Topic: Osaka

Ex-Mariner Johjima signs with Japan's Tigers

Japanese catcher Kenji Johjima, who quit the Seattle Mariners hoping to play full time, signed a four-year contract Friday with the Hanshin Tigers of Japan's Central League. "I'd like to play in all the innings and in all the games, if possible," ...

Struggling Tigers 'exorcised of Colonel's curse'

The "curse of Colonel Sanders" , blamed for a Japanese baseball club's quarter century of bad luck, was declared exorcised in a full Shinto rite Thursday. "The curse is completely broken," chief priest Tsunetada Mayumi said at Sumiyoshi Shrine in Osaka, home ...