NEWSWORTHY
Takuma Sato holds off Ryan Hunter-Reay to win Portland Grand Prix
Takuma Sato held off Ryan Hunter-Reay over the last 19 laps to win the IndyCar Portland Grand Prix on Sunday, while Scott Dixon rallied to increase his lead at the top of the points standings. The 41-year-old Tokyo native used fuel strategy and timed his ...
Journey for Japan's hoop team to end with game for 7th place
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 players handed one-year bans
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 ...
Takuma Sato set for title defense at Indy 500 after historic win
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 ...
Takuma Sato gets 'Baby Borg,' reflects on historic Indy 500 triumph
When Takuma Sato won the Indianapolis 500 last year, owner Michael Andretti understood right away how significant the victory was. "His drive was phenomenal. He drove his way to the front there in the last 10 laps. He won that thing for us. We gave ...
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 ...
Champion Hawks honored with Japan's top pro sports award
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, ...
Reigning Indianapolis 500 champion Takuma Sato joined the immortals of IndyCar on Tuesday when the Japanese driver's face was unveiled as the newest likeness on the Borg-Warner Trophy. The hefty sterling silver hardware, weighing in at 50 kg, includes the raised silver images of every ...
Sato revels in glow of historic Indy 500 triumph
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 ...
Sato finishes eighth, fourth during IndyCar doubleheader in Detroit
A week after his career-defining Indianapolis 500 win, Takuma Sato was back in the upper reaches of the IndyCar pack in Detroit, finishing fourth in the weekend's second race on Sunday. With his near-podium finish, and an eighth place in Saturday's race, Sato maintained his ...
At the end of 500 miles (805 km) around Indianapolis Motor Speedway Takuma Sato became the first Japanese winner of the Indianapolis 500 when he denied Helio Castroneves a record-tying fourth victory as the two traded the lead in the closing laps on Sunday. "I ...
