Word: nagoya
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...Perugia. Although sorry to see their favorites go, Japanese fans are proud of what the exodus represents. "Japanese football is entering a new era," crows Takehiko Ito, managing editor of Tokyo's weekly Soccer Magazine. Arsenal's French manager ArsÈne Wenger, who coached J-League side Nagoya Grampus Eight from 1995 to '96, agrees. "It's time for a Japanese player to do well in the Premier League," he told the daily Yomiuri. A decade ago, the prospect of a Japanese invasion of European football would have been laughable. There were some one-off success stories, such...
...Although sorry to see their favorite players go, Japanese fans are proud of what the exodus represents. "Japanese football is entering a new era," crows Takehiko Ito, managing editor of Tokyo's weekly Soccer Magazine. Arsenal's French manager Arsene Wenger, who coached J-League side Nagoya Grampus Eight from 1995-96, agrees. "It's time for a Japanese player to do well in the Premier League," he told the daily Yomiuri. He's betting Inamoto?who has "good technique and good vision"?will be that player...
Even so, the typical i-mode subscriber racks up about $80 a month in charges. Take Koji Hakuta, 28, a truck driver. In his pre-i-mode days, he would deliver a load of pipes from Tokyo to Nagoya and then return empty. But a year ago, his boss launched a site for i-mode that brokers deals between drivers and cargo companies. One night, Hakuta logged on and found a client needing pipes trucked the other way, back to Tokyo. That load earned Hakuta an extra $230. "It's changed the way I work," Hakuta says. The only problem...
...been around almost as long as the sport. Four years ago, a tabloid magazine in Japan ran a series of articles alleging yakuza (Japanese mafia) ties and match rigging. Making the claims then were two ex-wrestlers, who died suddenly within 15 hours of each other in the same Nagoya hospital and of the same respiratory ailment. Sumo is indeed filled with mystery. Itai is aware of the fate of previous whistle-blowers. One of the deceased wrestlers was his stable master...
Morita had been groomed since the third grade to become the successor of a 14-generation family business: a prominent sake-brewing company in Nagoya. In true entrepreneurial spirit, however, he traded this life of comfort and privilege for the uncertainties of a start-up, called Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, Inc., in the rubble of postwar Japan...