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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.
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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.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 24, 2007
Tanaka bids Tokyo Dome a fond farewell
Barring a meeting with the Yomiuri Giants in the Japan Series, Hokkaido Nippon Ham's Yukio Tanaka played his final game at Tokyo Dome on Wednesday night against the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles and he went out with a bang.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 20, 2007
Darvish backed up by offense as Fighters down Eagles
Yu Darvish wasn't as dominant as he usually is but with the Fighters' offense clicking for once he didn't have to be.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 19, 2007
Takeda settles down, pitches big game
The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters still aren't getting much run support, but as long as they keep winning they'll take what they can get.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 16, 2007
Takahashi lives up to 'ace' label
On a pitching staff that has been plagued by a string of bad games, Yomiuri Giants ace Hisanori Takahashi pitched eight shutout innings to lead the Giants to a 3-0 win over the Hiroshima Carp on Saturday night before a packed house at Tokyo Dome.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 15, 2007
Giants battle past Carp in 12
Takayuki Shimizu drove in the winning-run in the 12th and the Yomiuri Giants overcame a five-run ninth-inning deficit to earn a 9-8 "sayonara" victory against Hiroshima Carp in front of 39,167 fans at Tokyo Dome on Friday night.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 14, 2007
Fighters' pitchers frustrate Marines
CHIBA — Hokkaido Nippon Ham jumped ahead in a four-run third and held on behind a strong performance from its pitching staff to defeat the Chiba Lotte Marines 4-1 on Thursday night at Chiba Marine Stadium.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 12, 2007
Reliever Fujikawa plays big part as Tigers storm to CL lead
The Hanshin Tigers' win over the Yomiuri Giants in a thrilling 10-inning, five-hour affair left one radio announcer speechless on Sunday at Tokyo Dome.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 9, 2007
Tigers take over Central League lead
The Hanshin Tigers may not hit as many home runs as the Yomiuri Giants but they sure pick their spots well.
Ishiba delays meeting with Trump, citing legal restrictions
Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba waves upon arrival for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, in Callao, Peru, on Friday.
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.
Rising sex tourism exposes loopholes in Japan's anti-prostitution law
While financial misfortunes during the COVID-19 pandemic may have driven some women to work the streets, others simply want more money to spend — or want to pay off their debts — at host clubs.
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.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
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.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
In Fukushima, a weekend of prose, poetry and translation
Aomori-based writer JJ Carter presented on tabletop gaming as creative inspiration for building characters and narratives.
For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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