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FIGHTERS

Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 3, 2023
Kazuma Okamoto hits sayonara double as Giants edge Fighters
Okamoto hit a double to left to drive in the game-winning run.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 2, 2023
Shingo Kawabata provides spark as Swallows earn first win since May 14
The Swallows had one tie and 12 losses in their previous 13 games.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 18, 2023
Naoyuki Uwasawa pitches shutout to lead Fighters past Lions
Naoyuki Uwasawa struck out nine over the distance for his first shutout in five years as the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters beat the Seibu Lions 3-0 on Wednesday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 9, 2023
Fighters acquire switch-hitting infielder Alen Hanson
The 30-year-old from the Dominican Republic played a total of 261 MLB games for the Pirates, White Sox, Giants and Blue Jays.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 5, 2023
Fighters flirt with combined no-hitter in win over Lions
Newly minted starter Koki Kitayama and four relievers came within one out of a combined no-hitter as the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters blanked the Seibu Lions 1-0 in the Pacific League on Thursday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Apr 17, 2023
Overlooked Takayuki Kato continues to make noise for Fighters
Takayuki Kato has quietly been one of the most effective pitchers in NPB.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 6, 2023
Roki Sasaki strikes out 11 to help Marines sweep past Fighters
Sasaki was pitching for the first time this season after helping Samurai Japan win the World Baseball Classic in March.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 31, 2023
Fighters debut 'best stadium in the world' as NPB kicks off new season
The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters have touted the opening of their new home, Es Con Field Hokkaido, as the dawning of a new generation.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 31, 2023
Masahiro Tanaka feels right at home as away team pitcher in Hokkaido opener
Tanaka has rarely had the opportunity to start on opening day in Japan, twice because of his participation in the WBC and also because he spent 2014 to 2020 in MLB.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 30, 2023
Eagles spoil Fighters' first game in new home on opening night of NPB season
The Eagles' Maikel Franco hit a home run and finished with three hits in his NPB debut.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 29, 2023
Hawks load up to chase Buffaloes for 2023 Pacific League pennant
Orix retained most of the squad that helped it defend its PL title, but the Kyocera Dome residents will have to fend off plenty of challenges.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 22, 2022
NPB's 2023 season to begin at Fighters' new stadium
Nippon Ham and Rakuten swapped the rights to host their season openers in 2023 and 2024 in order to allow the Fighters to start next year at the new ballpark.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 21, 2022
Fighters to host opening game of 2023 NPB season at new stadium
The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters will begin their 2023 season at their new stadium on March 30 against the Tohoku Rakuten Eagles, a day before the other Nippon Professional Baseball teams play, according to the schedule released Monday by the Pacific League.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 15, 2022
NPB OKs temporary use of Fighters' new park despite flaw
The net in front of the first row of seats behind home plate must be at least 60 feet from the base, roughly three meters farther away than the new park's stands.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 6, 2022
Munetaka Murakami homers as Japan's WBC team edges Fighters
Japan is aiming for its third World Baseball Classic title next March, having won the first two of the four previous editions.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 18, 2022
There’s one way to wean India off Russian weapons
Switching to Western platforms is expensive. Instead India needs to do the hard work of developing a viable domestic defense industry.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Sep 4, 2022
Strikeout artist Yu Darvish credits success to getting good breaks
Darvish joined Hideo Nomo on Friday as just the second pitcher with 3,000 pro strikeouts and 1,000 each in Japan and MLB.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 28, 2022
Fighters' Cody Ponce throws season's fifth no-hitter
The 113-pitch gem was the 98th in Japan's majors, with the former Pirate becoming the 87th pitcher to throw one in the regular season.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Aug 27, 2022
Ex-Fighters manager Hillman says club's fearlessness allowed Ohtani to blossom
'They showed a tremendous lack of fear for ... making wise decisions on someone they thought had an opportunity to be a great commodity and a two-way player.'
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 21, 2022
Tsuyoshi Wada pitches Hawks past Fighters to series sweep
The win at PayPay Dome completed a three-game sweep for the Hawks, who began the day a half-game back of the first-place Saitama Seibu Lions.
When will Japan intervene to support the yen?
Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki has reiterated the government's readiness to take an appropriate action as the yen continues to slide against the U.S. dollar.
'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.
Raising kids in Japan as a single parent? It takes a village.
Making things work as a foreign, single mother in Japan isn't easy, but these tips and tricks can help you through the hardest parts.
Yen rebounds strongly after first slide past ¥160 since 1990
The yen dropped to ¥160.245 per dollar on Monday before heading into the other direction to ¥155.01 amid speculation of an intervention by Japanese currency authorities.
Man, 28, arrested in Okinawa over burned bodies found in Tochigi
Hikaru Sasaki enters the Metropolitan Police Department's Osaki police station in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Monday after being arrested on suspicion of disposing of two bodies found in Nasu, Tochigi Prefecture, earlier this month.
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.
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.

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