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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 12, 2010

Sikorski says flexibility key to his success in Japan

TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. — It's a wonder Brian Sikorski's arm hasn't fallen off by now.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Mar 28, 2010

Japan's preseason schedule growing ever smaller

The Central and Pacific Leagues have started their regular seasons, and it seems almost as if we went from the beginning of spring training right into the games that count.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Mar 14, 2010

Okinawa's new Onoyama Stadium is the latest 'Field of Dreams'

We mentioned last week going to Okinawa to visit spring training camps last month, and baseball on that island is about to get an upgrade from the completion of construction on the 30,000-seat Onoyama Stadium.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Mar 7, 2010

Southern swing through camps brings news, views

Spring training camps are finished, we're into the exhibition season and Opening Day is less than two weeks away, as the Pacific League gets set for its lid-lifters on March 20.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Jan 30, 2010

Lions rookie hurler Kikuchi sounds like a young man in a hurry

The NPB has ramped up its efforts to speed up games over the past few seasons.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jan 17, 2010

Time is now for MLB, NPB to act on 'True World Series'

The proposal by Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig to Nippon Pro Baseball Commissioner Ryozo Kato for a "True World Series" seemed to come out of the blue but is a most welcome idea and, as many would say, it is about time.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Dec 20, 2009

Mark Schreiber: Best books of 2009

Arimasa Osawa's hard-boiled tale follows police and gangsters in a race to track down a Taiwanese super-assassin who has been leaving bodies all over Shinjuku. This, the second in the "Shinjuku Shark" saga to appear in English, was originally published as "Dokuzaru" in 1991, when the bubble economy had...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Dec 13, 2009

Tuffy hopes to extend career in Japan another year

It remains to be seen if Tuffy Rhodes will return to play a 14th season in Japanese baseball in 2010. The all-time leader among foreign players in home runs and RBIs says he's ready for another year — or two — but, if he is unable to attract an offer from a Pacific or Central League club, he will...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Nov 28, 2009

Rules on free agency leaving Fujii in limbo

Former Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters pitcher Shugo Fujii is stuck between a rock and a hard place.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Nov 22, 2009

Hot Hibachi League prepares to heat up as season draws to a close

The final game of the 2009 baseball season in Japan takes place on Sunday at Tokyo Dome. Billed as the "U-26" it features a select team of college players against a group of professionals, most of whom are under the age of 26.
LIFE
Oct 25, 2009

Bodhisattva of the river road

"Have another drink, Boss!"
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 6, 2009

Valentine tight-lipped over rumors of Marlins post

CHIBA — Bobby Valentine's return to television may not last that long after all.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Sep 4, 2009

Wakui making a run at Sawamura Award

A tired shoulder has sidelined Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters pitcher Yu Darvish since Aug. 22, following his worst outing of the season against the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Aug 21, 2009

Iwakuma's resurgence has Eagles flying high

Tohoku Rakuten pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma is up to his old tricks in August and helping to shake up the race for the Pacific League Climax Series in the process.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jul 5, 2009

New Niigata stadium opens this week, could host expansion team someday

The Hiroshima Carp and Hanshin Tigers will play the first official games at the new Niigata Prefectural Stadium this week with consecutive nighters on July 7 and 8. If ever Japanese baseball was going to expand or a team was to be moved, Niigata would be the next obvious best place in the country to...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jun 7, 2009

NPB teams like foreign players with Japan experience

The 2009 season seems to be one where foreign players in Japanese baseball are getting a second — or third — chance to prove they can still produce.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 4, 2009

Seabol, Carp beat Giants in opener

After more than a decade of disappointing finishes, the Hiroshima Carp feel they're ready to compete with the Central League's best.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 22, 2009

Memory of 2006 game lives on, but Japan focuses on rematch with U.S.

LOS ANGELES — Some games are difficult to forget.
Japan Times
SPORTS / HIT AND RUN
Mar 15, 2009

Group linked to Valentine explored buying BayStars

Like a batter with three strikes, Bobby Valentine is promising to go down swinging.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 10, 2009

Japan gives up top ranking

South Korea's Bong Jung Keun wanted at least one chance to face Japan in the World Baseball Classic.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Jan 4, 2009

Yomiuri Giants prepare to commemorate 75th anniversary in 2009

A Happy New Year to all readers of the Baseball Bullet-In.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Dec 16, 2008

MLB salaries surviving downturn

It may be strictly coincidental, but that doesn't make it any less interesting. About the same time the New York Mets were spending millions on the closer they so desperately need this week, the owner of the team was facing possible losses of millions of his own as the victim of a fraud scheme even more...
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Dec 14, 2008

Some players still desire to sign only with Giants, insisting on playing only for storied Kyojin

One photo and one report circulating in the press last week brought up the subject of players happier who are playing for the Yomiuri Giants and those who insist on working only for Japan's most storied club.
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Dec 7, 2008

Slugger Woods hoping for one more chance in Japan

The Chunichi Sports is reporting former Chunichi Dragons first baseman Tyrone Woods wants to continue playing in Japan.
Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years
The Agency for Cultural Affairs is recommending replacing the government’s long-standing Kunrei system with more widely used Hepburn-style spellings.
Women-only communities flourish in China
Chen Yani (right), nicknamed "Keke," eats lunch with friends and guests in a female co-living space she founded called "Keke's Imaginative Space" in Hangzhou, in eastern China's Zhejiang province, on July 14.
JR East cancels luxury train run over crew's boozing
East Japan Railway said Thursday that it will cancel one trip of a luxury overnight sleeper service, which was originally scheduled to depart from Ueno Station in Tokyo on Aug. 30, after crew members were found to have been drinking alcohol on duty.
Man arrested over deadly stabbing of woman in Kobe
Masashi Tanimoto, 35, the suspect in the deadly stabbing a 24-year-old woman, is taken into custody in Kobe on Friday night.
Japanese city proposes two-hour daily limit for smartphone use
The Toyoake Municipal Government in Aichi Prefecture is planning to enact an ordinance to urge all smartphone users in the city to limit screen time to two hours a day outside work or school.
Alicia Keys closed Summer Sonic, but J-pop owned it
Summer Sonic’s 2025 lineup demonstrated its strength, showcasing the latest in J-pop, including “new kawaii” act Fruits Zipper.
Is the LDP’s catch-all approach to politics still effective?
Former economic security minister Sanae Takaichi visits Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo on Aug. 15. Political commentator Toru Hashimoto has suggested that Takaichi ought to lead a group of like-minded hawkish politicians out of the Liberal Democratic Party and form their own party.
Fingers sore from too much phone time? You might have ‘sumaho yubi.’
A catch-all term for tendonitis and arthritis caused by excessive smartphone use, 'sumaho yubi' may be difficult to treat for gadget-crazy Japan.
As farm minister, Koizumi is held ‘hostage’ by Ishiba
Farm minister Shinjiro Koizumi (center) attends a Lower House session on Aug. 1. Locking Koizumi into the Cabinet is Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s way of turning a potential rival into a team player, according to one expert.
Big burgers and bigger ambitions for Japan's Burger King
Kazuhiro Nomura, president of BK Japan Holdings, which operates Burger King in Japan

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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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
By Alex K.T. Martin

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