‘Paint Japan blue’: How the Dodgers’ vision of Japanese prominence became reality
Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki are all Dodgers. And a Japanese fan base has coalesced around its interest ...
From Nomo to Ichiro to Ohtani: Japan’s baseball rise in MLB hits high point in Dodgers-Cubs series
Nearly 25 years after Ichiro Suzuki embarked on a Hall of Fame career for the Seattle Mariners, the impact of Japanese ...
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15 Fun Things To Do In Osaka Other Than Castles + Shrines
Osaka Castle, endless shrines, and temples that make it onto just about every travel guide. And look, if it’s your first time ...
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Shohei Ohtani and 4 other Japanese players come home to start the MLB season
It's the World Series-champion Los Angeles Dodgers against the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Tokyo Dome to ...
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Japan’s Restaurants Are Hiring Cat Robots — And They’re Pretty Good Servers
The cat robots come from Skylark Holdings Co., the country’s largest table-service restaurant chain, which has deployed around 3,000 such robots to help servers manage the relentless pace of a busy ...
What to stream: 'Wicked' at home, Selena Gomez in love and Ellen Pompeo out of scrubs
"Wicked" landing on Peacock for home sing-alongs and Ellen Pompeo starring in her first big role since stepping back from ABC's "Grey's Anatomy" are some of this week's new streaming entertainment ...
Silent Hill f disclaimer is even making a horror buff like me shudder: "If you feel uncomfortable at any point while playing, please take a break"
Silent Hill f takes the series' foggy setting and contorted-limb monsters to a rural 1960s Japanese village this time, ...
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Dodgers get to see first hand just how popular they’ve become in Japan
More than 10,000 fans show up at the Tokyo Dome to watch the Dodgers practice and cheer for Shohei Ohtani’s brief appearance on the field. Their first exhibition game is Saturday at 3 a.m. PT.
In Japan, a Journalist Takes a Stand by Striking Out on His Own
Makoto Watanabe quit a major newspaper after it retracted a scoop. Now he runs an investigative nonprofit that does not shy ...
Shohei Ohtani's Tokyo airport arrival hidden from fans
Hundreds of fans at Tokyo's Haneda airport lined up 10 deep and hoping to catch a glimpse of Shohei Ohtani as he arrived in ...
Michelle Zauner Stares Down the Darkness
I think [the album title] was a little bit tongue-in-cheek,” Zauner says with a chuckle over Zoom in early February. “And it ...