It was indeed a Cinderella story for the Japanese women’s soccer team to win the 2011 FIFA World Cup over the US on Sunday. But behind every team there is a story, and these facts may upset you. After reading a number of articles and blogs, I collected these 4 shocking things that you probably [...]
TOKYO — Japanese soccer fans woke up at 3:30 in the morning to watch the final game of the FIFA Women’s World Cup. For the hard working people of Japan, the game aired on the morning of a national holiday: Marine Day. Those who made the sacrifice to wake up early to cheer for their [...]
As I walked around Tokyo this afternoon, I looked around for soccer fans wearing jerseys to promote the big game tonight between Japan and the US. It wasn’t shocking to find only one woman wearing a red jersey at the busy Shibuya train station, where thousands of people commute back and forth. My disappointment stems [...]
No one can really say if we are living in a time of more news stories about natural disasters or if indeed, we’re having more of them. The last decade was marked with hurricanes like Katrina and Rita; this decade started with major earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, New Zealand and Japan. In the US, tornado [...]
UPDATE (3:45pm, Japan local time): Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan has survived a no-confidence vote in parliament. Kan’s televised speech minutes before the scheduled vote may have changed the minds of those who had planned to cast the no-confidence vote. Our earlier story is below. TOKYO — Via a televised speech Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto [...]
