On Nov. 22, 2001, the front page of The Japan Times carried news that Ichiro Suzuki had been named the American League's Most Valuable Player. Suzuki received the award after his first season in Major League Baseball, after having played in Nippon Professional Baseball for nearly a decade. | THE JAPAN TIMES

100 YEARS AGO

Wednesday, Nov. 3, 1926

Another world record was broken in the preliminary heat for the girl’s field and track events at the Meiji Shrine Sports Carnival Monday afternoon when Miss Fumiko Terao breasted the tape in the 100-meter dash in 12.7 seconds. This mark betters the old record of 12.8 seconds made in England in 1922 by one-tenth of a second, and also eclipses the Japanese record of 13 seconds by more than three-tenths of a second.

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