2nd Annual US-Japan Baseball Night

Society staff members do their best to make everyone "happi"

at the Yankees-Nationals game

Almost 1,000 members and friends of the Japan-America Society joined a sell-out crowd at RFK Stadium on Friday, June 16 and watched the New York Yankees come from behind to beat our hometown Washington Nationals 7-5.

While we were disappointed that the great Hideki Matsui was sidelined by a wrist injury and did not join the Yankees for the Washington trip, there was no shortage of fans who wanted to see the Yankees play in Washington for the first time since 1971. All three games in the weekend series were sell-outs and drew the biggest crowds to RFK since basbeall returned to Washington last year.

The Society also was honored to invite 120 military members from Walter Reed Hospital (the US Army Medical Center) to join us for the game as our guests. This included wounded soldiers as well as Army medics who soon will be deploying to Iraq.

The lucky winners of the free round-trip airplane tickets to Tokyo, courtesy of All Nippon Airways, were Belinda Sterling of Virginia and Hirohide Takaseki of Maryland.