AP A car bomb exploded outside a mosque Sunday, killing at least 37 people and wounding another 141 in a mostly Shiite Muslim neighborhood in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi — the third mass-casualty attack on the minority sect in the country this ...
It's a dangerous, unpredictable world. Twice in January Chinese warships in the East China Sea challenged Japan's Maritime Self Defense Forces patrols in a manner deemed threatening. And on Feb. 12 came North Korea's nuclear test.
Here's an open secret: Japanese men have a bad international reputation on the romance front.
SELLING WOMEN: Prostitution, Markets and the Household in Early Modern Japan, by Amy Stanley. University of California Press, 2012, 282 pp., $49.95 (hardcover) In the vast cultural landscape, Japan fascinates the mainstream with manga and anime, the martial arts, Zen and kimono. Of course, ...
Kenta Maeda shook off worries about his form with five shutout innings as Japan beat China 5-2 in first-round Pool A of the World Baseball Classic on Sunday at Fukuoka Dome. Japan improved to 2-0 following a tough win over Brazil in Saturday evening’s ...
A day after the first of two games being used to help determine the makeup of the national baseball team resulted in a 7-0 drubbing, manager Koji Yamamoto’s squad tried to get the whipping out of its system in practice on Monday. “Yesterday, we ...
Koji Yamamoto’s hopefuls for Samurai Japan in the upcoming World Baseball Classic got off to a lackluster start Sunday, falling 7-0 in a warmup game against the Hiroshima Carp. Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles right-hander Masahiro Tanaka allowed two runs on three consecutive hits in ...
Highly regarded Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters rookie Shohei Otani is still finding his sea legs, but demonstrates his limber form on the third day of training with the farm team in Okinawa's Kunigami.
Will this be the season the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles make it to the Pacific League Climax Series for the second time in their nine years of existence? Hardline disciplinarian manager Senichi Hoshino got the team bumped up a notch in 2012, moving from ...
A set of special rules for the 2013 World Baseball Classic has been announced by tournament organizers, along with a busy schedule of warmup games for those countries who will play in Pool A in Fukuoka from March 2. This tournament, under the rules ...
New Oakland Athletics’ shortstop Hiroyuki Nakajima practiced using a major league ball on Monday as he prepares for his first season in the big leagues. “I just plan to take it one step at a time without thinking too much about targets,” said the ...
Tsuneo Watanabe, the outspoken chairman of the Yomiuri Giants, suggested Monday that recently retired slugger Hideki Matsui would be a perfect choice as his club’s next manager. In November, the Giants won the Japan Series for the third time in nine seasons under current ...
In 2001 Ichiro Suzuki shattered expectations about what Japanese players could and could not do in Major League Baseball. Except when it came to hitting for power. Back then, even with Ichiro tearing it up for the Seattle Mariners, Japanese hitters were looked upon ...
Kyodo, AFP-Jiji Fans in Japan were saddened Friday by the news of power-hitter Hideki Matsui’s retirement from baseball at the age of 38, many wishing he would resume his career in the country. “If he were to play in Japan, he could still hit ...
Most foreigners who come to Japan to play baseball do just that — and only that. Whether a career lasts a few games or several years, the guys go back to their home country to continue playing ball, stay in the game as coaches ...
The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles’ official announcement of the signing of former MLB star Andruw Jones signals the start of a period that will be remembered either for its great success or abject failure. This isn’t the deep-pocketed Yomiuri Giants or Fukuoka Softbank Hawks ...
A scheduled meeting between the commissioners of Nippon Professional Baseball and Major League Baseball has been called off after Japan’s commissioner, Ryozo Kato, took ill while traveling in the United States, NPB said Thursday. Kato was to meet MLB commissioner Bud Selig on Thursday ...
