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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 / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Jun 16, 2019
Hitting for cycle no common occurrence for NPB players
Let's talk about the cycle for a minute.
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital
Jun 16, 2019
Keita Takahashi: The world is alive with the fun of Wattam
Designer of the cult game Katamari Damacy talks about his new game, Wattum, and how a goat changed his life.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 14, 2019
Dragons starter Yuya Yanagi fans 13 in electrifying complete-game effort
The Chiba Lotte Marines invited the band from nearby Narashino High School to sit in left field and power their cheering section on Friday night.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 12, 2019
Reliever Scott Mathieson happy to be back on mound for Giants
Scott Mathieson had appeared in 393 games for the Yomiuri Giants entering this season. Over the past seven years, he's come out the Yomiuri bullpen mostly tasked with either protecting leads, keeping the Kyojin in games or closing out wins.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Jun 10, 2019
Hanshin's Fumihito Haraguchi has already written inspiring story in comeback from cancer
The past week was one of returns in Japanese baseball.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 9, 2019
Giants bats support returning ace Tomoyuki Sugano in big win over Marines
Yomiuri Giants fans used their cheers to welcome ace pitcher Tomoyuki Sugano back to the diamond.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 8, 2019
Marines rally past Giants in ninth
The Chiba Lotte Marines were on the road, missing some key players because of injuries, down a run and three outs away from a loss.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
May 27, 2019
Stewart's bold move to Japan could shake up MLB, NPB
Hiroshima Carp pitcher Kyle Regnault doesn't know what he'd do if he were in Carter Stewart's cleats.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 24, 2019
Carp crush Giants to extend winning streak to 10
The first several weeks of the NPB season had many wondering how it was possible for the Hiroshima Carp to start off so slowly.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
May 20, 2019
Stanka's family reunited with '64 MVP trophy
Joe Stanka's Pacific League MVP trophy was missing for over 30 years.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 19, 2019
Eagles' Jabari Blash heeding Shohei Ohtani's advice early on in Japan
Jabari Blash was in demand before the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles' "home" game at Tokyo Dome on Thursday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 17, 2019
Tigers' Pierce Johnson striving to improve his Japanese
Sitting in the Hanshin Tigers' bullpen has given Pierce Johnson a chance to pick up some new things. Namely, his teammates have been teaching him some Japanese during their downtime, and he's already imagining the possibilities of having a new language in his arsenal.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 16, 2019
Shota Hiranuma lifts Fighters with RBI double in seventh, earns first post-game hero interview
For a second, Shota Hiranuma thought he might've hit the first home run of his pro career.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
May 13, 2019
'Home Run Jizo' testament of bond between Sadaharu Oh and ailing boy
It's raining hard at Shinbanba station in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward. Pouring, actually, real cats-and-dogs-type stuff.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 4, 2019
Katsuya Kakunaka, Seiya Inoue deliver clutch hits as Marines top Fighters
There was sun, rain, a little hail, sun again and finally a blanket of gray clouds at Zozo Marine Stadium on Saturday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 30, 2019
Dragons close out Heisei Era with victory over Giants
The Heisei Era is over for the Chunichi Dragons and the club finished it off in style.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Apr 29, 2019
Home run celebrations becoming commonplace in Japanese game
Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks infielder Kenji Akashi briefly went viral across baseball late last week when he hit a three-run sayonara home run and celebrated with a backflip onto home plate. Well, near home plate, as he had to go back and actually step on it.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 27, 2019
Giants quash late rally, beat reeling BayStars
The Yokohama BayStars got the performances they needed at the plate and on the mound to beat the Yomiuri Giants.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Heisei Icons,HEISEI ICONS
Apr 23, 2019
Ichiro Suzuki: A virtuoso on the diamond
Ichiro Suzuki would become one of the most important players of the Heisei Era, which is slated to end at the end of this month, in Japan as well as in the United States.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Apr 22, 2019
Playing in Japan means sacrificing family time for many NPB players
David Huff, a left-handed reliever for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows, is the pro athlete in the Huff household.
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.
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.
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.”
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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