* Tatsunori Hara ( 原 辰徳, born 1958 ), the current manager for the Yomiuri Giants baseball team in Nippon Professional Baseball

The Chunichi Dragons takes the advantage of such system in the first Climax Series-implemented season, finishing second in regular season, but swept Hanshin Tigers and League Champion Yomiuri Giants in Central League Climax Series, and beat the Champion of Pacific League Climax Series Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters to claim their first Japan Series in 52 years.

* Alex Ramirez, Outfielder for Yomiuri Giants of Nippon Professional Baseball, 2x MVP Winner

It is believed that with the exception of the Yomiuri Giants and the Hanshin Tigers, all teams are operating with considerable subsidies, often as much as ¥ 6 billion ( about US $ 73 million ), from their parent companies.

Yomiuri Giants name and uniforms were based on the New York ( now San Francisco ) Giants.

Due to the Yomiuri company's vast influence in Japan as a major media conglomerate, the Giants are successfully marketed to the Japanese people as " Japan's Team.

" In fact, for some years the Giants ' uniforms had " Tokyo " on the jersey instead of " Yomiuri " or " Giants ," seeming to imply that the Giants represent the vast metropolis and geopolitical center of Japan, even though the Yakult Swallows are also based in Tokyo and three other teams play in the Greater Tokyo Area.

Correspondingly, fans of other professional baseball teams in Japan are often openly derisive and contemptuous of the Giants ' bandwagon marketing tactics, and an " anti-Giants " movement exists in protest of the near hegemony established by the Yomiuri Giants.

On 18 November 2011, Giants ' general manager Hidetoshi Kiyotake was fired by the Yomiuri organization for " defamation of the team and Yomiuri newspaper group.

* Yomiuri Giants, Takebashi 3-3 Building, 3-3 Kanda Nishiki-cho, Chiyoda, Tokyo 101-8462

* Yomiuri Giants revenue

* Yomiuri Giants Official Website

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* The Yomiuri Giants win the Japan Series, and in the view of the baseball media, are World Champions.

The Japanese Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun and Mainichi Shimbun are still the largest circulated newspapers in the world.

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The Yomiuri Shinbun noted, " Fanzines don't usually cause many problems as long as they are sold only at one-day exhibitions ," but quoted an expert saying that due to their increasing popularity a copyright system should be set up.

* Shogo Hagiwara, “ Art Hurts: Blood and Pain are Abramović ’ s Media ,” The Daily Yomiuri April 1, 2004 p18.

The Yomiuri Giants, the Chunichi Dragons, and the Hanshin Tigers are the only surviving major clubs that have always been based in their respective cities.

However, even if the opponents are the Yomiuri Giants, the away supporters rarely constitute more than one section high up in left field.

: The Asahi, Mainichi, Yomiuri, Tokyo, Nikkei and Kyōdō news companies are members of the 「, which means " club of seven companies ", as the Jiji Shinpō newspaper was once also a member.

Glover did not find the transition to Japanese baseball difficult and was full of praise for his new team: " I realize the Giants are a great organization, and I feel fortunate to be playing for Yomiuri.

The five largest and most influential national newspapers are Yomiuri Shimbun, Asahi Shimbun, Mainichi Shimbun, Sankei Shimbun, and Nihon Keizai Shimbun.

The conservative Yomiuri newspaper said in an editorial in 2011 " No written material supporting the claim that government and military authorities were involved in the forcible and systematic recruitment of comfort women has been discovered ", and that it regarded the Asian Women's Fund, set up to compensate for wartime abuses, as a failure based on a misunderstanding of history.

The New York Times reported on similar statements previously, writing that " The nation's ( Japan's ) largest newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun, applauded the revisions " regarding removing the word " forcibly " from referring to laborers brought to Japan in the prewar period and revising the comfort women controversy.

After playing the first ten seasons of his career for the Yomiuri Giants of Japan's Nippon Professional Baseball, he played the next seven seasons, from 2003 – 2009, for the New York Yankees of North America's Major League Baseball.

The Tigers ' rivalry with the Yomiuri Giants of Tokyo parallels the rivalry between the Red Sox and the New York Yankees.

His Major League Baseball career includes brief stints with the Houston Astros ( 1994 ), San Diego Padres ( 1995 ), New York Mets ( 1996 and 1997 ), Cincinnati Reds ( 1998 ), Boston Red Sox ( 2005 ), and Seattle Mariners ( 2006 ), but he is best known for his success in the Japanese Central League between 1999 and 2004 where, as a member of the Yakult Swallows ( 1999 – 2002 ) and Yomiuri Giants ( 2003 – 2004 ), he was among that country's premier offensive players.

* New Japan coach Kirwan looking for ' Samurai Spirit ', Daily Yomiuri, 27 October 2006

Read moved in 1987 to Japan, where he freelanced for The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Euromoney and the Yomiuri Shimbun.

The newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun proclaimed the BSO as " the best of all the overseas orchestras " that performed in Japan during that year, in a field that included the Berlin, Vienna and New York philharmonics.

She has presented her work in a large number of Western publications, including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time, CNN, USA Today, the BBC, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Economist, Stern, Welt am Sonntag, Asahi Shimbun, NHK, Yomiuri Shimbun, Le Monde, Le Figaro and more.

* 14 October – Shigeo Nagashima, a well known sports player from Japan, retires from the Yomiuri Giants of Tokyo, after a 17-year baseball player career.

* Yomiuri Shimbun: Less than 30 % of primary school students in Japan know historical significance of Ōkuma, 2008.

His works mostly appeared in the Yomiuri Shimbun, the most popular newspaper in Japan.

* Yomiuri Shimbun: Less than 30 % of primary school students in Japan know historical significance of Ōkubo, 2008.

* Yomiuri Shimbun: Less than 30 % of primary school students in Japan know historical significance of Kido, 2008.

* Yomiuri Shimbun: > 15 % of primary school students in Japan confused Takayoshi Kido with Komura or Toshimichi Ōkubo, 2008.

* Yomiuri Telecasting Corporation, a TV station joining Nippon News Network and Nippon Television Network System in Osaka, Japan

* Japan Series – The Yomiuri Giants defeat the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks 4 games to 2.

* Japan Series – The Yomiuri Giants win 4 games to 2 over the Nankai Hawks.

The Yomiuri has a history of promoting nuclear power within Japan.

During the 1950s Matsutaro Shoriki, the head of the Yomiuri, agreed to use his newspaper to promote nuclear power in Japan for the CIA.

In, he played in Japan with the Yomiuri Giants, reuniting with Moseby, but batted just. 215 in 114 games and was released.

* Yomiuri Shimbun: > 15 % of primary school students in Japan confused Takayoshi Kido with Mutsu or Toshimichi Ōkubo, 2008.

The following year, the Hawks again made the Japan Series, but this time lost to the powerful Yomiuri Giants in six games.

* Yomiuri Shimbun: Himikio -- 90 % name recognition amongst primary school students in Japan, 2008.

The team with the most championships is the Yomiuri Giants, who have won the Japan Series twenty-one times.

Moseby saw limited time with the Tigers for two seasons, and then traveled to Japan, where he played with the Yomiuri Giants for 1992 and 1993.

The group ’ s combined circulation is more than 4 million, meaning it ranks fourth in Japan behind the Yomiuri Shimbun, the Asahi Shimbun, and the Mainichi Shimbun.