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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 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.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 5, 2012
'Sho Time' delivers Fighters past Eagles
The Hokkaido Nippon Fighters nearly broke through against Manabu Mima after a double by Sho Nakata in the sixth inning.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 5, 2012
Japanese baseball union approves participation in 2013 WBC
After weeks of uncertainty, the Japanese Professional Baseball Players Association has decided to participate in next year's World Baseball Classic, it was revealed on Tuesday.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Sep 4, 2012
Lions pounce at right time to take control of Pacific League
All season the Seibu Lions have put the 'cats have nine lives' theory to the test, and so far the Pacific League's resident felines are still kicking.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 2, 2012
Ota's versatility, productivity ignite Giants
Taishi Ota made up for lost time in his first game back from the farm team.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 1, 2012
Giants' Koyama picks up first career victory
Neither Yuki Koyama nor Tokyo Dome existed in 1981, the year the Giants are currently celebrating with their throwback uniforms.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Aug 28, 2012
Houlton feels good about '12 Giants
D.J. Houlton is dealing with a case of deja vu.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 21, 2012
NPB may have solution to WBC problem
Perhaps Nippon Professional Baseball has come up with something that will finally convince the Japanese Professional Baseball Players Association to reverse course and compete in the next World Baseball Classic.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Aug 21, 2012
Takahashi's 300th homer bittersweet
Yoshinobu Takahashi looked more relieved than happy after his 300th home run. Many fans and observers had expected it to come earlier in his career, before later wondering if it would come at all. That helped give the moment feelings of both admiration and incompletion.
JICA to designate four Japanese cities as 'hometowns' for African nations
The Japanese flag (left) with the flag of the African Union
103-year-old remembers Soviet attack right after WWII
Shoichi Takahashi holds a photo of himself when he was younger, in Otaru, Hokkaido, on May 17.
Schools get students involved in revision of unreasonable ‘black rules’
At Yawata Junior High School in Nagoya, there are no more rules on clothing and hairstyles. Students are free to wear either the school's uniform or clothes of their own choosing.
Tokyo crowned No.1 'workation' spot
Workations were a burgeoning trend in the corporate world for years before the COVID-19 pandemic turbocharged it.
Japanese man suspected of ordering double murder in Manila
Two suspects arrested over the killing of two Japanese last week are held in restraints in Manila on Tuesday.
Tokyo crowned No.1 'workation' spot
Workations were a burgeoning trend in the corporate world for years before the COVID-19 pandemic turbocharged it.
Atsushi Kitagawara’s exhibition finds poetry in architecture
The inverted cone, one of Atsushi Kitagawara’s six signature elements in architecture, is a key feature of the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection museum building.
Candidates preparing to make final pitches for Sawamura Award
Hawks pitcher Livan Moinelo has a 1.13 ERA in 19 starts this season.
Winning warship bid gives Japan confidence boost as Tokyo eyes more exports
Australia’s decision to select Japan's upgraded Mogami-class warship, seen in this computer-generated image, has been “well received across Japanese industry," a Defense Ministry official said.
In Paris, chefs Chizuko Kimura and Kei Kobayashi make their mark
Chef Kei Kobayashi is France's only Japanese chef with three Michelin stars.

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