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TOKYO YAKULT SWALLOWS

Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Mar 3, 2014
Swallows' Balentien keeps focus on steady improvement
Wladimir Balentien launched a few balls to the farthest reaches of Tokyo Dome during batting practice on Sunday, turned his hat backwards and, as he sat down near the visitor's dugout, proclaimed that his timing was off.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Jan 30, 2014
Apologetic Balentien faces long road back
Wladimir Balentien has apologized twice now — once in the United States and, on Wednesday, back on Japanese soil — with much of his time spent atoning to the Tokyo Yakult Swallows fans and the organization.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Nov 30, 2013
For once, MVP voters got things right
One thing that's always surprising when NPB voters get both the Pacific and Central League MVP winners right.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 15, 2013
Balentien sets new Japan single-season home run record
As soon as Wladimir Balentien's bat made contact with Daiki Enokida's fastball there was no doubt: Japan had just crowned a new home run king.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 14, 2013
Swallows snap losing streak in wild encounter with Tigers
A prized rookie pitcher went head-to-head with a slugger on a historical pace before a fight broke out and before and a player dove across home plate to successfully execute a suicide squeeze.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 13, 2013
Balentien still waiting as Tigers beat Swallows
Wladimir Balentien said getting to 55 was "the hard part" in his quest to set a new single-season home run record.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 12, 2013
Carp double up Swallows; Balentien remains at 55 homers
There were plenty of balls flying out of Jingu Stadium on Thursday night.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 11, 2013
Balentien ties single-season home run record
Before facing the Hiroshima Carp, Wladimir Balentien and teammate Ryoji Aikawa decided they were going to go with a high-sock look, or as Balentien put it, "old-school, Sadaharu Oh-style."
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 11, 2013
Balentien ties single-season home run record
Wladimir Balentien turned Japanese baseball's record-setting trio into a quartet.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 10, 2013
Balentien belts 54th home run in loss to Carp
Wladimir Balentien moved one step closer to history, and the Hiroshima Carp remained on track for a long-awaited trip to the postseason.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 31, 2013
Balentien maintains poise, perspective as he chases single-season HR record
Wladimir Balentien flips on the television and takes in a rare moment of relaxation. Instead of his Tokyo Yakult Swallows uniform, which will be worn later, he's clad simply in a red T-shirt commemorating his back-to-back home run titles and yellow shorts from a past NPB All-Star Series.
Japan to revise consumption tax exemption for overseas tourists
Tourists walk through Nakamise shopping street near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo in April
Japan's tourism industry hit by cancellations after megaquake alert
A beach closed due to a megaquake alert in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, from Friday to Thursday.
Focus shifts to incoming typhoon as Tropical Storm Maria dissipates
Newly formed Tropical Storm Ampil, which is forecast to approach eastern Japan this weekend, is seen on the left side of this satellite image.
Kishida to step down in September in bid to show ‘LDP has changed’
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.
Publisher finds surprise audience after translating history textbooks
Yamakawa Shuppansha president Takeshi Nozawa holds the publisher's textbook on Japanese history — used in high schools across Japan — alongside the new English version in Tokyo on May 23.
Economic security is about strengthening and sustaining growth, former minister says
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi says changes in the international balance of power, along with deepening economic interdependence, have led some countries to attempt to use their economic power to impose their will on others.
Ice bandanas, convenience store breaks: Running under Japan’s summer sun
Blistering heat is becoming a fixture of summer in Japan, but a few tweaks to your routine can make your outdoor runs bearable — if not enjoyable — until cooler temperatures return.
Japan issued its first-ever megaquake alert. What does that mean?
Naoshi Hirata (center), chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
France brings down the curtain on its Olympic party with Tom Cruise and Leon Marchand
Fireworks are set off during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics at Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Sunday.
Japan fuels U.S. LNG boom even as climate targets and impacts loom
Flaring at the Cameron LNG export terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana. Flaring, a common sight at LNG plants, is a controlled burning of gas for reasons ranging from depressurizing equipment to disposing of gas that can’t be used. The practice is a "waste of money" and negatively impacts climate change and human health, says the International Energy Agency.

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