Chiba Lotte Marines manager Bobby Valentine and the team owner Akio Shigemitsu wave during a Japan Series parade in 2005. (AP Photo/Kyodo News) This week, I wrote a web exclusive story for the Boston Globe. Valentine left his mark on Japanese baseball. and here are some excerpts: From “Bobby Beer” and “Bobby Burgers” to turning [...]
I absolutely love this photo. Ichiro Suzuki and Sadaharu Oh after Japan’s first win of the WBC tournament in 2006. (Photo by Chris Carlson/AP) This week, I tweeted about Hideki Matsui’s pep talk on a bok by Ex-Yankees batboy (“Kick ass. Pop champagne. And get some ho’s.”), MLB playing hardball (no-pun intended!) with Nippon Professional [...]
Fascinating. One of my favorite blog 8Asian’s Koji Steven had a interesting write up titled “Was Jesus Asian?” And while he concludes that he probably wasn’t Asian (he was probably more like Arab people, which is also interesting) the links to images of Asian christianity art are really fascinating. I was baptized in my late [...]
As always, most of my tweets are about baseball, and the Boston Red Sox. But a friend forwarded me this link: Google Street View of inside Hiroshima Peace Memorial. Two bombs were dropped in Japan near the end of World War II, first on August 6, 1945 in Hiroshima and the second on August 9, [...]
A page from “Born free and equal” by Ansel Adams (via Library of Congress) Found this via angry asian man: Originally published in 1944, legendary photographer Ansel Adams’ book Born Free and Equal is a collection of photographs taken at the Manzanar Relocation Center, authorized by the War Relocation Authority. It was out of print [...]
This is just fantastic and I had to post this. (Also cross-posted to blog.japaneseballplayers.com). I got notice on SABR’s new SABRNation social networking site‘s Asian Baseball Committee group about an event by Nisei Baseball Research Projects and Fresno Grizzlies, Triple-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants, Nisei Tribute Night which took place May 7th. So [...]
It has been over a week, but I personally still can’t get over the shock of the national emergency caused by last week’s massive earthquake and tsunami in Northeast Japan. But as I follow my baseball news, I have noticed a lot of stories about what baseball players are doing about this terrible natural disaster. [...]
I try not to think about it too much, because me worrying about it won’t solve any thing, but what is happening in Japan is really, really shocking and sad and depressing. Perhaps I should stop listening/watching the news, but internet is amazing that all broadcasting are available in ustream NHK: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nhk-gtv TBS: http://www.ustream.tv/user/TBStv Fuji [...]
After the conference, Gil, Erin, Joanne and I went to get sushi. It was delicous. I am logging all my food on my tumblrand foodspotting. Then, I was so tired and passed out. Everytime I come to Southern California, it is cold or raining. It hailed yesterday as the conference was going on. Today, as [...]
Banana 2 bloggers conference was great. Videos can be viewed here. I am honored to have been invited and been part of it. Congratulations for all who planned and excecuted the conference. It was really well done and I was impressed. Met tons of very talented and motivated people. Meeting those individuals are one of [...]
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