NPB Bullet Points: Kiyohara Makes an Appearance, Hanshin Looks to Korea
Japanese:
- Kazuhiro Kiyohara made his first appearance in a Seibu uniform in a while, swinging through the ceremonial first pitch on August 22.I’m not sure what Kiyohara’s been up to since retiring, but it looks like it involves getting a tan.
- Hanshin is scouting Korea, reportedly looking at Kim Tae-Gyun of Hanwha and Lee Taek-Keun of the Heroes as potential acquisition targets for this offseason. Lee Bum-Ho and Kim Dong-Ju are also drawing interest from NPB teams. Someone who knows better should check my Romanization of these names.
- Yakult’s Norichika Aoki, in the midst of his worst season as a pro, had his first four-hit game of the year, bringing his average up to .278. Yakult lost the game 7-3 to the Giants.
- Draft Reports has a list of the hardest-throwing pitchers in this year’s Koshien Tournament.Yusei Kikuchi, Takumi Akiyama, and Kenta Imamiya.
English:
- We tweeted the news that Yu Darvish will skip his next start.
- Matt visited Starfin Stadium in Hokkaido recently.
- Deanna went to an Island League game, and sends pictures.
- Gen gives us a look at Japan’s entry in to this year’s Asia AAA Tournament.
- Jim Allen finds out what makes Takuro Ishii tick.
- Non-baseball item du jour: researchers at Tokyo University have developed tangible holograms. Graphics are the area of computer science that I find the most challenging so I’m quite impressed by this.
23/08/2009 at 5:23 pm Permalink
Most of the romanizations are fine except for Lee Tae-Kun. It should be Lee Taek-Keun.
24/08/2009 at 4:27 am Permalink
[bb],
What romanization rules are there for Koreans? I’ve see Lee spelled Yi. Are there any “correct” ways?
Patrick,
Its official English name is the University of Tokyo as the YouTube clip says.
24/08/2009 at 7:42 am Permalink
I believe that in many cases, Koreans go with their own preferred romanizations. Since I frequently go off Katakana-izataions, it’s hard for me to tell.
Certainly many people know the top university as Tokyo University or even Todai.
25/08/2009 at 9:44 pm Permalink
There are no correct romanizations when it comes to Korean names. Lee is also romanized as Rhee.
For Lee Taek-Keun, I went with what I found on Wikipedia, though I would romanize it as Lee Taek-Geun. Even though the same consonant is used at the beginning of Geun and at the end of Taek, it sounds more like a hard ‘g’ when used at the beginning and more like a ‘k’ when used at the end.