Shogo Arai explains the prefecture's analysis of coronavirus prevention measures, at the

of an airfield during World War II.... Shogo Arimoto, an unemployed man from the city of Sakurai

seesaw game.... Shogo Nakamura put the Marines up 1-0 in the third, only for Yuma Mune's two-run sixth

Hiroaki Shimauchi of the Rakuten Eagles hits a home run against the Pacific League-leading Orix Buffaloes at Rakuten Seimei Park Miyagi on Aug.... Shimauchi singled and scored in a four-run first, singled in the second and hit his 15th home run, a two-run shot in the fourth as the Eagles made it a 7-1 game.... " We are still in second place but we aspire to be in first," said Shimauchi, who set a career high in home runs....

Yuma Mune of the Orix Buffaloes hits a two-run home run in the eighth inning of a Pacific League game against the Lotte Marines on Oct.... With one on and two out in the eighth inning and Orix trailing 2-0 at Kyocera Dome Osaka, Mune drilled the first pitch he saw from lefty Kazuya Ojima for his eighth home run.... Lotte opened the scoring in the fourth on Brandon Laird's 26th home run, off Orix lefty Daiki Tajima....

NEW YORK( Kyodo)--Shohei Ohtani retook the sole lead in Major League Baseball's home run chase on Tuesday night, hitting his 27th and 28th of the season and driving in three of the Los Angeles Angels' five runs in an 11-5 loss to the New York Yankees.... The Japanese two-way player homered in back-to-back at-bats at Yankee Stadium, with a solo shot in the third inning trimming the Angels' deficit to 5-3, and a two-run drive in the fifth making it 10-5.... Both starting pitchers surrendered thr

Takashi Ogino of the Lotte Marines watches as his ninth-inning single gets through the infield to score the winning run in a 4-3 victory over the Nippon Ham Fighters at Chiba's Zozo Marine Stadium on Oct.... They trail the Orix Buffaloes by a half-game but have five games remaining compared to Orix's one.... " I don't have much experience to win it on a walk-off....

Japan fullback Ryohei Yamanaka, left, battles for the ball during an international rugby test match against Portugal in Coimbra, Portugal, on Nov.... 10 Brave Blossoms held the upper hand for most of the contest against Portugal but gave away too many penalties for their own liking.... " It's an area we need to get better," head coach Jamie Joseph said....

A civic group holds a gathering in Kyoto on Dec.... 26, 2021, to denounce an arson attack in the so-called Utoro district in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, as being a hate crime.... A civic group organized a gathering in the city of Kyoto and online to discuss the attack in the so-called Utoro district, urging judicial authorities to deal with the case firmly to prevent a repeat of similar incidents....

Toshiya Sato of the Lotte Marines hits a pinch-hit, walk-off double in the ninth inning in Game 1 of the first stage of the Pacific League Climax Series at Zozo Marine Stadium in Chiba, on Nov.... The win at Zozo Marine Stadium means the Marines can advance to the final stage against the league-champion Orix Buffaloes with one more win or a tie in the best-of-three series at their home park.... Rookie Roki Sasaki started for Lotte and allowed an unearned run over six innings while striking out