Japanese baseball stars have almost exclusively come to MLB after playing in NPB. Morii is breaking precedent by signing with ...

The A's are swinging for the fences with their latest international signing. Get to know Shotaro Morii and the impressive ...

Taiwan’s companies invested a record amount of money in the US and Japan last year while the figure for China stagnated — ...

Approved on Dec. 27, 2024, the upcoming defense budget beginning April 1 is up 9.4% to a record 8.7 trillion yen, the ...

Japan is likely to miss achieving its goal of running a primary budget surplus by the next fiscal year, according to three ...

The Detroit Tigers didn't try to sign Shohei Ohtani in 2017. A lot has changed since then, exemplified by an attempt to sign ...

Japan's Coming of Age Day is a sure sign of winter, arriving after New Year celebrations and before the cherry blossom ...

Japan saw 3.49 million visitors in December, an all-time high for any month, official data showed on Wednesday, capping off a ...

Roki Sasaki can sign with Major League Baseball teams during a nine-day window starting Wednesday, an unusual free agency ...

J-pop singer-songwriter miwa spoke with Hirai for the latest installment of the WIM interview series. The 34-year-old ...

Two elderly men in Japan choked to death on mochi rice cakes as part of a New Year’s tradition that authorities have issued ...

Choking on mochi is so common that authorities offer tips every year on how to help someone who has the food lodged in their ...