LifeJapanese baseball is ready to swing with return of NPB
Delayed by COVID-19, league gets underway but with empty stadiums
Even after the regular season for Japanese professional baseball kicks off, the stadiums will look a lot like they did in this preseason match: empty. © AP
ROBERT WHITING, Contribiting writer
TOKYO -- The Nippon Professional Baseball league is starting up again today much to the happiness of the millions of fans who follow Japan's national sport. It marks a partial return to normality as the nation slowly reopens after a long period of voluntary lockdown.