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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
May 27, 2011
Cabrera, Houlton lead Hawks past Giants
D. J. Houlton did everything he could to keep the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks within striking distance of the Yomiuri Giants.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 24, 2011
Yamasaki plays hero for Buffs again
Koji Yamasaki got a hero interview out of his game-winning hit against the Yomiuri Giants in the first game of their interleague series.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
May 24, 2011
Lotte's Kim suffering from power outage
The curious case of Kim Tae Kyun's power outage began on Sept. 18, 2010. That night in Sendai, the Chiba Lotte Marines slugger homered off Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles ace Hisashi Iwakuma in the sixth inning of a 4-3 Lotte loss.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
May 23, 2011
Sledge: PL franchises expect to top CL rivals
Since the interleague format was introduced in Japan in 2005, the Pacific League has gotten the better of the Central League.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 21, 2011
BayStars slugger Murata delivers winning blast in seventh
Shuichi Murata had played six straight games without hitting a home run. Even worse, his Yokohama BayStars had gone six games without a win.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 18, 2011
Marines rally but fall short
In a scene straight out of last year's Japan Series, the Chiba Lotte Marines were mounting a late-inning rally against the Chunichi Dragons.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
May 17, 2011
Hara searching for ways to stir sleeping Giants' lineup
No matter how suspect the Yomiuri Giants' starting pitching has been in the past, a powerhouse offense has always been there to bail them out.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
May 16, 2011
Nakata finally paying off for Fighters brass
The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters got next to nothing out of Sho Nakata for the better part of two seasons after selecting the heralded high school power hitter in the 2007 draft.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 13, 2011
Giants skipper Hara shakes things up in series finale against BayStars
It's been a decade since Michihiro Ogasawara last hit in the leadoff spot and nearly four years since Norihito Kaneto started and won a game at home.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
May 10, 2011
Inaba, Kokubo should be among next to reach 2,000 hits
Michihiro Ogasawara finally ascended into the 2,000-hit club on May 5, getting the job done with a single up the middle against Hanshin Tigers pitcher Hiroyuki Kobayashi.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
May 9, 2011
Standridge keeps Ala. citizens close to heart
Trussville, Ala., is a typical southern U.S. city. Spread out along the Cahaba River with scenic streets lined by trees that help form a picturesque escape in the northern half of the state.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 5, 2011
Giants' Sanematsu delivers game-ending hit to beat archrival Tigers
The Yomiuri Giants coaching staff didn't give Kazunari Sanematsu any instructions or signs during his at-bat in the bottom of the ninth inning.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 4, 2011
Tigers crush four home runs, beat Giants in season's first game at Big Egg
So much for the "no-fly" ball.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
May 3, 2011
Ogasawara still swinging away as milestone draws near
There's little beauty in Michihiro Ogasawara's swing.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
May 2, 2011
Woes on mound continue to trouble Yomiuri
Starting pitching had been pegged as one of the Yomiuri Giants' problem spots prior to the beginning of the Japanese baseball season.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 29, 2011
Kitagawa guides Buffaloes to win over Marines
After two embarrassing days, the Orix Buffaloes finally got something to go their way against the Chiba Lotte Marines
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Apr 25, 2011
Kanto-area teams take hit at gate
As Japanese baseball heads into the third week of the 2011 season, the effects of the ban on night games has been felt by three Kanto-based franchises, the Chiba Lotte Marines, Tokyo Yakult Swallows and Yokohama BayStars.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 22, 2011
Swallows' Tateyama hurls five-hit shutout
Wladimir Balentien got hit in the face with a shaving cream pie during his hero interview.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 20, 2011
Hatakeyama, Ishikawa lift Swallows past Dragons
Tuesday turned out to be unexpectedly cool in Japan's capital city, but the Tokyo Yakult Swallows may have finally started to heat up.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Apr 19, 2011
Foreign quartet make their presence felt on mound in NPB's first week
The NPB's first week produced a number of story lines, such as Yuki Saito's debut with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, Yokohama BayStars slugger Terrmel Sledge's red-hot start and Tokyo Yakult Swallows pitcher Tatsuyoshi Masubuchi's flirtation with a no-hitter.
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.
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.
In preserving Japanese hospitality, ‘details are everything’
Beniya Mukayu, a traditional "ryokan" inn located in Ishikawa Prefecture, considers itself at "the heart of onsen towns, local residents, farmers, fishermen, sake brewers and artisans" — all of which need new, sustainable methods of serving visitors to survive into the future.

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