Sasaki Rintarō, who played college baseball at Stanford University before signing with the Miami Marlins, is part of a growing trend: Japanese high school baseball players bypassing the NPB and heading to US colleges in pursuit of careers in Major League Baseball. Young athletes in other sports a...
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- All Nippon Airways Co. said Friday that personal data, including passport numbers, was leaked from about 37,800 customers following u
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Bank of Japan said Friday that underlying inflation has "generally" reached its 2 percent target, nearly 14 years after the goal
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda on Friday stressed the need to stabilize inflation at around 2 percent, signaling that the central
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NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- Toyota Motor Corp. and Waymo LLC, the self-driving vehicle unit of Google parent Alphabet Inc., said Friday they will launch a trial
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's anime market reached 4.45 trillion yen ($28 billion) in 2025, topping 4 trillion yen for the first time on strong overseas sa
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- For the Bank of Japan, achieving its long-sought 2 percent inflation target is not the end of its quest for price stability but the b
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MAEBASHI -- Gunma Prefectural Police announced Oct. 29 that errors in written driver's license tests for foreign nationals had resulted in 367 examine
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A new chapter has been written in the history of shogi. Tomoka Nishiyama, holder of the Hakurei title, will become the first female "kishi," or profes
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Nikkei stock index ended sharply lower on Friday after briefly sinking over 3 percent on growing concerns over the earnings of so
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CHIBA -- A book with photos and illustrations chronicling the growth of Punch, a Japanese macaque at a zoo in eastern Japan who attracted global atten
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A water-spraying drill was held on October 25 in Shirakawa-go, a settlement of traditional A-frame thatched-roof houses in the village of Shirakawa, G
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Legislation to establish a "second capital" to serve as a backup for Tokyo's core functions and decentralize economic activity went i
