Defending champion Japan hit four home runs, including one by Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, to beat South Korea 8-6 in the ...

Seiya Suzuki missed Japan's 2023 World Baseball Classic title run with an oblique injury, with the team marking his absence ...

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After the flight, Okinawa felt friendly and laid back. The highlights included the famous (unfortunately fire-damaged) Shuri castle ruins, the Zuizen Awamori distillery tour (yes, samples), glass ...

Japan's Shohei Ohtani logged a grand slam and five RBIs in one inning in a record thrashing of Chinese Taipei on Friday in the World Baseball Classic.

Japan's World Baseball Classic title defense got off to a rousing start at the Tokyo Dome, with four-time MVP Shohei Ohtani crushing a second-inning grand slam to open the scoring in a blowout 13-0 ...

TOKYO - Ukrainian dynamo Aonishiki, who is aiming to become the fastest wrestler to reach the sport's top rank of yokozuna ...

Japan’s titans of the ring live and train at roughly 40 sumo stables, with the majority located in Tokyo. A visit to one of these grappling incubators will give you a closeup look at how these giants ...

There are many areas across Japan that are famed sumo hotspots, known as “sumo-dokoro.” One such location is Amami Oshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, which, since the start of this year, has been ...

Ukrainian sumo wrestler Aonishiki has been in stunning form, putting him within touching distance of promotion to Yokozuna. NHK World's Shibuya Aki and Raja Pradhan look ahead to the March tournament ...

The electric Nissan President seems to have been retired from active parade use at some point, and is likely sitting in the ...

The electric Nissan President seems to have been retired from active parade use at some point, and is likely sitting in the HQ somewhere at this point. Tokyo's current reigning parade car is a topless ...