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NIPPON HAM FIGHTERS

Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 6, 2013
Tanaka tosses complete-game victory, raises record to 20-0
Masahiro Tanaka equaled the mark for Japan's longest winning streak within a single season as he improved to 20-0 on Friday in the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles' 3-2 win over the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 5, 2013
Obiki, Fighters clobber Hawks
Keiji Obiki helped erase a four-run deficit with a come-from-behind grand slam in the second inning, and the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters went on to rout the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks 11-5 on Thursday night at Tokyo Dome.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 25, 2013
Yoshikawa leads Fighters past Buffaloes
Lefty Mitsuo Yoshikawa pitched into the eighth inning and struck out nine en route to winning his first decision since June 28 in the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters' 3-0 win over the Orix Buffaloes on Sunday afternoon.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Aug 4, 2013
Fighters pitcher Wolfe not ready to give up on season
Brian Wolfe's confidence is not shaken.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 3, 2013
Tanaka stretches winning streak to 19 decisions
Tohoku Rakuten ace Masahiro Tanaka tied the Japan pro baseball record with his 15th consecutive win to start a season in a 12-strikeout effort as the Pacific League-leading Eagles rallied to beat the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 4-1 on Friday night.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 31, 2013
Fighters end six-game slide with offensive outburst
Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters rookie Shohei Otani wasn't very good on Tuesday night, and the Chiba Lotte Marines' Tomohisa Otani didn't fare much better.Neither of the dueling Otanis went home with a decision, but Shohei Otani's teammates made sure he left QVC Marine Field the happier of the two.Shogo Akada capped a four-run fifth inning with a tie breaking RBI double, Shota Ono and Daikan Yoh blew the game open with home runs in the ninth, and the Fighters added to Lotte's recent struggles with a 9-5 win in front of a crowd of 27,904 in Chiba.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Jul 22, 2013
Otani's presence hard to ignore during NPB All-Star Series
If this year's NPB All-Star Series was about anything, it was about Shohei Otani.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 15, 2013
Yang leads way as Fighters punch out Lions
Taiwan international Yang Dai-kang blasted two home runs and drove in four runs to pace the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters to a 14-3 clubbing of the Seibu Lions on Monday afternoon.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 12, 2013
Kawai, Akaminai provide heroics against Fighters
Lefty Takashi Kawai (3-0) threw seven scoreless innings and Ginji Akaminai opened the scoring with a two-run triple on Thursday as the Pacific League-leading Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles defeated the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 3-0.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 9, 2013
Tanaka blanks Fighters, improves to 12-0
Eagles hurler Masahiro Tanaka scattered four hits, all singles, in another brilliant outing en route to winning his 12th consecutive decision since the beginning of the season and recorded his second shutout this year.Tohoku Rakuten defeated the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 5-0 on Tuesday night at Tokyo Dome.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 30, 2013
Kisanuki tosses complete game; Fighters cruise to fifth straight win
Hiroshi Kisanuki went the distance on one-run ball, Keiji Obiki hit a bases-clearing triple in a five-run sixth inning and the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters routed the Seibu Lions 9-1 to win their fifth game in a row on Saturday afternoon.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 26, 2013
Fighters show moxie in comeback victory
The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters may be in last place in the Pacific League, but, as their nickname implies, there is a lot of fight in the team from Japan's northern island.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 25, 2013
Nakata, Abreu double-punch sinks Marines
Masaru Takeda pitched three-run ball over five innings, and Sho Nakata and Michel Abreu each homered to power the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters in a 5-3 win over the Chiba Lotte Marines on Monday night.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 24, 2013
Marines scrap for much-needed win over Fighters
The Marines didn't necessarily play their best game, but it didn't bother them. They were desperate for a "W" as the pennant race resumed.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 19, 2013
Fighters rally past Carp in interleague finale
Hokkaido Nippon Ham rookie right-hander Shohei Otani made his debut pitching and batting in the same game, tossing four innings of three-run ball while batting in the No. 5 spot in the Fighters' 7-4 win over the Hiroshima Carp on Tuesday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 14, 2013
Fighters' Kisanuki shuts out Tigers
Hiroshi Kisanuki posted his first shutout as a member of the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters on Thursday in a 3-0 interleague victory over the Hanshin Tigers, who fell from the top spot in the Central League standings.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / MLB
Jun 9, 2013
Darvish impressing experts with his strikeout ability
If you watch the home broadcast for one of Yu Darvish's starts for the Texas Rangers, you will, at some point, hear play-by-play man Steve Busby exhorting, "got him swinging," after Darvish fans a batter.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 7, 2013
Giants' Abe slugs game-winning home run in eighth
Shinnosuke Abe stood at the plate with two outs and down to his final strike with his team losing in the eighth inning.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 2, 2013
Nippon Ham's Otani earns first NPB victory
A three-home run salvo helped lift Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters rookie Shohei Otani (1-0) to his first career victory, a 7-3 win over the Chunichi Dragons on Saturday afternoon.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
May 24, 2013
Fighters rookie Otani makes solid impression in mound debut
As far as debuts go, Shohei Otani's delivered. The celebrated rookie pitched fairly well on Thursday night, and though he finished outside the decision, he left the mound with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters well within striking distance of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
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Sapporo court ruling on Ainu fishing rights presents tough questions
A traditional Ainu preserved food called <i>satchep</i> (dried fish) being made at the government-run National Ainu Museum and Park, nicknamed Upopoy, in the town of Shiraoi, Hokkaido, on Dec. 25. The Sapporo District Court ruled last month that the Raporo Ainu Nation's rights as an Indigenous people did not extend to having an inherent right to fish for commercial reasons.

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