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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

Aug 18, 2015

Giants' Mikolas tosses one-hitter against archrival Tigers

Losing a shot at a perfect game because of an error in the sixth inning didn't faze Miles Mikolas one bit.

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BASEBALL / MLB

Aug 18, 2015

Diamondbacks representatives help promote MLB Cup in Japan

Major League Baseball enlisted a little star power to help announce its latest youth initiative in Japan.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN

Aug 17, 2015

Marines have more to prove in battle for final spot in PL

The Chiba Lotte Marines might be about to learn a lot about themselves. Namely, the Pacific League club is about to find out just how prepared they are for the battles ahead in the race for the final spot in the Pacific League Climax Series.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK

Aug 13, 2015

Tigers make strong start to extended road trip

The Hanshin Tigers are well into their annual summer jaunt away from Koshien Stadium as they make way for the National High School Baseball Championship. The Tigers, who left the park behind on Aug. 2 and won't return until Aug. 28, are nine games into the so-called "Road Trip of Death" and have gone...

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Aug 13, 2015

BayStars' Tsutsugo slugs game-winning blast in ninth

A game might look over, and it might feel over, but as Yoshitomo Tsutsugo and the Yokohama BayStars taught the Yomiuri Giants' Tomoyuki Sugano, nothing is over until the final out is in the books.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Aug 11, 2015

Giants hurler Mikolas tosses complete game, improves to 9-3

Miles Mikolas is on a roll and he's not ready for it to stop anytime soon.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN

Aug 10, 2015

Waseda's first-year sensation Kiyomiya takes center stage

Any baseball fan, from the casual to the hardcore, who didn't know Waseda Jitsugyo first-year player Kotaro Kiyomiya had an RBI hit in his Summer Koshien debut on Saturday, probably spent the day off the grid.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Aug 7, 2015

Carp's Kikuchi delivers winning hit in 12th against Giants

The Hiroshima Carp and Yomiuri Giants had combined for a host of missed opportunities and enough strikeouts to last a month, but no runs over the first 3 hours and 55 minutes on Friday night.

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BUSINESS / Tech

Jul 25, 2015

Sony's Yoshida affirms faith in indie developers

Shuhei Yoshida, the bespectacled president of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, didn't attend the BitSummit independent game festival in Kyoto on July 11 simply to deliver a speech and reaffirm Sony's commitment to indie developers — he wanted to try out some games.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN

Jul 20, 2015

Swallows' Barnette wove masterful tale in first half

Every ballplayer, Tony Barnette figures, has a story. He shares this opinion in front of the home dugout, over the din of the crowd, at Tokyo Dome prior to Game 1 of the NPB All-Star Series this past weekend.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Jul 17, 2015

Fujinami, Abe provide heroics for CL in NPB All-Star Series opener

Shintaro Fujinami is the one with the "W" next to his name, but his parents came away as the big winners.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Jul 7, 2015

Chono changes Giants' fortunes with clutch triple in triumph over Swallows

Tuesday night was "Hisayoshi Chono Player's Day" at Tokyo Dome, and it was only fitting the man of the hour stole the show.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN

Jul 6, 2015

Fujinami, Messenger doing their part to keep Tigers in hunt

Pitchers Shintaro Fujinami and Randy Messenger have been about the only two things the Hanshin Tigers have really been able to count on over the last several weeks.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Jul 4, 2015

Nakamura drives in five runs as Lions trample Marines

The Seibu Lions looked like an unstoppable force on Saturday afternoon. The Chiba Lotte Marines, on the other hand, were hardly an immovable object.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Jun 30, 2015

Giants stage dramatic rally against Kuroda in ninth inning

It took nearly the entire game, but the Yomiuri Giants finally found the solution to their Hiroki Kuroda problem.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN

Jun 29, 2015

Otani on familiar path to elite status

There can't be a discussion about best pitcher in Japan anymore without Shohei Otani's name being mentioned. The young Hokkaido Nippon Ham star has been making that perfectly clear since the season began.

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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Jun 28, 2015

Ramirez happy to be back in NPB

Alex Ramirez had an eventful first gameday on the job.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Jun 27, 2015

Despaigne powers Marines past Buffaloes

Alfredo Despaigne set the tone early, and the rest of the Chiba Lotte Marines were in lockstep right behind him.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Jun 23, 2015

BayStars snap 12-game slide

The Yokohama BayStars fans who made the trip to Tokyo were loud, enthusiastic, and kept cheering all the way until the end of their team's game against the Yomiuri Giants.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN

Jun 22, 2015

Central League clubs currently wallowing in mediocrity

There's a decent chance that at some time this week no Central League team will have a winning record.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Why Japan is running out of rice — and farmers to grow it

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