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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 29, 2009

Obiki's 10th-inning home run propels Buffaloes past Marines

CHIBA — Suspect pitching kept the Orix Buffaloes teetering on the edge of disaster during most of their game against the Chiba Lotte Marines.
JAPAN
Apr 28, 2009

Mexico flights to Narita face flu scrutiny

The government issued orders Monday for doctors and nurses to board aircraft from Mexico at Narita airport starting Wednesday to check passengers and crew for infection of a deadly new virus that combines swine, avian and human influenza.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 25, 2009

Clutch hitting ignites Dragons to win over Giants

The Yomiuri Giants had planned to honor catcher Shinnosuke Abe during their game against the Chunichi Dragons on Friday.

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Tetsuzo Shiraishi, speaking at The Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage, uses a thermos to explain how he experienced the U.S. firebombing of March 1945, when he was just 7 years old.
From ashes to high-rises: A survivor’s account of Tokyo’s postwar past