Baseball in Japan Resumes
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Baseball returned to Japan on Monday after all weekend games were wiped out by the first players' strike in the sport's 70-year history in the country.
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Japan's professional baseball players go on strike for the first time since the game was introduced 70 years ago.
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Devil Rays manager Joe Maddon is anxiously awaiting a boost to his lineup: the return of third baseman Akinori Iwamura. Before their game against the Chicago White Sox was rained out Saturday night, Maddon said Iwamura was expected to return Monday.
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Tokyo -- Japan agreed Saturday to resume imports of some US beef after a 10- month ban that shut cattle ranchers in the United States out of their most lucrative foreign market.
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Japan&#39;s weekend baseball games will go ahead after club owners averted a second players&#39; strike by promising to add a new team next season.
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Hall of Fame major league baseball player Nolan Ryan will be visiting Japan this month in a new role -- to make a sales pitch for beef from the United States, now struggling to regain its former position as a top supplier.
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Japan and the United States agreed yesterday to resume imports of some American beef, halted since December after a case of mad cow disease
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Red Sox fans will have to set their alarms to catch the season-opening games in Japan.
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The Boston Red Sox and Oakland Athletics are lined up to meet in a Tokyo Dome opener next season.
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Japanese baseball players and club representatives reached a deal Thursday to end the first strike in the 70-year history of the sport in Japan, with owners agreeing to let newcomers into the leagues as early as next season.
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Officials investigating the fate of Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korea return with documentation.
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Japanese professional baseball players are set to strike this weekend for the first time since the game was introduced from the US 70 years ago.
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TOKYO -- Red Sox outfielder Manny Ramirez cut short his tour of Japan today (Japan time), electing to fly back to the United States. Ramirez, who participated in a home run derby yesterday and played five innings last night, getting two hits, told team officials that his left hamstring was bothering him. Officials decided that if Ramirez was unavailable to ...
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Officials from Japan, South Korea and Major League Baseball made significant progress Friday in talks aimed at setting up a World Cup tournament in 2006.
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Akinori Iwamura stepped up to the podium, took a deep breath and smiled. The last time the five-time Japanese League All-Star remembered feeling so nervous, his country was facing the United States on the way to winning the inaugural World Baseball Classic last winter.
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He had been here before. On March 20, 2006, Daisuke Matsuzaka started and went four innings against Cuba in Japan's World Baseball Classic championship victory
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TOKYO It leads the TV news, and everyone from schoolchildren to the prime minister is talking about it. The first baseball strike in Japanese history has gripped the nation and rekindled interest in what was