In Japanese baseball a six-man rotation is the norm. You’d think a major league team would consider the idea. Teams occasionally go with a four-man rotation, a three men during the playoffs. Why not six?
Well, here’s an original article published on Baseball Think Factory Making a case for the Mets going to such a rotation. […]

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Here’s a nice, consice analysis of how Chinese influence might take hold in a post-Kim Jong-il or chaotic North Korean landscape written by Andrei Lankov for the Asia Times. People who have done some extended reading on this subject are already aware of this increasingly likely scenario, but for those who don’t follow this closely […]

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This was at the Pusan International Film Festival this year, though I didn’t see it because it was a quick sellout. Now the film is set to get a release in Japan, and right-wing groups aren’t happy about it.

“The threats began about two months ago, when we started press screenings of the movie in […]

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