NHK broadcasts the six annual Grand Sumo tournaments ( having done so since the 1953 Natsu Basho ), high-school baseball championships from Koshien Stadium, Olympic Games ( under the Japan Consortium ), National Sports Festival of Japan, and a range of other sports.

Koshien Stadium ( in 2009 )

Koshien Stadium, a home studium of the Hanshin Tigers is also famous for the nationwide high school baseball tournaments.

It covers an area of 233 hectares ( 2, 330, 000 m < sup > 2 </ sup > or 576 acres ), making it roughly 50 times as large as the Tokyo Dome or 60 times as large as Koshien Stadium.

In high school, Oh made many appearances at Koshien Stadium and suffered several tough defeats.

Among them, the most famous are the Sembatsu high school baseball tournament held every spring at Koshien Stadium, and the non-professional baseball tournament held every summer in the Tokyo Dome ( formerly held in Korakuen Stadium ).

During his high school years, Matsui participated in four National High School Baseball Tournaments at Koshien Stadium ( once in the spring and three times in the summer ).

The home field of the Tigers, Hanshin Koshien Stadium, is one of three major natural grass baseball stadiums in Japan.

Their aim to qualify for, and ultimately to win, the final rounds of the tournament which is held each year at the Koshien Stadium.

Her stated motivation behind the creation of the girls ' baseball team is to see the pitching ability Ryo inherited from her father on the mound at Koshien Stadium.

Hideki Matsui drew five consecutive intentional walks in a game in Japanese High School Baseball Championship at Koshien Stadium in 1992 and became a nationwide topic of conversation.

On February 14, 1964, Hanshin, the Tigers ' owners, was appended to the name of Koshien Stadium.

In Nodame Cantabile, the heroine Megumi Noda kept a bag of soil from Koshien Stadium.

Koshien Stadium is a two minute walk from Koshien Station on the Hanshin Electric Railway Main Line.

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His grandfather Yozo ( Bunta Sugawara ) was once a famous high school baseball coach who led his team to the national high school baseball convention at Koshien Stadium.

Hanshin Tigers also use the stadium as their " home field " for their season openers and their home games in August because their stadium, Koshien Stadium, is used for high school baseball tournaments during those periods.

* Koshien Stadium, a baseball stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, which is the venue of the annual high school baseball tournaments:

* Koshien Bowl, an American football championship held in Koshien Stadium

She is a member of the archery club, but has once come in as a temporary manager for Meiwa Daiichi's baseball team during the Koshien by Hideo's request.

Miho is one of the managers of the team, but Hikari sat as manager during the team's Koshien games although she was just a temporary manager.

: Eikyo's star pitcher, Hirota, is considered one of the best pitchers in the Koshien with his 142 km / h left-handed fastballs.

Koshien is revered as a " sacred " ballpark, and players traditionally bow before entering and before leaving its hallowed field.

The losing team in any high school baseball game played at the ballpark is allowed to scoop up handfuls of Koshien infield dirt, stuffing holy clay clods into tiny plastic bags as hordes of Japanese paparazzi snap photos at arm's length.

: She dreams of standing at the pitchers ' mound during the annual Koshien high school baseball championship, but she is a girl, and girls are not allowed to participate in the tournament.

The school is well known in Japan for its baseball team, which usually participates in and frequently wins the Koshien Tournament for high school baseball.

The movie is about a high school calligraphy club which prepares to compete in the " Shodo Girls Koshien " -- a performance calligraphy event involving teams drawing on 10m x 12m sheets of paper while performing to music.

It was also talked about in Major ( manga ) where Koshien is the aim of all high school baseball teams to play there.

Netto Koshien ( 熱闘甲子園 ) is a television program in Japan providing a digest of the games of the summer National High School Baseball Championship, produced through a collaboration of TV Asahi and Asahi Broadcasting Corporation ( ABC ), and is shown as part of the ANN program.

( However, when Coca-Cola is an independent sponsor, a " Coca-Cola summer special " enters in front of " Netto Koshien ".

This ballpark is mainly used by Orix Buffaloes and Hanshin Tigers ( only if Koshien Stadium is in maintenance ).

is a private university located near Koshien Stadium in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan.

is a train station on the Hanshin Electric Railway Main Line in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, and the nearest station to Hanshin Koshien Stadium.

Leopons have been bred in captivity ; a well-documented case occurred at the Koshien Hanshin Park in Nishinomiya, Japan in the late 1950s.

The are a Nippon Professional Baseball team based in Koshien, Nishinomiya, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, and are in the Central League.

He won the National High School Baseball Championship at Koshien a long time ago, and during his short stint as pro baseball player, he won the Japan Series with Towa Jaguars three times in a row before he was banned from baseball.

The most successful leopon programme was at Koshien Hanshin Park in Nishinomiya City, Japan.

Legendary home run hitter Babe Ruth played an exhibition game at Koshien on his Japan tour in 1934.

Others, such as Koshien Stadium in Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, have an entirely dirt infield.

The tournament, organized by the Japan High School Baseball Federation and Asahi Shimbun, takes place during the summer school vacation period, culminating in a two-week final tournament stage with 49 teams in August at Hanshin Koshien Stadium ( 阪神甲子園球場 hanshin kōshien kyūjō ) in the Koshien district of Nishinomiya City, Hyōgo, Japan.

The tournament, organized by the Japan High School Baseball Federation and Mainichi Shimbun, takes place each year in March at Hanshin Koshien Stadium in the Koshien district of Nishinomiya City, Hyōgo, Japan.