2011 Japan Series

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2011 Japan Series
Team (Wins) Manager(s) Season Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks (4) Koji Akiyama 88–46–10, (.657), GA: 17.5 Chunichi Dragons (3) Hiromitsu Ochiai 75–59–10, (.560), GA: 2.5
Dates	November 12–20
MVP	Hiroki Kokubo (Hawks)
Broadcast
Television	In Japan: TV Nishinippon and Fuji TV (Game 1) TV Tokyo (Games 2, 5) Tokai TV and Fuji TV (Game 3) TBS (Games 4, 7) KBC and TV Asahi (Game 6)
TV announcers	Nobuo Yoshida (Fuji TV), Tomoki Uekusa (TV Tokyo), Atsushi Moriwaki (Tokai TV), Hiroyuki Takada (CBC), Takao Nakayama (TV Asahi), Masahiro Hayashi (TBS)
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The 2011 Japan Series (known as the Konami Nippon Series 2011 for sponsorship reasons) was the 62nd edition of Nippon Professional Baseball's championship series. The best-of-seven playoff matched the Chunichi Dragons and Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks, the respective champions of the Central League's and the Pacific League's Climax Series (postseason). The Series began on Saturday, November 12, 2011 and was a rematch of the 1999 Japan Series, which the Hawks won, four games to one.

The Hawks won the series in seven games, claiming their fifth Japan Series crown.

Due to the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake delaying the season opener to April 12, the Japan Series was delayed to mid-November.