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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 / SPORTS SCOPE
Sep 24, 2009
New challenge awaits Kyojin after triumph
With the Central League pennant secured, the Yomiuri Giants have a huge challenge ahead of them.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 23, 2009
Gonzalez puts Giants on brink of another pennant
Chunichi Dragons pitcher Chen Wei-yin was looking unflappable in his bid to keep the Yomiuri Giants from getting closer to claiming the Central League title.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 22, 2009
Giants eye pennant as Tani, Ramirez slay Dragons
At this point, it may take a small miracle for the Chunichi Dragons to stop the Yomiuri Giants from claiming the Central League pennant.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 20, 2009
Houlton enjoys reversal of fortune at Seibu Dome
TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. — The Saitama Seibu Lions went from a fifth-place team in 2007 to Japan Series champions in 2008.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 18, 2009
Dominican hurler Obispo continues to make big impact for Giants
Not too long ago, Yomiuri Giants pitcher Wirfin Obispo was what is known in Japanese baseball as a "triple-digit" (developmental) player.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Sep 18, 2009
Kudo hoping to find team for next season
Before Kimiyasu Kudo was reduced to mop-up duty on the worst team in Japanese pro baseball, he was one of the aces on a dynasty.
BASEBALL / SPORTS SCOPE
Sep 16, 2009
Ichiro certain to be a first-ballot Hall of Famer
There were a number of doubters nine years ago when Ichiro Suzuki became the first Japanese position player in Major League Baseball.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 13, 2009
Hirano makes Lions endangered species
TOKOROZAWA, Saitama Pref. — Yoshihisa Hirano finally ended his personal losing streak. He may have also ended the Seibu Lions' hopes of reaching the Pacific League Climax Series.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Sep 11, 2009
Race for third place in CL tightening up
The race for the Central League title seems to be all but over with the Yomiuri Giants coasting with a 7 1/2-game lead over the Chunichi Dragons.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 9, 2009
Ishihara's clutch three-run home run carries Carp past Swallows
The Hiroshima Carp may be a long shot but they're not quite out of the race for the Central League Climax Series just yet.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 6, 2009
Murakami says players going to MLB not hurting NPB
Long before Hideo Nomo was making major league hitters look silly with an unorthodox windup and an unhittable forkball, or Ichiro Suzuki began rewriting the record books, pitcher Masanori Murakami was blazing the trail.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Sep 4, 2009
Wakui making a run at Sawamura Award
A tired shoulder has sidelined Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters pitcher Yu Darvish since Aug. 22, following his worst outing of the season against the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 29, 2009
Morino-led Dragons hold off Swallows in potential playoff preview
If this was a dress rehearsal for a potential showdown in Stage 1 of the Central League Climax Series, the Chunichi Dragons showed why they deserve top billing.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Aug 28, 2009
Ramirez sets record in reaching milestone
Earlier this year reigning Central League MVP Alex Ramirez insisted the best he had to offer in 2009 was still yet to come.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / SPORTS SCOPE
Aug 23, 2009
Several NPB managers in danger of losing jobs
As the NPB season begins to head into the stretch run, an unusually high number of mangers find themselves on the hot seat — or at least very warm ones — as the Climax Series races begin in earnest.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 21, 2009
Abe ignites Giants to triumph over BayStars
The Yokohama BayStars put up a good fight, but it wasn't enough to stop Shinnosuke Abe and the Yomiuri Giants from breaking out the brooms.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Aug 21, 2009
Iwakuma's resurgence has Eagles flying high
Tohoku Rakuten pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma is up to his old tricks in August and helping to shake up the race for the Pacific League Climax Series in the process.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 16, 2009
Kimura fills Giant gap
The Yomiuri Giants were missing their top offensive weapon in their game against the rival Hanshin Tigers.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 14, 2009
Fighters rally past Buffaloes
The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters haven't figured out how to handle Tuffy Rhodes yet, but they're becoming experts at corralling the rest of the Orix Buffaloes.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Aug 14, 2009
D'Antona hits stride for surging Swallows
If September is as good to Jamie D'Antona as July was, the Tokyo Yakult Swallows might be playing baseball in late October.
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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Construction takes place on the Takanawa Gateway Convention Center in Tokyo, slated to open in 2025.
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