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EAGLES

Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Oct 27, 2013
Rookie Norimoto gives Eagles hope for promising future
When the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles lost ace Hisashi Iwakuma to the major leagues in 2011, they had another, Masahiro Tanaka, waiting in the wings.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 26, 2013
Giants hold off brilliant rookie Norimoto in Game 1
Takahiro Norimoto gave his best Masahiro Tanaka impression with a forkball that was working all night and a variety of other pitches that looked just as sharp.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 25, 2013
Eagles upbeat before Japan Series opener against Giants
Rain kept the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles indoors on Friday, but hasn't dampened the enthusiasm ahead of their first Japan Series appearance, which comes against the storied Yomiuri Giants.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 24, 2013
Eagles win rights to coveted lefty Matsui
Tohoku Rakuten club president Yozo Tachibana had no choice but to take the last ticket from the lottery box, because the representatives from the other four teams had already chosen by the time his turn arrived.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 21, 2013
Eagles reach first Japan Series
Sendai celebrated on Monday as the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles advanced to their first Japan Series by clinching the Pacific League Climax Series Final Stage with an 8-5 win in Game 4 over the Chiba Lotte Marines.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 20, 2013
Rain washes out fourth game of Climax Series
Sendai will have to wait at least another day to celebrate its first Japan Series berth after Game 4 of the Pacific League Climax Series final stage was rained out on Sunday afternoon at Kleenex Stadium.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 19, 2013
Mima tosses four-hit shutout against Marines
Manabu Mima pitched his first career shutout and the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles moved to within one win of bringing Sendai its first Japan Series after a 2-0 win over the Chiba Lotte Marines in Saturday's Game 3 of the Pacific League Climax Series final stage.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 18, 2013
Brazell delivers game-winning HR in 10th against Eagles
Craig Brazell came off the bench to lift the Chiba Lotte Marines to their first win of the Pacific League Climax Series Final Stage in Friday's Game 2, a 4-2 victory over the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles in 10 innings.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 17, 2013
Unbeaten Tanaka leads Eagles past Marines
Masahiro Tanaka's unbeaten year continued on Thursday, when the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles ace defeated the Chiba Lotte Marines 2-0 to win Game 1 of the Pacific League Climax Series Final Stage.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 16, 2013
Ace Tanaka leads Eagles quest to reach Japan Series for first time
Masahiro Tanaka's record-setting regular season is over and starting Thursday, he and his Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles teammates will set their sights on making more history in the final stage of the Pacific League Climax Series against the Chiba Lotte Marines.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 8, 2013
Eagles' Tanaka runs record to 24-0 in storybook season
Masahiro Tanaka (24-0) allowed two runs in seven innings on Tuesday to win his 28th consecutive decision as the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles came from behind to beat the Orix Buffaloes 7-3.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 5, 2013
Nakamura carries Lions to sixth straight triumph, into PL Climax Series
Takeya Nakamura hit a tiebreaking homer leading off the ninth inning Saturday, lifting the Seibu Lions to a 2-1 win over the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles to send his team into the Pacific League Climax Series for the fourth year in a row.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Oct 5, 2013
Kaneko's fine season lost in 'Ma-kun' mania
When the "Year of Ma-kun" comes to an end and Masahiro Tanaka collects the hardware likely headed his way as NPB's best pitcher, there should be at least a little praise left over for Orix Buffaloes pitcher Chihiro Kaneko.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 4, 2013
Eagles skipper Hoshino accepts new multiyear deal
Senichi Hoshino, who last week clinched his fourth league pennant as a manager and the first for the nine-year-old Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, has accepted a new multiyear contract, the Pacific League champs revealed Friday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 4, 2013
Eagles' Tanaka receives PL pitching honor for fifth consecutive month
Masahiro Tanaka continued to rule Nippon Professional Baseball's monthly awards for the fifth straight month, when the winners of the Central and Pacific leagues' pitchers and players of the month were announced on Friday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 1, 2013
Eagles' Tanaka improves to 23-0 in magical season
As if on cue, the Pacific League pennant winner Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles came through for right-hander Masahiro Tanaka — and big.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Sep 30, 2013
Another challenge awaits Rakuten
Clinching the Pacific League pennant a little early gave the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles a chance to really enjoy the moment.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 27, 2013
Marines rout new PL champion Eagles
A night after breaking out the bubbly to celebrate their first ever Pacific League title, the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles were understandably in need of a collective pick-me-up during a sluggish performance against the second-place Chiba Lotte Marines.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 26, 2013
Eagles clinch first Pacific League title
In a game of high drama, the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles clinched their first Pacific League pennant on Thursday night in a come-from-behind 4-3 victory over the Seibu Lions.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 24, 2013
Lions rally past Eagles
Shogo Akiyama and Takeya Nakamura hit back-to-back RBI singles as the Seibu Lions came from two runs down to beat rookie right-hander Takahiro Norimoto and the Pacific League-leading Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 4-3 on Tuesday night.
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Plaintiff Miyuki Ariga (left) speaks at a news conference along with her lawyer, Yoshitomo Morohashi, after filing a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on Monday.
Three men rearrested over brokering of overseas prostitution
A woman speaks of her experience of being sent to Macau by an overseas prostitution broker during an interview in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on April 8.
Ex-METI bureaucrat given 10-year sentence for drugging and raping women
The Tokyo District Court on Monday sentenced a former industry ministry bureaucrat to 10 years in prison for drugging six women with sleeping pills and then raping or groping them in 2022.
Money stolen via online transfers up fivefold in Tokyo
Special fraud cases in Tokyo in which stolen money was sent via online banking services grew some fivefold from the previous year in 2023.
How the discovery of a giant sword in Nara offers clues into ancient Japan
Archaeologists say a 1,600-year-old wooden coffin at the Tomio Maruyama tumulus in the city of Nara was kept in good condition probably because it was protected by a layer of clay and copper ions that had seeped out of the mirrors that were buried together.
In a rare event, the Northern Lights show up in Hokkaido
The Northern Lights in Nayoro, Hokkaido, on Saturday
Is black the new green for Japan’s flagging tea farmers?
George Guttridge-Smith brews tea at Kyoto Obubu Tea Farm in Wazuka, Kyoto Prefecture, where he serves as head of international development.
Japan's logistics firms seek partnerships to cope with driver shortage
Japan Post CEO Tetsuya Senda (right) and his Seino Transportation counterpart Satoshi Takahashi announce their companies' agreement on joint long-haul truck operations, in Tokyo on Thursday.
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