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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 1, 2006

Giants rout BayStars on Opening Day

Opening Day must be Koji Uehara's least favorite day of the year, but things change.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 30, 2006

Hawks hoping to get over playoff hump

CHIBA LOTTE MARINES -- Manager Bobby Valentine's club won it all last season and will no doubt be a contender for the Pacific League again. The lineup is solid with veterans Kazuya Fukuura (6 home runs, 72 RBIs, .300 average in 2005) at first base and Koichi Hori (7, 46, .305) at second, National Team...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 30, 2006

Yakult looking to get back on top of CL

HANSHIN TIGERS -- The Tigers seem to be taking turns finishing in fourth and first place every other year. Fourth in 2002 and 2004, first in 2003 and 2005, and if not careful, they could drop to the second division in 2006.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 24, 2006

WBC members Aoki, Miyamoto lead Yakult to exhibition win

World Baseball Classic Team Japan members Norichika Aoki and Shinya Miyamoto helped the Yakult Swallows beat the Hanshin Tigers 7-5 in a preseason game Thursday.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 23, 2006

Lee goes 2-for-3 for Yomiuri in return from WBC

Lee Seung Yeop went 2-for-3 and drove in two runs Wednesday in his first exhibition appearance for the Yomiuri Giants since his heroic hitting efforts for South Korea at the World Baseball Classic.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 16, 2006

Ump Davidson works game; fans still unhappy over decision

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- The biggest contributor to the United States' win over Japan on Sunday was there again for Japan's 6-1 win over Mexico.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 14, 2006

WBC Notebook

ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Ichiro Suzuki saw daylight for one at-bat, but now he's back in the dark.
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Mar 14, 2006

Ensnared in the office, dads increasingly remote

There is this enduring stereotype of the Nippon no otosan (Japanese Dad). It emerged sometime during the 1970s and remains, to this day, the most common and recognizable model for fatherhood in Japan.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 13, 2006

New stars emerge to crank up the power for Japan

PHOENIX -- Several of Japan's center-stage stars haven't been the guys whose names were circled on programs heading into the World Baseball Classic, but after a weekend at Tokyo Dome, they are producing, no matter where they are in the order.
JAPAN / Media / MEDIA MIX
Mar 12, 2006

Weekly magazines joust over trillion-yen fortunetelling trade

It is often said that if you really want to understand what is happening in Japan you should read the weekly magazines. Though the weeklies' journalistic standards are considered less rigorous than those of the daily newspapers, they are less reluctant to step on toes that belong to people who might...
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 11, 2006

Rangers whip Team Japan

SURPRISE, Ariz. -- The Texas Rangers should wear sunglasses, their future is so bright.
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Mar 9, 2006

Veteran writer Wiggins honored with FSAJ award

Longtime sports columnist and sumo television announcer Dave Wiggins was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the second annual Foreign Sportswriters Association of Japan Media Awards dinner on Monday night in Tokyo.

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