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BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 9, 2004

Owners OK merger; baseball strike looms

The owners of Japan's 12 professional teams on Wednesday voted to approve the merger between the Orix BlueWave and the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes, setting the stage for the first players' strike in the history of Japanese baseball.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 8, 2004

Lions owner Tsutsumi denies merger reports

Seibu Lions owner Yoshiaki Tsutsumi denied press reports Tuesday that his club will merge with the Lotte Marines.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 7, 2004

Japanese ball players set to strike

Japan's professional baseball players' association will go on strike for the first time if owners go ahead with a proposed merger of two teams later this week, the group's leader said Monday.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 4, 2004

Woods helps BayStars ground Swallows

Tyrone Woods hit his 41st homer of the season Friday as the Yokohama BayStars downed the Yakult Swallows 6-4.
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 4, 2004

Baseball chief denies Giants will move to PL

Dismissing talk that the Yomiuri Giants may switch leagues, Japanese pro baseball commissioner Yasuchika Negoro said Friday he will propose several plans in the following days to manage the Pacific League next season in the event of a merger between the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes and the Orix BlueWave...
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 31, 2004

Proposed vote on merger postponed

The Japanese baseball commissioner's office on Monday postponed a vote on a hotly contested merger between the Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes and Orix BlueWave, after a court appealed for time to consider a request from the players' association to block the tie-up.
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 30, 2004

Majority in favor of two-league system

Around 74 percent of people in Japan are in favor of maintaining the current two six-team leagues in professional Japanese baseball, according to a Kyodo News survey released Saturday.
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2004

CH-53D helicopters grounded

The U.S. military in Japan will not fly CH-53D helicopters at the request of the Japanese government until it is "appropriate" to do so, the U.S. government said in a statement released Saturday.
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2004

CH-53D helicopters grounded

The U.S. military in Japan will not fly CH-53D helicopters at the request of the Japanese government until it is "appropriate" to do so, the U.S. government said in a statement released Saturday.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Aug 29, 2004

GSDF stages massive annual live-fire exercise

The Ground Self-Defense Force on Saturday conducted one of its largest live-fire drills ever on Japanese soil at its Higashi-Fuji Training Area in Shizuoka Prefecture.

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A small shrine perched atop rocks braves the waves hitting the shoreline during a storm in Shimoda, Shizuoka Prefecture. The area is under threat of a possible 31-meter-high tsunami if an earthquake strikes the nearby Nankai Trough.
If the 'Big One' hits, this city could face a 31-meter-high tsunami