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Baseball

An up-close and personal look at Hanshin Tigers Shintaro Fujinami

The Hanshin Tigers are one of the most popular team on Japanese professional baseball (NPB). The Tigers work out in Okinawa, there were about 26,000 spectators in their spring training on February 19. At that day, the practice game was held and the Tigers played against the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. The starting pitcher for the Tigers is Shintaro Fujinami, he allowed 1 …

Baseball

Shota Takeda will join WBC Roster on behalf of Shohei Ohtani

The manager Hiroki Kokubo of the Japan national baseball team that officially nicknamed Samurai Japan, announced Shohei Ohtani of the Hokkaido NipponHam Fighters is out of roster for 2017 World Baseball Classic in February 3. Ohtani hurt his right ankle last year in the Japan series and still has pain. So Otani can not practice pitching, he will not be …

Rugby

Suntory Sungoliath win Japan Rugby Championship with no losses

The final of Japan Rugby Championship was held in January 29 2017, the Suntory Sungoliath played against the Panasonic Wild Knights at the Prince Chichibu Memorial Stadium in Tokyo. The Sungoliath were 15 wins and no loss in the Japan Rugby Top League, they won the championship of 16/17 Top League. In the Semifinal the Sungoliath fought hard at Teikyo University, …