Japan&#39;s players get yet another Osim earful
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Japan&#39;s players got yet another verbal volley from coach Ivica Osim at the Asian Cup on Tuesday with their ears still ringing from the last one.
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Japanese politicians played down Sunday the significance of a US proposed resolution demanding Japan apologise over use of sex slaves, many of them Chinese and Korean women, during World War II.
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Japanese leaders struggled on Thursday to make contact with Islamic militants in Iraq who took a Japanese traveler hostage as the 48-hour deadline approached for the young man's threatened beheading. Tokyo stood firm in its refusal to meet the kidnappers' demand to withdraw troops from Iraq.
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TONY JONES: A short time ago, I spoke to Indonesia&#39;s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Marty Natalagawa, in Jakarta about today&#39;s events.
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&quot;You bums and ingrates! You disgraced your sport and country! Matador defense and half-hearted effort? At the Olympics? The Commies cheated us in &#39;72, and our college kids weren&#39;t good enough in &#39;88, but this is unacceptable. So carry your sorry fannies ...
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Jessica Mendoza and the United States put Japan away quickly Sunday, but expect a bigger challenge when they play for the World Cup title.
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THE detection of a foreign submarine in Japan&#39;s southern coastal waters threatens to aggravate tensions between Tokyo and Beijing.
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German coach Juergen Klinsmann has continued his experiment with untapped talent by calling up three new players for the team&#39;s three-nation trip to Asia later this month.
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Japan and North Korea held a second day of talks Sunday in a dispute over Japanese nationals abducted by the North decades ago. Japan seized the occasion to express concern North
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Japan&#39;s professional baseball players averted a second strike this weekend after team representatives softened their stance Thursday and agreed with management that a club may be added next season.
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And it&#39;s not often you hear a head coach asked for his response to all the &quot;vultures&quot; who have shown up to witness his possible firing.
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TOKYOâFrom submarines to soccer and sex, everything seems to bedevil Japan-China relations these days. And with growing perceptions in Tokyo and Beijing of a military threat from
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One of Sven-Goran Eriksson&#39;s biggest concerns in the build up to internationals are players picking up various injuries. And that&#39;s exactly what has happened with striker Michael Owen, who faces
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Naohiro Takahara and Shunsuke Nakamura are proving why they have made the grade in Europe after guiding Japan to a 3-1 victory over UAE to finally wring a smile from coach Ivica Osim.
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Some might assume Ichiro Suzuki&#39;s bid to supplant Sisler as baseball&#39;s single-season hits king threatens to undermine the late Hall of Famer&#39;s relevance as a future conversation topic.
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I find myself privately hoping that Barry Bonds gets nailed. Is that bad? Is it un-American? He&#39;s still innocent, you know, although less innocent than he was a few days ago.
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&#39;You suck! You&#39;re a piece of &amp;%$#*! You can&#39;t play worth *$#!% you loser, so SIT DOWN!!!&quot; That&#39;s what a guy was yelling at a visiting player during a White Sox-Angels game earlier this summer.