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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
Sep 20, 2008
Sakamoto delivers big-time production for Giants in win over Tigers
The Hanshin Tigers and Yomiuri Giants met Friday in the first game of the biggest series thus far of the 2008 season.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Sep 19, 2008
Tigers have easier path down stretch
Not too long ago the Hanshin Tigers were running away with the Central League race.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 14, 2008
Abe lifts Giants over Swallows in slugfest
The Yomiuri Giants hit a home run in their first at-bat and the runs just kept on coming.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Sep 14, 2008
Buffs flexing muscles as stretch run begins
The Big Boys have finally arrived in Kobe.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 12, 2008
Stellar in Sendai: Iwakuma bright spot for lowly Eagles
While the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles have faded out of contention during the second half of the season, Hisashi Iwakuma has continued to establish himself as the top pitcher in Japanese baseball.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 6, 2008
Valentine ready to lead Japan's WBC team if asked
CHIBA — Chiba Lotte Marines manger Bobby Valentine has won a Japan Series and managed in a World Series.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 5, 2008
Imae keeps Chiba fires burning as Marines tame league-leading Lions
CHIBA — Despite sitting fifth in the Pacific League standings, there's a lot of fight left in the Chiba Lotte Marines.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 3, 2008
Watanabe continues strong stretch for M's
The Seibu Lions have used one of baseball's most potent offenses to build a nearly insurmountable lead in the Pacific League and establish themselves as an early favorite to reach the Japan Series.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 3, 2008
Valentine: Marines official asked me to resign in late July
CHIBA — Chiba Lotte Marines manager Bobby Valentine revealed to a small gathering of reporters on Tuesday that in late July he was asked to resign by someone in the Lotte front office.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 29, 2008
Giants' Uehara returns to rotation with a win
Koji Uehara returned to the Yomiuri Giants' starting rotation against the Yokohama BayStars on Thursday night.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 27, 2008
Abe eases back into the groove
It didn't take Shinnosuke Abe long to get back into the swing of things.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK
Aug 26, 2008
Beijing exit must spur bout of soul-searching
The fall was as stunning as it was quick.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 26, 2008
Furuki gives late Giants last laugh
If nothing else, the Yomiuri Giants sure have a flair for the dramatic.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / JAPAN NATIONAL BASEBALL TEAM
Aug 10, 2008
Japan routed by CL squad in final tuneup
Japan's final Olympic tuneup featured a team that put on a gold medal-worthy performance both at the plate and on the mound on Saturday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / JAPAN NATIONAL BASEBALL TEAM
Aug 9, 2008
Japan barely wins in Olympic tuneup
The Japan national team did just enough to get a win on Friday night. It'll probably take a lot more to bring home the gold in Beijing.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / JAPAN NATIONAL BASEBALL TEAM
Aug 5, 2008
'Hoshino Japan' shakes off injury concerns as preparations heat up
The Olympics haven't started yet, but "Hoshino Japan" has already dodged a bullet.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 2, 2008
Uchikawa sparks CL to All-Star win
YOKOHAMA — There were fireworks going off during the second game of the NPB All-Star Series on Friday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 2, 2008
Serious Ochiai enjoys rare chance to joke around
YOKOHAMA — Hiroshima Carp veteran Tomonori Maeda was returning to the dugout after fielding practice before the second game of the Nippon Professional Baseball All-Star Series on Friday at Yokohama Stadium when Chunichi Dragons manager Hiromitsu Ochiai decided it was time to have some fun.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 1, 2008
Yamasaki provides late-game heroics
OSAKA — Entering the bottom of the ninth of the first game in the NPB All-Star Series, it was pretty much a given the game's MVP would be a 40-year-old veteran.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 1, 2008
Rhodes, Sato share All-Star home run derby title
Four of baseball's top sluggers — Tuffy Rhodes of the Orix Buffaloes, Tomoaki Kanemoto of the Hanshin Tigers, G.G. Sato from the Seibu Lions and Yomiuri Giants outfielder Alex Ramirez — competed in a home run derby before the first game of Nippon Professional Baseball's All-Star Series on Thursday....
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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