Manga tweets: Neji Shiki
https://twitter.com/mangatrivia/status/804248678424641536
1/31/2017
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Manga tweets: Kimi no Na wa
Kimi no Na wa fan art by professional artist and writer Mayumi Kato @katomayumi
1/29/2017
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8/05/2016
31st Japanese American Association Foreign Minister Cup Nanshiki Baseball Tournament 2016
The nanshiki baseball team I play on, the Brooklyn Dumbos, is in the playoffs.
(Nanshiki means soft type. We use a sturdy rubber ball, not the conventional hardball.)
(Nanshiki means soft type. We use a sturdy rubber ball, not the conventional hardball.)
The first round (quarter final) is on Sunday, August 7 at 8 a.m. at Field 6 in North Meadow in Central Park (by subway: 96th St on the B or C; 96th St on the 6). We play last year's champions, the New York Radiators.
The games are 7 innings with a 2-hour time limit, so it's baseball with restrictions (due to limited field permit availability) but it's a pretty competitive league with some former pros, top division college players, and players who made it to Koshien, the high school tournament that is in many ways a bigger deal than pro ball in Japan.
If you enjoy baseball, please stop by!
The ball:
The Quarter Finals:
Photos, results and more at: http://jaabaseball.blogspot.com (mostly in Japanese)
4/06/2016
Zebra hits NYC
http://www.artofzebra.com/
He's sharing free portraits of Yankees and others.
He'll be there tomorrow, too, and at the Mets game Friday.
He'll be at Yankee Stadium around 4 p.m.
4/23/2015
Conversation between Sadaharu Oh and Akio Chiba (creator of ‘Captain’)
New Year’s Special Feature in the January 1978 issue of Monthly Shōnen Jump
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Chiba: Mr. Oh, congratulations on hitting home run number 756. I was
watching on TV, and I couldn't help jumping out of my seat when you did it.
Oh: Thank you. I was only able to do it because I had everyone's
support.
Chiba: After that home run, you raised your arms in celebration. You
don't usually express much joy, even after hitting a home run.
Oh: That's right. Our manager [Shigeo Nagashima], during his playing
days, would express joy with his whole body after hitting a home run, but I
just can't do that. Kuni-san [Hitting Coach Akira Kunimatsu] always tells me: “The
fans are happy for you, so you should gesture in response.” But... I'm just not
a showman by nature.
Chiba: I think if you take even more time to round the bases, that
would be good. But you're being yourself, Mr. Oh, and I think that's
great.
Oh: When one tries too hard to look a certain way, isn't that strange? Anyway... about number 756... fans all over Japan were eager to see it, and so were my teammates. I didn't want to make them wait. So when I got it done,
Oh: When one tries too hard to look a certain way, isn't that strange? Anyway... about number 756... fans all over Japan were eager to see it, and so were my teammates. I didn't want to make them wait. So when I got it done,
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