Ichirō’s final Major League game was on March 21, 2019, against the Oakland Athletics at Tokyo Dome. It was the perfect finale. Ichirō (now instructor and special assistant to the chairman for ...

Former Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama has offered a personal apology for Japan's wartime atrocities in China and blamed tensions in the East China Sea on Tokyo. He also departed from the ...

Mr Hatoyama has repeatedly called for a re-think of Tokyo’s “subservient” relationship with Washington, raising concern in the US. But he has also stressed the need to work with the US and ...

Last December was a turning point in the major-league careers of Japanese sports icons Matsui Hideki and Suzuki Ichirō―for Ichirō, a new beginning with the New York Yankees; for Matsui ...