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Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Feb 28, 2013
Japan hoping Tanaka, Maeda iron out issues before WBC begins
Japan has always produced good pitchers.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Feb 26, 2013
Japan will be forced to dig deep to defend WBC crown
It's debatable whether or not a team needs to play "perfect defensively" to beat Japan as Australia manager Jon Deeble lamented after his team's 10-3 loss on Sunday night.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Feb 12, 2013
Lions' Makita makes progress with slippery WBC ball
Seibu Lions right-hander Kazuhisa Makita threw two hitless innings Monday as he appears to have adapted his grip to the ball to be used in the upcoming World Baseball Classic.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Feb 12, 2013
WBC manager Yamamoto sees seven Japan candidates in intrasquad game
Japan World Baseball Classic manager Koji Yamamoto got to see seven of the 33 players invited to the national team training camp in action on Monday in a Yomiuri Giants intrasquad game.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Feb 8, 2013
Outfielder Oshima gets elbow treatment
Chunichi Dragons outfielder Yohei Oshima remains in the hunt for one of the spots on Japan's 28-man World Baseball Classic roster on Friday after receiving treatment on his left elbow.
BASEBALL / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Feb 8, 2013
Baseball legend Oh to toss first pitch at WBC
Sadaharu Oh, who managed Japan to victory in the inaugural World Baseball Classic in 2006, will throw out the ceremonial first pitch before Japan kicks off its 2013 tournament, organizers announced Thursday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Feb 2, 2013
Training camps commence for Japanese baseball teams
Spring training for the 12 Japanese pro baseball teams got under way in earnest on Friday in Miyazaki and Okinawa prefectures ahead of the season openers on March 29.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Feb 1, 2013
Warmup games, rules set for WBC
A set of special rules for the 2013 World Baseball Classic has been announced by tournament organizers, along with a busy schedule of warmup games for those countries who will play in Pool A in Fukuoka from March 2.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Jan 17, 2013
New WBC rules to limit pitch counts
The rules will be more stringent at the upcoming World Baseball Classic tournament in consideration of the workload on pitchers.
Reader Mail
Dec 6, 2012
No shortcut to the master level
A thank you to Amy Chavez for her Dec. 1 column, "The best-ever tips on learning Japanese." I am pleased that Chavez knows how to write the truth with heart. Her article is the stake in the heart of those that whine about Japanese being difficult to learn.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Dec 5, 2012
Brazil in Japan's group for World Baseball Classic
Brazil will join defending champion Japan, China and Cuba in Pool A as organizers on Monday announced the final pool compositions and the full tournament schedule for the 2013 World Baseball Classic beginning in March.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Dec 2, 2012
Samurai Japan to open defense of WBC title on March 2
Kyodo
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Nov 20, 2012
Ichiro, Kuroda decline WBC invite
Ichiro Suzuki and Hiroki Kuroda confirmed Monday what had already been brewing in the rumor mill: they will not play for two-time defending champion Japan in the 2013 World Baseball Classic.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Nov 13, 2012
New faces should have opportunity to shine for Japan in WBC
Seattle Mariners star Ichiro Suzuki and Texas Rangers reliever Akinori Otsuka were the lone major leaguers on the roster when Japan won the 2006 World Baseball Classic.
'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.
Did Japan intervene to prop up the yen? Analysts think it did.
A man walks past an electronic board displaying the exchange rate for the yen against the U.S. dollar (right) in Tokyo on Tuesday.
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.
A peek inside the brains of ‘super-agers’
For a little more than a decade, scientists have been studying a subset of people they call "super-agers.” These individuals are age 80 and older, but they have the memory ability of a person 20 to 30 years younger.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
Yellow sand allergy: A health issue made worse by climate change
A screenshot of the Meteorological Agency's satellite image of clouds and yellow sand (in pink) on Sunday.
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.

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