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The Yakult Swallows (ヤクルトスワローズ Yakuruto Suwarozu)
are a professional
baseball team in
Japan's
Central League. Their home field is
Tokyo's Jingu Stadium. The Swallows have won the
Japan Series five times (1978,
1993,
1995,
1997,
2001), and were runners-up once (1992).
The Swallows are named after their corporate owners, the
Yakult Corporation. From
1950 to
1965, the company was owned by Japan National Railways and called the
Kokutetsu Swallows; the team was then owned by the Sankei Shimbun
from
1965 to
1968 and called the Sankei Atoms. Yakult purchased the team
in
1970 and restored its original Swallows name in
1974.
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