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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 / The week in NPB

Nov 2, 2020

Three-team race for final spot in Pacific League Climax Series down to wire

There is only one race of real consequence remaining in this NPB season and it's still too close to call.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts

Oct 28, 2020

Hawks capture predictable pennant in unpredictable season

SoftBank's quest for Pacific League dominance began in empty stadiums and ended in front of just under 20,000 fans at PayPay Dome.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / The week in NPB

Oct 27, 2020

Alex Ramirez runs out of time with BayStars

The BayStars will now forge ahead without the manager who has won more than anyone else there in over 20 years.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / The week in NPB

Oct 19, 2020

NPB stars prepare to say goodbye as season winds down

It's retirement season in NPB.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts

Oct 15, 2020

Yudai Ono should be on track for Sawamura Award if committee keeps its word

The prize ostensibly honors the pitcher who most embodies the legacy of Eiji Sawamura in a given year. It's hard to argue Ono doesn't fit that bill.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / The week in NPB

Oct 12, 2020

Marines soldier on after virus outbreak

What a week it was for the Chiba Lotte Marines.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Oct 6, 2020

Eleven Lotte Marines players and staff infected with coronavirus

The news came just a day after the NPB-J. League COVID-19 task force said the two leagues would explore the possibility allowing more fans to attend games.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / The week in NPB

Oct 5, 2020

Dragons trying to blaze path to A-Class finish in Central League

It's been a long time since there were Chunichi Dragons games worth getting excited about this late in a season.

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BASEBALL / MLB

Sep 30, 2020

Masahiro Tanaka and Shogo Akiyama gear up for expanded postseason

The two players are among six Japanese players participating in the wild-card round, including three experiencing their first big-league playoffs.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / The week in NPB

Sep 28, 2020

Virus-hit Tigers endure tough, eventful week in Central League

The difference between playing a mostly representative NPB season — as opposed to 50 or 60 games — or having it all fall apart was always as tenuous as some dinner plans.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / The week in NPB

Sep 21, 2020

Buffaloes score with play, uniforms during mostly positive week on diamond

The Orix Buffaloes looked good last week.

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OLYMPICS

Sep 18, 2020

Shingo Kunieda advises Tokyo 2020 officials on U.S. Open 'bubble'

The wheelchair tennis titan walked officials through his experiences as an athlete at the recent Grand Slam in New York.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / The week in NPB

Sep 14, 2020

Giants stripping all mystery out of remainder of Central League campaign

After winning six games last week, the Kyojin have a 9u00bd-game lead over the second-place Hanshin Tigers with fewer than 50 games remaining for each team.

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MORE SPORTS

Sep 11, 2020

Surfer Maya Gabeira achieves new heights on world-record wave

The Brazilian was officially recognized as a Guinness World Record holder on Thursday for her ride on a 22.4-meter wave in Portugal earlier this year.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 10, 2020

Hawks pitcher Dennis Sarfate facing up to reality career may be over due to injury

Sarfate isn't retiring yet, he says, but he knows he may have already thrown his last pitch.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / The week in NPB

Sep 7, 2020

Tigers still at square one with Shintaro Fujinami

Shintaro Fujinami gave up 11 runs — seven earned — in 4 2/3 innings on Saturday night. That's more than he’s ever allowed in his career and, per Daily Sports, more than any Hanshin pitcher has in a single outing.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / The week in NPB

Aug 31, 2020

Giants and Hawks in driver's seat at halfway mark in NPB

Despite the shortened schedule, there's still plenty to look forward to in the 2020 campaign.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / The week in NPB

Aug 24, 2020

Departed manager Norifumi Nishimura latest to fail to turn around Buffaloes

The three men who managed the Orix Buffaloes prior to Norifumi Nishimura — Akinobu Okada, Hiroshi Moriwaki and Junichi Fukura — had two winning seasons in a combined nine years in charge.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Aug 21, 2020

Airing games in U.S. only first step in Pacific League's plan to take Japanese baseball abroad

For a nation so famous for its baseball exports — from Hideo Nomo to Shohei Ohtani — Japan hasn’t done a very good job at promoting Nippon Professional Baseball outside its own borders.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / The week in NPB

Aug 17, 2020

Yasuhiro Ogawa's no-hitter provides major lift for Swallows pitching staff

The Swallows are in desperate need of good results on the mound.

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past

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