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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
May 3, 2019
Fighters pound out 17 hits, clobber Lions
Left-hander Takayuki Kato threw five solid innings and Yushi Shimizu drove in three runs as the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters hammered the Seibu Lions 10-3 in the Pacific League on Friday.
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JAPAN / Science & Health
May 2, 2019
Launch of private Momo-3 rocket delayed again, this time due to strong wind at Hokkaido site
Aerospace startup Interstellar Technology Inc. said it postponed the planned launch of a small rocket on Thursday due to strong wind.
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BASKETBALL / B. League
Apr 26, 2019
Tochigi pounds Kawasaki in playoff opener
The Tochigi Brex were locked in at both ends of the court on Friday night.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 24, 2019
Taishi Ota's five hits, five RBIs help Fighters rout Eagles
Taishi Ota had the best game of his career on Wednesday, going 5-for-6 with five RBIs and three runs scored to help lead the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters to a 15-5 win against the Tohoku Rakuten Eagles in the Pacific League.
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Apr 24, 2019
'East Hokkaido Cranes' to succeed Nippon Paper franchise
Asia League Ice Hockey said Tuesday it has approved an application for a successor team to Japan's Nippon Paper Cranes, which closed the curtain on its 70-year history at the end of the season last month.
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BASKETBALL / B. League
Apr 21, 2019
Alvark finish season strongly with win over woeful Levanga
The Alvark Tokyo excelled over the final two months of the regular season, elevating their play to match their impressive victory total from their title-winning 2017-18 campaign.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 20, 2019
Marines' Mike Bolsinger, trio of relievers stifle Fighters
There were four players, all pitchers, on the hero interview podium for the Chiba Lotte Marines on Saturday afternoon.
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JAPAN
Apr 19, 2019
Japan enacts law recognizing Ainu as indigenous, but activists say it falls short of U.N. declaration
Hokkaido's ethnic minority will get a promotional boost, but not the rights to education and self-determination spelled out in the U.N's 2007 declaration on indigenous people.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 18, 2019
Ex-Buffaloes ace Chihiro Kaneko leads Fighters to victory against old club
Chihiro Kaneko returned to his pro baseball roots on Thursday, throwing five scoreless innings to earn the win as the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters defeated the Orix Buffaloes 7-3.
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JAPAN / Politics
Apr 18, 2019
Abe has abandoned June timeline for Japan-Russia peace treaty, says source
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has given up on reaching a broad agreement on a Japan-Russia peace treaty when he meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in June amid persisting differences over how to settle a long-standing territorial dispute, a government source said Thursday.
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JAPAN / Science & Health
Apr 17, 2019
Life-size skeletal replica of Japan's largest dinosaur restored
What is believed to be Japan's largest fossilized dinosaur skeleton has been restored as a life-size replica, researchers and officials from the town of Mukawa, in Hokkaido, where the original discovery was made, said Wednesday.
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JAPAN
Apr 11, 2019
Hokkaido Museum surveying disputed Russian-held isles in bid to save Japanese artifacts
The Hokkaido Museum in Sapporo has been surveying historical artifacts on the four Russian-held isles claimed by Japan through a bilateral arrangement that lets Japanese former residents make visa-free visits.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / Sac Bunts
Apr 8, 2019
Fighters' experiments with openers not going well early
The ironic thing about the Seibu Lions blowing up the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters' "opener" strategy — in such a magnificent explosion of hits and runs on Saturday it might close the book on the opener — is that Fighters starter Takayuki Kato, the "opener," actually did his job well.
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JAPAN / Politics
Apr 8, 2019
With opposition fractured, LDP bags over half of prefectural seats in first leg of polls
The results show that support for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's party remains firm ahead of the Upper House election set for this summer.
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JAPAN / Politics
Apr 7, 2019
Despite divisions, LDP scores key win as Japan votes in nationwide polls
By winning the key Hokkaido gubernatorial election, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's Liberal Democratic Party gets off to a good start as it heads toward this summer's Upper House election.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 6, 2019
Tomoya Mori leads Lions' hit parade with 4-for-5 performance against Fighters
Opener, closer, middleman, it's all the same to the Seibu Lions' lineup.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 4, 2019
Eagles chase Fighters starter Yuki Saito early, put game out of reach with eight-run sixth
The Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters handed former Koshien hero Yuki Saito the start Thursday afternoon in a bid to end their losing streak, but the right-hander instead helped prolong it in an 11-2 rout of the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles.
JAPAN / Politics
Apr 4, 2019
Japan files protest with Russia over planned shooting practice near disputed island off Hokkaido
Japan lodged a protest over a planned Russian shooting exercise in waters near one of the four islands off Hokkaido that are at the center of a bilateral territorial dispute, the Japanese government said Thursday.
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JAPAN
Apr 4, 2019
Whaling fleet leaves for north Japan waters in last ostensibly scientific mission before IWC exit
Four whaling vessels left a port in Miyagi Prefecture on Thursday to take part in the last of what the government calls a scientific research program before the country's exit from the International Whaling Commission at the end of June.
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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 3, 2019
Zelous Wheeler lifts Eagles to win over Fighters with two-run homer in eighth
Zelous Wheeler belted a two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth inning as the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles came from behind to beat the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 3-2 in the Pacific League on Wednesday.

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