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Yakult Swallows

The Yakult Swallows are a professional baseball team based in Tokyo, Japan, competing in Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League. They are best known for winning multiple Japan Series championships and for being one of the league's long-standing, marketable franchises. They remain relevant in current news and public discourse as a high-profile example of corporate-owned sports teams in Japan and as ongoing competitors in the top tier of Japanese baseball.