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KND Report: Rays trade Iwamura to Pirates

The Pittsburgh Pirates announced today that they had traded reliver Jesse Chavez to the Tampa Bay Rays for Japanese second baseman Akinori Iwamura....
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KND Report: Aki Iwamura's hot return

When Akinori Iwamura went down in May, the injury looked bad enough to end his career—his return in 2009 seemed a distant hope. Aki fulfilled...
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Asian MLB KND Report: Week 2

Welcome to the second week of the KND report, with a new logo courtesy of the incomparable April White."KND" stands for Kattobase Nihonjin...
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KND Report: Week One

Lots of Asian sports happenings in the first week of the MLB season: season and career debuts both auspicious and disappointing, and injuries...
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KND Report: April 8

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Overlapping my division-by-division KND Report, highlighting the Asian players to watch this year, I'm kicking off my regular KND Report with a day...
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Kattobase Nihonjin Dairiigaa: AL East

Kattobase Nihonjin Dairiigaa!First, apologies to all my readers for remaining silent for the past two weeks.I’ve just bought my first house,...
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Japan defeats Korea in extra innings, 5-3, to win its second WBC title

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It's World Baseball Classic finals time, and both teams are Asian—it's a dream come true for the Korean and Japanese players, as well as for...
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Japan soundly defeats USA, 9-4, leading to an all-Asian World Baseball Classic

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It's semifinal Number Two of the WBC, and it's hard to imagine a game that means more to both teams.Team Japan wants to show the US team that they can...
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Team Japan gets its revenge against Team Korea, 6-2

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Both Japan and Korea have made the Final Four WBC semifinals, so tonight's game isn't supposed to mean anything other than which team they will...
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Japan blanks Cuba again, 5-0, moving on to WBC semifinals

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Japan shut out Cuba, 6-0, on Sunday, for the right to face Korea, who beat them 4-1 last night. Their pitching and defense has been solid, but their...
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