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Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Apr 13, 2015
Swallows pitchers off to hot start on mound this year
The Tokyo Yakult Swallows' pitchers were unlikely candidates to flirt with history, the good kind at least, when the season began March 27. Not when they were coming off a 2014 in which they posted the worst ERA in Japan among starters, relievers, and, unsurprisingly, overall as a team.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 12, 2015
Batting star Yamada working to improve play in field
After demolishing Central League pitching in his first full season, second baseman Tetsuto Yamada has been spending time upgrading his fielding — a team-wide weakness last season when the Tokyo Yakult Swallows finished last place for the second straight year.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 11, 2015
Taguchi passes debut test with flying colors as Giants down Swallows
If the pressure of making his NPB debut at Tokyo Dome in front of 42,870 fans got to Yomiuri Giants left-hander Kazuto Taguchi, the 19-year-old didn't let it show — on the mound or at the plate.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 10, 2015
Hatakeyama's 11th-inning homer carries Swallows past Giants
There were funky uniforms on both sides, and a slew of great plays in the outfield. In the end, it was Kazuhiro Hatakeyama and the Tokyo Yakult Swallows who put their stamp on the first round of a colorful battle for Tokyo supremacy.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Apr 1, 2015
Swallows' Milledge to miss time due to shoulder issue
Tokyo Yakult Swallows outfielder Lastings Milledge was deactivated on Wednesday due to a strain in his right rotator cuff, the Central League has announced.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Mar 29, 2015
Kuroda wins first game back with Carp
Former New York Yankees pitcher Hiroki Kuroda, who has returned to Japan after seven years in the major leagues, pitched seven scoreless innings to lead the Hiroshima Carp to a 2-1 win over the Tokyo Yakult Swallows on Sunday.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / 2015 JAPANESE BASEBALL PREVIEW
Mar 25, 2015
Carp hoping Kuroda can be final piece in title puzzle
Part of the Carp's slogan for 2015 is 'Red Rising,' and that's exactly what the club has been doing the past few years. Hiroshima has increased its win total in each of the past four seasons.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball / HIT AND RUN
Mar 2, 2015
Milledge on comeback trail after losing most of 2014 season to injury
Lastings Milledge wasn't looking for results this past weekend at Tokyo Dome, though he did have a booming home run, a double and two walks in two spring games against the Yomiuri Giants. More importantly, it was a step forward on the long road back from the injury that cost him virtually the entire...
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Feb 22, 2015
Long-term Swallows absentee Sato takes step toward comeback
Right-hander Yoshinori Sato, absent from the Tokyo Yakult Swallows' first-team camp for the past three years due to shoulder pain, worked two scoreless innings on Sunday in his first game action of the season.
BUSINESS
Nov 27, 2014
Danone looks to sell $2 billion stake in Yakult
Danone, the world's largest yogurt maker, is considering selling its 20 percent stake in dairy-drink producer Yakult Honsha Co., according to sources.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 25, 2014
Strong start carries Carp past Swallows
Eishin Soyogi homered, tripled and doubled on Thursday to power the Hiroshima Carp to a 9-1 victory over the Tokyo Yakult Swallows and keep his team's slim chances of a Central League pennant alive.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 23, 2014
Carp guaranteed first non-losing season since 2001
Deunte Heath says the Hiroshima Carp have the best fans in Japan. On Tuesday, he took a big step toward giving them a chance to watch their team play postseason baseball at home for a change.
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 22, 2014
Swallows skipper Ogawa to step down
The Central League's Tokyo Yakult Swallows on Monday accepted manager Junji Ogawa's decision to resign at the end of the season due to the cellar-dwelling club's poor results.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Sep 20, 2014
Giants punch ticket to CL playoffs
Right-hander Yuki Koyama allowed a run in eight innings on Saturday as the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants defeated the last-place Tokyo Yakult Swallows 4-2.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / BASEBALL BULLET-IN
Sep 6, 2014
O'Malley, Ramirez are worth a look as skippers
Now in the final month of the 2014 Japanese baseball regular season, the "A-Class" teams in the Central and Pacific leagues look forward to October's Climax Series of playoffs, while the three also-rans in both divisions begin thinking about next year.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 16, 2014
Dragons' Yamai silences Swallows
Daisuke Yamai held Japan's best-hitting team to two hits over the distance as the Chunichi Dragons beat the Tokyo Yakult Swallows 6-0 on Saturday afternoon.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Aug 9, 2014
Ishikawa perseveres with Swallows
On a somewhat muggy Friday night in Yokohama, Masanori Ishikawa strode to the center of the diamond at Yokohama Stadium, bent down and bounced the rosin bag around in his hand a few times — seemingly every pitch later that night was accompanied by a puff of white — and proceeded to make his...
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 31, 2014
Muranaka tames Tigers in rout
Kyohei Muranaka allowed one unearned run over eight sharp innings, Wladimir Balentien homered, and the Tokyo Yakult Swallows turned a close game into an 8-1 rout of the Hanshin Tigers to clinch the three-game series on Thursday night.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 23, 2014
Yamada beginning to flex muscles for Swallows
The Tokyo Yakult Swallows' Tetsuto Yamada has been full of surprises since earning the Central League club's regular second base job a year ago, and his home run in the second game of the All-Star Series last Saturday shows we never quite know what to expect from him.
Japan Times
BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball
Jul 14, 2014
Swallows rout Giants at Tokyo Dome
Masanori Ishikawa got more than enough run support against fellow lefty Tetsuya Utsumi, Tetsuto Yamada homered and drove in three runs, and the Tokyo Yakult Swallows ran roughshod over the Central League-leading Yomiuri Giants in a 12-1 rout on Monday night.
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Kansai airports to increase takeoff and landing slots ahead of Osaka Expo
Kansai International Airport in Izumisano, Osaka Prefecture. The upper limit on the number of takeoff and landing slots at the airport as well as Kobe Airport in Hyogo Prefecture will be raised in spring next year ahead of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka.
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