{"id":2598,"date":"2008-06-19T01:10:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T08:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2598"},"modified":"2008-06-20T05:37:37","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T12:37:37","slug":"japans-junior-men-ready-for-whitehorse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=2598","title":{"rendered":"Japan&#8217;s Junior Men Ready for Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Runner-up in 2005, Japan Will Challenge for Gold<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>English translated website:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?hl=en&#038;langpair=ja%7Cen&#038;u=http:\/\/www.softball.or.jp\/&#038;prev=\/translate_s%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3Dwhitehorse%2Bjapan%2Bsoftball%26sl%3Den%26tl%3Dja\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/images2\/Japan.SA.300.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.softball.or.jp\/info_news\/topics\/nm19\/nm19_news_2007\/img\/08_0218_u19ga1-3.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Japan&#8217;s national U19 men&#8217;s head coach, under the  Hiroshi Yoshi will be in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada this week, for the 2008 ISF Junior Men&#8217;s World Championships.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?hl=en&#038;langpair=ja|en&#038;u=http:\/\/www.softball.or.jp\/info_news\/topics\/nm19\/nm19_news_2007\/nm_08_0218_gasyuku1.html&#038;prev=\/translate_s%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3Dwhitehorse%2Bjapan%2Bsoftball%26sl%3Den%26tl%3Dja\"><strong><br \/>\nClick here to view a translated webpage<\/strong> <\/a>with information about the team.  The translation is rough, but you&#8217;ll get the gist of it, and there are a number of good photos from the last ISF Junior Worlds, in which Japan finished second, only to three-time-defending champions, Australia.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.softball.or.jp\/info_news\/topics\/nm19\/nm19_news_2007\/img\/08_0218_u19ga1-7.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/?p=330\"><strong>Click here to view our story from July 2005<\/strong><\/a> recapping the gold medal match between eventual champion, Australia, and runner-up, Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Runner-up in 2005, Japan Will Challenge for Gold English translated website: Japan&#8217;s national U19 men&#8217;s head coach, under the Hiroshi Yoshi will be in Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada this week, for the 2008 ISF Junior Men&#8217;s World Championships. Click here to view a translated webpage with information about the team. The translation is rough, but you&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/morningbrief\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}