
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