TWICE Fireworks Delay: Jingu Stadium Yakult-Hanshin Game Briefly Halted During Nearby Concert

A professional baseball game at Tokyo’s Jingu Stadium was temporarily halted on April 28 after fireworks from TWICE’s nearby concert at MUFG STADIUM, also referred to as National Stadium, became part of the game-night backdrop. The TWICE fireworks delay occurred during the Tokyo Yakult Swallows-Hanshin Tigers game, which later resumed and ended in a 10-5 Yakult victory.¹²

The interruption came during the top of the seventh inning of the JERA Central League game. Reports from Japanese sports outlets said fireworks went up from the adjacent stadium while TWICE was holding a performance tied to its Japan schedule for the group’s sixth world tour, ‘This Is For.’³⁴

TWICE Fireworks Delay at Jingu Stadium

The pause happened with Hanshin batting in the seventh. Nikkan Sports reported that the game was stopped after Ryuhei Obata was retired on a grounder to shortstop and before pinch hitter Takahiro Kumagai stepped into the batter’s box. The game resumed after a brief delay.³

Daily Sports reported that Jingu Stadium’s back-screen display informed spectators that the game had been temporarily suspended because of event production at National Stadium. The stadium notice said, in translation: ‘Due to event production at National Stadium, the game is temporarily suspended. Please wait a little while until play resumes.’¹

The source material does not specify the exact length of the interruption. It does, however, identify the game situation, the inning, the nearby venue, and the stated reason shown to fans inside Jingu Stadium. That makes the incident a venue-overlap disruption rather than a change to the final result or an abandonment of the game.

Concert Schedule and Venue Context

TWICE’s Japan official site listed the April 28 MUFG STADIUM performance as part of ‘TWICE <THIS IS FOR> WORLD TOUR IN JAPAN,’ with a livestream start time shown as 18:00. U-NEXT also announced an exclusive live stream for the April 28 MUFG STADIUM concert, with ticket and viewing information tied to the same event date.⁵⁶

The baseball game also began at 18:00 at Jingu Stadium, according to the Tokyo Yakult Swallows’ official game page. The overlap placed a Central League game and a major concert in neighboring venues on the same evening, creating the conditions for fireworks from the concert production to be visible or audible during play.²

Korea JoongAng Daily reported that TWICE drew 240,000 fans across three Tokyo National Stadium concerts on April 25, 26, and 28, describing those dates as part of the Japan leg of the group’s sixth world tour, ‘This Is For.’ The report also said fireworks were used across the stadium during the final song, ‘ONE SPARK.’⁴

That tour context matters because the Jingu Stadium incident was not caused by fireworks launched from the baseball venue itself, based on the available reports. The cited accounts place the pyrotechnics at the adjacent MUFG STADIUM concert and identify the baseball stoppage as a response to event production at National Stadium.¹³

Game Result Remained Official

The temporary suspension did not prevent the game from being completed. The Tokyo Yakult Swallows’ official game information records the April 28 matchup at Jingu Stadium as a 10-5 Yakult win over Hanshin. Yakult scored six runs in the second inning and added further runs in the sixth and seventh innings.²

Japanese reports also noted that similar interruptions had occurred earlier in April in connection with fireworks from events at the same neighboring stadium. Nikkan Sports reported that Yakult-Yomiuri games on April 18 and April 19 were also temporarily stopped because of fireworks from performances at National Stadium. Daily Sports separately referred to an earlier stoppage during a Mrs. GREEN APPLE performance at the same location.¹³

Those earlier references provide background, but the April 28 incident centered on the TWICE concert and the Yakult-Hanshin game. The available sources do not report player injury, cancellation, disciplinary action, or an official change to venue procedures after the delay.

The April 28 TWICE fireworks delay became a brief but documented intersection of Tokyo sports and concert scheduling: a nearby stadium show paused play at Jingu Stadium, the game resumed, and Yakult’s 10-5 win over Hanshin remained the official result.

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Cloi Lee

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