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Japan's football chief has raised the decibel level against vuvuzelas -- long, plastic trumpets used by South African supporters -- at next year's World Cup. The Blue Samurai were exposed to the ubiquitous horns when they battled to a 0-0 friendly draw...
Tags: Japan Football Association, world cup, South African Football Association, Motoaki Inukai, football chief, president motoaki, Japan, Tōkyō, Inukai Tsuyoshi, FIFA World Cup, FIFA, Shunsuke Nakamura, Football (soccer) culture, Vuvuzela, Sepp Blatter, allnews, Blatter, Association football culture, Takeshi Okada, Rui Kitada, Ai Miyazato, golf, Hospitality Recreation
Continuing its upward march for the fifth straight day, the index of public sector firms gained nearly two per cent on the Bombay Stock Exchange today riding on the disinvestment euphoria. The index has been advancing since November 5, when the government...
Tags: S&P CNX Nifty, National Stock Exchange, Japan Football Association, Sensex
Saturday’s Bledisloe Cup match in Tokyo between New Zealand and Australia demonstrated Japan’s enthusiasm for rugby as it prepares to host the 2019 World Cup, the head of the International Rugby Board said Monday. A near-capacity crowd of 47,000 watched...
Tags: IRB Wants Japan, world cups, Japan Football Association, Sports › IRB, International Rugby Board, Hiroshima, chairman bernard, Bernard Lapasset, rugby world, bledisloe cups
Three-time Olympic champion Tadahiro Nomura gave waiting reporters the slip on Tuesday after he arrived back in Japan following defeat on his comeback at a World Cup meet in Azerbaijan. Making his return to the mats after an injury layoff of nearly one...
Tags: japan, world cup, Japan Football Association
The government is set to urge banks and other financial institutions to allow the freezing of debt repayment by small corporate borrowers as part of its efforts to stabilize the financial standing of such companies, widely seen as the backbone of the...
President Barack Obama will travel to Japan on Nov 12-13 for the first time since taking office for talks with Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, the White House said Wednesday. The summit in Tokyo will be the second between Obama and Hatoyama, following...
Tags: Japan Football Association, Yukio Hatoyama, Barack Obama, prime minister, China, minister yukio, world cup, Tokyo, Beijing, South Korea
Typhoon Melor, which has been moving slowly towards Japan, has been packing sustained winds of 160kmh and could strengthen yet further as it nears landfall. The storm could hit by early Thursday forecasters have said, but is already causing high winds...
Tags: Tokyo Japan, Japan Football Association, main islands, Typhoon Melor, powerful typhoon, strong winds, cup qualifier, Meteorological Agency, Tyhpoon Melor, asian cup
The cost of Chicago's defeat in its bid to host the 2016 Olympics will be felt in the value of the next U.S. broadcast deal. Sherraine Schalm of Ottawa pushed her opponent to overtime before settling for a silver medal Monday at the world fencing championships...
Tags: Rio de Janeiro, Madrid, Japan Football Association, Brazil, Samaranch, world cups, John Kirwan
The Japanese had already booked a spot in the South Africa [ Images ] tournament by beating Uzbekistan 1-0 in Tashkent last weekend. They went ahead after just three minutes in Yokohama courtesy of an own goal from Ahmed Ali Albinali but Qatar equalised...
Tags: Uzbekistan, South Africa, Japan Football Association, Listless Japan, Qatar, world cup
Japanese incentives for ecological gadgets are helping lift electronics sales, according to ministry and industry data, in what may be an early sign of some recovery in a recession-battered economy. Under a government stimulus package, that kicked in...
Tags: Japan Football Association, Sports › Japan, Development Bank of Japan, green tea, salaried workers, Tokyo, male salaried