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Naruse Cooked, Darvish/Ham Massacre Valentine 6-1 to Leap Into Japan Series

October 18th, 2007 · 1 Comment

 
In what had all the makings of a legendary pitching duel turned out to be…something less as the Hokkaido Nippon Fighting Ham leaned on the bat of former Montreal Expo Fernando Seguignol to defeat the Chiba Lotte Marines 6-2 to advance to the Japan Series.
Yoshihisa Naruse lasted just 3 innings in what was his worst outing of the […]

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Tags: Baseball - Japan

Notes of a Japanese Soldier in the USSR

October 18th, 2007 · No Comments

This is a must see collection of drawings and poems by Kiuchi Nobuo, a Japanese POW in the Soviet Union during following the Second World War.  
By the end of World War II about 600 thousand Japanese soldiers and officers have been held captive in thousands of prison camps on a territory, stretched from Kamchatka in the East, […]

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