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SAMURAI JAPAN

Japan Times
BASEBALL
Nov 12, 2015
Venezuela's Jimenez puts friendships aside during heated Premier 12 competition
While playing for the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters in 2009 and for the Lotte Giants of the Korea Baseball Organization in 2014, Venezuela's Luis Jimenez developed many friendships on both teams.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Nov 12, 2015
Japan beats Mexico on sayonara single
Samurai Japan earned its second win ― its first since arriving in Taiwan ― through a hard-fought battle.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Nov 10, 2015
Samurai Japan makes preparations for Premier 12 clash against Mexico
Though he didn't get the nod to start in Sunday's Premier 12 opener in Sapporo, Kenta Maeda is still believed to be the main guy on Samurai Japan's pitching corps.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 9, 2015
Otani lives up to top billing in Premier 12 opener
That's what you call dominance.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 8, 2015
Otani stymies Korea to help Japan win Premier 12 opener
Shohei Otani silenced the powerful South Korea lineup and benefited from some timely hitting by his teammates, as the Japan national team began its quest for the championship in the inaugural Premier 12 with a 5-0 win at Sapporo Dome on Sunday night.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Nov 7, 2015
Japan rallies past Puerto Rico in ninth
Shogo Akiyama reached base five times, drove in the tying run and scored the game-winner in the ninth inning as Samurai Japan overcame a two-run deficit to beat Puerto Rico 3-2 in their second Premier 12 warm-up game on Friday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 6, 2015
Samurai Japan whips Puerto Rico in Premier 12 warmup
Kenta Maeda struck out eight of the 10 batters he faced for Japan in Thursday's 8-3 Premier 12 warmup win over Puerto Rico, but it was another story for Shohei Otani, who is slated to start Sunday's opener.
BASEBALL
Oct 22, 2015
Fujinami to skip Premier 12 due to ailing shoulder
Hanshin Tigers pitcher Shintaro Fujinami said Thursday he has pulled out of the Japan national team ahead of next month's inaugural Premier 12 competition due to inflammation in his right shoulder.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Oct 9, 2015
Kokubo revals Japan's 28-man squad for Premier 12 tournament
Samurai Japan skipper Hiroki Kokubo announced his 28-man final squad for next month's WSBC Premier 12 on Friday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 16, 2015
Samurai Japan announces provisional roster for Premier 12
Skipper Hiroki Kokubo announced the Samurai Japan national baseball team's first provisional roster for November's inaugural WBSC Premier 12 on Thursday afternoon.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 23, 2015
Kokubo eyeing Kuroda for Premier 12
Japan skipper Hiroki Kokubo said Monday he is flirting with the idea of calling up the Hiroshima Carp's veteran right-hander Hiroki Kuroda for the inaugural Premier 12 this fall.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Mar 14, 2015
Japan still building for Premier 12, WBC
Atsunori Inaba knows a thing or two about the highs and lows of international competition.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Mar 11, 2015
Team Europe jumps out to early lead, earns series split against Japan
This time Team Europe shut the door on one of the world's best.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Mar 10, 2015
Samurai Japan stages comeback victory over Team Europe
Samurai Japan was on the ropes against a team of European stars hungry for a marquee win in its first game together as Team Europe.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 9, 2015
Kokubo urges Samurai Japan to pay fitting tribute
Samurai Japan manager Hiroki Kokubo said Monday that this week's games against Europe are important for both his players and as a reminder of the disaster that struck the Tohoku region four years ago.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Feb 16, 2015
Kokubo names Samurai Japan squad for March games
Manager Hiroki Kokubo announced a familiar-looking squad on Monday for Samurai Japan's March games against a team of players from Europe.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jan 19, 2015
Japan to co-host Premier 12 baseball world tourney
Japan was the first-ever champion of the World Baseball Classic, lifting the championship trophy on foreign soil in 2006. If Samurai Japan repeats the feat at the inaugural Premier 12, the Japanese will get to do all their celebrating at home.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Nov 22, 2014
Dueling goals drove Samurai Japan
One way of looking at Samurai Japan's victory in the MLB-Japan All-Star Series is from the point of view that the Japanese team proved once again it could hold its own against the major leaguers.
Japan Times
BASEBALL
Nov 20, 2014
Japan grabs exhibition victory over MLB All-Stars in tour finale
Samurai Japan halts a two-game losing streak on Thursday, beating a team of major leaguers 6-4 in an exhibition that wrapped up MLB's tour of Japan.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Nov 19, 2014
Samurai Japan, MLB stars not ready to ease up in exhibition
After Samurai Japan beat an MLB team 3-2 in the Japan-MLB All-Star Series, Thursday's exhibition in Okinawa gives the big leaguers a chance to ostensibly go home with a .500 record against the host nation.
Rare sequel to 'My Neighbor Totoro' to play at Cannes
A screening of "Mei and the Baby Cat Bus," which is being billed as a "mini-sequel" to the Studio Ghibli classic "My Neighbor Totoro," is set to take place at the Cannes Film Festival on Monday.
America wasn’t made for walking, and it’s killing them
A 2010 study found that U.S. adults averaged 5,117 steps daily and that this was lower than the averages found in similar studies in Switzerland, western Australia and Japan.
Fuchu Prison adapting to foreign prisoners
From the outside, the light-brown complex that is Fuchu Prison in western Tokyo could easily be mistaken for a city hall.
Why half of Japan's cities are at risk of disappearing in 100 years
A couple looks out onto the Fukuoka nightscape. Due to its distance from Tokyo and its close proximity to South Korea and China, professor Tomoya Mori believes that Fukuoka is one of the few metropolitan regions of Japan that will see some form of growth in the decades to come.
Japan concerned over U.S. officials' remarks on atomic bombings
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham speaks to reporters during a news conference in Washington on Thursday.
Fuchu Prison adapting to foreign prisoners
From the outside, the light-brown complex that is Fuchu Prison in western Tokyo could easily be mistaken for a city hall.
The politicians moving Japan forward on climate
While not the most outspoken politician on the issue, digital minister Taro Kono has a track record of being serious in his commitment to addressing the climate crisis.
Seoul's eclectic Art OnO shines light on Japan's artists and galleries
Art OnO, which took place from April 19 to 21 in Seoul, featured a modest number of 36 participating galleries from 15 countries.
Want to be a voice actor? Stay 'true to the character'
SungWon Cho is a veteran with more than 10 years of experience portraying characters in anime, cartoons and video games.
Local theater in Japan is more than a hobby — it’s a community
Japan Times contributor Laura Pollacco (front right) was offered the role of one of her all-time favorite heroines, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Bennet, in the Tokyo International Players’ production of “Pride and Prejudice.”

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