Two-way star Shohei Ohtani went deep for the second straight day Saturday, belting his third home run of the season during the Los Angeles Angels’ 7-2 win over the Texas Rangers. After ending his longest start-of-the-season home run drought Friday with…
FEATURE: Baseball: Fire-baller Sasaki quickly fulfilling promise
Once the brightest star in Japan’s amateur baseball constellation, 20-year-old Roki Sasaki has overcome a slow start to his pro career and has now pitched perhaps the world’s greatest nine-inning game. On April 10, the Lotte Marines’ lanky 1.90-meter r…
Tons of Japanese nuclear waste may be destined for overseas disposal
Japan’s nuclear power plants have over 57,000 tons of large equipment that have, or will in time, become radioactive industrial waste and may be destined to be disposed of overseas, a tally of electric power company data showed Saturday. The scale of t…
370 mil. people under some form of lockdown in China due to COVID
About 373 million people in 45 cities across China have come under some form of lockdown due to a surge in coronavirus cases amid the spread of the highly contagious Omicron variant, according to estimates by a Nomura Holdings Inc. unit. The figure amo…
Soccer: Keeper Slowik’s heroics hand FC Tokyo a point at Sapporo
FC Tokyo salvaged a 0-0 draw away to Consadole Sapporo on Saturday in the J-League top flight thanks to a superb double save from Polish keeper Jakub Slowik in the second half. After a first half with no real chances, Consadole came closest to scoring …
Main events scheduled for Sunday, April 17
Main events scheduled in Japan for Sunday, April 17: — No major events.
Soccer: Tagawa scores in 2nd straight league game for Santa Clara
Japanese forward Kyosuke Tagawa scored in the second straight Portuguese Primeira Liga game on Friday as his leveler helped Santa Clara secure a 1-1 draw away to Arouca. The 23-year-old, on an 18-month loan from FC Tokyo since January, steered into the…
Tokyo to hold cycling event on iconic Rainbow Bridge for 1st time
The Tokyo metropolitan government will hold a cycling event later this year with part of the course going across the iconic Rainbow Bridge, marking the first time that bicycles will be allowed to cross the bridge since it opened in 1993. The event, set…
Soccer: Kurumaya injury-time equalizer rescues Frontale
Substitute Shintaro Kurumaya pounced on a goal-keeping error to strike the equalizer in the final seconds as J-League champions Kawasaki Frontale scraped out a 1-1 Asian Champions League Group I draw with South Korea’s Ulsan Hyundai FC on Friday. In th…
West Japan city says tourism “princess” can now be of any gender
A western Japan city that has held annual contests to recruit single women “princesses” to serve as tourism ambassadors will drop the gender requirement from this year, in a move organizers say comes out of “consideration for the changing times.” The t…