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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.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 18, 2013
Dutch prospect Profar aiming to prolong WBC fairy tale
Depending on whom you ask, Jurickson Profar, an infielder in the Texas Rangers' system, is either the best middle infield prospect in baseball, or simply the best prospect in baseball.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Mar 15, 2013
Second-round resurgence makes Samurai Japan a legitimate title contender
Two-time defending champion Japan has shown signs of improvement after a shaky start in the World Baseball Classic. Or as infielder Atsunori Inaba put it: 'We've become a better team as the tournament has progressed.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 13, 2013
Japan ends second round with win over the Netherlands
Two-time defending WBC champion Japan beats the Netherlands 10-6 in the final second-round, Pool 1 game, scoring eight times in the second inning.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 12, 2013
Dutch shock Cuba to make WBC semifinals
The Netherlands' players began spilling out of the dugout after Xander Bogaerts' soft fly ball touched down in right field, and Andruw Jones rounded third representing the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning of what may have been the most important game in the history of baseball in the Netherlands....
Japan Times
BASEBALL / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 11, 2013
Japan pounds Netherlands to reach WBC final round
Japan punches its ticket to the final round of the World Baseball Classic with a 16-4 rout of the Netherlands.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 10, 2013
Cuba belts four homers, crushes Taiwan in mercy rule-shortened game
Facing elimination, mighty Cuba knocked balls out of the park almost as fast at it knocked Taiwan out of the World Baseball Classic.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 9, 2013
Japan beats Taiwan 4-3 at World Baseball Classic
Thanks to Sho Nakata's tie-breaking run with a sacrifice fly in the 10th inning, Japan inches its way toward the WBC semifinals.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 9, 2013
Netherlands' success no overnight phenomenon
The calls began coming in August, and they didn't stop. Netherlands manager Hensley Meulens had a player who was excited about the upcoming World Baseball Classic, and he wanted the manager to hear all about it.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 9, 2013
Dutch stun Cuba in opener
Jonathan Schoop walked into the Netherlands' postgame news conference just as he was finishing off a small cup of ice cream.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC
Mar 8, 2013
Fighters' Yoh enjoying spotlight with Taiwan at WBC
Daikan Yoh was surrounded by a mob befitting a rock star. Most eyes had been trained on the Taiwanese outfielder during his team's practice session at Tokyo Dome on Friday, and finally they'd caught up to him.
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
Jan 30, 2013
Otani ready for new challenges with Fighters
Shohei Otani spent part of his Saturday afternoon being shepherded around one of Makuhari Messe's spacious international exhibition halls while having ham shoved in his mouth.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / SPORTS SCOPE
Jan 28, 2013
Buffaloes need pitchers to succeed in search for redemption
Tomoya Yagi will be attempting to revive his career when the 2013 NPB season begins. So will Shun Tono, Takahiro Mahara, and Kei Igawa.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Jan 24, 2013
Trading four-time All-Star Itoi doesn't make sense for Fighters
So why did the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters trade away arguably the best player on their team, if not in the entire Pacific League?
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jan 24, 2013
Fighters send All-Star Itoi to Buffaloes in five-player trade
This one even caught Yu Darvish off guard.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Jan 15, 2013
Hall of Fame long overdue for another foreign member
Victor Starffin was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1960. Wally Yonamine was enshrined in 1994.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jan 12, 2013
Ex-Carp pitchers Ono, Sotokoba elected into Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame
For the second straight season, the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame was left seeing red.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Dec 30, 2012
Matsui should be remembered as one of Japan's best
In 2001 Ichiro Suzuki shattered expectations about what Japanese players could and could not do in Major League Baseball.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Dec 18, 2012
Eagles need new addition Jones' game to match considerable star power
The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles' official announcement of the signing of former MLB star Andruw Jones signals the start of a period that will be remembered either for its great success or abject failure.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
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.

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