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BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 21, 2000

Free agent Shinjo talks to Swallows

Free agent Tsuyoshi Shinjo met with officials of the Yakult Swallows on Monday to hear what the Central League club has to offer if the All-Star outfielder were to leave the Hanshin Tigers for the Tokyo team.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 14, 2000

MLB stars leave Japan on winning note

Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants cranked out a solo home run in the sixth inning Sunday afternoon as a touring team of Major League Baseball All-Stars scored a 5-4 win in the eighth and final game of a goodwill series against their Japanese counterparts.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Nov 12, 2000

Ichiro, Kinjo are the talk of the town

Talk on the Nagoya Dome field prior to Game 6 of the NTT Communications All-Star Series 2000 on Nov. 9, besides the chaotic U.S. presidential election results, centered around the news that some major league team had offered 14 oku yen ($13,125,000) for the rights to negotiate with soon-to-be-former...
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / PERSONALITY PROFILE
Nov 12, 2000

Robert Whiting

For the last 50 years Japan has come under intense Western scrutiny from many quarters. Scholars, writers, professional men and women in different pursuits have contributed observations and analyses of Japanese thoughts and lifestyles and behavior. Bob Whiting crafted a way of his own to add to the body...
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 10, 2000

MLB team bids $13 mil. to talk with Orix star

The Orix BlueWave of the Pacific League announced Thursday that the club has received and accepted a bid of $13,125,000 from a major league team for the right to negotiate with seven-time league batting champion Ichiro Suzuki.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Nov 9, 2000

Mets' Payton feels right at home in Japan

"Japan's been very, very good to me," New York Mets center fielder Jay Payton says with a laugh, doing his best impression of Chico Esquela of Saturday Night Live fame. "It's nice because I started the season here and I'm finishing up here."
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 7, 2000

Hawks fined for scheduling gaffe

The Daiei Hawks have been fined 30 million yen following the Pacific League champions' failure to guarantee the availability of their Fukuoka Dome stadium for the recently concluded Japan Series, Japanese baseball officials said Monday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Nov 1, 2000

Matsui honored

Japan Series Most Valuable Player Hideki Matsui of the champion Yomiuri Giants was named the recipient of the Matsutaro Shoriki award Tuesday for his contributions to the development and promotion of baseball.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 24, 2000

Kuwata, Kiyohara free

Yomiuri Giants veterans Masumi Kuwata and Kazuhiro Kiyohara top the list of eight players added to this year's group of free agents, the commissioner's officer of Japanese professional baseball said Monday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 19, 2000

Ichiro outshines Oh, Nagashima

Orix BlueWave outfielder Ichiro Suzuki, apparently on his way to the major leagues next season, was the fans' favorite selection for the All-Century Team in Japanese baseball, as poll organizers announced their final results Wednesday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 15, 2000

Hawks pitcher Fujii passes away at 31

Daiei Hawks pitcher Masao Fujii died at a Fukuoka hospital Friday. He was 31, three days short of his 32nd birthday. Fujii had been hospitalized at the National Kyushu Medical Center for interstitial pneumonia.
JAPAN
Oct 3, 2000

Child counselors may pitch in against crime

The Health and Welfare Ministry will ask child counselors and psychiatric experts in five cities to organize teams to deal with juvenile crimes, in a trial project starting in April, ministry officials said Monday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 25, 2000

Giants claim 29th Central League pennant

Yomiuri shortstop Tomohiro Nioka smashed a game-winning solo homer in the bottom of the ninth inning Sunday as the Giants came from behind to beat the Chunichi Dragons 5-4 with a "sayonara" win at the Tokyo Dome to clinch their 29th Central League pennant.
COMMUNITY
Sep 24, 2000

Dog (paddle) days of summer in San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO -- On a recent Saturday, BARK was working McCovey Cove, an inlet some 120 meters from home plate of the San Francisco Giants' new bayside ballpark.
COMMUNITY
Aug 9, 2000

A lifetime spent selling pearls to the stars

Today's pop quiz: What do Jodie Foster, Harrison Ford and Brooke Shields have in common? Hint: They are all happy customers of the Wally Yonamine Company. No, they did not purchase autographed baseballs (although Yonamine, former ace slugger for the Yomiuri Giants, is still known as "the Jackie Robinson...
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 5, 2000

Swallows end Giants' winning ways

Roberto Petagine hit a two-run homer and Kenjiro Kawasaki pitched eight strong innings Friday to beat the Yomiuri Giants and Darrell May 3-2, ending the Central League leaders' five-game winning streak.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 21, 2000

Matsuzaka hit hard but still gets victory

Pinch hitter Masahide Kaizuka hit a go-ahead RBI single in the Lions' three-run seventh inning at the Seibu Dome Thursday as Seibu came from behind to beat the Orix BlueWave 6-4 and climb into a first-place tie with the Daiei Hawks in the Pacific League standings.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 19, 2000

Tigers come up short in upset bid against Giants

Yomiuri catcher Naoki Sugiyama singled with the bases loaded in the 10th inning Tuesday to drive in two runs and spoil Hanshin's attempt to steal a win at home as the Giants prevailed 9-7 over the Tigers.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 8, 2000

Kiyohara homers in return to Giants

Yomiuri slugger Kazuhiro Kiyohara celebrated his return to the team Friday night, smashing a pinch-hit three-run homer in the seventh inning as the Giants triumphed over the Chunichi Dragons 9-1 at the Tokyo Dome.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 5, 2000

Drags gain ground

Kazuyoshi Tatsunami belted a two-run homer in the fourth inning Tuesday and Lee Jeong Bum followed with a solo blast in the fifth to pace the Chunichi Dragons to a 7-4 win over the Yokohama BayStars at the Nagoya Dome.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 8, 2000

Lions' 'little' Matsui has big night at plate

Lions shortstop Kazuo Matsui went 4-for-4 and hit for the cycle, helping Pacific League-leading Seibu beat the Kintetsu Buffaloes 10-4 at the Seibu Dome on Wednesday.
BASEBALL / MLB
May 30, 2000

Dragons top Giants 9-8

Leo Gomez belted a game-tying two-run run homer in the eighth inning and pinch-hitter Kazuki Inoue drove in the winning run Sunday as the Chunichi Dragons rallied for a 9-8 victory over the Yomiuri Giants at the Tokyo Dome.
BASEBALL / MLB
May 21, 2000

Burrows tosses four-hitter as 'Wave edge Lions 2-1

Southpaw Terry Burrows tossed a four-hitter over seven innings Saturday as the Pacific League-leading Orix BlueWave edged the Seibu Lions 2-1 in Nagano.
SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
May 18, 2000

'Sports executive' a misnomer in Japan

I don't know if it's just my imagination but in recent weeks the incompetence of Japan's alleged "sports executives" seems to have reached an all-time low.

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Dangami House is a 180-year-old former samurai residence of the Kato clan, who ruled over Ozu, Ehime Prefecture, until the Meiji Restoration.
A house, a legacy and the quiet work of restoration in rural Japan