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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

Oct 16, 2015

Swallows persevere, capitalize on key opportunities in Game 3 triumph over Giants

Tokyo Yakult Swallows fans were singing in the rain on Friday night at Jingu Stadium. If their club can come up with one more win, the Yakult faithful will carry their tune all the way to Fukuoka.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Oct 15, 2015

Swallows blank Giants in Game 2 of CLCS

The Tokyo Yakult Swallows finally landed a knockout blow against Yomiuri Giants pitcher Miles Mikolas. The fact they got some of their own stars going in the process has them sizing up the rest of the Giants for a similar knockdown before everything is said and done.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN

Oct 15, 2015

Time for NPB to rethink senseless playoff format

Where else but Japanese baseball can a team lose Game 1 of a playoff series and show up at the ballpark the next day down 0-2?

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Oct 14, 2015

Giants wipe out deficit with Game 1 win

The Yomiuri Giants were at a one-game disadvantage before the first pitch was even thrown in the Central League Climax Series final stage.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Oct 14, 2015

Balentien ready to go after fine-tuning game

The Tokyo Yakult Swallows had a lengthy break between the end of the regular season (Oct. 4) and the beginning of the Central League Climax Series final stage on Wednesday night.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Oct 13, 2015

Strong bullpen helped transform Swallows into title contenders

If you don't get to the Tokyo Yakult Swallows early, you might not get to the Birds at all.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Oct 12, 2015

Giants finish Tigers, set up Swallows showdown

The Yomiuri Giants finally managed to cage the Hanshin Tigers once and for all.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Oct 11, 2015

Tigers stave off elimination

As reporters left the field at the conclusion of the Hanshin Tigers' batting practice, Tom O'Malley, one of the team's hitting coaches, gave a wave and said, "We'll see you tomorrow."

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Oct 10, 2015

Giants slip past Tigers in opener

Yoshinobu Takahashi picked up the biggest RBI of the Yomiuri Giants' season without even swinging his bat.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Oct 9, 2015

Tigers, Giants make final preparations for playoffs

The Hanshin Tigers had their bags packed earlier in the week, they just didn't know if they were headed for the playoffs or the offseason.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN

Oct 5, 2015

Yamada deserving of MVP award

Last Friday, after the Tokyo Yakult Swallows were crowned as the best team in the Central League for 2015, Tetsuto Yamada wasn't quite ready to weigh in on the topic of the CL's best player.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Oct 3, 2015

Ishikawa savors resilient Swallows' rise from cellar to CL champions

Masanori Ishikawa was soaked in beer from head to toe. The white Central League Champions T-shirt clung to the veteran Tokyo Yakult Swallows pitcher as he shuffled onto the makeshift stage in center field after the Swallows' pennant-clinching 11-inning 2-1 victory over the Hanshin Tigers on Friday night....

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Oct 2, 2015

Swallows claim first CL pennant since 2001

The Swallows fans packed into the stands at Jingu Stadium had already been cheering about as loud as they had all season for the past four hours

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Oct 1, 2015

Murton reflects on Akiyama's pursuit of single-season hit record

On Oct. 5, 2010, Matt Murton made NPB history with a single into center on a wet night at Jingu Stadium that propelled him past Ichiro Suzuki and established a new NPB record for hits in an single season.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 30, 2015

Pena irked by Okubo's comments

Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles slugger Wily Mo Pena has taken exception to comments his manager, Hiromoto "Dave" Okubo, made to the media recently.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 29, 2015

Opportunistic Carp spoil Swallows' celebration plans

The Hiroshima Carp have more work to do during the regular season in order to get where they want to be. Now the Tokyo Yakult Swallows still do as well.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN

Sep 28, 2015

Swallows can see finish line as race for pennant nears end

Before the 2015 NPB season, Nippon Television commentator Suguru Egawa, a former Yomiuri Giants pitcher, named the Tokyo Yakult Swallows as his pick to win the Central League pennant.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 26, 2015

Giants pull within game of CL-leading Swallows

The Yomiuri Giants kept the magic going at Tokyo Dome and kept their chance at a fourth consecutive Central League pennant alive in the process.

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LIFE / Digital

Sep 19, 2015

Muscular Australian shows off Tokyo Game Show's other side

Australian Lee Carmichael stands out from the standard fare of promotional models at this weekend's Tokyo Game Show because, unlike 95 percent of those hired to attract attention, Carmichael is a man.

LIFE / Digital

Sep 17, 2015

8-4 turns your game's 'Engrish' into English

'Gaming Jesus" is ready to give the 8-4 tour. "It won't take long," he promises. The office that houses his game localization company is quite cozy.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

Visitors walk past Sou Fujimoto's Grand Ring, which has been recognized as the largest wooden structure in the world.

Can a World Expo still matter? Japan is about to find out.

By Tomoko Otake

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