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Japan playmaker Keisuke Honda will leave CSKA Moscow to join AC Milan in January, the Serie A club said on Dec. 11.
Honda, whose contract at CSKA ends in December, will be a much-needed reinforcement for Milan which is ninth in Serie A, having managed four wins in their first 15 league matches.
"Keisuke Honda will be a Milan player from Jan. 3," said chief executive Adriano Galliani. "We have already filed the contract, although we've been keeping it secret."
Galliani added that he expected Honda to make his debut at Sassuolo on Jan. 12.
Honda, a CSKA player for four years since moving from Dutch club VVV Venlo and who won a Russian Premier League winners' medal last season, is central to all of Japan's attacking plans as they prepare for next year's World Cup in Brazil.
The bleach-blond 27-year-old is Japan coach Alberto Zaccheroni's playmaker, forcing Shinji Kagawa to attack from the left which the Manchester United player has voiced his displeasure at.
Calm and assured in possession, Honda is a great reader of the game and astute at bringing team mates into play, while his dribbling is a hot commodity in a passing-dominated era.
He boasts a strong scoring record thanks mainly to his work at set pieces and was named player of the tournament as Japan won the 2011 Asian Cup.
He played for Japan at the 2010 World Cup, scoring the only goal against Cameroon and also with a magnificent free kick in the 3-1 win over Denmark as his side reached the last 16.
Honda, whose contract at CSKA ends in December, will be a much-needed reinforcement for Milan which is ninth in Serie A, having managed four wins in their first 15 league matches.
"Keisuke Honda will be a Milan player from Jan. 3," said chief executive Adriano Galliani. "We have already filed the contract, although we've been keeping it secret."
Galliani added that he expected Honda to make his debut at Sassuolo on Jan. 12.
Honda, a CSKA player for four years since moving from Dutch club VVV Venlo and who won a Russian Premier League winners' medal last season, is central to all of Japan's attacking plans as they prepare for next year's World Cup in Brazil.
The bleach-blond 27-year-old is Japan coach Alberto Zaccheroni's playmaker, forcing Shinji Kagawa to attack from the left which the Manchester United player has voiced his displeasure at.
Calm and assured in possession, Honda is a great reader of the game and astute at bringing team mates into play, while his dribbling is a hot commodity in a passing-dominated era.
He boasts a strong scoring record thanks mainly to his work at set pieces and was named player of the tournament as Japan won the 2011 Asian Cup.
He played for Japan at the 2010 World Cup, scoring the only goal against Cameroon and also with a magnificent free kick in the 3-1 win over Denmark as his side reached the last 16.
February 18, 2014
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
ROSA KHUTOR, Russia--Japan won bronze in the men’s team ski jumping (large hill) competition at the Sochi Winter Olympics on Feb. 17, its first medal in the event in 16 years.
Germany claimed gold by scoring 1,041.1 points, Austria took silver with 1,038.4, and Japan placed third with 1,024.9 points.
“With our injuries and illnesses, none of us were in perfect physical condition,” Noriaki Kasai, 41, said after wiping away tears at the awards ceremony. “I am just supremely happy with the fact that we were able to win a medal, irrespective of its color.”
The other three members of the Japanese team were Reruhi Shimizu, Taku Takeuchi and Daiki Ito.
The veteran Kasai, who won silver in the men’s large hill individual event two days earlier, is being credited for uniting the team members and helping them perform at their best. He described his teammates as a cohesive unit and applauded them for overcoming adversity.
In the first round, Kasai soared 134.0 meters, Shimizu flew 132.5 meters, Ito managed 130.5 meters and Takeuchi landed 127.0 meters to move Japan into third place.
In the second round, Kasai once again managed a leap of 134.0 meters, followed by Ito at 132.0 meters, Shimizu at 131.5 meters and Takeuchi at 130.0 meters, securing Japan’s place on the podium.
“In order to win a medal in the team event, each of the four members has to perform at the top of their game. If they only relied on Kasai giving a great performance, the team could not take a medal,” said Japanese head coach Chiharu Saito. “All four did their best and, as a result, they were able to win the bronze.”
The last time Japan won a medal in the event was at the 1998 Nagano Olympic Games, where it walked away with the gold.
ROSA KHUTOR, Russia--At the age of 41 you are not supposed to be launching yourself 130 meters through the night sky at 90 kph wearing skin tight yellow lycra, but nobody has told Noriaki Kasai.
On Feb. 15 at the RusSki Gorki Ski Jump Japanese flyer Kasai claimed an astonishing silver medal in the men's large hill competition, beating jumpers who were not even born when he first appeared on the World Cup scene.
Two monster leaps of 139 meters and 133.5 meters, both landed immaculately, looked set to earn him an improbable gold before Poland's Kamil Stoch, the last man to jump, edged ahead by the narrowest of margins on style points.
"It is hard to describe. What can I say? It is like a dream to me," Kasai, the oldest ski jumper to win an Olympic medal, told reporters after being cheered and applauded by a gaggle of excited Japanese TV crews.
For sheer persistence alone, Sapporo-born Kasai deserved an individual Olympic medal.
He has appeared at every Winter Games since Albertville in 1992 and all he had to show for it was a team silver from Lillehammer in 1994.
"All these years I was disappointed by the Olympic Games. Today I just had to do it. I wanted gold but you know it is what it is," added Kasai, who became the fourth oldest winner of an individual Winter Olympics medal.
While many of the favorites struggled in the breezy conditions, Kasai summoned up all his experience to soar gracefully off the end of the floodlit ice runway.
With no Russian challenge for medals, home fans roared him on as he completed the penultimate leap of a breathless competition and Kasai was mobbed by some of his rivals in the run-off area when he guaranteed himself a medal.
HUGE RESPECT
Slovenia's baby-faced 21-year-old Peter Prevc, who took bronze, summed up Kasai's achievement.
"I have huge respect for Noriaki Kasai," he told reporters.
"I wasn't even born when he was jumping in the World Cup and when he was battling me I said I still had 20 years to improve myself. He's an inspiration for my future jumping."
Stoch, who completed a rare short hill/long hill double, described Kasai as a "great man and a great character" but said he expected to be enjoying less dangerous pursuits when he was the wrong side of 40.
"I hope that in 15 years time I will be laying on some nice beach and will be enjoying myself," the 26-year-old said.
Kasai's ski jumping career has not always been so smooth and there has been plenty of turbulence along the way.
"I had moments when I almost gave up and thought nothing was going to work," said Kasai who even moved to Finland for a while to work on his technique.
"But my character is to fight and never give up and now I have a silver medal. There are no secrets I just stick at it."
Despite his long-awaited success on Feb. 15, Kasai still has no plans to come back to earth and put the skis in the garage once the team competition is over next week.
"Jumping is my life," he said. "I want to be in Pyeongchang in 2018, I want a gold medal."
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
ROSA KHUTOR, Russia--Japan won bronze in the men’s team ski jumping (large hill) competition at the Sochi Winter Olympics on Feb. 17, its first medal in the event in 16 years.
Germany claimed gold by scoring 1,041.1 points, Austria took silver with 1,038.4, and Japan placed third with 1,024.9 points.
“With our injuries and illnesses, none of us were in perfect physical condition,” Noriaki Kasai, 41, said after wiping away tears at the awards ceremony. “I am just supremely happy with the fact that we were able to win a medal, irrespective of its color.”
The other three members of the Japanese team were Reruhi Shimizu, Taku Takeuchi and Daiki Ito.
The veteran Kasai, who won silver in the men’s large hill individual event two days earlier, is being credited for uniting the team members and helping them perform at their best. He described his teammates as a cohesive unit and applauded them for overcoming adversity.
In the first round, Kasai soared 134.0 meters, Shimizu flew 132.5 meters, Ito managed 130.5 meters and Takeuchi landed 127.0 meters to move Japan into third place.
In the second round, Kasai once again managed a leap of 134.0 meters, followed by Ito at 132.0 meters, Shimizu at 131.5 meters and Takeuchi at 130.0 meters, securing Japan’s place on the podium.
“In order to win a medal in the team event, each of the four members has to perform at the top of their game. If they only relied on Kasai giving a great performance, the team could not take a medal,” said Japanese head coach Chiharu Saito. “All four did their best and, as a result, they were able to win the bronze.”
The last time Japan won a medal in the event was at the 1998 Nagano Olympic Games, where it walked away with the gold.
ROSA KHUTOR, Russia--At the age of 41 you are not supposed to be launching yourself 130 meters through the night sky at 90 kph wearing skin tight yellow lycra, but nobody has told Noriaki Kasai.
On Feb. 15 at the RusSki Gorki Ski Jump Japanese flyer Kasai claimed an astonishing silver medal in the men's large hill competition, beating jumpers who were not even born when he first appeared on the World Cup scene.
Two monster leaps of 139 meters and 133.5 meters, both landed immaculately, looked set to earn him an improbable gold before Poland's Kamil Stoch, the last man to jump, edged ahead by the narrowest of margins on style points.
"It is hard to describe. What can I say? It is like a dream to me," Kasai, the oldest ski jumper to win an Olympic medal, told reporters after being cheered and applauded by a gaggle of excited Japanese TV crews.
For sheer persistence alone, Sapporo-born Kasai deserved an individual Olympic medal.
He has appeared at every Winter Games since Albertville in 1992 and all he had to show for it was a team silver from Lillehammer in 1994.
"All these years I was disappointed by the Olympic Games. Today I just had to do it. I wanted gold but you know it is what it is," added Kasai, who became the fourth oldest winner of an individual Winter Olympics medal.
While many of the favorites struggled in the breezy conditions, Kasai summoned up all his experience to soar gracefully off the end of the floodlit ice runway.
With no Russian challenge for medals, home fans roared him on as he completed the penultimate leap of a breathless competition and Kasai was mobbed by some of his rivals in the run-off area when he guaranteed himself a medal.
HUGE RESPECT
Slovenia's baby-faced 21-year-old Peter Prevc, who took bronze, summed up Kasai's achievement.
"I have huge respect for Noriaki Kasai," he told reporters.
"I wasn't even born when he was jumping in the World Cup and when he was battling me I said I still had 20 years to improve myself. He's an inspiration for my future jumping."
Stoch, who completed a rare short hill/long hill double, described Kasai as a "great man and a great character" but said he expected to be enjoying less dangerous pursuits when he was the wrong side of 40.
"I hope that in 15 years time I will be laying on some nice beach and will be enjoying myself," the 26-year-old said.
Kasai's ski jumping career has not always been so smooth and there has been plenty of turbulence along the way.
"I had moments when I almost gave up and thought nothing was going to work," said Kasai who even moved to Finland for a while to work on his technique.
"But my character is to fight and never give up and now I have a silver medal. There are no secrets I just stick at it."
Despite his long-awaited success on Feb. 15, Kasai still has no plans to come back to earth and put the skis in the garage once the team competition is over next week.
"Jumping is my life," he said. "I want to be in Pyeongchang in 2018, I want a gold medal."
TOKYO —
A new leak of 100 tons of highly radioactive water has been discovered at Fukushima, the plant’s operator said Thursday, after it revealed only one of nine thermometers in a crippled reactor was still working.
The toxic water is no longer escaping from a storage tank on the site, said a spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), adding it was likely contained, but the news is a further blow to the company’s already-battered reputation for safety.
“As there is no drainage way near the leak, which is in any case far from the ocean, it is unlikely that the water has made its way into the sea,” he said.
The tank, one of hundreds at the site that are used to store water contaminated during the process of cooling broken reactors, sits around 700 meters from the shore.
The water it contains is highly radioactive, with a beta radiation reading “at 230 million becquerel per liter,” he said.
That contamination level compares with government limits of 100 becquerels per kilogram in food and 10 becquerels per liter in drinking water. A becquerel is a unit of radioactivity.
Beta radiation, including from cancer-causing strontium-90, is potentially very harmful to humans and can cause damage to DNA. But it is relatively easy to guard against and cannot penetrate a thin sheet of aluminium.
“We are now in the process of recovering the leaked water and the earth it has contaminated,” the spokesman added.
The tank holds water filtered to remove cesium but which still contains strontium, a substance that accumulates in bones and can cause cancer if consumed.
About half of the beta radiation from the latest leak is thought to be strontium-90, TEPCO said, meaning its concentration level is nearly four million times the legal limit of 30 becquerels per liter.
A new leak of 100 tons of highly radioactive water has been discovered at Fukushima, the plant’s operator said Thursday, after it revealed only one of nine thermometers in a crippled reactor was still working.
The toxic water is no longer escaping from a storage tank on the site, said a spokesman for Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), adding it was likely contained, but the news is a further blow to the company’s already-battered reputation for safety.
“As there is no drainage way near the leak, which is in any case far from the ocean, it is unlikely that the water has made its way into the sea,” he said.
The tank, one of hundreds at the site that are used to store water contaminated during the process of cooling broken reactors, sits around 700 meters from the shore.
The water it contains is highly radioactive, with a beta radiation reading “at 230 million becquerel per liter,” he said.
That contamination level compares with government limits of 100 becquerels per kilogram in food and 10 becquerels per liter in drinking water. A becquerel is a unit of radioactivity.
Beta radiation, including from cancer-causing strontium-90, is potentially very harmful to humans and can cause damage to DNA. But it is relatively easy to guard against and cannot penetrate a thin sheet of aluminium.
“We are now in the process of recovering the leaked water and the earth it has contaminated,” the spokesman added.
The tank holds water filtered to remove cesium but which still contains strontium, a substance that accumulates in bones and can cause cancer if consumed.
About half of the beta radiation from the latest leak is thought to be strontium-90, TEPCO said, meaning its concentration level is nearly four million times the legal limit of 30 becquerels per liter.
