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		<title>My favorite All-Star game image</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is MLB ALl-Star game. My man Ichiro Suzuki have now made it to the All Star 10 years in the row. He is just amazing. I read somewhere that Ichiro and Jeter tandem have never lost a All-Star game. Anyway, here is my favorite image of all time, courtesy of whitehouse photography!]]></description>
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		<title>Kenichi Zenimura, the Father of Japanese-American Baseball</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 23:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kenichi Zenimura is in between Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth, in 1927 Nisei Baseball Research Project has started its campain to nominate Kenichi Zenimura, the Father of Japanese American Baseball, for the National Baseball Hall of Fame Buck O’Neil Lifetime Achievement Award. (Press Reliese about nominations being accepted) Nominations for the award must be submitted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese connection, spring training style</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Baseball season starts! It is Spring Training but it is nice to be able to listen to games on iPhone. It feels right. Ah, I missed this. There were 18 Japanese players who played for MLB in 2009, but 5 of them went back to Japan this off-season. Masahide Konbayashi (Yopmiuri Giants), Yasuhiko Yabuta (Chiba [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Great reading on Bobby Valentine, by Robert Whiting</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:59:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>daigo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You gotta have Wa&#8221; (one of my favorite book of all time) author Robert Whiting has just concluded crazy 4-part series about how once-super-popular Bobby Valentine was almost jettisoned from Chiba Lotte Marines, on Japan Times online. Part 1: Clandestine campaign led to Valentine’s demise Part 2: Valentine’s philosophy brought Marines glory, money Part 3: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How will Japanese players fare in 2010, according to the Bill James Handbook</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was inspired by Boston Globe&#8217;s Chad Finn&#8217;s posting on Extra Bases blog called Some interesting numbers via Bill James , and decided to look up what the projections of Japanese players for the year 2010 from the 2010 edition of the Bill James Handbook. According to James and his company, Ichiro will make History [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese pitchers and uniform number 18</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blog called Mets by the numbers had a kind of interesting post about significance of uniform numbers in Japanese culture: Why Igarashi Was Issued No. 18, following the news that Mets&#8217; new reliever, Ryota Igarashi, picked the uniform number of 18 this year. Of course, our man Daisuke Matsuzaka wears number 18 for the Boston [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Translating Japanese (or any other language, for that matter) is hard.</title>
		<link>http://daigo.org/2010/01/translating-japanese-or-any-other-language-for-that-matter-is-hard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whoa. I thought, by translating Daisuke Matsuzaka interview on the Magazine Friday, I was passing on a good news (Matsuzaka admits his wrong doing last year and will come back in 2010 with something to prove). But it turns out that it was first time the club lerned about the injury (yikes), and he may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daisuke Matsuzaka&#8217;s confession, translated.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daisuke Matsuzaka talked to the Japanese entertainment news and gossip weekly magazine &#8220;FRIDAY&#8221; in Japan. He talked about his difficult season and revealed that he actually hurt his right inner thigh before joining Japanese team for World Baseball Classic (which he was awarded his second MVP for winning all three games he started). It is [...]]]></description>
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