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Tomohiro Anraku earned his first win of the year as the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles moved 1½ games ahead of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks at the top of the Pacific League standings on Friday, winning 4-3. Zelous Wheeler hit a three-run homer in the first ...
Germany's national security council has approved a deal to sell three further nuclear-capable submarines to Israel, magazine Der Spiegel reported on Friday, the latest act in a defense deal that has been overshadowed by corruption allegations. The $1.5 billion transaction came to public attention when ...
Traders who fled banks for hedge funds are on their way back to Wall Street. This month, Barclays PLC hired Chris Leonard, a founder of two hedge funds in the decade since he left JPMorgan Chase & Co., to turn around U.S. rates trading. At ...
Tomohiro Anraku earned his first win of the year as the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles moved 1½ games ahead of the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks at the top of the Pacific League standings on Friday, winning 4-3. Zelous Wheeler hit a three-run homer in the first ...
The Sunrockers Shibuya have appointed Geoffrey Katsuhisa as their new head coach. The B. League first-division club made the announcement on Thursday. The Sunrockers parted ways with Canadian BT Toews after the team was eliminated by the Kawasaki Brave Thunders in the first round of the ...
The Japan Basketball Association announced on Friday that the men's national team will take on Uruguay in a pair of exhibitions at Aoyama Gakuin University on July 29 and 30. The games will tip off at 3 p.m. and 4 p.m., respectively. The series will mark ...
The U.S. Navy's guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald will return home for repairs following its fatal collision last month with a Filipino freighter south of Tokyo Bay, a naval official said Friday. Seven crew members died in the collision on June 17. Whether the crew of ...
Foreign visitors racked up a record 7.86 million hotel and inn stays in April, thanks largely to the Easter holidays and the cherry blossom season, the Japan Tourism Agency said Friday. The figure, up 16.0 percent from a year ago, was the highest for any ...
Yuichi Sugita reached the semifinals of an ATP World Tour event for the first time in his career on Thursday at the Antalya Open in Turkey. Sugita, the world No. 66, took just 49 minutes to beat German Daniel Altmaier 6-3, 6-0 to book a ...
Three former Tokyo Electric execs go on trial over the triple core meltdown in Fukushima, claiming they could not foresee that giant tsunami would overwhelm the plant.
Japan failed to qualify for the ongoing FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour event in Croatia because the Japan Volleyball Association missed the entry deadline, a source familiar with the matter said Friday. JVA secretary general Takahiko Hayashi admitted there was an administrative error and said ...
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. and Mizuho Financial Group Inc. are in a neck-and-neck race to be the biggest lead arrangers of lending to the renewable energy industry in the first half of the year, highlighting the more active financing role for Japanese banks ...
Women account for a record 25.8 percent of those who passed the exam for career-track public servants in fiscal 2017, the National Personnel Authority said Friday. Of 20,591 applicants, only 1,878 passed, with the ratio for woman edging up 0.3 percentage point on year to ...
A gentleman I met at an educational conference invites me to tour the backstreets of Higashi-Gotanda, where he has opened a brand new preschool. Exiting A7 of the JR Yamanote Line's eponymous station in the early hours of a cool spring morning, I strike ...
Claiming that its refugee system is being abused by foreign job seekers, the government considers arresting some asylum seekers once their visas expire.
A third fire ant infestation has emerged at Nagoya port, following two similar discoveries last month in Kobe, the Aichi Prefectural Government said Friday. The aggressive reddish-brown ants, highly invasive and native to South America, are feared for their painful stings. The pest, formally known ...
A careless gaffe by Tomomi Inada's gaffe calls into question her qualifications to be a lawmaker and minister of defense.
The Trump administration's conscious abdication of global leadership leaves a big vacuum China is willing to fill, but without the legalistic and transparent niceties long favored by the U.S.
Suffering and stigma are being transformed into action: The entry into force of the Minamata Convention.
Job availability rose to its highest level in over four decades in May, government data showed Friday, highlighting evidence that labor is in short supply. The country's jobless rate rose to 3.1 percent in May from 2.8 percent in April, partly because people quit their ...
