Sabathia to have elbow checked out
NEW YORK — Yankees ace CC Sabathia will have his pitching elbow examined by Dr. James Andrews following inflammation that landed him on the disabled list in ...
View ArticleMr. 89ers leads Sendai past Grouses
Through all the ups and downs since the Sendai 89ers joined the bj-league for its inaugural season in 2005, Hikaru Kusaka has been a part of the Tohoku ...
View ArticleNRA must ensure transparency
More than a month has passed since the Nuclear Regulatory Authority was inaugurated on Sept. 19. The NRA started in a deplorable manner. In a political maneuver, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda used a ...
View ArticleChelsea comes from behind to beat Tottenham Villas-Boas
LONDON — Chelsea maintained its flying start to the Premier League by beating Tottenham 4-2 away to preserve its four-point lead, while Manchester City needed a last-gasp winner to keep the ...
View ArticleLeyland says Valverde will play big role in World Series
Valverde has been Detroit's closer for three years and didn't blow a save through all of 2011, but this postseason has been ugly. He lost Game 4 of the division series against Oakland and ...
View ArticlePoliticians may ru the day their names became verbs
However, this is not the way the students remodeled their nouns into verbs in our three examples, as the results would have been noda suru (????), kan suru (???), and hato suru (???). What they did ...
View ArticleKansai airport to double budget carriers flights
OSAKA — New Kansai International Airport Co. plans to nearly double the ratio of international flights offered by budget carriers to 25 percent from 14.4 percent now by summer 2014, its midterm ...
View ArticleNiwa prods government to heal rift with China
NAGOYA — Ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa urged his government to make steady efforts to improve diplomatic relations soured the Senkaku row and warned that neither the government nor and the ...
View ArticleSenkakus not flagged as core interest in Chinas talks with U.S.
WASHINGTON — Chinese leaders avoided referring to the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands as a core national interest during talks with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in September in ...
View ArticleNo nation can afford to act like an island in Asias globalized age
Psalm 85 from the Old Testament states: "Faithful Love and loyalty join together. Saving Justice and Peace embrace." These beautiful words from the Bible are beautiful indeed, but in life ...
View ArticleLast-gasp eagle gives Taniguchi title
CHIBA — Toru Taniguchi drained a dramatic eagle on the last hole to come from behind and successfully defend his title at the Bridgestone Open on ...
View ArticleJapan’s top cable firm may buy rival
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View ArticleNationalism is on the rise in Japan
Hundreds of Japanese people streamed to Tokyo's shopping district Shibuya at the end of September and beginning of October to demonstrate in front of the Chinese embassy. "China out of ...
View ArticleWeb users angered over Japan tour
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View ArticleHorse racing Gold Ship sails to Kikka-sho title for double crown
After Japanese Derby winner Deep Brillante was scratched earlier in the week, Gold Ship was widely tipped to add the Kikka-sho title to the Satsuki-sho - the first leg in the triple crown - he won ...
View ArticleNori seaweed cultivation restarts in tsunami-hit region
Growers of Nori seaweed have resumed cultivation off the coast of Miyagi Prefecture. They were unable to harvest the popular food for 19 months after a massive tsunami hit the ...
View ArticleIMF changes austerity spots
From Japan's point of view, probably the most significant event was what didn't happen. China's top officials, the finance minister and the governor of the People's Bank, snubbed ...
View ArticleWanted man dies after 11 years on run
OKAYAMA--A man who was on the nationwide wanted list for more than a decade for a double murder has died after falling ill in Okayama, according to police. Toshikazu Koike, 52, from Hokkaido, had ...
View ArticleYamanakas Nobel supported by experts worldwide
A member of the Nobel Committee says Shinya Yamanaka's selection for the prize in medicine was due to recommendations received from around the ...
View ArticleNoda could dissolve lower house by end of year Maehara
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda could dissolve the lower house by the end of this year for a general election if he secures parliamentary passage of a bill to enable the government to issue ...
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