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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 / Sac Bunts
May 21, 2018
SoftBank's Yuki Yanagita stands out among NPB crowd
The top buzzwords in Japan in 2015, as chosen through the annual U-Can Shingo Ryukogo Taisho (U-Can New Words and Buzzwords Awards), were co-winners bakugai and toripuru suri.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 18, 2018
Tomoyuki Sugano clubs solo homer to help his cause, lift Giants over BayStars
Tomoyuki Sugano surrendered the lead on a slider. So it was only fitting the Yomiuri Giants ace used one to get it back.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
May 14, 2018
Kiyomiya already getting star treatment from NPB world
On the night Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks captain Seiichi Uchikawa reached the 2,000-hit milestone, one of the the first items on public broadcaster NHK's 9 p.m. national news program was a breathless retelling of the first NPB home run hit by Kotaro Kiyomiya, the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters' prized rookie....
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 10, 2018
Veterans Shinnosuke Abe, Tetsuya Utsumi guide Giants past Tigers
Baseball might be a young man's game, but it was old-timer's night at Tokyo Dome on Thursday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
May 7, 2018
Ichiro ahead of curve as usual in new position for Mariners
Ichiro Suzuki saw Shohei Ohtani coming.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
May 4, 2018
Ichiro Suzuki transitioning to front office with Mariners but keeps option open to play ball
Ichiro Suzuki is done as a player in 2018. The jury is out still on whether the baseball legend is calling it quits for good.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 3, 2018
Yuki Yanagita bangs out three hits to propel Hawks past Marines on windswept afternoon
The wind never let up as the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks and Chiba Lotte Marines played at Zozo Marine Stadium.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 2, 2018
Fighters' Brandon Laird still getting kick of out fans' excitement
Brandon Laird was on his way back to the clubhouse after practice on Saturday when he spotted a young boy looking down on him from the stands. The boy wore a yellow shirt and black-rimmed glasses and a baseball glove covered one of his hands. He offered a small wave as Laird looked up and noticed him....
BASEBALL / MLB
Apr 30, 2018
Shohei Ohtani's MLB fireworks wow Japanese baseball world
The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters were busy preparing to face the Chiba Lotte Marines on Saturday afternoon when the events happening at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California, reached the visitors' clubhouse at Zozo Marine Stadium in Chiba.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Apr 29, 2018
'Reborn' pitcher Naoyuki Uwasawa off to good start for Fighters
Naoyuki Uwasawa declared himself reborn in mid-December.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 28, 2018
Taishi Ota, Oswaldo Arcia power Fighters past Marines
The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters have been working hard to put up good results over the past several days. So they're not about to take their feet off the gas now just because it's Golden Week.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Apr 23, 2018
Tigers pitcher Shintaro Fujinami at crossroads
The Hanshin Tigers have a Shintaro Fujinami problem. They just don't seem to know what to do about it.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Apr 22, 2018
Kiyomiya shows off power on farm
After a slow start to his first season as a professional, Kotaro Kiyomiya provided fans with a small glimpse of what made him the most sought-after player in last fall's NPB draft.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 17, 2018
Timely homers, stellar relief pitching propel Fighters past Lions at Tokyo Dome
Usually when the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters face another Pacific League team at Tokyo Dome, they're the home team.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Apr 16, 2018
In Shohei Ohtani, Japan finally has its world-beater
It must take a considerable amount of willpower for Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters manager Hideki Kuriyama not to respond to questions about his former player Shohei Ohtani with a simple, "I told you so." Although the sly smile he lets slip on occasion more or less does the job.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 11, 2018
Pitcher Nick Martinez finding Japan to his taste after joining Nippon Ham from Rangers
Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters pitcher Nick Martinez is still making a lot of adjustments to his new baseball life in Japan. He's had to acclimate himself to a new style of baseball, a new culture, the travel and learn how to pack for NPB road trips.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Apr 9, 2018
Fighters hit machine Kensuke Kondo has fans wondering if batting .400 is possible
There are some who think Kensuke Kondo could've hit .400 last season.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 6, 2018
Nick Martinez tosses first nine-inning complete game as Fighters top Marines
Going into Friday night, Nick Martinez had never thrown a full nine innings or earned an NPB victory.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Apr 2, 2018
Yomiuri reliever Takagi gets rude welcome in NPB return
Yomiuri Giants reliever Kyosuke Takagi made his return to baseball essentially under cover of darkness Friday. But even with the Tokyo Dome lights off for the opening-day ceremony, Takagi's presence was illuminated by the chorus of boos emanating from the Hanshin Tigers fans in left field.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 1, 2018
Tigers ace Messenger turned uncertainty into sure thing
The Hanshin Tigers' newest reliever stepped out of a plane and into the unknown in 2010. Waiting for him was a different style of the game he'd played all his life, not to mention the impending adjustments to a new country, new culture and new teammates.
University of Tokyo lands its highest spot ever in global higher education ranking
The University of Tokyo in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward
‘Save the Ring’ calls intensify as Osaka Expo’s end nears
Visitors lounge on the grassy hill on the top of the Grand Ring during the 2025 Osaka Expo in the city of Osaka in May.
Takaichi's PM bid faces further headwinds with coalition split
LDP leader Sanae Takaichi and Komeito leader Tetsuo Saito attend a party leaders' meeting on Friday in Tokyo.
After ruling bloc breakup, CDP and Komeito eye unified PM candidate
Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan leader Yoshihiko Noda speaks to reporters at the Diet in Tokyo on Friday.
Tokyo named world’s best big city for second straight year
Tokyo was ranked the world's best large city for the second year in a row in the Conde Nast Traveler's 2025 Readers' Choice Awards.
Ghost of Yotei’s bloodstained fun sidesteps Ainu identity
Ghost of Yotei, the follow-up to 2020's smash hit Ghost of Tsushima, is a violent, vengeful and engaging romp through 17th-century Hokkaido that fails to stick the landing on its most sensitive cultural material.
‘Takaichi trade’ starts unwinding as political calculus upended by Komeito exit
Less than a week ago, Sanae Takaichi seemed set to become Japan's first female prime minister.
‘Save the Ring’ calls intensify as Osaka Expo’s end nears
Visitors lounge on the grassy hill on the top of the Grand Ring during the 2025 Osaka Expo in the city of Osaka in May.
A Japanese comedian walks into an Aussie bar … and stays there
Takashi “Waka” Wakasugi stopped by the Tokyo Comedy Bar in Shibuya Ward last month following his stint at Edinburgh Festival Fringe performing his show “Comedy Samurai.”
Chemistry Nobel winner Kitagawa says downtime helped him think up new material
Susumu Kitagawa speaks to reporters at Kyoto University on Wednesday after receiving the news that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry the same day.

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