What’s the future of baseball in Japan as the best players leave for MLB?
About a dozen Japanese played in MLB last season, headlined by Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the World Series champion Los ...
From Oh to Ohtani and beyond: How Japanese baseball reached new heights
No player in professional baseball history has slugged more home runs than the 868 that Oh hit over 22 seasons with the ...
From Oh to Ohtani: How Japan developed a generation of baseball superstars (again)
The Tokyo Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs is a full circle moment for Japanese baseball.
Japan’s rise in MLB hits high point in Dodgers-Cubs series
Nearly 25 years after Ichiro Suzuki embarked on a Hall of Fame career for the Mariners, the impact of Japanese players is as ...
Why are Cubs and Dodgers playing in Japan in the middle of March?
The MLB season opens in Japan on Tuesday with a duel of Japanese stars on the mound. And then there's Shohei Ohtani, too.
‘Paint Japan blue’: How the Dodgers’ vision of Japanese prominence became reality
Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki are all Dodgers. And a Japanese fan base has coalesced around its interest ...
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Japanese beetle treatments to expand into Kennewick for the first time
TRI-CITIES, WA. - Efforts to eradicate the Japanese beetle from our region are growing.Leaders from the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) tell K ...
Former China Everbright chairman sentenced to 15 years in prison, state media says
Li Xiaopeng, the former chairman of state-owned financial conglomerate China Everbright Group, has been sentenced to 15 years ...
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Trump Gives Wild Reason for Using Japanese Internment Law
Bartell voted for Donald Trump, believing that the far-right leader would crack down on “criminal illegal immigrants,” but ...
Japanese baseball looks about the same, but the food and the vibe are different
The jammed sellout at the Tokyo Dome as the Dodgers and Cubs opened their regular season had a different vibe than the usual MLB game. Baseball in Japan — the game is called ’yakyu” (field ball) in ...
A Japanese man handed 7-year sentence in Belarus on charges of working for Japanese intelligence
A Japanese man in Belarus has been convicted on charges of working for Japan’s intelligence and sentenced to seven years in prison by a court ...
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Alaska Looks to Lure Asian Investors in $44-Billion LNG Project
Alaska officials are visiting Japan and South Korea to attract Asian investment in the $44 billion Alaska LNG project, a ...