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Yuki Nishi threw eight scoreless innings, guiding the Orix Buffaloes to a 3-1victory over the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles on Saturday.Nishi (1-3) struck out six, ...

The defending champion Crusaders scored two early tries and then lost their way in a hailstorm before running away to a 33-11 win over Japan’s ...

World No. 22 Naomi Osaka defeated Heather Watson in straight sets Saturday before Kurumi Nara lost her match, giving Japan a 1-1 tie with Britain ...

The Indiana Pacers kept insisting this team was different.Anyone who doubted them coming into the playoffs understands now. On Friday, the one-year anniversary of a ...

Arsene Wenger is leaving Arsenal after more than 21 years, ending a revolutionary reign that saw him introduce new methods to the Premier League and ...

Minnesota Wild forward Eric Staal got right to the point.“It couldn’t have gone any worse at the start for us, and it couldn’t have gone ...

Former Japan manager Vahid Halilhodzic returned to Tokyo on Saturday to seek the reason for his shock dismissal earlier in the month.“I’ve always been glad ...

Speed Skating Canada has fired national long-track coach Michael Crowe, four months after former American speedskaters claimed he had sexual relationships with athletes while a ...

Earle Bruce embraced the difficult task of following his mentor, Woody Hayes, as Ohio State’s head football coach.Bruce died in Columbus at the age of ...

Bill Peters has not been able to lead the Carolina Hurricanes back to the NHL playoffs and after coming up short following his fourth season ...

Avicii, one of the world’s most successful DJs who helped usher in the global boom in electronic music but struggled to cope with the hard-partying ...

A mechanism should be established to properly assess the records of past SDF missions so that what was learned will be utilized in planning future ...

A ban on gay content has set off a furious backlash.

A Metropolitan Police Department panel is calling for the use of information and communications technology, including artificial intelligence and big data, to prevent crime.The panel, ...

The communications ministry said it will ask Japan’s three top mobile communications carriers to stop charging customers for switching companies when their contracts expire.The aim ...

North Korea announced Saturday that it had suspended nuclear and longer-range missile tests and shut down its main nuclear test site as the sanctions-hit country ...

With his public support damaged by cronyism and other scandals, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s goal of revising the postwar Constitution by 2020 is facing renewed ...

Kei Nishikori moved closer to his first Masters title on Friday, with a 6-4, 6-7 (1-7), 6-3 quarterfinal win over Croatia’s Marin Cilic.Cilic, who had ...

Jeff Samardzija had just loaded the bases with two outs in the fifth inning of his season debut when San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy ...

Here are the key steps in the development of the regime’s banned nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs: • 1970s: The beginnings North Korea starts ...