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TOKYO — As bodies are still being pulled from the rubble, as the effects of a nuclear crisis spread, as many companies and schools remain closed if they are standing at all, is it time to play baseball?
Just 10 days after an earthquake and a tsunami combined to upend Japan, the country is uneasily starting to debate how and when life will get back to normal, and whether it is appropriate to try so soon. And as the United States did in the days after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the Japanese are contemplating whether baseball can play a role in comforting a reeling nation.
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