The Los Angeles Dodgers’ World Series victory reflected the increasingly global nature of baseball, as two Japanese stars featured prominently in the Game 7 showdown. Shohei Ohtani, arguably the ...

TOKYO (AP) — Sunday morning in Japan began with a palpable buzz after the Los Angeles Dodgers announced Shohei Ohtani would start Game 7 of the World Series. By the time countryman Yoshinobu Yamamoto ...

Shohei Ohtani has been a superstar in Japan for more than a decade, but one day earlier this year, a Tokyo resident named Tatsuo Shinke noticed something different. Shinke, the CEO of Mint, a leading ...

From January, Japan begins saying goodbye to the famous "Doctor Yellow" special bullet trains that have diagnosed faults on the country's high-speed shinkansen lines in some form for around 60 years ...

Game 2 of the World Series was watched by 15.9 million viewers in Japan, around 12 percent of the population, and considerably more than in the U.S. for the first time. By Patrick Brzeski Asia Bureau ...