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Jason Coskrey
Jason Coskrey is a sports writer for The Japan Times. His primary focus is Japanese baseball, but he has also covered soccer, American football, boxing and basketball. He previously worked for the Marietta Daily Journal in Marietta, Ga. A native of Detroit, he is a graduate of the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 27, 2009
Closer Kroon ready to help Giants after return from injury
The Yomiuri Giants have ended the interleague season and are eager to return to extending their dominance of the Central League.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 27, 2009
Giants rap out 15 hits, end Tateyama's streak
With the King of Pop blasting through the sound system, the Yomiuri Giants reminded the Tokyo Yakult Swallows why they've been wearing the crown in the Central League for two years and running.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Jun 26, 2009
Sugiuchi sure Hawks will contend in PL race
The Central League probably couldn't get rid of Fukuoka Softbank Hawks pitcher Toshiya Sugiuchi fast enough by the end of the 2009 interleague season.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 21, 2009
Big first inning helps Giants chase starter Watanabe, defeat Marines
The Yomiuri Giants wanted to hit the ground running in their final interleague series of the season. As a result, they ran all over Shunsuke Watanabe and the Chiba Lotte Marines.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Jun 19, 2009
Interleague success puts Hawks in chase
No tiebreakers needed this year, the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks stand alone.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 13, 2009
Ramirez studied video to regain power stroke
Reigning Central League MVP Alex Ramirez is used to hearing a chorus sugoi (amazing) rain down from the stands after fans watch him send ball after ball into orbit.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Jun 12, 2009
Kishi quietly showing he is one of PL's elite hurlers
Hokkaido Nippon Ham ace Yu Darvish and Tohoku Rakuten fireballer Masahiro Tanaka have — and deservedly so — dominated most of the headlines regarding Pacific League pitchers this season.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 11, 2009
Nakai eager to make impact for Yomiuri
Daisuke Nakai's Yomiuri Giants career started with three ugly strikeouts.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 9, 2009
Big sticks wield power for Giants
The usually formidable Yomiuri Giants had a rough time hitting home runs last week.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Jun 8, 2009
Hawks face challenge without Wada, Otanari
It's time to see what first-year manger Koji Akiyama and the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks are made of.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Jun 5, 2009
Ogasawara making a feast of PL pitching
Michihiro Ogasawara left the Pacific League to join the Yomiuri Giants in 2007.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 2, 2009
Gonzalez enjoying early-season resurgence with Giants
On Opening Day, Yomiuri Giants pitcher Dicky Gonzalez was laboring away in the minors.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
May 29, 2009
Iwakuma, Tanaka give Eagles a real 1-2 punch
Masahiro Tanaka was electrifying during his Pacific League Rookie of the Year season in 2007. In 2008 his numbers dipped while he took a back seat to teammate Hisashi Iwakuma, who embarked on a Sawamura Award-winning 21-4 campaign.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 29, 2009
Gonzalez breaks Giants record
With starter Dicky Gonzalez dealing, the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants looked as strong as ever.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 26, 2009
Big bats ignite Giants in win over Buffaloes
The ceremony held for Shinnosuke Abe before the Yomiuri Giants' game against the Orix Buffaloes was to honor him for recently playing in his 1,000th game.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 24, 2009
Lambin ignites Marines
CHIBA — Chase Lambin put an exclamation point on a ninth-inning double with a Superman-esque dive into the bag.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
May 23, 2009
BayStars need to end managerial carousel
Well somebody had to take the fall.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
May 22, 2009
PL looking to extend interleague win streak
The NPB kicked off koryusen (interleague season) this week with the first round of games taking place in Pacific League stadiums on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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May 21, 2009
'Cowboy Shingo' tips hat to Masters achievement
The first thing you notice is the hat.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
May 15, 2009
Sophomore Sakamoto tearing up CL pitching
When then-Yomiuri Giants shortstop Tomohiro Nioka tore his calf muscle during the 2008 season opener, a star was born.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.

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