So, big news is that Kosuke Fukudome, a stud outfielder/slugger of Chunichi Dragons -my home town team- just filed for free agency. Losing star player is a sad news for my home town team. He has said to be hired San Diego-based Octagon Baseball as his agent and looking to come across the Pacific to [...]
Sushi Dinner! — Photo by Daigo. I just came back from two week vacation from Japan. It was nice to see all my family and relatives again. We ate very well. I have documented the food I ate in a flickr album. It makes a pretty awesome slide show. *** We were in Sapporo one [...]
In keeping with my JapaneseBallPlayers.com website sprit, I root for all and every Japanese athletes competing in the US. We just recently witnessed a devastating defeat… I am not talking about Ai Miyazato and Shiho Ohyama in the US Women’s Open golf, nor Ai Sugiyama’s defeat by Maria Sharapova in the third round of Wimbledon. [...]
This whole Virginia Tech shooting is making me feel, how do I put it, very uneasy. I read late last night that the gunman was an Asian in a AP story (I believe), and today it was announced that he was Korean. I strongly believe that race or ethnicity of the gunman had anything to [...]
It got me thinking after I had a pretty interesting conversation with my colleagues about Daisuke Matsuzaka’s nick name, Dice-K. His name, Daisuke, does sound the same as Dice-K, so pronunciation is correct, but I had a little trouble with the use of it. Example, they are using it in a sentence like “Welcome to [...]
There you have it, folks. He throws gyro! Matsuzaka talked to press at the press conference in Ft. Myers yesterday, and the last question was “do you throw gyro?” His answer: “I knew I was going to be asked that question and I thought of few way of answering… I am going to say this, [...]
It’s all over the news: North Korea tested nuclear wepon this Monday, and I can’t stop reading about it. The more I read, the more I get scared. As I ‘ve writtten before, I am strongly against changing Article 9 in the Japanese constitution. I wondered if this “fear” of North Korea, (as real as [...]
May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. I guess it is to mark two dates: The first Japanese immigrants arrived in the United States on May 7, 1843 and the completion of the transcontinental railroad, a hard work by Chinese workers, on May 10, 1869. Amazing to think of Japanese people coming to US in 1843, [...]
Who knew. In today’s Boston Globe’s Living Arts section, there is a really nice article about 26-years-old Japanese street art/graffiti artist, Kenji Nakayama. You can also hear him and see his work on the boston.com slideshow. Seems like a interesting guy and really cool art. There are lots of talented Japanese/Japanese American in this area. [...]
I didn’t know this but (former-)assistant trainer Chang Lee (Photographed here with a-week-late-slagger Manny Ramirez) has moved to California and is working with Padres pitcher Chan Ho Park. I knew Chris Correnti left the organization but today’s Globe article by Chris Snow was first of Lee’s departure. He was part of the World Champion team [...]
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