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U.S. President Joe Biden said Thursday that White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki will be succeeded by Karine Jean-Pierre, currently deputy press secretary, making her the first black woman to serve in the high-profile post. Psaki has served as press s…

Japan’s industry minister showed a negative view Wednesday about keeping pace with the European Union over its plan to ban oil imports from Russia as an additional sanction against Moscow following its invasion of Ukraine. “Japan has limited resources …

Yusei Kikuchi pitched six innings, his longest outing this season, to record his first win of 2022 as the Toronto Blue Jays edged the New York Yankees 2-1 on Wednesday night to end the visitors’ 11-game winning streak. In his fifth start of the season,…

Main events scheduled in Japan for Friday, May 6: — Japan Airlines to release FY 2021 earnings. — Rainbow Marriage Film Festival, 2-day event featuring movies about same-sex marriages, starts in Tokyo.

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd. has said it aims to start a new project as early as the summer of next year that involves collecting plastic waste by ship in the sea off Vietnam, one of the world’s major producers of marine plastic trash. The major Japanese s…

The U.S. Federal Reserve said Wednesday it will raise key interest rates by half a percentage point, the biggest rate hike since May 2000 as it rushes to address rising inflation. Upon concluding a two-day meeting of the policy-setting Federal Open Mar…

Yuki Yanagita homered for the second day in a row on Wednesday, delivering the go-ahead run with a seventh inning solo blast as the SoftBank Hawks held off the Pacific League champion Orix Buffaloes 2-1. A day after lifting the Hawks to a 7-3 win with …

Masahiro Tanaka worked eight scoreless innings to win a pitchers’ duel as the Pacific League-leading Rakuten Eagles beat the Nippon Ham Fighters 2-1 Tuesday afternoon. Tanaka (3-1) located his fastball and slider well as he struck out six and walked tw…

Australia’s central bank Tuesday raised its benchmark interest rate to 0.35 percent, its first hike in more than 11 years amid surging inflation. An increase in the cash rate by 0.25 percentage point came after official data released last week saw head…

Roki Sasaki, whose 19-strikeout April 10 perfect game attracted worldwide attention, will make his next start Friday after an 11-day break, Lotte Marines manager Tadahito Iguchi revealed Monday. “That’s the plan, more or less,” Iguchi said Monday when …