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BASEBALL / Japanese Baseball

BayStars and Hawks vie for supremacy

By Jason Coskrey
Staff Writer

Oct 27, 2017

FUKUOKA – Yokohama BayStars manager Alex Ramirez had one message for his players on the eve of what will be the first Japan Series appearance for many of them.

Vamos. Let’s go.

Ramirez and his upstart BayStars arrived at Fukuoka’s Yafuoku Dome on Friday, taking the field after the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks departed, as the clubs got in their final practices for the Japan Series.

Amid the heat and humidity in Japan, a good night’s sleep is growing increasingly elusive without the heavy use of air conditioning.

Summer has arrived in Japan and so have hot sleepless nights

By Tomoko Otake

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

For many people, utility poles and power lines have become such a familiar part of Japan’s landscape that they often go unnoticed.

Why Japan’s utility poles won’t be disappearing anytime soon

By Alex K.T. Martin

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