Greg and Denise Bass, Rui Ishido and Journal photographer Bob Breidenbach, whom they ran into at the Tokyo Dome. Greg and Denise met Rui at a Yankees game at Fenway last summer, and he got them tickets for this series.

Avid Sox fan (and colleague) Denise Bass is in Japan, and blogging via a Blogger blog she set up on the fly.

She's telling her friends what it's like there, both at the ball park -- where fans in right field play a different tune for each player -- and during the day, as a tourist -- Kabuki theater, a food market, rock bands and big-hair greasers in leather in a park, $25 chopsticks.

Worth a look: A Red Sox fan (and her husband) in Japan

Rui answers a fan's questions about baseball in Japan.

The Projo SoxBlog has a lot more about what's going on at the Tokyo Dome SoxBlog.