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SPORTS / SPORTS SCOPE
Oct 14, 2006

Baseball scribe breaks down exciting Pa League second stage

SAPPORO -- Here is a look back at the second-stage Pacific League playoffs, in which the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters swept the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks in two games, winning the series 3-0 under the PL postseason's new format, which gives the No. 1 seed a one-game advantage before the series begins.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 23, 2006

Government to honor baseball champs

As the nation basked in the triumph of Japan's victory in the inaugural World Baseball Classic the previous day, the government added to the euphoria Wednesday by saying it is considering bestowing awards on the entire team.
BASEBALL / MLB
Oct 5, 2005

Shutoku shut out of fall high school baseball tourney

High school baseball officials have decided to ban Shutoku from this fall's regional tournament after team members from the Tokyo school were discovered shoplifting, familiar sources said Tuesday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 17, 2005

Nagashima ready to face baseball fans

Former Yomiuri Giants manager and Japanese baseball icon Shigeo Nagashima has indicated that he will soon make his first public appearance since suffering a stroke in March last year.
BASEBALL / MLB
Apr 26, 2005

Players for Asian baseball championship announced

The names of 20 amateur players who will compete in the Asian baseball championship next month were announced Monday, officials of Japan's baseball governing body said.
BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 8, 2005

Asian baseball championship to be held in Miyazaki

The Asian baseball championship, which doubles as a qualifier for the World Cup this fall, will be held for four days this May in Miyazaki Prefecture, officials of the Japan baseball governing body said Monday.
BUSINESS
Mar 5, 2005

Seibu Railway open to offers on baseball club

Scandal-tainted Seibu Railway Co. would consider offers on the Seibu Lions professional baseball club, the head of a Seibu group reform panel said Friday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 6, 2004

Baseball legend Nagashima suffers stroke; right side numb

Shigeo Nagashima, manager of Japan's national baseball team, was diagnosed at a Tokyo hospital Friday as having suffered a stroke the previous day.
BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 6, 2004

Baseball legend Nagashima suffers stroke; right side numb

Shigeo Nagashima, manager of Japan's national baseball team, was diagnosed at a Tokyo hospital Friday as having suffered a stroke the previous day.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
May 28, 2003

Giants' Latham finds it rough adjusting to Japanese baseball

Chris Latham's entrance to Japan and the world of Japanese pro baseball was supposed to go smoothly.
BUSINESS
Jan 12, 2002

Ailing Daiei looks to unload baseball team, dome

Troubled Daiei Inc. is planning to sell a majority of its shares in the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks baseball team and its ballpark, the Fukuoka Dome, as part of efforts to reduce its massive interest-bearing debts, according to company sources.
LIFE / Digital / SURFERSPUD
May 31, 2001

Baseball and junk food

www.exploratorium.edu/baseball/index.html "Professional baseball is played at the edge of biological time," the Exploratorium says, "just within a human's ability to react." The pages then go on to demonstrate, not explain, how the pros cope with earning a living on the edge. Games allow you to learn...
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2001

Beer cans to feature rival baseball teams

OSAKA -- Asahi Breweries Ltd. is set to launch a beer this spring featuring the Hanshin Tigers, while Suntory Ltd. will offer a brew dedicated to the baseball team's archrival, the Yomiuri Giants.
JAPAN
Feb 22, 2001

Beer cans to feature rival baseball teams

OSAKA -- Asahi Breweries Ltd. is set to launch a beer this spring featuring the Hanshin Tigers, while Suntory Ltd. will offer a brew dedicated to the baseball team's archrival, the Yomiuri Giants.
BASEBALL / MLB
Dec 30, 2000

Korean owners cancel 2001 baseball season

The 2001 baseball season in South Korea has been canceled by the owners of the eight Korean Baseball Organization teams in retaliation for a surge in players' union membership.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Oct 7, 2000

Catching up on Japanese baseball

With the Sydney Olympics now history, let's take a look at what happened in Japanese pro baseball while most of the sports world focused its attention on Australia and the Summer Games.
BASEBALL / MLB
Jul 25, 2000

Japan unveils Olympic baseball squad

Eight professionals, including Seibu Lions star Daisuke Matsuzaka and Kintetsu Buffaloes slugger Norihiro Nakamura, have joined 16 top amateur players in Japan's baseball squad for the Sydney Olympics in September.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Mar 19, 2023

True test arrives for Samurai Japan in the form of resilient Mexico

Samurai Japan and its collection of MLB and NPB stars will be favored against Mexico in their WBC semifinal, but the team will have to rise to meet its toughest challenge yet.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Mar 16, 2023

Captain America Mike Trout powers U.S. into WBC quarterfinals

The Americans, who have recovered after being upset by Mexico in their second game, will now face Venezuela with a semifinal showdown with Cuba awaiting the winner.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Mar 16, 2023

Puerto Rico and Mets closer Edwin Diaz injured in WBC win

As Diaz neared the dugout, he was placed in a wheelchair and wheeled down the tunnel.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 2, 2023

The Marlins go all-in on baseball’s new rules

Pitch clocks, bigger bases, restrictions on pickoff throws, elimination of the infield shift? Finally, a victory for the little guys.
‘We have drawn lessons,’ Indian Army chief says of brief clash with Pakistan
Indian Army chief Upendra Dwivedi waves as he arrives to attend the ceremonial reception of Defense Minister Gen Nakatani in New Delhi in May.
Japanese immunologist among three Nobel medicine prize winners
Shimon Sakaguchi, an immunologist and distinguished professor at Osaka University, attends a news conference after winning the 2025 Nobel Prize in medicine, in Osaka Prefecture on Monday.
Spanish tourist injured in latest bear attack
Shirakawago, a U.N. World Heritage site in Gifu Prefecture
Americans and Canadians unite in battling 'eating machine' carp
A Fisheries and Oceans Canada team patrols the Grand River in Dunnville, Ontario, in search of invasive grass carp specimens on Sept. 25.
Trump hails 'wisdom and strength' of Japan's incoming prime minister
Sanae Takaichi, the newly elected leader of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, gives a news conference after the LDP presidential election in Tokyo on Saturday.
Takaichi, the LDP’s first female president, is far from an ‘overnight success’
Newly-elected Liberal Democratic Party chief Sanae Takaichi greets her fellow LDP members on Saturday at party headquarters.
‘We have drawn lessons,’ Indian Army chief says of brief clash with Pakistan
Indian Army chief Upendra Dwivedi waves as he arrives to attend the ceremonial reception of Defense Minister Gen Nakatani in New Delhi in May.
How a family-run landscaper turned the Osaka Expo green
The team at Ryokukou Garden consists primarily of a single family, including Toshiki Tanisaki (second from right), who led the company's efforts at the Osaka Expo, Chikako Tanisaki (fifth from right), who performs daily maintanence at the expo, and Takeshi Tanisaki (fourth from right), who added a nursery to the family farm more than 50 years ago.
Eat your balloons: The culinary theater of Grant Achatz comes to Tokyo
Avant-garde chef Grant Achatz and his team from Alinea are in Tokyo for a three-week residency.
Japan’s first foreign wine investor plants its roots in Hokkaido
Intrigued by Japanese wines, Burgundy winemaker Etienne de Montille decided to explore Hokkaido's wine scene, eventually setting up his outpost in Hakodate in 2017.

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