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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.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Jul 3, 2009
Passed over by MLB, Inaba shines at home
Funny as it seems, being passed over for the major leagues might have been the best thing that could have happened to Atsunori Inaba.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 28, 2009
Itoi, Nioka ignite Nippon Ham
CHIBA — Yoshio Itoi and Tomohiro Nioka both played for Kinki University but never together on the same team.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 27, 2009
Closer Kroon ready to help Giants after return from injury
The Yomiuri Giants have ended the interleague season and are eager to return to extending their dominance of the Central League.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 27, 2009
Giants rap out 15 hits, end Tateyama's streak
With the King of Pop blasting through the sound system, the Yomiuri Giants reminded the Tokyo Yakult Swallows why they've been wearing the crown in the Central League for two years and running.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Jun 26, 2009
Sugiuchi sure Hawks will contend in PL race
The Central League probably couldn't get rid of Fukuoka Softbank Hawks pitcher Toshiya Sugiuchi fast enough by the end of the 2009 interleague season.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 21, 2009
Big first inning helps Giants chase starter Watanabe, defeat Marines
The Yomiuri Giants wanted to hit the ground running in their final interleague series of the season. As a result, they ran all over Shunsuke Watanabe and the Chiba Lotte Marines.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Jun 19, 2009
Interleague success puts Hawks in chase
No tiebreakers needed this year, the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks stand alone.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 13, 2009
Ramirez studied video to regain power stroke
Reigning Central League MVP Alex Ramirez is used to hearing a chorus sugoi (amazing) rain down from the stands after fans watch him send ball after ball into orbit.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Jun 12, 2009
Kishi quietly showing he is one of PL's elite hurlers
Hokkaido Nippon Ham ace Yu Darvish and Tohoku Rakuten fireballer Masahiro Tanaka have — and deservedly so — dominated most of the headlines regarding Pacific League pitchers this season.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 11, 2009
Nakai eager to make impact for Yomiuri
Daisuke Nakai's Yomiuri Giants career started with three ugly strikeouts.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 9, 2009
Big sticks wield power for Giants
The usually formidable Yomiuri Giants had a rough time hitting home runs last week.
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BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Jun 8, 2009
Hawks face challenge without Wada, Otanari
It's time to see what first-year manger Koji Akiyama and the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks are made of.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Jun 5, 2009
Ogasawara making a feast of PL pitching
Michihiro Ogasawara left the Pacific League to join the Yomiuri Giants in 2007.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jun 2, 2009
Gonzalez enjoying early-season resurgence with Giants
On Opening Day, Yomiuri Giants pitcher Dicky Gonzalez was laboring away in the minors.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
May 29, 2009
Iwakuma, Tanaka give Eagles a real 1-2 punch
Masahiro Tanaka was electrifying during his Pacific League Rookie of the Year season in 2007. In 2008 his numbers dipped while he took a back seat to teammate Hisashi Iwakuma, who embarked on a Sawamura Award-winning 21-4 campaign.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 29, 2009
Gonzalez breaks Giants record
With starter Dicky Gonzalez dealing, the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants looked as strong as ever.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 26, 2009
Big bats ignite Giants in win over Buffaloes
The ceremony held for Shinnosuke Abe before the Yomiuri Giants' game against the Orix Buffaloes was to honor him for recently playing in his 1,000th game.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 24, 2009
Lambin ignites Marines
CHIBA — Chase Lambin put an exclamation point on a ninth-inning double with a Superman-esque dive into the bag.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
May 23, 2009
BayStars need to end managerial carousel
Well somebody had to take the fall.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
May 22, 2009
PL looking to extend interleague win streak
The NPB kicked off koryusen (interleague season) this week with the first round of games taking place in Pacific League stadiums on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Trump team seeks to toughen Biden’s chip controls over China
U.S. President Donald Trump's officials recently met with their Japanese and Dutch counterparts about restricting Tokyo Electron and ASML engineers from maintaining semiconductor gear in China, according to people familiar with the matter.
China adviser pushes to lower legal marriage age to 18 to boost birthrate
A woman fits her wedding dress at a bridal shop in Luliang, northern China's Shanxi province, on Feb. 11.
U.S. defense spending demands could transform global security
Amid rising global defense spending, U.S. President Donald Trump's push for 5% of GDP on military budgets poses a challenge for American allies, including Japan, which is already struggling to meet its 2% target.
Ex-Japan envoy concerned over Trump's foreign aid cuts
Ichiro Fujisaki
DeepSeek rushes to launch new AI model as China goes all in
The Chinese embrace of DeepSeek comes as governments from South Korea to Italy remove the artificial intelligence from national app stores, citing privacy concerns.
About 70% of foreign nationals questioned by police on the streets: survey
Lawyers advising in a racial profiling case speak during a news conference on Wednesday in Tokyo.
Latest sumo ranking sheet has plenty to catch the eye
Hoshoryu holds up the latest "banzuke" sumo ranking chart in Osaka on Tuesday.
Gunma ranks top among city dwellers eyeing countryside, survey shows
Kusatsu Onsen resort, a popular tourist destination in Gunma Prefecture, on Dec. 26, 2022
Japan looks to save seafood and seaweed farming from warming oceans
Asian seabass are bred at the Songkhla Coastal Aquaculture Technology and Innovation Research and Development Center in southern Thailand.
Japan struggles to fend off a world without enough matcha
Once a boon to tea farmers' bottom lines, the global matcha craze is now pushing producers and distributors to their limits with few options to adequately meet demand.

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