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Tokyo Governor Apologizes For Remarks On Istanbul, Islamic Countries05 / 01 / 13Tokyo Governor Naoki Inose, who heads the city's bid for the 2020 Olympics, "apologized on Tuesday for 'inappropriate' comments he made about rival candidate Istanbul and Islamic countries," according to Antoni Slodkowski of REUTERS. The remarks, made in a recent N.Y. Times interview , prompted the... |
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Jaqanese Union Baseball Not Budging
Members of the Japan Professional Baseball Players Association met with officials of Nippon Professional Baseball's 12 teams on Monday over the union's participation in the 2013 World Baseball Classic, "but no progress was made," according to KYODO. The union "stuck to its stance" that it will not t ...
Tokyo 2020 Announces Venue Details
Japanese officials and Olympic athletes announced details about the Olympic Stadium that Tokyo will have ready for the 2020 Summer Games. The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo will be extremely advanced – and, at the same time, will be on the same site as the stadium built for the '64 Summer Games. Jap ...
Japan To Skip World Baseball Classic
The Japan Professional Baseball Players Association decided against participating in the next World Baseball Classic to be held in '13, according to Jason Coskrey of the JAPAN TIMES. In what was called a "heartbreaking" decision by union head and Hanshin Tigers player Takahiro Arai, all 24 player re ...
Olympic Candidate Cities Try To Make An Impression
The three candidates still in the race to host the 2020 Summer Games are "gearing up" to make an impression in the British capital, according to the AFP. Tokyo, Istanbul and Madrid will learn their fate in Buenos Aires on Sep. 13, 2013, when IOC members vote. Tokyo is the only one of the three to ha ...
Games Tourism Packages Selling In Asia
Less than one month until the London Games kick off, and "luxury tourism packages to the U.K. have attracted interest from wealthy Chinese and corporate clients," according to Wang Zhuoqiong of the CHINA DAILY. Caissa Touristic Group AG VP Zhang Rui said that sales in the sector have reached more th ...
Tags: Olympics, China, United Kingdom, Japan
Honda Makes Return To Dakar Rally
Japanese car and motorcycle manufacturer Honda announced its return to the '13 edition of the Dakar Rally on Monday, according to Yannick Bitzer of MOTORSPORT MAGAZIN. Honda will participate in next year's 34th Dakar Rally with a factory team in the motorcycle category after a 23-year hiatus. The dr ...
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Toyota Considers Rally Return In '14
Japanese automaker Toyota is considering a return to the World Rally Championship series in '14, according to Gerald Dirnbeck of MOTORSPORT TOTAL. Toyota left the WRC in '99 after winning 43 races, four construction titles and four driver championships to focus on its F1 involvement. Toyota disconti ...
Japanese Baseball To Be On U.S. TV
One World Sports has obtained the rights to distribute 28 home baseball games of the Hiroshima Carp in the U.S. Japan's Yomiuri Giants will play in nine games on the OWS schedule. OWS Senior VP of Programming Rick Jemison said, "There is also a huge potential for growth in viewership as baseball fan ...
Tokyo 2020 Impact Could Persuade Support
The Tokyo 2020 Bid Committee released research stating that the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games are projected to generate economic activity in Japan worth 3T yen ($37.9B), and create more than 150,000 jobs, if Japan's capital secures the bid to host the Games. The report estimates the Tokyo ...
Kagawa Signing More Than Just A Signing
ManU's commercial arm "reaches so far and so deep" into Asia, that any new player from the Far East will "always arrive to suggestions he has been bought to boost shirt sales," according to Ian Ladyman of the London DAILY MAIL. This is the "unfair and inaccurate scepticism" that Shinji Kagawa will m ...
