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GLOVES

Hanshin second baseman Takumu Nakano (right) and outfielder Koji Chikamoto were among the team's five Golden Glove winners this season.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 10, 2023
Japan Series champion Tigers lead way with five Golden Glove winners
The Tigers set a franchise record with five Golden Glove selections.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Dec 2, 2021
Seiya Suzuki and Yoshinobu Yamamoto highlight Golden Glove winners
Carp outfielder Seiya Suzuki has won a Golden Glove Award in three straight seasons.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Dec 18, 2020
Carp's Ryosuke Kikuchi captures eighth straight Golden Glove
Kikuchi's award capped off a historic season in which the second baseman did not commit a single error for the Central League side.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 31, 2019
Hawks' Nobuhiro Matsuda receives seventh straight Golden Glove
It's awards season in Japanese baseball and just like at the end of the actual season, the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks are front and center.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 28, 2018
Businesswoman promotes glove-making tradition in Shikoku with own brand
A businesswoman is trying to preserve a 130-year-old tradition of glove making in her hometown in Shikoku by developing her own brand to reach a wider customer base.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jul 12, 2016
Ali's gloves, Frazier's jockstrap from 1971 'Fight of the Century' up for sale
A jockstrap worn by boxer Joe Frazier when he defeated Muhammad Ali for the combined heavyweight title hit the auction block on Monday, along with the gloves Ali wore in that 1971 bout dubbed the "Fight of the Century."
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 6, 2014
Buffaloes earn NPB-best four Golden Gloves
The Orix Buffaloes, who lost the tightest of pennant races this year to the Pacific League champion Fukuoka Softbank Hawks, were second to none Thursday, when this year's Golden Glove Award were announced.
Japan Times
Reference / SO WHAT THE HECK IS THAT
Mar 19, 2013
White gloves
Dear Alice,
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Japan Pulse
Jan 13, 2011
A winter touchscreen solution that fits hand in glove
We don't need no stinkin' meat styluses. We've got conductive fingertips.

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