By • March 5, 2009
With the Asia Round of the World Baseball Classic set to start today, Japan’s weekly and daily tabloids are suggesting that infighting within defending champion Japan could be making a repeat title increasingly challenging.
By • February 2, 2009
Spring training each February in Okinawa is the annual prelude to the start of the NPB season. Yet according to Nikkan Gendai (Feb. 2) …
By • November 9, 2008
TOKYO – Daisuke Matsuzaka is 26 and sports a crown of spiky hair. He stands at 182 centimeters, weighs 85 kilograms, and throws a …
By • July 10, 2008
The last time two heroes from Japan clashed in a much-anticipated head-to-head match-up in the major leagues, Hideo Nomo plunked Ichiro Suzuki in the back. The Seattle Mariners right-fielder fell to his knees in pain, and Tokyo gasped.
By • June 27, 2008
Even though the middle of February has many still pondering such forms of procrastination as non-shoveled snow and blank tax forms, for pitchers and catchers it signals the opening of spring training facilities in Florida and Arizona.
By • March 29, 2008
Aided by timely hitting from Manny Ramirez, Hideki Okajima pitched an inning of relief to win in Tokyo
Distraught father-in-law wins incestuous consolation prize
Proliferation of fake ID cards assist minors seeking work in sex trade
Re-porn: AV industry relying on rising popularity of ‘mature’ actresses
Out-call sex services in Tokyo compete for piece of papa-sans’ pensions
Osaka ‘girl’s bar’ employed 12-year-old girl
