Japan play down medals hopes for Beijing
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When Japan's top women wrestlers greeted the new year by plunging into the icy depths of Tokyo Bay, shivering onlookers chuckled in disbelief.
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Japan&#39;s central bank offered a bleaker assessment of the country&#39;s economy Friday for the first time in more than a year and a half, citing weaker industrial production and slowing export growth.
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Australia has pulled off an upset win in the Olympic baseball semi-final, defeating gold medal favorite Japan, 1-0. Two Australian pitchers shut down Japan&#39;s all-professional lineup Tuesday while Aussie first
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Newly-crowned Asian champions Japan stayed on course for the 2006 World Cup in convincing fashion while 10-man South Korea as well as China were made to struggle in qualifying matches.
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Japan&#39;s government has downgraded its view on the economy in a November report, saying the pace of recovery is slowing. This is the first such downward revision since June 2003.
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ATHENS (Kyodo) Masae Ueno captured the women&#39;s 70-kg gold medal, but Hiroshi Izumi had to settle for silver in the men&#39;s 90-kg in the judo competition at the Athens Olympics on Wednesday.
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Air pollution in Beijing will not significantly improve before next year's Olympic Games, a UN report suggests.
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Japan downgraded its economic assessment for the first time in more than a year on Tuesday, noting slower export growth and curbed production, but said the recovery is continuing.
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Japan has brushed off a North Korean statement saying it would consider sanctions imposed by Tokyo &quot;a declaration of war,&quot; and renewed calls for penalties on the North for failing to account fully for Japanese citizens it abducted decades ago.
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China hit back on Tuesday at critics of its human rights record, saying the world was using the Olympics, which Beijing will host in August, as an excuse to make a villain out of its government.
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ATHENS -- Ten hours after capping their round-robin play with a win, the Canadian softball team watched its medal hopes disappear on TV last night. Canada&#39;s 1-0 win over Italy was rendered inconsequential later in the day when Japan&#39;s Yukiko Ueno threw ...
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In many Olympics competitions winners and losers are determined by less than a fraction of a point and even the slightest error in scoring can set back an athlete from the gold to the bronze.
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Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda played a friendly game of catch during his visit to China on Saturday, a symbol of warming ties between the North Asian rivals despite a row over gas resources in disputed waters.
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BEIJING, Aug. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- China is already halfway to its stated goal of 20 gold medals at the Athens Olympics after going into the fourth day of the 16-day competition, CRIENGLISH.com said Wednesday.
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Japan&#39;s Olympic hammer-throw champion Koji Murofushi, one of Asia&#39;s few medal hopefuls, barely qualified for the final at the world championships here Saturday.
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With an Olympics looming in Beijing, the world track and field championships that begin Saturday in Osaka, Japan, are a prologue. A look at some of the most intriguing events.
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Reliving its glory days as a gymnastics power, Japan captured the men&#39;s team gold medal at the Athens Olympics on Monday.