Tokyo Yakult Swallows

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Tokyo Yakult Swallows ( T¿ky¿ Yakuruto Suwar¿zu ) are a professional baseball team in Japan's Central League. The Swallows are named after their corporate owners, the Yakult Corporation. From 1950 to 1965, the team was owned by the former Japanese National Railways (known as Kokutetsu in Japanese) and called the Kokutetsu Swallows; the team was then owned by the newspaper 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. Then it was renamed the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in 2006.