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Shizuka Ijuin

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Shizuka Ijuin

Shizuka Ijuin lives in Sendai, Japan. His works include several novels and story collections about baseball and the biography Hideki Matsui: Sportsmanship, Modesty, and the Art of the Home Run, translated by Allison Markin Powell.

Articles by Shizuka Ijuin

Baseball Springs Eternal

By Shizuka Ijuin

It was afternoon on Friday, March 11, 2011. I was in the office at my home in Sendai, working on a manuscript I had just started. Spring is the season of new beginnings. In Japan, graduation…