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'Home Run Jizo' testament of bond between Sadaharu Oh and ailing boy

Baseball / Japanese Baseball | Sac Bunts May 13, 2019

'Home Run Jizo' testament of bond between Sadaharu Oh and ailing boy

by Jason Coskrey

It's raining hard at Shinbanba station in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward. Pouring, actually, real cats-and-dogs-type stuff. Sac Bunts is here, on the Keikyu Line platform, with Marty Kuehnert, former general manager of NPB's Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles and currently a senior GM with the B. League's ...

Iki Island: the stones and stories that keep paradise from floating away

Travel Jun 7, 2014

Iki Island: the stones and stories that keep paradise from floating away

by Edan Corkill

Legend has it that many years ago the pretty little island of Iki was not connected to the seafloor. Instead, it floated around at the whim of the currents, presumably bobbing back and forth between Japan, China and the Korean Peninsula. Imagine what a nightmare ...

Stone, sweat and stamps: chasing Jizos in Kamakura

Our Lives | JAPAN LITE May 18, 2014

Stone, sweat and stamps: chasing Jizos in Kamakura

by Amy Chavez

Amy Chavez gets to know Jizo Bosatsu — the Buddhist deity who looks after travelers and children — a little better, by embarking on a 24-site Jizo Pilgrimage jog through Kamakura.

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