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EDWIN

Reliever Edwin Escobar has allowed just three runs in his last 16 appearances for the BayStars.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 14, 2023
Hard-throwing Edwin Escobar keeping things simple with BayStars
Edwin Escobar is back to doing what he loves as the BayStars jostle for position in the Central League.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Mar 17, 2023
Mets closer Edwin Diaz expected to miss 2023 season with knee injury
New York Mets closer Edwin Diaz sustained a full thickness tear of the patellar tendon in his right knee, an injury that will require surgery. He is expected to miss the 2023 season.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Mar 16, 2023
Puerto Rico and Mets closer Edwin Diaz injured in WBC win
As Diaz neared the dugout, he was placed in a wheelchair and wheeled down the tunnel.
Japan Times
OLYMPICS / OLYMPIC NOTEBOOK
Aug 18, 2018
Statue honoring 1964 Olympic icon Billy Mills needs home
Some of track and field's biggest names have lent their prominent voices toward an effort to honor Olympic icon Billy Mills in 2020, The Japan Times has learned.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 6, 2017
BayStars acquire reliever Escobar for backup catcher
The DeNA BayStars bolstered their bullpen on Thursday, when they announced the acquisition of first-year foreign pitcher Edwin Escobar in a trade with the Nippon Ham Fighters.
Japan Times
SPORTS / MAN ABOUT SPORTS
Feb 21, 2017
Teams stock up on mid-rotation types to add depth to pitching staffs
A pedestrian pitching parade.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jan 11, 2017
Fighters acquire lefty Escobar
The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters have acquired lefty Edwin Escobar on a one-year deal, the Pacific League ballclub said Wednesday.
COMMENTARY / Japan / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK
Oct 28, 2015
Who saved Kyoto from the atomic hellfire?
Many Americans have been given credit for sparing Kyoto from bombings, both conventional and atomic, during World War II, but it turns out that an old secretary of war was responsible.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Mar 14, 2015
A tragic story of red tape and fatal ineptitude
At 2:46 p.m. on March 11, 2011, a 9-magnitude megathrust earthquake triggered a tsunami that slammed into the aging Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant along the country's northeastern coastline, less than 250 km north of the capital. In the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, the plant's power systems failed, causing cooling units to shut down and sending reactor cores into meltdown.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jan 31, 2015
Dendera
Though there's still plenty of debate about whether it was ever common for Japan's rural communities to deal with elderly relatives by leaving them to die on a mountain, it makes for a great story. Depicted in Keisuke Kinoshita's 1958 period drama, "Narayama Bushiko" ("The Ballad of Narayama") — remade by Shohei Imamura in 1983 — the practice known as ubasute plays a central role in "Dendera," Yuya Sato's macabre page-turner.
BASKETBALL
Jan 24, 2014
Former NBA forward Andre Brown joins Sendai 89ers
Andre Brown's professional basketball career can be best described as a global odyssey.
Japan Times
BASKETBALL
Dec 27, 2013
Four Akita players named All-Star starters; Fukuoka's Aoki picked for eighth time
The Akita Northern Happinets had four players named to the Eastern Conference All-Star squad for the Jan. 26 game in Akita, the bj-league announced on Friday.
BUSINESS / Companies
Nov 28, 2013
Jeans maker Edwin files for rehab
Jeans maker Edwin Co. has filed for an out-of-court procedure to rehabilitate its business through a private-sector intermediary, a credit research agency and lawyers said Wednesday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Sep 28, 2013
MRI viewed as Ponzi scheme by FBI in 2009
The FBI probed MRI International Inc. in 2009 on suspicion that it was running a Ponzi scheme, according to a source who cooperated with the investigation.
BASKETBALL
Sep 10, 2013
Kyoto signs swingman Ubiles
The Kyoto Hannaryz have bolstered their roster with the addition of guard/forward Edwin Ubiles, who has spent the majority of the past two seasons in the NBA Development League.

Longform

Historically, kabuki was considered the entertainment of the merchant and peasant classes, a far cry from how it is regarded today.
For Japan's oldest kabuki theater, the show must go on