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                    [Title] => A year without a son
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Yesterday, a large group of young people woke up early and trooped to Eternal Gardens Memorial Park in Balintawak to pay tribute to a fallen teammate. You see, it was the first anniversary of the death of Kenji Kanai, the high school basketball player killed in a vehicular accident in front of the Ateneo de Manila University early Saturday morning last July.

[DatePublished] => 2006-07-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135979 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804781 [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 293630 [Title] => 40 days dead / Landlord from hell [Summary] => Wednesday marked the fortieth day since 16-year old high school point guard Kenji Kanai was killed in a vehicular accident along Katipunan Avenue in front of the Ateneo de Manila campus in Quezon City. His family, friends and teammates from Benedictine International School held a quiet commemoration at the Max’s restaurant across the street, playing news footage and features from The Basketball Show, GMA 7 and NHK TV Japan.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135979 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804781 [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 289301 [Title] => Kenji Kanai case file/ Steve Weigh [Summary] => The Japanese government is turning a very interested eye on the homicide of Filipino-Japanese basketball player Kenji Kanai, who was killed in a vehicular accident on July 16.

In an e-mail to The Star from Japan, Seiji Kanai, the 16-year old victim’s father revealed that officials of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Justice have asked for a complete documentation of the case.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135979 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804781 [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 287800 [Title] => To bury a son [Summary] => "I wish we would be recognized all over the Philippines, so that before I die, I would have been able to contribute something, to make a name."

Those words were spoken by Kenji Kenneth James Kanai in an interview with The Basketball Show in October of 2003. He was being featured as part of the Selecta Moo dribblers, the only high school basketball team in the Philippines that performed basketball dribbling and drills exhibitions in public. He was fourteen.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135979 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804781 [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 287837 [Title] => Kaso ng Fil-Jap cager umabot na sa Japan [Summary] => Tutulong na ang pama-halaan ng Japan upang maayos na maresolba ang homicide ng isang Filipino-Japanese basketball player sa Quezon City.

Ayon kay Seiji Kanai, ama ng naaksidenteng si Kenji Kanai, nagsabi na sina First Secretary at Chief Consul Kiyoshi Takeuchi at Vice-Consul Shiro Furihata ng Embahada ng Japan na tutulong sila sa anumang paraan upang makamit ng namatay na iskolar ang katarungan sa lalong mada-ling panahon.
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => PSN Palaro [SectionUrl] => palaro [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 286974 [Title] => Justice for Kenji, 16 [Summary] => Kenji Kenneth James S. Kanai was lightning on the basketball court. The 16-year old, 5’11" point guard of the Benedictine International School Tiger Sharks was so hard-working and talented that he drew comparisons to other young basketball stars.

"We call him ‘Artadi’ but he’s as fast as LA Tenorio," said Benedictine head coach Beaujing Acot, who had been training Kenji since he was eleven years old. "He really works hard in practice. He earned his starting guard spot."
[DatePublished] => 2005-07-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135979 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804781 [AuthorName] => Bill Velasco [SectionName] => Sports [SectionUrl] => sports [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 286746 [Title] => 1 dead, 3 hurt in QC mishap [Summary] => A 16-year-old high school student was killed while three others were hurt when their car figured in an accident on Katipunan Avenue near Ateneo de Manila University in Loyola Heights, Quezon City early yesterday. [DatePublished] => 2005-07-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804767 [AuthorName] => Cecille Suerte Felipe [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) ) )
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