Heartbreak.
That's the word that most often comes to mind when thinking about what has been happening here in Japan over the past week.
In the grand scheme of things, baseball games and scores are not important, and the 2011 Japan pro baseball season, whenever it starts, will begin with an air of sadness hanging over every ballpark.
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