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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

Sep 30, 2015

Pena irked by Okubo's comments

Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles slugger Wily Mo Pena has taken exception to comments his manager, Hiromoto "Dave" Okubo, made to the media recently.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 29, 2015

Opportunistic Carp spoil Swallows' celebration plans

The Hiroshima Carp have more work to do during the regular season in order to get where they want to be. Now the Tokyo Yakult Swallows still do as well.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN

Sep 28, 2015

Swallows can see finish line as race for pennant nears end

Before the 2015 NPB season, Nippon Television commentator Suguru Egawa, a former Yomiuri Giants pitcher, named the Tokyo Yakult Swallows as his pick to win the Central League pennant.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 26, 2015

Giants pull within game of CL-leading Swallows

The Yomiuri Giants kept the magic going at Tokyo Dome and kept their chance at a fourth consecutive Central League pennant alive in the process.

Japan Times

LIFE / Digital

Sep 19, 2015

Muscular Australian shows off Tokyo Game Show's other side

Australian Lee Carmichael stands out from the standard fare of promotional models at this weekend's Tokyo Game Show because, unlike 95 percent of those hired to attract attention, Carmichael is a man.

LIFE / Digital

Sep 17, 2015

8-4 turns your game's 'Engrish' into English

'Gaming Jesus" is ready to give the 8-4 tour. "It won't take long," he promises. The office that houses his game localization company is quite cozy.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK

Sep 8, 2015

Swallows dynamo Yamada set to join exclusive club

Tetsuto Yamada had three hits against the Hiroshima Carp but it was a stolen base that mattered most to Swallows fans on a rainy Sunday afternoon at Jingu Stadium.

Japan Times

BASEBALL / MLB

Aug 22, 2015

D-Backs trying to set up roots in Japan

Takashi Saito, a former major leaguer and currently a reliever for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, announced his intention to retire from baseball at the end of the year on Monday in Sendai. It was a happy coincidence Saito's news conference was the same day members from the front office of the Arizona...

Japan Times

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK

Aug 20, 2015

Hall of Fame pitcher Johnson impressed by Otani, Maeda

Randy Johnson won 303 games, five Cy Young Awards, struck out 4,875 batters (second all time) and was recently inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Needless to say, the Big Unit knows his way around a mound.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Aug 18, 2015

Giants' Mikolas tosses one-hitter against archrival Tigers

Losing a shot at a perfect game because of an error in the sixth inning didn't faze Miles Mikolas one bit.

Japan Times

BASEBALL / MLB

Aug 18, 2015

Diamondbacks representatives help promote MLB Cup in Japan

Major League Baseball enlisted a little star power to help announce its latest youth initiative in Japan.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN

Aug 17, 2015

Marines have more to prove in battle for final spot in PL

The Chiba Lotte Marines might be about to learn a lot about themselves. Namely, the Pacific League club is about to find out just how prepared they are for the battles ahead in the race for the final spot in the Pacific League Climax Series.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK

Aug 13, 2015

Tigers make strong start to extended road trip

The Hanshin Tigers are well into their annual summer jaunt away from Koshien Stadium as they make way for the National High School Baseball Championship. The Tigers, who left the park behind on Aug. 2 and won't return until Aug. 28, are nine games into the so-called "Road Trip of Death" and have gone...

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Aug 13, 2015

BayStars' Tsutsugo slugs game-winning blast in ninth

A game might look over, and it might feel over, but as Yoshitomo Tsutsugo and the Yokohama BayStars taught the Yomiuri Giants' Tomoyuki Sugano, nothing is over until the final out is in the books.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Aug 11, 2015

Giants hurler Mikolas tosses complete game, improves to 9-3

Miles Mikolas is on a roll and he's not ready for it to stop anytime soon.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN

Aug 10, 2015

Waseda's first-year sensation Kiyomiya takes center stage

Any baseball fan, from the casual to the hardcore, who didn't know Waseda Jitsugyo first-year player Kotaro Kiyomiya had an RBI hit in his Summer Koshien debut on Saturday, probably spent the day off the grid.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Aug 7, 2015

Carp's Kikuchi delivers winning hit in 12th against Giants

The Hiroshima Carp and Yomiuri Giants had combined for a host of missed opportunities and enough strikeouts to last a month, but no runs over the first 3 hours and 55 minutes on Friday night.

Japan Times

BUSINESS / Tech

Jul 25, 2015

Sony's Yoshida affirms faith in indie developers

Shuhei Yoshida, the bespectacled president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, didn't attend the BitSummit independent game festival in Kyoto on July 11 simply to deliver a speech and reaffirm Sony's commitment to indie developers — he wanted to try out some games.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN

Jul 20, 2015

Swallows' Barnette wove masterful tale in first half

Every ballplayer, Tony Barnette figures, has a story. He shares this opinion in front of the home dugout, over the din of the crowd, at Tokyo Dome prior to Game 1 of the NPB All-Star Series this past weekend.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Jul 17, 2015

Fujinami, Abe provide heroics for CL in NPB All-Star Series opener

Shintaro Fujinami is the one with the "W" next to his name, but his parents came away as the big winners.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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The long search for Japan’s lost soldiers

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