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The federation's poll followed the recent revelation that Sendai Kitakami high school in Iwate Prefecture paid tuition for some of its baseball players in violation of the rules established in 1946 for student baseball in Japan. Former Waseda University player Katsuhiro Shimizu admitted in March to having been involved in a secret scouting deal with the Seibu Lions when he was a Sendai Kitakami team member. (News on Japan, Japan)
Cash injection - $278m flows into property Apr 17, 2007
The largest deal was by Rubicon Japan Trust, which bought five office properties in Tokyo, Sendai and Sapporo for 14. 64 billion ($148. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Rising land prices have ripple effect across Japan Apr 6, 2007
8 per cent decline in commercial land prices, rural cities, such as Sendai in the north and Fukuoka in the south-west, saw prices rise for the first time since the end of the bubble era. With the exception of sharp rises in some areas, many analysts do not believe the overall increase in land prices represents an asset bubble since there is still a comfortable gap between the yield on real estate investment trusts and the yield on government bonds. (News on Japan, Japan)
Urban land prices skew average up Mar 23, 2007
Outside the three biggest urban areas, core regional cities, including Sendai and Fukuoka, saw commercial land price hikes. Nine prefectures logged residential land price rises. (The Japan Times)
Yen Falls After Biggest Gain Since 2005 as Production, Retail Sales Slump Feb 28, 2007
He told a news conference in Sendai, northern Japan rates need to keep rising. Governor Toshihiko Fukui told lawmakers in Tokyo said the bank's rate increase last week won't harm growth. (Bloomberg -- Japan)
Government Bonds Gain as Stocks Decline, Report Shows Factory Output Falls Feb 28, 2007
Core consumer prices will gradually rise and it's necessary to keep raising rates, Mizuno said at a press conference at Sendai city in Miyagi prefecture. Bill Yields Rise. (Bloomberg -- Japan)
Bird flu vaccine linked to 18 teenage suicides in Japan Feb 28, 2007
In the latest case the teenager, from Sendai in Japan's north-east, had been prescribed a five-day course of Tamiflu by his doctor. After taking two tablets on Monday, he woke during the evening and told his mother he was going to the bathroom, but went out the front door instead. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Spring training in Japan Feb 28, 2007
SENDAI At Yokohama High School's practice, we saw the whole team bow to the coaches. That's tradition. (USA Today -- Sports)
Death row: limbo of not knowing when Feb 27, 2007
Seven detention centers are equipped with gallows; in Sapporo, Sendai, Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Hiroshima and Fukuoka. What are the living conditions of death-row convicts. (News on Japan, Japan)
Government Bonds Gain on Change in Nomura Index, Demand at Two-Year Sale Feb 27, 2007
Bank of Japan policy board member Atsushi Mizuno is scheduled to speak and hold a press conference tomorrow at Sendai city in Miyagi prefecture. The central bank last week raised its target for overnight lending rate to 0. (Bloomberg -- Japan)
Japan investigates possible Tamiflu link to suicides Feb 27, 2007
In the latest case, a 14-year-old boy was pronounced dead today after leaping from the 11th floor of a condominium in the northern Japanese city of Sendai. "According to our information, the boy woke up in the middle of night after taking the medicine," a local police spokesman said. (ABC News Online, Australia)
Ten-Year Government Bonds Gain on Speculation Industrial Production Fell Feb 26, 2007
Mizuno is scheduled to speak and hold a press conference on Feb. 28 at Sendai city in Miyagi prefecture, the BOJ said. We are focusing on comments about the timing of the next rate increase,'' said Makoto Yamashita, chief bond strategist in Tokyo at Lehman Brothers Japan Inc., one of the 25 primary dealers required to bid at government debt auctions. (Bloomberg -- Japan)
Honey, I'm home ... to stay Feb 6, 2007
She left him seven years ago, just as he was facing retirement from a busy office job in the northern city of Sendai. Even the couple's daughter and two sons blame him for the breakup, Mr. Ito said. (Globe and Mail -- International)
Japanese Husbands Try To Rekindle Marital Flame Feb 5, 2007
" The movement is small - about 230 people posted messages on the group's Web page about this year's event. It represents quite a change, however, for a generation of Japanese men taught to care about their companies first and their wives a distant second. Among the forces driving the change are demographics and money. This year, the first postwar baby boomers will reach 60 and retire, meaning an unprecedented number of men will have to abandon their home-away-from-home - the all-consuming... (Tampa Bay Online, FL -- News)
* Older Japanese husbands learn to appreciate wives Feb 1, 2007
She left him seven years ago, just as he was facing retirement from a busy office job in the northern city of Sendai. "She took care of me so well. She made me breakfast every day and did all the housework. But I never did anything," he said. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Salarymen say 'I love you' Jan 31, 2007
She left him seven years ago, just as he was facing retirement from a busy office job in the northern city of Sendai. "She took care of me so well. She made me breakfast every day, and did all the housework. But I never did anything in return," he said. (CNN -- International)
PlayStation 3 stumbles in Japan Jan 11, 2007
At a Yodobashi Camera store in the northern city of Sendai, a deputy manager, Satoshi Hino, said shoppers had bought up last week's shipments of 3,000 Wii consoles within an hour, but the store had yet to sell many of the 3,000 PlayStation 3s received at the same time. . (International Herald Tribune -- Technology)
It's all part of life Jan 3, 2007
By Bruce Wallace, Times Staff Writer SENDAI, Japan Hitoshi Abe is not sure what awaits him when he takes over as chair of UCLA's department of architecture and urban design. But he knows exactly what he's leaving behind in his hometown of Sendai ... "The power of an event is that it can be the seed for a community to come together, whether it is for students or for soccer," Abe says in an interview in his Sendai office, nursing the aches from this autumn's A Cup played the day before. (Los Angeles Times)
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