Jason Coskrey - The Japan Times

February 28, 2025

Today's print edition

Subscribe for more access

Jason Coskrey

Meta

Twitter

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

Jul 29, 2017

Early runs, dominant Sugano guide Giants past BayStars

When you've got a pitcher as good as Tomoyuki Sugano on the mound, the game plan is usually pretty simple.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK

Jul 24, 2017

Amador, Lopez, Mathieson catch fire in NPB

Over the past weekend in Japan, the only thing hotter than the weather, was the play of a trio of foreign NPB stars.

Japan Times

BASKETBALL / NBA

Jul 22, 2017

Cavs' Irving fired up about 2020 Games

Kyrie Irving made his first trip to Japan this week, and the Cleveland Cavaliers point guard already has plans to come back.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN

Jul 17, 2017

NPB should do more to spice up All-Star experience

The final round of the Home Run Derby that preceded Game 1 of the NPB All-Star Series on Friday ended with a 4-4 tie and the player declared as the winner, via tiebreaker, looking around in confusion. It was yet another example that Japanese baseball needs to head back to the drawing board in its approach...

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Jul 15, 2017

Despaigne, Akiyama, Suzuki supply big hits as PL tops CL in All-Star Series finale

For one night, it was just like old times for Alfredo Despaigne in Chiba. A monstrous home run, a celebration with Chiba Lotte Marines catcher Tatsuhiro Tamura, and a celebratory "Despa-iine" call-and-response with the fans in right field after the game.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK

Jul 15, 2017

Rookie shortstop Genda capitalizes on opportunity to replace injured Mogi on PL All-Star squad

Sosuke Genda was an almost last-minute addition for this year's All-Star Series. But that hasn't taken any of the fun out of it for the 24-year old Seibu Lions rookie.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Jul 11, 2017

Giants' Sugano picks up CL-leading ninth victory

A lot of NPB players might be looking forward to the upcoming All-Star break, but you might not find too many Yomiuri Giants on that list.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN

Jul 10, 2017

Swallows fans getting test in patience in 2017

Tokyo Yakult Swallows fans can be forgiven for being frustrated, even angry, at the way the season has played out thus far. The team is mired in last place and began this week six games out of even fifth place.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Jul 7, 2017

Carp sink Swallows on Arai's three-run blast in ninth inning

Everything was set up for the Hiroshima Carp to lose.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK

Jul 7, 2017

SoftBank's Sarfate joins exclusive club with 200th career save

It's been a week of benchmarks in NPB, with a few players reaching nice, round numbers.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN

Jun 26, 2017

Fighters face important decision as Otani prepares for return to field

Shohei Otani looked good in the Toei Flyers throwback uniform the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters donned over the weekend. So Fighters fans at least had that to fall back on, since they didn't see him do anything else.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Jun 23, 2017

Dragons' Valdes rises to challenge against Giants' Sugano

Raul Valdes never blinked.

Japan Times

MORE SPORTS

Jun 23, 2017

Patriots QB Brady wraps up tour of Asia with trip to Tokyo

In the span of six days, Tom Brady threw passes on the Great Wall of China, rubbed shoulders with a Korean pop star in Shanghai, and spent a morning in the company of sumo wrestlers in Tokyo.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Jun 17, 2017

Giants' Taguchi silences Marines, gets big run support in blowout victory

After beginning interleague play in the middle of what would become an historic low, the Yomiuri Giants are poised to end the annual midseason competition on a high note.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Jun 17, 2017

Veteran slugger Pena brings much-needed power to Marines

After watching Wily Mo Pena give them what they hope is a taste of things to come, the Chiba Lotte Marines fans in the visitor's section at Tokyo Dome could only stand and applaud.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN

Jun 12, 2017

Eagles show mettle during series with Carp

While you never want to get too caught up in a series in early June, the results from Sendai over the weekend are well worth remembering as the season stretches onward.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / NPB NOTEBOOK

Jun 8, 2017

Giants enduring historic losing streak

In their 83 years of existence, the Yomiuri Giants have never had a stretch quite this bad.

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN

Jun 5, 2017

Former Yomiuri star Cromartie still feels at home in Japan

The legacy of Warren Cromartie has endured in Japanese baseball even though it's been decades since the former Yomiuri Giants star laced up his cleats in Japan.

Japan Times

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

Jun 2, 2017

Exhibition highlights legacy of U.S.-Japan baseball ties

Warren Cromartie, formerly of the Yomiuri Giants in NPB and the Montreal Expos and Kansas City Royals in MLB, pointed at Masanori Murakami and called him "a hero."

BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN

May 29, 2017

Carp star Suzuki working on 'godlike' encore

Hiroshima Carp outfielder Seiya Suzuki was "godlike" last season. At least that was the word.

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

The building of new high-rise residential buildings has some alarmed that they could empty and fall into disrepair as Japan's population shrinks.

The high cost of letting Japan's condos crumble

By Tomoko Otake

SUSTAINABLE JAPAN

Cainz enriches lives and communities through DIY

Cainz enriches lives and communities through DIY

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTS

SUPPLEMENTS BINDER

international-reports