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BASEBALL

Japan Times
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Sep 24, 2013
Kato's attempt to change NPB doomed by lack of power
Ryozo Kato had the ideas to be the commissioner Japanese baseball needed, but not the muscle.
COMMUNITY / Our Lives / WHEN EAST MARRIES WEST
Aug 2, 2013
Guts, glory and shaved ice: Koshien baseball
Summer is not summer in Japan without two things: 1. Heat (OK, so maybe it's not the heat, it's the humidity); and 2 . . .
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Jul 25, 2013
Tweet Beat: #allstar
The All-Star Series hashtags were more widely tweeted than Upper House election ones last week. #TweetBeat
EDITORIALS
Jun 18, 2013
No excuse for NPB's deceit
It is unfathomable why Japanese pro baseballl chose not to announce the simple fact that it was making baseballs 'more lively' for the 2013 season.
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Jun 14, 2013
Lack of transparency on ball changes causes NPB grief
Nippon Professional Baseball did not err when it introduced a standardized baseball two seasons ago. The change was needed.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / HIT AND RUN
Apr 16, 2013
Taking cues from soccer could help baseball reach goal
Judging by popular opinion, many seem to think convincing MLB to commit to sending its top players to the Olympics is the key to getting the sport back into the program in the future, preferably in time for the 2020 Games.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 29, 2013
2013 Pacific League Preview
Final installment of a two-part 2013 NPB Preview.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 28, 2013
2013 Central League Preview
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Professional cleaner Hirofumi Sakurai takes a moment to appreciate some photographs in a Gotanda apartment whose occupant died alone.
The last cleanup: Life and death in a lonely Japan