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Jason Coskrey
Jason Coskrey is a sports writer for The Japan Times. His primary focus is Japanese baseball, but he has also covered soccer, American football, boxing and basketball. He previously worked for the Marietta Daily Journal in Marietta, Ga. A native of Detroit, he is a graduate of the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 13, 2007
Will mercurial Tigers end slump?
Here are five questions heading into the first stage of the Central League Climax Series between the Hanshin Tigers and Chunichi Dragons:
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 12, 2007
Lotte's Naruse becomes dominant force on hill
CHIBA — Chiba Lotte Marines hurler Yoshihisa Naruse may look young off the mound, but over the past eight months the 21-year-old has looked more like an 10-year veteran on it.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 11, 2007
Omura, Naruse lift Marines in series clincher
CHIBA — After the Chiba Lotte Marines' Game 1 Pacific League Climax Series victory Lotte manager Bobby Valentine said that nobody had bigger guts than Saburo Omura. Fittingly in the series clincher, nobody had a bigger hit.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 10, 2007
Hawks level up series
CHIBA — After a while it didn't really seem to matter who was on the mound for the Chiba Lotte Marines.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 9, 2007
Marines draw first blood against Hawks
CHIBA — On a windy day on Tokyo Bay, the Chiba Lotte Marines picked up where they left off in the 2005 playoffs and Fukuoka Softbank Hawks starter Kazumi Saito's playoff woes continued.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 9, 2007
Saito still struggling when it comes to playoffs
CHIBA — Softbank pitcher Kazumi Saito will have to wait for redemption a little while longer.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 3, 2007
Giants rally past Swallows to clinch Central League crown
Thousands of Yomiuri fans turned out for the Giants' game against the Tokyo Yakult Swallows at Tokyo Dome looking for a celebration, and the home team made sure they got one.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 27, 2007
Giants stage comeback to beat Dragons at Dome
The much anticipated pitching duel between Kenta Asakura and Hisanori Takahashi fizzled early but Ryota Wakiya and Takahiko Nomaguchi still put on a show.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 26, 2007
Giants put on power show against Dragons, reclaim CL lead
When the Yomiuri Giants' offense is clicking the Kyojin are a hard team to beat. When they get the pitching to go along with that, they're almost unbeatable.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 25, 2007
Ham hurlers make Fighters tasty-looking prospect for Japan Series
The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters' offense has faced incredible struggles in the absence of star centerfielder Tsuyoshi Shinjo and Michihiro Ogasawara and rank toward the bottom in most of the Pacific League offensive categories.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 24, 2007
Tanaka bids Tokyo Dome a fond farewell
Barring a meeting with the Yomiuri Giants in the Japan Series, Hokkaido Nippon Ham's Yukio Tanaka played his final game at Tokyo Dome on Wednesday night against the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles and he went out with a bang.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 20, 2007
Darvish backed up by offense as Fighters down Eagles
Yu Darvish wasn't as dominant as he usually is but with the Fighters' offense clicking for once he didn't have to be.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 19, 2007
Takeda settles down, pitches big game
The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters still aren't getting much run support, but as long as they keep winning they'll take what they can get.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 16, 2007
Takahashi lives up to 'ace' label
On a pitching staff that has been plagued by a string of bad games, Yomiuri Giants ace Hisanori Takahashi pitched eight shutout innings to lead the Giants to a 3-0 win over the Hiroshima Carp on Saturday night before a packed house at Tokyo Dome.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 15, 2007
Giants battle past Carp in 12
Takayuki Shimizu drove in the winning-run in the 12th and the Yomiuri Giants overcame a five-run ninth-inning deficit to earn a 9-8 "sayonara" victory against Hiroshima Carp in front of 39,167 fans at Tokyo Dome on Friday night.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 14, 2007
Fighters' pitchers frustrate Marines
CHIBA — Hokkaido Nippon Ham jumped ahead in a four-run third and held on behind a strong performance from its pitching staff to defeat the Chiba Lotte Marines 4-1 on Thursday night at Chiba Marine Stadium.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 12, 2007
Reliever Fujikawa plays big part as Tigers storm to CL lead
The Hanshin Tigers' win over the Yomiuri Giants in a thrilling 10-inning, five-hour affair left one radio announcer speechless on Sunday at Tokyo Dome.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 9, 2007
Tigers take over Central League lead
The Hanshin Tigers may not hit as many home runs as the Yomiuri Giants but they sure pick their spots well.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 5, 2007
Naruse improves to 11-0 against PL ballclubs
CHIBA — The last time Yoshihisa Naruse lost a game was over two months ago. If he keeps up his current pace, it could be a couple of months before he loses again.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 23, 2007
Hollins' homer leads Giants past Dragons
Damon Hollins said it was only a matter of time before the Yomiuri Giants broke out of their recent slump. Hollins did his part against the Chunichi Dragons on Wednesday with a 120-meter blast to left field in the seventh inning that led the Giants to a 3-1 win in front of 43,878 fans at Tokyo Dome....
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
One dead, three missing as heavy rain batters Tohoku
Camera footage shows the Mogami River bursting its banks in Tozawa, Yamagata Prefecture, on Friday morning.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
Yen rally could help end crushing wage decay in Japan
Some economists say a sticky weak yen trend would have a negative impact on Japan's real wage growth.
When did summer in Japan stop being fun?
Summer in Japan is now consistently brutal enough to drive you indoors and keep you there until autumn.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

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