Pent-up emotions that were unleashed on Sept. 14 when the Hanshin Tigers captured the Central League pennant for the first time in 18 years could be a home run for the national and local economy.

NISHINOMIYA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Kyuji Fujikawa, the Hanshin Tigers' former longtime relief ace, was announced as the Central League club's new manager Monday. The 44-year-old Fujikawa saved 243 ...

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In the spring of 1995, not long after the Great Hanshin Earthquake of Jan. 17 that year, I wrote a story for The Asahi Shimbun. It was about people who had survived the catastrophe and suffered ...