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DRAGONS

Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 22, 2022
Dragons end Yakult's eight-game winning run in walk-off
A pitcher's duel saw the game knotted up at 1-1 in the tenth inning before pinch hitter Taiki Mitsumata drove in the winning run with a bases-loaded single.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 29, 2022
Dragons' Taiki Mitsumata gets better of Orix ace in interleague win
The 30-year-old overcame last year's Sawamura Award winner in a long at-bat before breaking a 1-1 eighth-inning tie at Kyocera Dome Osaka.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 25, 2022
Giants get off to winning start with victory over Dragons
The Giants took the lead for good after rallying for three runs in the fifth inning.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 23, 2022
Central League clubs enter 2022 in race to catch Swallows
Yakult, which went from worst to first in 2021, will now face the pressure of trying to defend its throne from five challengers with ambitions of grandeur.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jan 14, 2022
Masahiro Yamamoto and Shingo Takatsu elected to Japan's Baseball Hall of Fame
Side-arm closer Shingo Takatsu and seemingly ageless lefty Masahiro Yamamoto were announced as the newest members of the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame on Friday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 29, 2021
Chunichi names 'Mr. Dragons' Kazuyoshi Tatsunami as new manager
The Chunichi Dragons on Friday named their former star infielder Kazuyoshi Tatsunami as the new manager of the Central League club, while the Pacific League's Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks confirmed second-team manager Hiroshi Fujimoto will be promoted as their new skipper.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 3, 2021
Jefry Marte and Haruto Takahashi keep Tigers in thick of pennant race
The Tigers, seeking their first Central League pennant in 16 years, trail the Tokyo Yakult Swallows by a game after Saturday's impressive win over the Dragons.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 28, 2021
Veteran pitcher Kenichi Nakata to end 17-year pro career
The 39-year-old has 100 career wins, reaching the milestone in 2018 with SoftBank, but has not seen any top-team action this season.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 15, 2021
Yoshihiro Maru drives Giants past Dragons
Maru's pair of home runs kept Yomiuri in second place, one game back of the Hanshin Tigers.
Japan Times
MORE SPORTS
Jun 21, 2021
NPB and J. League aim to complete COVID-19 vaccinations during Olympic break
Japan's professional baseball and soccer leagues are aiming to complete COVID-19 vaccinations of all willing players and officials by the end of their Tokyo Olympic hiatus, their joint COVID-19 task force said Monday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / The week in NPB
May 31, 2021
Dragons help Central League get off to fast start in interleague play
Round one goes to the Central League and, of all teams, the Chunichi Dragons.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 14, 2021
Jerry Sands homers in eighth to lift Tigers over Dragons in pitchers' duel
With two outs in the eighth, the right-handed-hitting Sands homered off right-handed side-armer Katsuki Matayoshi (0-1).
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 3, 2021
BayStars' Michael Peoples tosses six shutout innings to earn win in 2021 debut
The 29-year-old American struck out five, walked none and limited the Dragons to four hits.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / The week in NPB
May 3, 2021
Eric Thames' injury mars debut of Giants' high-profile foreign stars
After everything it took for Thames to get to Japan, he's now heading back to the U.S. for surgery after less than three full innings in NPB.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 1, 2021
Dragons' batters come up big against Giants
The Chunichi Dragons beat the Yomiuri Giants with a great performance on the mound on Friday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 28, 2021
Yudai Ono gets first win as Dragons hold off Tigers
Yudai Ono threw eight innings of two-hit, one-run ball and earned his first win of the season Tuesday as the Chunichi Dragons came back to beat the Central League-leading Hanshin Tigers 2-1.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 14, 2021
Seishu Hatake nearly tosses shutout to lead Giants past Dragons
Seishu Hatake lamented the fact he couldn't pitch until the end of the Yomiuri Giants' game against the Chunichi Dragons.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Dec 12, 2020
Former major leaguer Kosuke Fukudome returns to Dragons
Former big league outfielder Kosuke Fukudome returned to the Chunichi Dragons, his first pro team, the Central League club announced Saturday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 23, 2020
Dragons ace Yudai Ono wins Sawamura Award
Ono is the ninth Dragons pitcher to win the award and first since Kenshin Kawakami in 2004.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / The week in NPB
Oct 19, 2020
NPB stars prepare to say goodbye as season winds down
It's retirement season in NPB.
'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.
A peek inside the brains of ‘super-agers’
For a little more than a decade, scientists have been studying a subset of people they call "super-agers.” These individuals are age 80 and older, but they have the memory ability of a person 20 to 30 years younger.
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.
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.
Casa del Cibo: A thriving jewel born from Tohoku’s harsh past
When chef Ryohei Ikemi moved to Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and opened Casa del Cibo in 2011, it was the first proper Italian restaurant in the city.

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