The fact that Karim Garcia broke a bat over his leg during tonight’s Lotte/Hanwha game isnt’ really the item here. A bat over the leg is always mildly amusing, and probably worth an appearance Sportcenter’s Top 10, but what I really liked was the reaction by the Korean announcers, who really ate it up. [...]

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While big ticket items like Darvish Yu  and Uehara Koji   gobble up headlines as the next big thing to come out of Japan, crafty left-hander/magician Naruse Yoshihisa continues to make quiet noise as one of Japan’s top starting pitchers.
While  Naruse still has a ways to go before he is eligible for free agency, [...]

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Simon has an interesting snippet  of a conversation between NPB legends Sadaharu Oh and Katsuya Nomura, conerning the Japanese team’s failure in the Olympics. Oh somewhat unfairly rips Toshiya Sugiuchi (who pitched very well vs. The Netherlands  and  was decent in the second Korea game)  and they also digress into the ol’ “kids aren’t built [...]

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He is according to Waseda University professor Toshimitsu Shigemura who’s written a book called “The True Character of Kim Jong Il.” One of the assertions in the book is that the Dear Leader is dead.
From Japan Today:
If true, the implications are potentially vast. Among them: former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s summit partner during one or [...]

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