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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

Oct 17, 2012

Lions star Nakajima keeps quiet about future

Everyone understood this was the end of the line for Hiroyuki Nakajima.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Oct 17, 2012

Pena carries Hawks into next round

As Wily Mo Pena munched on a bowl of fruit on his way out of Seibu Dome, he tried to remember having a bigger hit than the one he had Monday against the Lions, a two-run double that accounted for the majority of his team's runs in the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks' 3-2 win over the Seibu Lions in the decisive...

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Oct 16, 2012

Pena comes good to send Hawks into next round

Wily Mo Pena said he couldn't remember the last time he was in an elimination game.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Oct 15, 2012

Lions rout Hawks to even series

A number of Seibu Lions fans spent their time outside Seibu Dome looking into a television camera and imploring their team to get a win. The Lions' players weren't quite ready for the season to end yet either.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Oct 15, 2012

Kishi gives Takeda a lesson in playoff baseball

Shota Takeda has all kinds of talent. At the tender age of 19, the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks right-hander made 11 starts this season, winning eight and finishing the year with a 1.08 ERA.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Oct 14, 2012

Morifuku stays calm in pressure-packed situation

Reliever Masahiko Morifuku made his first postseason appearance of the year in the ninth inning, with the bases loaded, nobody out, and his team clinging to a two-run lead in Game 1 of the first stage of the Pacific League Climax Series.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Oct 14, 2012

Settsu fires Hawks past Lions in playoff opener

Tadashi Settsu was a long way from Fukuoka, wearing his road uniform and standing on the mound in another team's stadium.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Oct 12, 2012

Defending champion Hawks begin title defense

After winning last season's Japan Series the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks lost their three best pitchers and an All-Star shortstop.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Oct 12, 2012

Determined Swallows renew rivalry with playoff-tested Dragons

No matter what changes or how much time passes, it seems like the Chunichi Dragons find a way to make it into the Climax Series.

BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN

Oct 9, 2012

Marines' cowardice left Fujioka to face fans' ire

Seibu Lions fans weren't happy Saturday afternoon and they were letting Chiba Lotte Marines rookie pitcher Takahiro Fujioka feel the brunt of their vitriol.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Oct 8, 2012

Giants catcher Abe rises above pack

Shinnosuke Abe perked up at the news the Detroit Tigers' Miguel Cabrera had won the Triple Crown.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 30, 2012

Donoue, Dragons blank Swallows

The final regular-season meeting between the Chunichi Dragons and Tokyo Yakult Swallows was a largely uneventful affair.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 26, 2012

Ortiz hits go-ahead home run as Lions edge Eagles

Jose Ortiz spent the first part of this season playing in Mexico, where he said he wasn't really doing too well.

BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN

Sep 25, 2012

Balentien at ease as race for CL home run crown heats up

As Tokyo Yakult Swallows slugger Wladimir Balentien went through his pregame stretching, he surveyed the field where the newly minted Central League champion Yomiuri Giants were wrapping up batting practice and barely suppressed a laugh while noting, "everything has gone right for them this year."

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK

Sep 24, 2012

Race for Pacific League crown likely going down to wire

The Yomiuri Giants wrapped up the Central League pennant last week.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 22, 2012

Giants clinch 34th Central League pennant

For the last two years, the Yomiuri Giants have watched another team celebrate. Watched as another group of players paraded around the field clutching the Central League pennant.

BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN

Sep 18, 2012

Celebration of Kanemoto's career offers Tigers brief respite

For the next couple of weeks, the prevailing narrative of most Hanshin Tigers games will be the impending retirement of star outfielder Tomoaki Kanemoto.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 15, 2012

Sakamoto ignites Giants in comeback victory over archrival Tigers

This close to the prize, the Yomiuri Giants aren't about to let anyone slow their march toward the Central League pennant.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 13, 2012

MLB scouts keeping their eyes on quartet of potential Japanese free agents

This season there are a few NPB players who have fulfilled the requirements for international free agency (meaning they are free to negotiate with any team, domestic or abroad) and may attempt to follow in the successful footsteps of Yu Darvish and Norichika Aoki and make a move to the major leagues...

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BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN

Sep 11, 2012

Darvish, others have decisions to make ahead of next WBC

The big news last week was that the Japanese Professional Baseball Players Association decided to compete in next year's World Baseball Classic.

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Growing families are being priced out of Tokyo’s condo market, forced to choose between downtown convenience and suburban space.

Is living in central Tokyo still affordable?

By Alex K.T. Martin

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