In the five times it has been held, the tournament has been won twice by United States and most recently three times by Japan in 2008, 2010 and 2012.
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Before this tournament the only other international women's baseball tournament was the Women's World Series, which usually involved only three or four nations, usually Australia, Canada, Japan and occasionally the USA.
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Competing teams were Australia, Canada, Chinese Taipei (Taiwan), Japan, USA.
On August 13, during the game against the Netherlands, Hong Kong player Cheuk Woon-Yee was struck by a stray bullet in the leg.
The tournament was won by Japan, who claimed the first title by defeating China 3–1 in the final.
She was selected to play in a four game test series in Canberra against Japan's wheelchair basketball team held in March 2002, the first Australian hosted international for the team since the 2000 Summer Paralympics, and at the 2002 World Cup event in Japan, but did not do so.
Anna Kawamura (born 26 October 1991) is a South Korean handball player for Tokai University and the Japanese Republic national team.
The series was strictly created as a tribute to the gold medal the Japanese women's volleyball team earned in the 1976 Olympics.
On 7 March 2007, she refereed the World Cup qualifier game between Japan and Mexico in Tokyo, going on to also referee the first-leg of the UEFA Women's Cup between Umeå IK and Arsenal.
She featured as a substitute in Sweden's 3–1 defeat to eventual winners Japan in Frankfurt.
After studying at Japan Women's University and working at the office of Toyo Ito, in 1987, she founded Kazuyo Sejima and Associates.
The team is controlled by the Women's Baseball Netherlands Foundation, an independent organisation founded by Ivette van Putten and Percy Isenia.
Sato Shiroishi (born 2 December 1992) is a South Korean handball player for Tokyo Women's College and the Japanese Republic national team.
5 Years after studying psychology at the Japan Women's University, Saito became involved with Sōzō Biiku undŏ, the 'Creative Art Education' movement.
After graduating from the Department of Japanese Literature at Japan Women's University, the aspiring author studied under novelist Togawa Yukio and became a member of Shinyo-kai, an organization to promote literature established in memory of novelist Hasegawa Shin.