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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 / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 19, 2007
Fighters move to Japan Series
SAPPORO — Trey Hillman said that hitting home runs was not the Fighters' style. He may be right, but Fernando Seguignol sure did look stylish doing it.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 18, 2007
Darvish, Naruse square off in marquee Game 5 matchup
SAPPORO — Yu Darvish and Yoshihisa Naruse were arguably the two best pitchers in Japanese baseball this season.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 18, 2007
Fighters, Marines stay relaxed
SAPPORO — One day before the Pacific League title and a place in the Japan Series will be on the line, the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters and Chiba Lotte Marines were a relaxed bunch.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 17, 2007
Satozaki sizzler powers Marines
SAPPORO — Masaru Takeda has probably seen enough of Tomoya Satozaki to last him a lifetime.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 17, 2007
Glynn comes up with goods
SAPPORO — With the Chiba Lotte Marines threatening to take control of the series, the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters were looking for a good game out of starting pitcher Ryan Glynn. He responded with the game of his life.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 16, 2007
Marines level series
SAPPORO — The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters posed for their Pacific League Championship picture after Game 2, but all the in-game glamour shots belonged to Tomoya Satozaki.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 16, 2007
Nishioka, Morimoto spark ballclubs as leadoff hitters
SAPPORO — Chiba Lotte's Tsuyoshi Nishioka and Nippon Ham's Hichori Morimoto are two of the biggest stars in Japanese baseball, despite neither really hitting for a lot of power or driving in a lot of runs.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 16, 2007
Big seventh inning propels Fighters
SAPPORO — The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters are a tight-knit group known for going that extra mile for one another. Against the Chiba Lotte Marines in Game 3 they went the extra mile and then some.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 14, 2007
Darvish fires Fighters to win
SAPPORO — On a day when the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters came up with all the big hits, the Chiba Lotte Marines still couldn't find an answer for Yu Darvish.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 13, 2007
Marines, Fighters set to square off
Here are five key questions ahead of the second stage of the Pacific League Climax Series between the last two Japan Series Champions, the Chiba Lotte Marines and the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters:
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 13, 2007
Will mercurial Tigers end slump?
Here are five questions heading into the first stage of the Central League Climax Series between the Hanshin Tigers and Chunichi Dragons:
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 12, 2007
Lotte's Naruse becomes dominant force on hill
CHIBA — Chiba Lotte Marines hurler Yoshihisa Naruse may look young off the mound, but over the past eight months the 21-year-old has looked more like an 10-year veteran on it.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 11, 2007
Omura, Naruse lift Marines in series clincher
CHIBA — After the Chiba Lotte Marines' Game 1 Pacific League Climax Series victory Lotte manager Bobby Valentine said that nobody had bigger guts than Saburo Omura. Fittingly in the series clincher, nobody had a bigger hit.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 10, 2007
Hawks level up series
CHIBA — After a while it didn't really seem to matter who was on the mound for the Chiba Lotte Marines.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2007 NPB PLAYOFFS
Oct 9, 2007
Marines draw first blood against Hawks
CHIBA — On a windy day on Tokyo Bay, the Chiba Lotte Marines picked up where they left off in the 2005 playoffs and Fukuoka Softbank Hawks starter Kazumi Saito's playoff woes continued.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 9, 2007
Saito still struggling when it comes to playoffs
CHIBA — Softbank pitcher Kazumi Saito will have to wait for redemption a little while longer.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 3, 2007
Giants rally past Swallows to clinch Central League crown
Thousands of Yomiuri fans turned out for the Giants' game against the Tokyo Yakult Swallows at Tokyo Dome looking for a celebration, and the home team made sure they got one.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 27, 2007
Giants stage comeback to beat Dragons at Dome
The much anticipated pitching duel between Kenta Asakura and Hisanori Takahashi fizzled early but Ryota Wakiya and Takahiko Nomaguchi still put on a show.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 26, 2007
Giants put on power show against Dragons, reclaim CL lead
When the Yomiuri Giants' offense is clicking the Kyojin are a hard team to beat. When they get the pitching to go along with that, they're almost unbeatable.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 25, 2007
Ham hurlers make Fighters tasty-looking prospect for Japan Series
The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters' offense has faced incredible struggles in the absence of star centerfielder Tsuyoshi Shinjo and Michihiro Ogasawara and rank toward the bottom in most of the Pacific League offensive categories.
One in 10 young people in Japan a victim of molestation, survey finds
The survey found that most groping cases occurred on trains and that 80.4% of victims did not alert the police or train station staff after being groped, out of fears of causing a commotion.
Weak yen inflicts major damage to small and midsize businesses, survey says
The weakness of the yen is posing a big problem for small and midsize businesses. As for desired exchange rates, 69.5％ said they want the yen trading between ¥110 and ¥135 to the dollar.
Over 80 nursing homes in Japan went bankrupt in first half
A nursing home in Ishikawa Prefecture. Wage increases in other industries have made the nursing care sector less attractive.
Japan faces shortage of almost a million foreign workers in 2040
A Vietnamese worker harvests tomatoes at a farm in Asahi, Chiba Prefecture.
Japan releases new banknotes for first time in 20 years
Bank of Japan Gov. Kazuo Ueda and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida show off the new banknotes in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Shareholder revolts in Japan put proxy advisory firms in the hot seat
The Tokyo Stock Exchange building in Tokyo
Asking for food substitutions at a Japanese restaurant
With the vegan lifestyle becoming more popular in recent years, Japanese restaurants and inns have begun to offer more vegetarian options.
Mount Fuji begins charging entrance fees as overtourism prevention measure
Tourists in front of the restaurant and shopping area of Mount Fuji's 5th Station, which leads to the popular Yoshida trail for hikers climbing the mountain, in Narusawa, Yamanashi Prefecture, on June 19.
Japan’s basketball stars set sights on glory at Paris Games
Lakers forward Rui Hachimura will be a key part of Japan's Olympic ambitions this summer.
Japan looks farther out to sea for overdue wind power boost
Wind turbines near New Brighton, England. According to the International Energy Agency, Japan could produce over 900% of its energy demand with offshore wind alone.

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