In response to the events of March 11, causing the 2011 season openers to be postponed, Nippon Professional Baseball has come out with a revised schedule for games in April, but there is a lot of confusion about who will be playing where, which games have been moved from the original schedule to a new venue and how many games have been changed from night to day.

One fan, a tourist visiting from Australia, arrived in Osaka on March 28 and tried to get tickets to the March 29 Hanshin Tigers-Chunichi Dragons game at Kyocera Osaka Dome. Apparently, he had not heard the start of the season had been delayed and all games through April 10 had been canceled.

Also uninformed was another fan who knew of the delay and wanted to attend an opening day game on April 12, seeing either the Yomiuri Giants-Yakult Swallows at Tokyo Dome or the Saitama Seibu Lions-Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters at Seibu's domed ball park in Tokorozawa.