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Silvio Berlusconi has failed in his attempt to topple the Italian government, leaving him weaker than ever and zapping the aura of invincibility that has surrounded him for two decades as he faces the possible loss of his Senate seat and a ban from ...
Hatsudai has a lot going for it. This quiet low-rise residential neighborhood just minutes west of Shinjuku boasts a friendly traditional shōtengai (shopping street) and a lively annual Awa Odori dance festival. Now add to that a really outstanding restaurant. Anis opened in early ...
International events undermine Japan's democracy. Shame on the International Olympic Committee for being a party to it.
In the glitzy and gossipy world of Japanese celebrity, hardly a week goes by without revelations being made about — or made by — Ichikawa Ebizo XI. For years, the charismatic young star of the kabuki world has never long been out of the ...
Reigning champion Kei Nishikori made quick work of Feliciano Lopez, walloping the Spaniard in a straight-sets victory Thursday to reach the quarterfinals of the Rakuten Japan Open. The world No. 13 Nishikori needed little over an hour to put away Lopez, 7-6 (7-4), 6-0 ...
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles owner Hiroshi Mikitani on Thursday revealed that he asked manager Senichi Hoshino to stay on for next season. Mikitani visited the Kleenex Stadium and said he met with Hoshino prior to the Pacific League leaders’ game against the Hokkaido Nippon ...
The Seibu Lions overturned a three-run, ninth-inning deficit to beat the Pacific League-leading Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles 12-11 on Sunday. Takumi Kuriyama’s two-run sayonara single off Eagles closer Darrell Rasner (1-2) capped a wild slugfest at Seibu Dome. Trailing by a run with two ...
Masahiro Tanaka’s winning streak has come a long way since his loss to the Seibu Lions last season. Back on the mound where he last tasted defeat, Tanaka brought the streak around full circle, just in time to write his name in the record ...
The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles will ask their ace Masahiro Tanaka to put off a likely move to the major leagues and stay for another season, team president Yozo Tachibana said Monday. “We will, of course, ask him to play for us next year,” ...
It was Friday morning in Japan when Detroit Tigers pitcher Max Scherzer earned his 17th win of the MLB season. As the visiting Tigers were wrapping up a 10-3 road drubbing of the Cleveland Indians, Masahiro Tanaka was an ocean away in Sendai, perhaps ...
Masahiro Tanaka improved to 16-0, a Nippon Professional Baseball record, with seven shutout innings on Friday in the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles’ 5-0 win over the Fukuoka Softbank Hawks. By winning his first 16 decisions of the season, Tanaka surpassed the record he shared ...
Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles right-hander Masahiro Tanaka became the first player to win the Pacific League’s monthly MVP award for the third straight month Tuesday. Tanaka, widely believed to be Japan’s next big export to the majors this offseason, won the honor for a ...
Tohoku Rakuten ace Masahiro Tanaka tied the Japan pro baseball record with his 15th consecutive win to start a season in a 12-strikeout effort as the Pacific League-leading Eagles rallied to beat the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters 4-1 on Friday night. Kazuya Fujita and ...
Shintaro Masuda singled in the go-ahead run in the bottom of the eighth inning as the Pacific League-leading Tohoku Rakuten Eagles came from behind to beat the Chiba Lotte Marines 5-4 on Sunday. The Eagles overcame a four-run deficit after right-hander Manabu Mima’s first ...
The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles stretched their Pacific League lead to four games on Saturday as right-hander Kenji Tomura worked eight innings in an 8-1 victory over the second-place Chiba Lotte Marines. Tomura (4-1) missed a shot at his first career complete game when ...
Three outs from seeing their ace’s winning streak snapped, the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles rallied for two runs in the bottom of the ninth on Friday to beat the Chiba Lotte Marines 3-2. Eagles catcher Motohiro Shima’s one-out, line-drive single off Marines closer Naoya ...
Masahiro Tanaka saw his scoreless-inning streak snapped at 42, but held on to improve to 13-0 this season as the Pacific League-leading Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles beat the Orix Buffaloes 4-1 on Tuesday. Tanaka surrendered the game’s first run in the third inning at ...