
Sailors JUMP for ‘Ichiro’ at Padres-Marlins game in San Diego
June 17, 2016Author: Christa Desrets
Categories: Sasakawa USA Blog
About two hundred active-duty American and Japanese service members and other Southern California-area residents came together Tuesday in San Diego for a JUMP event celebrating camaraderie, baseball, and the U.S.-Japan alliance. JUMP’s second annual event at Petco Park, home of the San Diego Padres, held again in cooperation with the Japan Society of San Diego
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Second annual JUMP event at San Diego’s Petco Park
June 14, 2016Date: June 14, 2016
Sasakawa USA’s JUMP Program returned to San Diego’s Petco Park in cooperation with the Japan Society of San Diego and Tijuana for a Padres vs. Marlins game with visiting service members from the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Forces.
Tags: baseball, japan society of san diego and tijuana, japan us military program, JUMP, marlines, marlins, najas youth, padres, petco park, san diego, tomodachi

Twenty-Five Years of U.S.-Japan Relations: Baseball, Bashing, and Bilateral Cooperation
May 12, 2016Date: May 12, 2016
Sasakawa USA and The National Bureau of Asian Research looked back on the past 25 years of the U.S.-Japan relationship with an emphasis on the unlikely role of the Seattle Mariners.
Tags: Asia, baseball, bilateral cooperation, daniel bob, event, hiroshi yamauchi, jeff smulyan, major league baseball, mariners, mlb, national bureau of asian research, nbr, Nintendo, richard ellings, seattle, seattle mariners, senator slade gorton, slade gorton, TPP, Trans-Pacific Partnership, us-japan relations