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Chiba Marine Stadium renamed

CHIBA, Japan - (From L to R) QVC Japan Inc. President Hayashi Sasaki, Chiba Mayor Toshihito Kumagai and Lotte Marines baseball club president Ryuzo Setoyama hold up a signboard reading ''QVC Marine Field,'' the new name for Chiba Marine Stadium, on Dec. 27, 2010. The city said it had reached a 10-year sponsorship agreement with the local television shopping company, including the naming rights for the stadium, which will come into effect in March.

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Lotte Marines' celebration

FUKUOKA, Japan - (From R) Lotte Marines acting owner Akio Shigemitsu, club president Ryuzo Setoyama and manager Norifumi Nishimura are dunked with a barrel of sake in celebration after their club clinched a berth in the Japan Series at a Fukuoka hotel on Oct. 19, 2010.

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Lotte makes Iguchi 3-year, 600 mil. yen offer

TOKYO, Japan - Infielder Tadahito Iguchi shakes hands with Lotte Marines president Ryuzo Setoyama at a hotel in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Jan. 7. Lotte offered Iguchi, who was released by the Philadelphia Phillies at the end of the 2008 season, a three-year deal worth about 600 million yen. Iguchi has not made a decision yet as he is awaiting offers from several other clubs in Japan as well as in the major leagues.

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(2)Players, management reach accord, avert another strike

NAGOYA, Japan - Baseball players and management averted a strike on Sept. 25 and 26 after agreeing Sept. 23 that a new team will join professional baseball next season in their latest two-day talks. Atsuya Furuta (R), head of the players' association, and Ryuzo Setoyama, the Lotte Marines general manager in charge of negotiations, signed documents on the accord at a hotel in Nagoya.

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(2)Ball players to strike after NPB talks fail

TOKYO, Japan - Ryuzo Setoyama (R), representative of the Pacific League ball club Lotte Marines, speaks to reporters at a Tokyo hotel Sept. 17 after negotiations between management and players broke down. At left is Atsuya Furuta, a catcher with the Central League baseball club Yakult Swallows who heads the Japan Professional Baseball Players Association.

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(4)Players' strike this weekend averted

OSAKA, Japan - Atsuya Furuta (L), Yakult Swallowers catcher and head of the Japan pro baseball players association, a labor union, looks grim as Ryuzo Setoyama, Chiba Lotte Marines general manager and representative of management, speaks at a joint press conference after two days of negotiations in Osaka on Sept. 10. They failed to make a clear-cut deal but agreed to avert a strike at least for this weekend.

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(3)Players' strike this weekend averted

OSAKA, Japan - Japan pro baseball players association (labor union) head Atsuya Furuta (C) declines to shake hands with Ryuzo Setoyama, general manager of the Chiba Lotte Marines and representative of management, as he leaves a joint press conference after two days of inconclusive negotiations in Osaka on Sept. 10. They failed to make a clear-cut deal but agreed to avert a strike at least for this weekend.

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(3)Players' strike this weekend averted

OSAKA, Japan - Japan pro baseball players association (labor union) head Atsuya Furuta (C) declines to shake hands with Ryuzo Setoyama, general manager of the Chiba Lotte Marines and representative of management, as he leaves a joint press conference after two days of inconclusive negotiations in Osaka on Sept. 10. They failed to make a clear-cut deal but agreed to avert a strike at least for this weekend. (Kyodo)

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(4)Players' strike this weekend averted

OSAKA, Japan - Atsuya Furuta (L), Yakult Swallowers catcher and head of the Japan pro baseball players association, a labor union, looks grim as Ryuzo Setoyama, Chiba Lotte Marines general manager and representative of management, speaks at a joint press conference after two days of negotiations in Osaka on Sept. 10. They failed to make a clear-cut deal but agreed to avert a strike at least for this weekend. (Kyodo)

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(2)Ball players to strike after NPB talks fail

TOKYO, Japan - Ryuzo Setoyama (R), representative of the Pacific League ball club Lotte Marines, speaks to reporters at a Tokyo hotel Sept. 17 after negotiations between management and players broke down. At left is Atsuya Furuta, a catcher with the Central League baseball club Yakult Swallows who heads the Japan Professional Baseball Players Association. (Kyodo)

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(2)Players, management reach accord, avert another strike

NAGOYA, Japan - Baseball players and management averted a strike on Sept. 25 and 26 after agreeing Sept. 23 that a new team will join professional baseball next season in their latest two-day talks. Atsuya Furuta (R), head of the players' association, and Ryuzo Setoyama, the Lotte Marines general manager in charge of negotiations, signed documents on the accord at a hotel in Nagoya. (Kyodo)

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Lotte signs 2-year deal with slugger Zuleta

TOKYO, Japan - The Lotte Marines said on Dec. 29 that they have signed a two-year, $3 million contract with Panamanian slugger Julio Zuleta (in file photo), whose contract talks with the Softbank Hawks broke down recently. ''He'll be a major force in our bid to regain the Japan Series title (the club won in 2005),'' Lotte team president Ryuzo Setoyama said at a press conference. (Kyodo)

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Lotte makes Iguchi 3-year, 600 mil. yen offer

TOKYO, Japan - Infielder Tadahito Iguchi shakes hands with Lotte Marines president Ryuzo Setoyama at a hotel in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Jan. 7. Lotte offered Iguchi, who was released by the Philadelphia Phillies at the end of the 2008 season, a three-year deal worth about 600 million yen. Iguchi has not made a decision yet as he is awaiting offers from several other clubs in Japan as well as in the major leagues. (Kyodo)

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Charcoal artist in Japan

Michiko Setoyama (C), 39, a farmer and an artist who crafts accessories and ornaments out of charcoal in a mountainous farming village in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, teaches how to make charcoal accessories during a workshop in Tokyo's Omotesando district on Nov. 18, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Charcoal artist in Japan

Michiko Setoyama (R), 39, a farmer and an artist who crafts accessories and ornaments out of charcoal in a mountainous farming village in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, poses with her "master" Kenichi Sudo, 60, in front of a charcoal-burning hut in the village on Nov. 13, 2018. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Charcoal artist in Japan

Michiko Setoyama, 39, a farmer and artist who crafts accessories and ornaments out of charcoal in a mountainous farming village in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, poses on Oct. 11, 2018, at a workshop in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward, where she taught how to make charcoal ornaments the same day. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Charcoal artist in Japan

Michiko Setoyama, 39, a farmer and artist who crafts accessories and ornaments out of charcoal in a mountainous farming village in Gunma Prefecture, eastern Japan, poses on Nov. 13, 2018, at a community shop in the village where her charcoal accessories are put on sale. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Lotte Marines' celebration

FUKUOKA, Japan - (From R) Lotte Marines acting owner Akio Shigemitsu, club president Ryuzo Setoyama and manager Norifumi Nishimura are dunked with a barrel of sake in celebration after their club clinched a berth in the Japan Series at a Fukuoka hotel on Oct. 19, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Chiba Marine Stadium renamed

CHIBA, Japan - (From L to R) QVC Japan Inc. President Hayashi Sasaki, Chiba Mayor Toshihito Kumagai and Lotte Marines baseball club president Ryuzo Setoyama hold up a signboard reading ''QVC Marine Field,'' the new name for Chiba Marine Stadium, on Dec. 27, 2010. The city said it had reached a 10-year sponsorship agreement with the local television shopping company, including the naming rights for the stadium, which will come into effect in March. (Kyodo)