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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 24, 2012
Former Dodger Houlton uses veteran poise to eliminate Dragons
D.J. Houlton didn't know what to expect, and there was a good chance no one else did either.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Oct 24, 2012
Giants rose to the occasion
For three consecutive nights, the Yomiuri Giants lived life on the edge.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 22, 2012
Ishii powers Giants into series decider
Tokyo Dome was rocking and the Chunichi Dragons were reeling. All it would take was one final blow to finish putting the nail in the coffin.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 21, 2012
Sawamura, Abe provide big lift for Giants in Game 4
Manager Tatsunori Hara put the season in Hirokazu Sawamura's hands, and the rest of the Yomiuri Giants followed the young pitcher's lead.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 21, 2012
Catcher has pair of run-scoring hits in victory over Dragons
Shinnosuke Abe rallied the troops before the Yomiuri Giants took the field for Game 4 of the Central League Climax Series final stage.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 20, 2012
Donoue sparks Dragons to 10th-inning win over Giants
It's beginning to look like the Chunichi Dragons just will not be denied.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 19, 2012
Opportunistic Dragons take 2-1 series lead over Giants
Junki Ito turned 21 years old in January. That's three fewer years than his batterymate Motonobu Tanishige has been a professional baseball player.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 18, 2012
Ono chops Giants down to size
Second-year pitcher Yudai Ono was asked to go into a stadium in which he'd only won once, to face a team that'd beaten him up in his last two outings all while trying to help the Chunichi Dragons avoid a 2-0 deficit in the Central League Climax Series final stage.
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.
China seizes disputed reef near key Philippine military outpost
China Coast Guard officers unfurl a national flag on Sandy Cay reef, near the Philippine-held Thitu Island, in disputed waters of the South China Sea this month in this screen shot taken from Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.
Japan to resist Trump efforts to form trade bloc against China
As Japan gears up for the trade talks, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is also seeking to cushion the blow that the U.S. tariffs may have on the domestic economy.
As many as nine dead after driver plows into Vancouver festival crowd
An ambulance is parked at the site of the Lapu Lapu day festival, where a vehicle drove into a crowd killing several people in Vancouver on Saturday.
Japan struggles with gray zone of AI deepfakes exploiting children
AI-generated content — including those made using pictures of real people, which are known as “deepfakes” — is not explicitly covered under Japan's current legal framework, nor are human-drawn illustrations that depict child abuse.
How to bring up bad news in Japanese
As in other cultures, when someone shares bad news in Japanese it’s best to respond with supportive words.
‘Wildcat Dome’ challenges Japan's historical narratives
On the surface, "Wildcat Dome" tells a personal story of damaged children — now adults — bound together by tragedy. Underneath, there’s a constant undercurrent of political consequence, invisible and pervasive like radioactive particles.
Reclaiming Sanya, one meal at a time
Magokoro Yoshihira (center) is the managing director of Yui Associates, which operates the neighborhood fixtures of Sanya Cafe and Juyoh Hotel. Yusuke Takahashi (left) met Yoshihira during a difficult period in his life and now works as the cafe’s chef. Nancy Anne (right) has worked for over 10 years at Juyoh Hotel and enjoys the multicultural environment.
Amid uncertain tariffs, is now the time to buy a new iPhone?
An Apple store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward in September. Prices for the newest iPhone models start at around ¥100,000 ($700) in Japan.
Built in a flash, Osaka Expo pavilions wrestle with sustainability
Kengo Kuma & Associates oversaw the construction of the Malaysia pavilion, which is encased in interwoven rows of bamboo that appear to ripple.
Japan weighs using U.S. rice imports as tariff negotiation tool with Trump
A restaurant owner pours California-grown Calrose rice into a rice cooker at his restaurant in Tokyo

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