TOKYO (AP) — The Major League Baseball season kicks off Tuesday night at the Tokyo Dome when Shohei Ohtani and the defending ...

Two women who’d gone to school together in New Jersey were there celebrating their 60th birthdays—Nina Kaplan, a Boca Raton ...

About a dozen Japanese played in MLB last season, headlined by Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the World Series champion Los ...

Nearly 25 years after Ichiro Suzuki embarked on a Hall of Fame career for Seattle, the impact of Japanese players in Major ...

For two days in Japan, it's the Hanshin Tigers who have have looked like the class of the National League. In another sign that Japanese baseball has never been better, the Tigers capped a two-game ...

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The winner of the annual series between the San Diego Padres and Seattle Mariners will now win the Vedder Cup, a trophy ...

TACOMA — The Sumner girls basketball team didn’t get the redemption it wanted on Saturday at the Tacoma Dome. Instead, it received plenty of motivation for next year. Three seasons removed ...

“It’s been amazing,” sophomore Savannah Lynch said. “I love this group of girls and we have such a strong connection. The fact that we got here, it was one of our goals, I’m just excited ...

He was accused of paying a 15-year-old girl ¥20,000 (£105) in 2023 for sex; coercing another girl of the same age into taking explicit pictures and paying her ¥12,500 (£66) for them in 2021 ...

Regional broadcasters said Ito was accused of paying a 15-year-old girl 20,000 yen (US$130) for sex in 2023, and demanding that another teenager take and send him explicit photos of herself.