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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
Oct 15, 2012
Lions rout Hawks to even series
A number of Seibu Lions fans spent their time outside Seibu Dome looking into a television camera and imploring their team to get a win. The Lions' players weren't quite ready for the season to end yet either.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 15, 2012
Kishi gives Takeda a lesson in playoff baseball
Shota Takeda has all kinds of talent. At the tender age of 19, the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks right-hander made 11 starts this season, winning eight and finishing the year with a 1.08 ERA.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 14, 2012
Morifuku stays calm in pressure-packed situation
Reliever Masahiko Morifuku made his first postseason appearance of the year in the ninth inning, with the bases loaded, nobody out, and his team clinging to a two-run lead in Game 1 of the first stage of the Pacific League Climax Series.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 14, 2012
Settsu fires Hawks past Lions in playoff opener
Tadashi Settsu was a long way from Fukuoka, wearing his road uniform and standing on the mound in another team's stadium.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 12, 2012
Defending champion Hawks begin title defense
After winning last season's Japan Series the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks lost their three best pitchers and an All-Star shortstop.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 12, 2012
Determined Swallows renew rivalry with playoff-tested Dragons
No matter what changes or how much time passes, it seems like the Chunichi Dragons find a way to make it into the Climax Series.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Oct 9, 2012
Marines' cowardice left Fujioka to face fans' ire
Seibu Lions fans weren't happy Saturday afternoon and they were letting Chiba Lotte Marines rookie pitcher Takahiro Fujioka feel the brunt of their vitriol.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Oct 8, 2012
Giants catcher Abe rises above pack
Shinnosuke Abe perked up at the news the Detroit Tigers' Miguel Cabrera had won the Triple Crown.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 30, 2012
Donoue, Dragons blank Swallows
The final regular-season meeting between the Chunichi Dragons and Tokyo Yakult Swallows was a largely uneventful affair.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 26, 2012
Ortiz hits go-ahead home run as Lions edge Eagles
Jose Ortiz spent the first part of this season playing in Mexico, where he said he wasn't really doing too well.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Sep 25, 2012
Balentien at ease as race for CL home run crown heats up
As Tokyo Yakult Swallows slugger Wladimir Balentien went through his pregame stretching, he surveyed the field where the newly minted Central League champion Yomiuri Giants were wrapping up batting practice and barely suppressed a laugh while noting, "everything has gone right for them this year."
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Sep 24, 2012
Race for Pacific League crown likely going down to wire
The Yomiuri Giants wrapped up the Central League pennant last week.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 22, 2012
Giants clinch 34th Central League pennant
For the last two years, the Yomiuri Giants have watched another team celebrate. Watched as another group of players paraded around the field clutching the Central League pennant.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Sep 18, 2012
Celebration of Kanemoto's career offers Tigers brief respite
For the next couple of weeks, the prevailing narrative of most Hanshin Tigers games will be the impending retirement of star outfielder Tomoaki Kanemoto.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 15, 2012
Sakamoto ignites Giants in comeback victory over archrival Tigers
This close to the prize, the Yomiuri Giants aren't about to let anyone slow their march toward the Central League pennant.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 13, 2012
MLB scouts keeping their eyes on quartet of potential Japanese free agents
This season there are a few NPB players who have fulfilled the requirements for international free agency (meaning they are free to negotiate with any team, domestic or abroad) and may attempt to follow in the successful footsteps of Yu Darvish and Norichika Aoki and make a move to the major leagues...
Japan Times
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Sep 11, 2012
Darvish, others have decisions to make ahead of next WBC
The big news last week was that the Japanese Professional Baseball Players Association decided to compete in next year's World Baseball Classic.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 5, 2012
'Sho Time' delivers Fighters past Eagles
The Hokkaido Nippon Fighters nearly broke through against Manabu Mima after a double by Sho Nakata in the sixth inning.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 5, 2012
Japanese baseball union approves participation in 2013 WBC
After weeks of uncertainty, the Japanese Professional Baseball Players Association has decided to participate in next year's World Baseball Classic, it was revealed on Tuesday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Sep 4, 2012
Lions pounce at right time to take control of Pacific League
All season the Seibu Lions have put the 'cats have nine lives' theory to the test, and so far the Pacific League's resident felines are still kicking.
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.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
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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