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Stephen Ellsesser
For Stephen Ellsesser's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 7, 2006
Hillman: Media reports are false
Trey Hillman just wants to worry about baseball.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 7, 2006
Super start: Pitching stars square off in Pacific League series opener
TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. -- The Seibu Lions are right where they want to be.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Oct 7, 2006
PL playoffs offer many questions
This time last year, a heck of a brew was being whipped up east of Tokyo.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 30, 2006
Buffaloes linked with move for Collins
Katsuhiro Nakamura is no longer in the Orix Buffaloes' plans, and the franchise's third manager in its three-year existence is likely to be a foreigner, according to reports in the Japanese media.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 28, 2006
Lions win feels like a defeat
TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. -- Extra innings, and all for nothing.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 27, 2006
Marines rough up Matsuzaka; Lions fail to grab No. 1 seed
TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. At least Daisuke Matsuzaka has the playoffs.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 20, 2006
Cabrera powers Lions in crucial victory
TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. -- A day after Julio Zuleta took over Invoice Seibu Dome, Lions first baseman Alex Cabrera wasn't going to be shown up again.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 19, 2006
Zuleta slugs 3 homers in win
TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. -- Ichi, ni, san.... Julio Zuleta has known how to count in Japanese for a few years.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 16, 2006
Aoki, Swallows give Romano tough time
It took getting ahead for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows to get even.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 14, 2006
Shima hot for fans, Hiroshima and torching the opposition
YOKOHAMA -- When it's time to hang up his spikes, he wants to be known as Mr. Hiroshima.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 6, 2006
MLB-NPB series set for November
To win the World Baseball Classic, Team Japan had to cross the Pacific Ocean and play in major league parks. Now the major leaguers are going to return the favor.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 6, 2006
MLB-NPB series set for November start
Major League Baseball has a black eye of sorts, and Ryan Howard is going to make it all better.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 6, 2006
Valentine critical of All-Star Series
CHIBA -- It was no accident that the announcement of the MLB-NPB All-Star Series came later in the year than it ever has.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 1, 2006
Ramirez slugs grand slam in 9th to defeat Kroon, BayStars
Alex Ramirez knew what was coming.
Japan Times
LIFE / WEEK 3
Aug 20, 2006
Airs and grimaces
You don't even need a guitar to let your hot licks hang out anymore. Duckwalk like Angus (Young; AC/DC), windmill like (Pete; The Who) Townshend and bow like (Jimmy; Led Zeppelin) Page -- no prob; all with air, but not like (Michael; Nike Air) Jordan.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 17, 2006
Riggs, Iwamura deliver big hits in Swallows' runaway victory
Alex Ramirez didn't have much to clean up Wednesday night.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 24, 2006
Fujimoto leads CL to sweep
MIYAZAKI -- There's power in the bottom of the lineup, especially in an All-Star game.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Jul 24, 2006
Kyushu showers let up long enough for All-Stars to play ball
MIYAZAKI -- Kyushu, what a boulevard of broken sweat.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 22, 2006
Central League captures opener
Kyuji Fujikawa couldn't even get a save for his birthday.
SOCCER / World cup
Jun 27, 2006
Zico's farewell anything but a party
Zico wanted to say goodbye.
Biden calls ally Japan ‘xenophobic’ along with rivals China and Russia
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks in Syracuse, New York, on April 25.
Yen swings stir talk that Japan is in the FX market once again
An electronic screen in Tokyo displays the yen exchange rate against the U.S. dollar and the graph showing its recent swings, on Thursday.
Harajuku strives to reclaim its former glory — and surpass it
Laforet Harajuku, which celebrated its 45th anniversary last year, has been a witness to the district's evolution over the years.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Japan's May 1 intervention may have cost ¥3.66 trillion, BOJ data suggests
An electronic screen displays a graph showing Japanese yen exchange rates surging against the dollar amid signs of intervention by authorities, in Tokyo on Thursday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

Podcast

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Rows of irises resemble a rice field at the Peter Walker-designed Toyota Municipal Museum of Art.
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