Tyler Higgins is pictured at Kyocera Dome Osaka on Nov.... Higgins arrived in 2020 when, for the second straight season, the Buffaloes changed their manager during the season and finished last in the PL.... Higgins, a 30-year-old right-hander who got as high as Triple-A in the United States before coming to Japan, said the 2020 managing change revealed a team that despite its poor record in recent years, had some quality ballplayers....

Nakajima, a Sector Honolulu watchstander, in a news release.... " That training paid off and we

Orix Buffaloes manager Satoshi Nakajima, top, is tossed in the air by his players at Kyocera Dome

Kyoto Prefectural Police officers are seen entering Kumano dorm in Kyoto's Sakyo Ward, on the morning of June 24, 2021.... Police suspect that the dorm has been used as a base for far-left revolutionary activists, and that the man frequented it.... The man, believed to belong to far-left group All-Japan Federation of Students' Self-Governing Associations, known as Zengakuren, was arrested on June 21 for allegedly using a false address when renewing his driver's license at a police station in K

International Christian University's( ICU) University Hall, chosen as fiscal 2020's modernist building in Japan, is seen in this image provided by the ICU.... Mitaka Laboratory used for developing munitions in World War II--has been picked by the Japanese branch of an international preservation group as a building of the modern movement for fiscal 2020.... So far it has chosen 250 edifices nationwide....

This photo shows a calendar with Oct.... 11 marked as Sports Day, a national holiday in Japan.... Under a revision to the Act on Special Measures for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, which moved 2021's national holidays around to coincide with the opening and closing ceremonies of the Tokyo Olympics, Sports Day on Oct....

2, 2021photo shows a prototype of a lunar rover developed by Nissan Motor Co. and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, in Yokohama.... The automaker said it aims to make the rover capable of traversing the undulating Moon surface smoothly by applying technology developed for use in its roadgoing electric vehicles such as the Leaf and Ariya.... The rover, which is expected to be driverless and run on solar power, will likely have specially developed wheels to overcome the challenge of traver

Seiichiro Oshita of the Orix Buffaloes celebrates after hitting a game-winning RBI single in the ninth inning against the Lotte Marines in their Pacific League game at Hotto Motto Field Kobe on Sept.... The Buffaloes replaced him on the active roster with Oshita, who had spent most of this season on the farm.... A Torai Fushimi double off Lotte reliever Chihaya Sasaki and a two-out error on shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria allowed the tying run to score....

Kobelco Kobe Steelers( red) and NTT Communications Shining Arcs Tokyo-Bay Urayasu meet in the opening match of Japan Rugby League One's inaugural season on Jan.... 8, 2022, at Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture.... The original curtain-raiser for Japan's new elite rugby union competition, set for Friday, was canceled after six players from one team tested positive for the coronavirus, but Kobe and Tokyo-Bay Urayasu did not disappoint in a nail-biting encounter at Kobe

This calendar shows July 19 as a national holiday.... A revision to the Act on Special Measures for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics moved Marine Day--which usually falls on the third Monday in July--from July 19 to July 22, and Sports Day--which usually falls on the second Monday in October--from Oct.... 11 to July 23 for the opening of the Tokyo Olympic Games....