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Events / Events Outside Tokyo
Jun 11, 2010

Giving thanks for Ainu culture

Ainu culture will be celebrated in Yokohama this weekend to commemorate June 6, 2008, the date when Japan's government acknowledged the Ainu as indigenous people.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 10, 2010

Eagles eyeing interleague bounce

The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles would be happy to win the interleague title. So long as it helps get them back on track for the title they really want.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Jun 8, 2010

Maeda giving Carp fans reason to cheer

The Hiroshima Carp don't have much going for them, but there's one good reason to take in a game at Mazda Stadium.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 6, 2010

Takahashi-led Giants rally past Fighters

Yoshinobu Takahashi taught the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters a harsh lesson on Saturday night.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jun 6, 2010

Pacific League dominating Central in interleague play

There was a rumor going around prior to the beginning of this season's interleague schedule that Pacific League teams were thinking about dropping games against the Central League in the future because of the strength of the CL clubs, especially the Yomiuri Giants.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 5, 2010

Giants' Sakamoto hits winning homer in 9th

One swing of Hayato Sakamoto's bat erased a week's worth of bad memories for the Yomiuri Giants.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 2, 2010

BayStars break out of slump, defeat Lions

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. — The Yokohama BayStars finally found some offense.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
May 29, 2010

Swallows hope replacement manager Ogawa can turn things around

Shigeru Takada's departure from the Tokyo Yakult Swallows on Wednesday leaves the struggling Central League team under the stewardship of head coach Junji Ogawa.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 5, 2010

Giants cruise past slumping Swallows

Yomiuri Giants captain Shinnosuke Abe wasn't in his normal spot behind the plate, but he still made a big difference for starting pitcher Dicky Gonzalez.

Longform

A sinkhole in Yashio, which emerged in January, was triggered by a ruptured, aging sewer pipe. Authorities worry that similar sections of infrastructure across the country are also at risk of corrosion.
That sinking feeling: Japan’s aging sewers are an infrastructure time bomb