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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

Sep 29, 2016

Ramirez praises retiring BayStars pitcher Miura's professionalism

To borrow the words of his manager, retiring star pitcher Daisuke Miura was a "professional player."

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN

Sep 29, 2016

Otani's legend grows with PL pennant-clinching win

Shohei Otani was sublime on Wednesday night. He was dazzling, superb, resplendent. He was all that and more, almost more than there are adjectives to describe him. Basically at Saitama Seibu Prince Dome on Wednesday night, Shohei Otani the pitcher was good enough, for a moment, to make you forget about...

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 29, 2016

Messenger closing in on deal with Hanshin

Randy Messenger and the Hanshin Tigers are nearing a deal that will keep the right-hander with the club through 2018, his agent, Matt Sosnick, told The Japan Times on Thursday.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN

Sep 26, 2016

Japanese teams, fans bid fond farewell to retiring players

Japanese baseball is in the season of goodbyes.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK

Sep 25, 2016

Ramirez working to get BayStars ready for Climax Series

Yokohama BayStars manager Alex Ramirez is wearing two hats as the regular season winds down.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 23, 2016

BayStars demolish Giants with six-homer attack

The Yokohama BayStars are happy, not satisfied, to have secured an A-Class finish in the Central League.

BASEBALL

Sep 23, 2016

Samurai Japan skipper Kokubo promotes team's new uniforms for WBC, stays mum about roster

Hiroki Kokubo didn't drop any hints about who would be on the Samurai Japan team for the 2017 World Baseball Classic. He did, however, help reveal what they would be wearing.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 23, 2016

After earlier struggles at home, hot-hitting Jones gaining confidence at Tokyo Dome

Garrett Jones might have felt a huge weight lifted off his shoulders over the past two nights at Tokyo Dome.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN

Sep 20, 2016

BayStars could be primed to follow Carp's example in CL

The Yokohama BayStars, after 18 seasons without postseason baseball and 11 without an A-Class finish, probably weren't going to be very picky about how those two things got crossed off of their to-do list.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK

Sep 19, 2016

Race for PL flag going down to wire

Barring some major hiccups going into the home stretch, the NPB playoff picture appears to be more or less set, with one big exception.

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LIFE / Digital

Sep 15, 2016

From the latest titles to VR and cosplay, the Tokyo Game Show has been in Japan's corner for 20 years

Twenty years ago, two new video game trade shows launched in Tokyo with the hopes of capturing the attention — and yen — of gamers in Japan. The first Tokyo Game Show (TGS) took place from Aug. 22 to 24, 1996, and was followed that November by E3 Tokyo, a Japanese offshoot of the U.S.-based Electronic...

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 11, 2016

Returning Carp hero Kuroda gets fitting reward

It took the Hiroshima Carp winning their first Central League pennant in 25 years to get veteran pitcher Hiroki Kuroda to drop his steely public facade. Kuroda, so business-like and methodical on the mound, couldn't hold back the tears on Saturday night after the Carp defeated the Yomiuri Giants to clinch...

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 10, 2016

Hiroshima Carp capture first pennant since 1991

For two days, the Hiroshima Carp and their fans watched as Yomiuri Giants victories over other teams kept them from clinching a long-awaited Central League title.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN

Sep 5, 2016

Fighters set up ace Otani as trump card in PL pennant race

For the past several weeks, Pacific League hitters have lived a blissful Shohei Otani-free existence. Forget the strikeouts, the 160 kph-plus fastballs and the array of knee-buckling breaking pitches. Since early July, Otani has been one of them, focused on hitting pitches instead of throwing them.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK

Sep 4, 2016

Laird closing in on 40-homer year

Brandon Laird has become a favorite among Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters fans for his home run celebration, not to mention the homers themselves, which sees him mimic a chef making sushi.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Sep 1, 2016

Nakata fuels Fighters with two-homer performance

Sho Nakata's home run streak ended against the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles on Wednesday. So the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters slugger went out and laid the foundation for a new one on Thursday.

MORE SPORTS

Aug 29, 2016

Silver-winning 4x100 relay team looks to future with confidence

Wearing the official Japanese Olympic team uniform, a pinstriped sports coat and gray pants, and with silver medals hanging from their necks, the Japanese 4x100-meter relay team gave an impromptu demonstration of their baton-passing skills for a curious crowd of onlookers. They swung their arms as if...

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN

Aug 29, 2016

Finally, Carp looking like real deal

The Hiroshima Carp, it seems, have arrived. After a long stretch of bad years and recent seasons of being a few pieces short of a whole, the Carp are finally in the thick of a pennant race again.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Aug 25, 2016

Kikuchi, Maru ignite pennant-chasing Carp in comeback victory over Giants

If there was any thought the Hiroshima Carp might take their foot off the gas a little after gaining a magic number, the Central League leaders squashed it the first chance they got.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Aug 24, 2016

Agent: Messenger hoping to return to Tigers in 2017

Pitcher Randy Messenger is interested in working out a deal to remain with the Hanshin Tigers in 2017, his agent Matt Sosnick told The Japan Times on Wednesday.

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