(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- All 12 Nippon Professional Baseball teams began their spring training workouts Saturday, with many of them in indoor facilities due to bad weather. Seven teams started ...

Newly inducted Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki spoke Friday of his excitement about Major League Baseball staging its season-opening series at Tokyo Dome on March 18-19 and returning to Japan for the ...

The Chicago Cubs will head to Tokyo next month to take on the Los Angeles Dodgers to open the regular season in the Japan ...

In his time with Nippon Professional Baseball, he averaged 6.2 innings per appearance while missing some time with various injuries. Typically, a player coming to the United States leads to a ...

Although Japan made history Saturday when it fielded its first team in a Caribbean Series, Japan Breeze, it was Leones del Escogido of the Dominican Republic that dominated play in Day 2 action at ...

Tokyo, Jan. 31 (Jiji Press)--The Tokyo metropolitan area's net population inflow in 2024 rose by 9,328 from the previous year to 135,843, close to the 148,783 marked in 2019, before the COVID-19 ...

Takashi Oguchi, a geographer from the University of Tokyo, said sinkholes are rare in Japan, where most roads are built on unconsolidated fluvial and marine sediments. But he warned that when a ...

Tokyo, Feb. 1 (Jiji Press)--The Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, or Nihon Hidankyo, held a meeting in Tokyo on Saturday to report on its reception of the 2024 Nobel ...

Takashi Oguchi, a geographer from the University of Tokyo, said sinkholes are rare in Japan, where most roads are built on unconsolidated fluvial and marine sediments. But he warned that when a ...

The Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela — the four members of the Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation ... Caribbean Series 2025. Japan, a special guest ...

Much of Japan’s public infrastructure was built between the 1960s and 1970s during an economic boom in the wake of World War II, during which much of Tokyo was destroyed by American bombing raids.