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Ex-coach Osim urges Japan self-belief

AFP - 1 hour 3 minutes ago

Former Japan coach Ivica Osim has urged the Blue Samurai to believe they can become a surprise package at next year's World Cup in South Africa.

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Saxo Bank Offers New Guide to Global Economic Indicators
PRWeb - 47 seconds ago
Saxo Bank has made keeping track of the most important economic indicators affecting the Forex market easy with its new Macro Forecast publication (PRWeb Dec 6, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/12/prweb3298234.htm
Japan May Ban Temporary Hiring by Manufacturers (Update1)
Bloomberg - 1 minute ago
Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Japan may ban manufacturers from hiring temporary workers to shift more employment to full time, Health and Labor Minister Akira Nagatsuma said.
Nearly 70 years after Pearl Harbor Day, memories remain vivid
Everett Herald - 1 minute ago
They were young Everett men, just a year out of high school. Like many of their Everett High School friends, John Hayes and George Petersen were only kids when they joined the Washington National Guard's 161st Infantry Regiment.
M’s need answers at catcher
Everett Herald - 6 minutes ago
At a position where the Mariners can’t afford uncertainty, nothing is for sure with their catching at this point in the offseason. Rob Johnson has undergone surgeries on each of his hips, plus his left wrist, and the Mariners will treat him lightly the first few weeks of spring training.
Decade of promise ends with disaster
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - 6 minutes ago
It began as an age of economic wonders.
Jo-Ann Barnas: Canton team makes major breakthrough
Detroit Free Press - 7 minutes ago
That Meryl Davis and Charlie White won the ISU Grand Prix Final on Friday despite placing second in the free dance bodes well for the future of the ice dance team as it prepares for next month's U.S. Championships.
Abbott finishes fourth in Tokyo
Detroit Free Press - 9 minutes ago
Reigning U.S. men's champion Jeremy Abbott rallied after a poor short program to take second in the free skate and place fourth overall at the ISU Grand Prix Final on Saturday in Tokyo.
G’day for baseball? Not yet
Boston Globe - 11 minutes ago
The Red Sox may one day play in Australia. But it won’t be next season.
US envoy in Seoul on N. Korea nuclear mission
AFP via Yahoo! News - 14 minutes ago
The US special envoy on North Korea arrived in Seoul on Sunday before heading to Pyongyang on a mission to try to persuade the communist regime to return to stalled nuclear disarmament talks.
Bluffs’ First Night celebration: Jazz fans will enjoy Thorne
The Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil - 14 minutes ago
For this jazz singer, singing abroad does not compare to singing at home.
US envoy stops in SKorea en route to NKorea
AP via Yahoo! News - 27 minutes ago
President Barack Obama's special envoy arrived in South Korea on Sunday en route to North Korea for a rare meeting aimed at bringing the communist country back to international nuclear disarmament talks.
I'm not perfect, says skating champion Kim
AFP via Yahoo! News - 38 minutes ago
World figure skating champion Kim Yu-Na is looking ahead with a fresh frame of mind to the Winter Olympics after her flawless image was tarnished at the Grand Prix Final in Tokyo at the weekend.
My father's story
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat - 40 minutes ago
By GARY NADLER Six decades after a young infantryman fought in Europe, he revealed to his son the deep mark his wartime experiences, long held secret, left on him
Dubai debt fears hit world markets hard
Brattleboro Reformer - 41 minutes ago
LONDON -- World stock markets tumbled Thursday as investors fretted over the debt problems at Dubai World, a government investment company, and the continuing slide in the dollar, which earlier fell to a 14-year low against the yen.
David Sylvian: Manafon
All About Jazz - 50 minutes ago
David Sylvian Manafon SamadhiSound 2009 Since first emerging as the lead singer of 1980s synth pop group Japan, singer/multi-instrumentalist David Sylvian has turned, in many ways most surprisingly, into one of pop music's most intrepid explorers. As early as his first solo album, the crooner with a distinctive and intentioned vibrato has been connected with the experimental and jazz scenes ...