Antlers thump Grampus as Zico watches on
Source: Japan Times
Kashima :: Japan | updated 2013-05-18 09:50:13 -0700 | sports-news
League on Saturday in the presence of the club's legendary architect Zico. Yasushi Endo, Atsutaka Nakamura and Yuya Osako scored for Antlers, who are in fourth after seizing the matchup that helped launch the league 20 years ago. Kashima also...
Burns heroics give B-Corsairs shot at championship
Source: Japan Times
Niigata :: Japan | updated 2013-05-24 03:44:46 -0700 | sports-news
Those are ingredients to success for Draelon Burns, the Yokohama B-Corsairs' super substitute. Burns buried a remarkable three buzzer-beating shots to close out the three final quarters, and his team needed every one of them in a tense, 54-52 victory...
Nick Willis falls in 1500m race in Shanghai
Source: New Zealand Infotech Weekly
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-18 08:15:05 -0700 | sports-news
Willis was moving out from the pole line with 80 metres to run to get around the leaders when he clipped the heels of one of the Kenyans in the field, sprawling to the track and losing all chance of...
Kyoto mixes fun for kids with antiquities
Source: The Daily Herald
Kyōto :: Japan | updated 2013-05-18 07:38:04 -0700 | sports-news
With the Hozu River rushing in between, our oarsman swung the boat hard, threading the boulders as water splashed overboard and on to my 10-year-old daughter's lap. You never know how kids will react to new experiences, but not to...
Crusaders make statement with big win
Source: New Zealand Infotech Weekly
Ami :: Japan | updated 2013-05-24 03:50:00 -0700 | sports-news
Andy Ellis celebrated his 100th Super Rugby match in style as the Crusaders humbled the Blues 23-3. When the popular halfback led his side on to AMI Stadium the stadium erupted with applause and 80 minutes later the applause bounced...
Shields Up to Push Claim for Higher Honours
Source: International Herald Tribune
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-18 00:50:48 -0700 | sports-news
Wellington Hurricanes loose forward Brad Shields has had the misfortune of being lumbered with quite possibly the worst acronym a New Zealand rugby player can receive...A term that brings with it accolades and attention, but even more in expectation.
The Saturday miscellany: Feminist classics; Anna Wintour; Clerkenwell Design Week; Curiosity: Art ...
Source: The Independent
Date :: Japan | updated 2013-05-17 16:47:51 -0700 | sports-news
Feminist classics The Bell Jar vs The Golden Sylvia Plath's slim, single novel The Bell Jar was highly autobiographical, telling the story of an intelligent college graduate who suffers a mental breakdown, and feels stifled by the limited options for...
Book of a lifetime: An Artist of the Floating World, By Kazuo Ishiguro
Source: The Independent
Ono :: Japan | updated 2013-05-17 11:45:29 -0700 | sports-news
The Booker Prize-winner The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's most famous novel, but An Artist of the Floating World is his one book that I re-read at least once a year. Set in Japan three years after the...
Liberte, Inegalite, Fraternite: Is French elitism holding the country back?
Source: The independent
Ena :: Japan | updated 2013-05-17 11:39:56 -0700 | sports-news
Imagine a large, potentially flourishing country which is held back by its own selfish, self-perpetuating elite. Might that country be Britain, with its class system, old-boy-network and private schools?...Non, non et non, according to Peter Gumbel, a British writer and...
Abe powers Giants past Lions
Source: Japan Times
Murata :: Japan | updated 2013-05-17 08:22:49 -0700 | sports-news
It takes a lot to stop the Yomiuri Giants once they get on a roll. A whole lot more than Ryoma Nogami and the Seibu Lions had Friday night. Shinnosuke Abe put the Giants ahead with a three-run home run...
Striker Wilson to complete suspension this weekend
Source: Japan Times
Sendai :: Japan | updated 2013-05-17 08:22:40 -0700 | sports-news
Vegalta Sendai striker Wilson will serve out the remainder of his two-match ban for Saturday's away game to Yokohama F. Marinos after being sent off in the Asian Champions League, the J...Wilson was handed the ban by the Asian Football...
Former Olympic champion Ma out of World TT
Source: NewKerala
Yokohama :: Japan | updated 2013-05-17 05:22:18 -0700 | sports-news
Former Olympic champion and four-time World Cup winner Ma Lin became the biggest name to fall at the World Table Tennis Championships when he was upset by Japan's Kenta Matsudaira in the men's singles second round. Ma was joined by...
Jenson Button told he has a job for life at McLaren amid link-up with Honda
Source: The independent
Tōkyō :: Japan | updated 2013-05-23 22:48:41 -0700 | sports-news
Jenson Button has been told he has a job for life as McLaren build towards the start of a new era with Honda. McLaren yesterday rekindled their iconic partnership with Honda, with the Japanese car manufacturing giant confirmed as their...
Japan man, 80, starts Everest ascent
Source: News 24
Miura :: Japan | updated 2013-05-17 02:01:40 -0700 | sports-news
An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer has begun his ascent of Mount Everest, his website said, in a bid to become the oldest man to reach the roof of the world. In a voice message recorded on his website, Yuichiro Miura said...
Ellis re-signs on eve of milestone
Source: New Zealand Infotech Weekly
Ami :: Japan | updated 2013-05-16 23:08:20 -0700 | sports-news
Crusaders halfback Andrew Ellis has re-committed to Crusaders and New Zealand Rugby for a further two years, on the eve of his 100th match in Investec Super Rugby. Ellis, 29, will run out for the 100th time with the Crusaders,...
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