"Godzilla" is now a New Yorker, but Japan will have plenty to cheer about when the baseball season arrives in the spring.
Ichiro Suzuki and Kazuhiro Sasaki are coming home -- for a while at least.
The Seattle Mariners will open their 2003 season against the Oakland Athletics at the Tokyo Dome on March 25 and 26, officials announced at a press conference in Tokyo on Thursday. It will mark the second time Major League Baseball teams will open the year in Japan, after the Chicago Cubs and New York Mets played a two-game series here in 2000.