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Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Aug 5, 2019
Central League set up for exciting race to finish line
Things looked so simple in the Central League at the All-Star break.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 1, 2019
Carp continue post-All-Star surge with one-sided victory over Giants
The Hiroshima Carp look like a team that's not quite ready to give up the Central League pennant they've held onto for the past three seasons — at least not without a fight.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 24, 2019
Carp's Kris Johnson throws one-hit shutout against Dragons
Kris Johnson allowed only one hit in a complete game shutout Wednesday as he led the Hiroshima Carp to a 2-0 win over the Chunichi Dragons in the Central League.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 17, 2019
Jose Lopez goes deep to lead BayStars past Carp
Jose Lopez launched a two-run bomb in the fourth inning to lead the Yokohama BayStars to a 3-1 victory over the Hiroshima Carp in the Central League on Wednesday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 10, 2019
Carp's losing streak hits 11 with latest loss against Dragons
Two-straight bases-loaded walks extended the Hiroshima Carp's losing streak to 11 games in a 2-1 loss to the Chunichi Dragons on Wednesday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 8, 2019
Daisuke Yamai pitches Dragons over struggling Carp
Daisuke Yamai allowed a run over 6⅔ innings Monday in the Chunichi Dragons' 3-2 Central League victory over the struggling Hiroshima Carp.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 3, 2019
Munetaka Murakami's grand slam fuels Swallows' win over Carp
Tokyo Yakult Swallows rookie Munetaka Murakami crushed a fifth-inning grand slam Wednesday as the Central League cellar dwellers overpowered the Hiroshima Carp 6-2.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 28, 2019
Jose Lopez, Yoshitomo Tsutsugo slug two homers apiece as BayStars crush Carp
Jose Lopez and Yoshitomo Tsutsugo each homered twice as league play resumed on Friday in the Yokohama BayStars' 13-3 whipping of the Hiroshima Carp.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 25, 2019
Hiroshima's Aren Kuri twirls first career shutout in season's final interleague game
Aren Kuri allowed three hits and no walks over the distance to throw his first career shutout as the Hiroshima Carp beat the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 2-0 on Tuesday in the season's final interleague game.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 19, 2019
Daiki Iwashita, hard-hitting Marines too much for Carp
Daiki Iwashita took a three-hitter into the eighth inning and was backed by four home runs as the Chiba Lotte Marines beat the Hiroshima Carp 6-3 to clinch their interleague series.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 16, 2019
Kris Johnson outduels Takayuki Kishi as Carp down Eagles
Kris Johnson allowed two runs in six innings to outduel veteran right-hander Takayuki Kishi in the Hiroshima Carp's 4-2 interleague win over the Tohoku Rakuten Eagles on Sunday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 12, 2019
Top draft pick Kosei Yoshida makes winning debut as Fighters edge Carp
Kosei Yoshida, the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters' first pick in last year's NPB draft, got the win in his professional debut Wednesday as the Fighters beat the Hiroshima Carp 2-1 in interleague play.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 7, 2019
Kodai Senga shines on mound as Hawks outplay Carp
Kodai Senga struck out eight over seven scoreless innings as the Pacific League's Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks beat the three-time defending Central League champion Hiroshima Carp 6-3 on Friday in a rematch of last year's Japan Series.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 30, 2019
Carp rookie Sho Yamaguchi shines in first start as Swallows drop 14th straight
Rookie Sho Yamaguchi allowed one hit over seven scoreless innings in his starting debut on Thursday in the Hiroshima Carp's 13-0 victory over the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 28, 2019
Carp squander big lead, end Swallows' comeback hopes in ninth inning
Closer Shota Nakazaki steered the Hiroshima Carp through a nail-biting ninth-inning as the Central League leaders held on to beat the Tokyo Yakult Swallows 8-7 on Tuesday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 25, 2019
Southpaw starter Kris Johnson helps Carp extend winning streak to 11 games
Left-hander Kris Johnson pitched into the eighth inning and drove in a run to help the Hiroshima Carp extend their winning streak to 11 games by beating the Yomiuri Giants 7-5 on Saturday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 24, 2019
Carp crush Giants to extend winning streak to 10
The first several weeks of the NPB season had many wondering how it was possible for the Hiroshima Carp to start off so slowly.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 22, 2019
Daichi Osera, Tsubasa Aizawa carry red-hot Carp to ninth straight win
Daichi Osera threw a complete game and contributed with his bat as he pitched the Hiroshima Carp to their ninth straight win, a 3-1 victory over the Chunichi Dragons on Wednesday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 21, 2019
Carp's Yusuke Nomura tosses seven scoreless innings in series-opening triumph over Dragons
Yusuke Nomura had just one strikeout but got the win after throwing seven scoreless innings as the Hiroshima Carp beat the Chunichi Dragons 3-2 on Tuesday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 7, 2019
Dragons' Yudai Ono tosses three-hit shutout, fans 13 batters in rout of Carp
Yudai Ono pitched a complete-game shutout Tuesday to lead the Chunichi Dragons to a 6-0 win over the Hiroshima Carp.
'So hot you can't breathe': Extreme heat hits the Philippines
A pedestrian cools himself with a folding hand fan as he waits for a ride along a road in Manila on Wednesday, as extreme heat hit the Philippines.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Town to block view of Mount Fuji in response to overtourism
The town government of Fujikawaguchiko, Yamanashi Prefecture, decided to set up a 2.5-meter-high screen to prevent tourists from taking pictures of Mount Fuji looming behind a convenience store.
Number of vacant homes in Japan hits record high of 9 million
A vacant house in Tokyo is seen demolished in January 2020.
Weak yen fattens tourist wallets in Japan
People visit the Ameya Yokocho market in Tokyo's Ueno district during the Golden Week holiday on Tuesday.
Kishida sets sights on energy and climate in South America trip
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will use a policy speech in Sao Paulo to set out his vision for ties between Japan and South America, almost 10 years after former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe advocated for stronger ties between the two in the same city.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Climate change, chalky grains and the risks for Japan’s rice farmers
A farmer plants seedlings in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Japan’s self sufficiency rate for rice is nearly 100%, compared with 38% for food overall, on a calorie basis.
Japan wants you to spend more with ‘luxury tourism’
Performers play a traditional drum unique to Wajima, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the prefectural capital of Kanazawa on March 16 to mark the extension of the Hokuriku Shinkansen line to Tsuruga Station in Fukui Prefecture.
Theaster Gates’ ambitious ‘Afro-Mingei’ brings Black Chicago to Tokyo
Theaster Gates' “A Heavenly Chord” lines up church pews before seven speakers and a Hammond B3 organ, a type of electric organ prevalent in Black American churches.

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