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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
Nov 1, 2012
Wolfe effective in unlikely Game 3 duel against ex-high school teammate Houlton
Brian Wolfe essentially had the season riding on his shoulders in the first Japan Series game of his career.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 31, 2012
Fighters come alive in Japan Series
A change in scenery got the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters back in their comfort zone and back in the Japan Series.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 30, 2012
Fighters face pivotal test at home after consecutive losses
The Yomiuri Giants are headed to Hokkaido with an eye on capturing the Japan Series title. The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters are headed home simply trying to come up with a way to earn a return trip to Tokyo.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 29, 2012
Sawamura, Chono lead Giants to win
Hirokazu Sawamura made his Japan Series debut by hitting a pair of batters in the first inning.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 29, 2012
Game 1 hero Bowker appreciates opportunity to play in postseason
One has to wonder what was going through John Bowker's mind as he rounded the bases after hitting a three-run home run during the fourth inning of Game 1 of the Japan Series.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 28, 2012
Japan Series helps put Canada on baseball map
Baseball is hardly the first thing that springs to mind when Canadian sports are discussed. Hockey is king in Canada, and slap shots and glove saves stoke the nation's fire more than home runs or diving catches ever could.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 28, 2012
Giants trounce Fighters in Game 1
Coming off a tough season, John Bowker was ready for his moment.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 27, 2012
Fighters, Giants ready for championship showdown
For the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters and Yomiuri Giants, it was business as usual on the eve of the 2012 Japan Series.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 26, 2012
Giants, Fighters inch closer to Japan Series clash
The dust has settled on the 2012 season and only the Yomiuri Giants and Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters are still standing.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 24, 2012
Former Dodger Houlton uses veteran poise to eliminate Dragons
D.J. Houlton didn't know what to expect, and there was a good chance no one else did either.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Oct 24, 2012
Giants rose to the occasion
For three consecutive nights, the Yomiuri Giants lived life on the edge.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 22, 2012
Ishii powers Giants into series decider
Tokyo Dome was rocking and the Chunichi Dragons were reeling. All it would take was one final blow to finish putting the nail in the coffin.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 21, 2012
Sawamura, Abe provide big lift for Giants in Game 4
Manager Tatsunori Hara put the season in Hirokazu Sawamura's hands, and the rest of the Yomiuri Giants followed the young pitcher's lead.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 21, 2012
Catcher has pair of run-scoring hits in victory over Dragons
Shinnosuke Abe rallied the troops before the Yomiuri Giants took the field for Game 4 of the Central League Climax Series final stage.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 20, 2012
Donoue sparks Dragons to 10th-inning win over Giants
It's beginning to look like the Chunichi Dragons just will not be denied.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 19, 2012
Opportunistic Dragons take 2-1 series lead over Giants
Junki Ito turned 21 years old in January. That's three fewer years than his batterymate Motonobu Tanishige has been a professional baseball player.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 18, 2012
Ono chops Giants down to size
Second-year pitcher Yudai Ono was asked to go into a stadium in which he'd only won once, to face a team that'd beaten him up in his last two outings all while trying to help the Chunichi Dragons avoid a 2-0 deficit in the Central League Climax Series final stage.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 17, 2012
Lions star Nakajima keeps quiet about future
Everyone understood this was the end of the line for Hiroyuki Nakajima.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 17, 2012
Pena carries Hawks into next round
As Wily Mo Pena munched on a bowl of fruit on his way out of Seibu Dome, he tried to remember having a bigger hit than the one he had Monday against the Lions, a two-run double that accounted for the majority of his team's runs in the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks' 3-2 win over the Seibu Lions in the decisive...
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 16, 2012
Pena comes good to send Hawks into next round
Wily Mo Pena said he couldn't remember the last time he was in an elimination game.
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.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
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.
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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