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The head of an official inquiry into the deadly collapse of a Bangladesh factory complex said the building’s owner was the “main culprit” for the disaster because he violated construction codes. The cave-in of the eight-story Rana Plaza outside the capital last month killed ...
Throughout most of Japan, June is the rainy season. While all that rainfall is great for rice paddies so that we can have delicious new harvest rice in the fall, it makes it a rather dull month for seasonal produce: The summer’s bounty of ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
Claude Regy says the team at the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center (SPAC) threw him the “best birthday party ever” when he arrived in Japan just days after the actual May 1 occasion. The 90-year-old French director is hoping for an even better birthday gift, ...
As far as debuts go, Shohei Otani's delivered. The celebrated rookie pitched fairly well on Thursday night, and though he finished outside the decision, he left the mound with the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters well within striking distance of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.
There’s something about the Chiba Lotte Marines’ home field that brings out the best in Matt Murton. Murton doesn’t know what it is, but he’s not about to argue with success. Murton had another big day in the Pacific League park, coming up with four hits and a pair of ...
Highly touted Fighters rookie Shohei Otani, who passed up a chance to sign with a major league club to stay ...
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles ace Masahiro Tanaka surrendered a leadoff homer in the first inning but did little wrong after ...
Yusei Kikuchi was nearly untouchable with his heater over eight strong innings as the Seibu Lions defeated the Hanshin Tigers 5-1 in an interleague matchup on Monday. The Lions roared in a five-run fourth to send Hanshin starter Jason Standridge to an early shower, ...
The Hanshin Tigers beat the Seibu Lions 10-5 on Sunday in a battle of pitching aces that saw precious little quality from the mound. Tigers ace Atsushi Nomi (4-2) allowed a season-high five runs in five innings, but that was enough to win his ...
Shinnosuke Abe hit a game-tying homer to lead off the sixth inning, and the go-ahead run scored on an error by Hideto Asamura in the 10th inning as the Yomiuri Giants beat the Seibu Lions 2-1 in a walk-off in their interleague game on ...
It takes a lot to stop the Yomiuri Giants once they get on a roll. A whole lot more than Ryoma Nogami and the Seibu Lions had Friday night. Shinnosuke Abe put the Giants ahead with a three-run home run in the third inning, ...
Pitcher Shohei Otani, who turned down his chance to sign with a major league club out of high school to join the Nippon Ham Fighters, will make his pitching debut on May 23, manager Hideki Kuriyama announced Thursday. The 19-year-old right-hander, who was heavily ...
Hisayoshi Chono delivered a two-run, ninth-inning double to lift the Yomiuri Giants to 5-4 walk-off interleague win over the Chiba Lotte Marines on Wednesday. The Giants, who last year became the first Central League team to win the annual interleague championship, blew a 3-0 ...
Seth Greisinger will make his first start of the season on Wednesday at Tokyo Dome. Not that it matters all that much to the Chiba Lotte Marines right-hander, who is embarking on his seventh year in Japan. After battling his way back from an ...
The Chiba Lotte Marines established themselves as the top team in the Pacific League during the first portion of the PL schedule. Opening night of the interleague season revealed manager Tsutomu Ito’s club might be aiming a little higher than that. Shunichi Nemoto hit ...
Giants ace Tetsuya Utsumi pitched what he called his best game of the season on Sunday, going nine scoreless innings and earning the win as Yomiuri defeated the Yokohama BayStars 1-0 in 10 innings. The Giants were forced to work overtime for their second ...
The natural inclination is to ask Matt Murton what’s changed. To find out how, exactly, he went from the lows of an often tumultuous 2012 campaign, to hitting just about everything in sight early this year. There were few hitters more consistent than Murton ...
Tadashi Settsu pitched two-run ball over seven innings, Yuya Hasegawa hit a two-run homer to key a six-run sixth, and the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks snapped a five-game losing skid with a 10-3 come-from-behind rout of the Seibu Lions on Saturday. Toru Hosokawa’s RBI single ...
To say the Hanshin Tigers have been successful against the Yomiuri Giants is a somewhat of a misnomer. It’s probably more accurate to say the Tigers have owned the Giants in the early part of the season. Refer to the 2004 ALCS when Boston ...