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HIT AND RUN

Japan Times
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Apr 12, 2009
'Stars should bring Pedro to Yokohama
The Yokohama BayStars won their first game of the season on Friday night and would do well to enjoy it.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Mar 29, 2009
The Japanese way carried the day in World Baseball Classic
Baseball may have been invented in the United States, but it's being perfected in Japan.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Mar 23, 2009
WBC needs variety to provide more spice
The World Baseball Classic may involve 16 nations, but this year's tournament has looked more like a Japan-South Korea invitational.
Japan Times
SPORTS / HIT AND RUN
Mar 15, 2009
Group linked to Valentine explored buying BayStars
Like a batter with three strikes, Bobby Valentine is promising to go down swinging.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Feb 24, 2009
Darvish, young pitchers set to play vital role in WBC title defense
Established pitchers Daisuke Matsuzaka and Hisashi Iwakuma will lead defending champion Samurai Japan into the World Baseball Classic, but a host of young arms may end up deciding the nation's place in the baseball world.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Feb 18, 2009
A-Rod's admission could hurt game on world stage
Less than a month after a thrilling Super Bowl all eyes are again on Tampa, Fla.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
May 23, 2008
Departure of Collins latest sign Buffaloes are in disarray
Something stinks in Kansai.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Apr 4, 2008
NPB moving to dissuade 'major' moves
Nippon Professional Baseball earlier this week announced that it will present a proposal to the players' association aimed at shortening the free-agency period to seven years for players drafted out of college and the industrial leagues and eight years for players drafted out of high school beginning with the upcoming draft.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Feb 21, 2008
Power-hitting phenom Nakata thrust into spotlight
As if professional baseball isn't hard enough on rookies, try tackling what Hokkaido Nippon Ham newcomer Sho Nakata is probably about to go through.
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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