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	<title>The Japan Times &#187; Jason Coskrey</title>
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		<title>Japan hoping Tanaka, Maeda iron out issues before WBC begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Coskrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kenta Maeda]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Japan has always produced good pitchers. The country&#8217;s first major leaguer, Masanori Murakami, was a pitcher; its second was Hideo Nomo, a right-hander with a strange tornado-style delivery who swept the U.S. up in Nomomania during the summer of 1995 and became the catalyst for the current migration of Japanese stars to the majors; while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japan will be forced to dig deep to defend WBC crown</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:02:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s debatable whether or not a team needs to play &#8220;perfect defensively&#8221; to beat Japan as Australia manager Jon Deeble lamented after his team&#8217;s 10-3 loss on Sunday night. First, it helps to not commit four errors or allow five unearned runs the way the Australians did, but that same Aussie squad was far, far [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Otani ready for new challenges with Fighters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 15:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Coskrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shohei Otani spent part of his Saturday afternoon being shepherded around one of Makuhari Messe’s spacious international exhibition halls while having ham shoved in his mouth.]]></description>
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		<title>Buffaloes need pitchers to succeed in search for redemption</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Coskrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[NPB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orix Buffaloes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tomoya Yagi will be attempting to revive his career when the 2013 NPB season begins. So will Shun Tono, Takahiro Mahara, and Kei Igawa. ]]></description>
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		<title>Trading four-time All-Star Itoi doesn&#8217;t make sense for Fighters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Coskrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hiroshi Kisanuki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So why did the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters trade away arguably the best player on their team, if not in the entire Pacific League?]]></description>
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		<title>Fighters send All-Star Itoi to Buffaloes in five-player trade</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Coskrey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This one even caught Yu Darvish off guard. The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters sent All-Star outfielder Yoshio Itoi to the Orix Buffaloes as the centerpiece of a five-player deal both teams announced Wednesday. &#8220;A trade involving Itoi, it can&#8217;t be,&#8221; Darvish tweeted Wednesday night. Itoi and pitcher Tomoya Yagi are headed to the Buffaloes in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hall of Fame long overdue for another foreign member</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Coskrey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alex Ramirez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chunichi Dragons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japanese baseball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Randy Bass]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Victor Starffin was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1960. Wally Yonamine was enshrined in 1994. Despite the long and rich history of foreign players in Japan, it only takes those two sentences to sum up the non-Japanese wing of the Hall of Fame — and if you really want to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-Carp pitchers Ono, Sotokoba elected into Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Coskrey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For the second straight season, the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame was left seeing red. The Hall opened its doors to three more players this year, chief among them former Hiroshima Carp pitchers Yutaka Ono and Yoshiro Sotokoba, who joined former high school standout Kazuo Fukushima as the newest members of the Japanese Baseball Hall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Matsui should be remembered as one of Japan&#8217;s best</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 00:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Coskrey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2001 Ichiro Suzuki shattered expectations about what Japanese players could and could not do in Major League Baseball. Except when it came to hitting for power. Back then, even with Ichiro tearing it up for the Seattle Mariners, Japanese hitters were looked upon with skepticism and mostly regarded as speedy slap hitters. Ichiro for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eagles need new addition Jones&#8217; game to match considerable star power</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Coskrey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles&#8217; official announcement of the signing of former MLB star Andruw Jones signals the start of a period that will be remembered either for its great success or abject failure. This isn&#8217;t the deep-pocketed Yomiuri Giants or Fukuoka Softbank Hawks dropping big money on a big name and letting things fall [...]]]></description>
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