Author: rwhiting1942
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(2010) MLB Japanese – Why so bad? Pt. I, II, III
Yukan Fuji – Robert Whiting. Previously unpublished in English.
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Platelets for Breakfast
Yukan Fuji, 2010 – Robert Whiting Have you ever heard of platelet-rich plasma injection therapy (PRP)? Neither have I – but a lot of people in MLB have. One of them is Seattle Mariners pitcher Cliff Lee who spent the first part of the season on the disabled list recovering from a severe strain in…
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Sayonara Hillman-san
2010, Yukan Fuji – Robert Whiting Hillman left Japan at the end of the 2007 season, after winning two Pacific League pennant and a Japan Series crown for the Nippon Ham Fighters, saying that five years was the maximum a man should manage a baseball team, especially if that manager was a foreigner managing a…
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Advice column – Letter to Ichiro Suzuki
2010, Yukan Fuji – Robert Whiting Dear Mr. Whiting: As you know I recently passed my 10th consecutive MLB season of achieving 200 hits, which tied a record held by Pete Rose. Many people in the American media have been comparing me to Pete Rose, since then. Some say he was superior because he won…
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Can you speak English?
Ozzie Guillen, Asians and Latinos – previously unpublished in English Yukan Fuji, 2010 – Robert Whiting In a country of people with big mouths, Ozzie Guillen, the manager of the Chicago White Sox, has one of the biggest. He frequently makes the news with controversial remarks and his most recent salvo is no exception. Earlier…
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Are the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in trouble?
by David Roberts and Robert Whiting – February 19, 2016 Foreign Policy There’s a sinking feeling in Japan about the run-up to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The city ditched its overly expensive centerpiece – a $2 billion stadium – and the official logo, under allegations of plagiarism. The preparations have been plagued by embarrassing cost overruns,…
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Japan’s passionate affair with baseball
by Robert Whiting – September 25, 1982 Asia (magazine) September/October 1982 page 10-15 An aficionado explains why the unique customs of besuboru cause many American ballplayers to strike out. “This country has got its national flag all wrong,” remarked one bemused visitor from New York recently during his brief stay in Japan. “Instead of the Rising Sun…
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THE U-2 AND I. Asia Times.
The U-2 and I. Tokyo 1962. U-2 and I. https://asiatimes.com/…/the-u-2-spy-plane-white…/…
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Yukan Fuji – Greg Kelly
X—YUKAN FUJI.2022 GREG KELLY What do you do when you are a foreigner far from home, stuck in a tiny apartment in Tokyo unable to speak the language, your movements restricted? If your name is Greg Kelly and you are from Chicago, you watch the Chicago Cubs on the internet every chance you get, followed…
Tokyo Junkie 