More Sports / Auto Racing May 18, 2020
Takuma Sato revved up for upcoming start of IndyCar season
by Jason Coskrey
Takuma Sato and the rest of the IndyCar stars will begin their season on June 6 at the Genesys 300 in Texas.
More Sports / Auto Racing May 27, 2019
Takuma Sato took advantage of a late-race crash to move into contention at the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, scything into third place to finish in the top three for the second time in three years at IndyCar's most prestigious race. An early problem sent Sato ...
Basketball Apr 11, 2019
JBA lifts ban on four ex-national team players caught paying for sex
The Japan Basketball Association said Thursday it has lifted the suspension of four former national team players who were caught buying sex during last year's Asian Games in Indonesia. The B-League players — Yuya Nagayoshi (Kyoto Hannaryz), Takuya Hashimoto (Osaka Evessa), Takuma Sato (Shiga Lakestars) ...
Basketball Aug 30, 2018
Journey for Japan's hoop team to end with game for 7th place
by Kaz Nagatsuka
The Japan men's national basketball team's bizarre, unprecedented journey at the Asian Games is nearly — and finally — coming to an end. The Akatsuki Five, who lost four players as a result of a scandal earlier in the tournament, will play with eight men ...
Basketball Aug 29, 2018
Basketball players handed one-year bans
by Hiroshi Ikezawa
The four men's national basketball team players who allegedly paid women for sex in Jakarta during the ongoing Asian Games have been handed a one-year ban by the Japan Basketball Association, the organization announced on Wednesday. The ban, effective from the announcement, includes B. League ...
More Sports / Auto Racing May 25, 2018
Takuma Sato set for title defense at Indy 500 after historic win
by Jason Coskrey
It's a little ironic the only time Takuma Sato might really be able to slow down, as he prepares to defend his title in the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, is when he's strapped into a car and about to take off in a machine ...
General Dec 28, 2017
The Japan Times newsroom selected these domestic sports stories as the most important of 2017. 1. Fall from grace: Yokozuna Harumafuji retired from sumo to take responsibility for assaulting fellow wrestler Takanoiwa at a restaurant in Tottori. Takanoiwa was left with a fractured skull and ...
Baseball / Japanese Baseball Dec 20, 2017
Champion Hawks honored with Japan's top pro sports award
by Kaz Nagatsuka
The Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks fittingly received the nation's top pro sports accolade for their dominant season in 2017. The Nippon Professional Baseball club was bestowed the grand prize for the first time at the 50th Japan Pro Sports Awards in Tokyo on Wednesday. Boxer Ryota Murata, ...
More Sports / Auto Racing Jun 14, 2017
Sato revels in glow of historic Indy 500 triumph
by Kaz Nagatsuka
Takuma Sato joked that he has had a little too much milk since the great feat he accomplished on May 28 — when he became the first Japanese and Asian driver to win the prestigious Indianapolis 500. At a triumphal news conference at the Honda ...
Language | NEWS IN NIHONGO Jun 5, 2017
More Sports Apr 27, 2013
Takuma Sato says joining AJ Foyt Racing put him in position to become the first Japanese driver to win an IndyCar race. Sato returned to Japan on Friday to speak about his historic win last Sunday in the Grand Prix of Long Beach, just his ...