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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 / HIT AND RUN

Feb 8, 2011

Carp face long uphill battle in quest to recapture golden era success

When the Hiroshima Carp travel to Nagoya to face the Chunichi Dragons in their season opener next month, they should bring along pen and paper to take notes.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK

Feb 4, 2011

Old faces appear in new places as camp opens

Hichori Morimoto has dressed as an alien, a muay thai fighter and a popular cartoon character over the past few years.

BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN

Feb 1, 2011

Orix's Lee, Park hope to revitalize careers with fresh start

It feels like a lifetime has passed since Lee Seung Yeop and Park Chan Ho last wore the same uniform.

BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN

Jan 25, 2011

Giants' pool of foreign players will have to earn their spot on roster

The Yomiuri Giants may be trading Tokyo's cool temperatures and concrete facade for sunny and scenic Miyazaki, but the team's spring camp won't feel like much of a vacation for some of the newest Kyojin.

BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN

Jan 18, 2011

NPB's 50-homer club unlikely to be expanding ranks

The period between the start of the calendar year and the beginning of camp is often wrought with bold proclamations and lofty goals as ambition helps power players through their final winter preparations.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK

Jan 17, 2011

Fighters rookie Saito in spotlight at practice

The next generation of NPB stars has hit the field.

BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN

Jan 11, 2011

Wakui must play like Darvish before he is paid like Darvish

Two of Japan's top pitchers made news early in the new year for very different contract issues.

Japan Times

BASKETBALL

Jan 10, 2011

Pair uses skills to promote streetball

Initial greetings out of the way, an exhausted Grayson Boucher fell into a chair in a nondescript classroom near the Tent Dome in Toyosu on one of the final few warm, sunny days of 2010. Boucher had just finished putting 44 youngsters through the paces in a basketball ball handling clinic and the man...

BASEBALL / SPORTS SCOPE

Dec 28, 2010

Kameda clan on top of Japanese boxing after big night

You don't have to like Koki or Daiki Kameda of the fighting Kameda family.

Japan Times

MORE SPORTS

Dec 21, 2010

Sugawara leads Seagulls to title

Shun Sugawara went from goat to hero within nine plays.

BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN

Dec 21, 2010

Curtain beginning to fall on careers of some of Japan's top closers

Is Takuya Asao the next great Japanese closer? He might have to be, because as age creeps up on some of the league's top firemen, the next generation will soon have to step up and prove its worth.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Dec 20, 2010

Small, Murakami offer opinions on MLB, NPB business strategies

Japanese baseball had trouble finding broadcast partners for the 2010 Japan Series between the Chiba Lotte Marines and Chunichi Dragons. That was a perplexing turn of events in a nation where the sport is king.

BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN

Dec 14, 2010

Saito poised to provide boost on, off field for Fighters

Has there ever been a meaningless pitch that could end up being so meaningful?

BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN

Dec 8, 2010

Return to NPB may aid Iwakuma in long run

Don't weep for Hisashi Iwakuma.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK

Dec 5, 2010

Valentine says NPB needs major reform

The posting system is far from perfect, but is there a better solution?

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Nov 26, 2010

Valentine: Nishioka could be MLB shortstop

There's at least one MLB team that thought highly enough of Tsuyoshi Nishioka to put in a bid on him. If his former manager is right, it might turn out to be a worthwhile investment.

BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN

Nov 23, 2010

Wada's PL MVP triumph should raise familiar questions

If the selection of Fukuoka Softbank Hawks hurler Tsuyoshi Wada as Pacific League MVP proves anything, it's that there isn't a clear-cut right answer when the it comes to choosing MVPs.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Nov 19, 2010

Dragons' Wada, Hawks' Wada named MVPs

What a great day to be named Wada.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Nov 14, 2010

Kiyota, Marines beat SK Wyverns for title

Winning their first Japan Series in five years gave the Chiba Lotte Marines a lot to celebrate.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Nov 11, 2010

Familiar pain fuels Ochiai's desire

NAGOYA — Immediately after the final out of the 2010 Japan Series, Chunichi Dragons manager Hiromitsu Ochiai made a short, brisk walk to the Dragons clubhouse.

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.

Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.

By Tomoko Otake

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

Looking ahead to Yokohama’s Green × Expo 2027

Looking ahead to Yokohama’s Green × Expo 2027

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