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One of Stephen Sondheim's rarer musicals is getting some time in the spotlight. "Pacific Overtures," about the Westernization of Japan, arrives at Signature this month.

Team USA captain Mike Trout said he had the time of his life "representing that USA on my chest" following Tuesday night's loss to Japan in the WBC.

Kyle Schwarber's home run in the World Baseball Classic final Tuesday night almost ended in catastrophe for one fan in the stands at loanDepot Park in Miami.

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Shohei Ohtani fanned LA Angels teammate Mike Trout for the final out in a matchup the baseball world wanted to see, leading Japan over the defending champion U.S. for the World Baseball Classic title.

Team USA fielded a World Baseball Classic roster brimming with All-Star names from Trea Turner to Mookie Betts to Mike Trout.

The United States and Japan will do battle in the World Baseball Classic final on Tuesday night. It is a matchup of titans in the sport.

Japan's clutching hitting got them back into the game against Mexico and eventually the win to move onto the World Baseball Classic final.

That matchup between Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani in the World Baseball Classic may not happen.

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has made a surprise visit to Kyiv and met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s ‘Pacific Overtures,’ about an unwelcome expedition, reminds us of the composer’s genius

If Rōki Sasaki knows the perfect time for him to switch to the major leagues, he's good at keeping a secret. “He’s going to be a tremendous star in the big leagues whenever he gets here,” Mexico manager Benji Gil said Sunday.

Fans of Katsushika Hokusai’s “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” can now find a unique Lego replica of the famous woodblock print in Japan. Japanese professional Lego builder Jumpei Mitsui created the replica for the Hankyu Brick Museum in Osaka. The 3D reproduction, which is 154 centimeters (approximately 60.6 inches) long and 128 centimeters (approximately 50.4 inches) inches tall, reportedly took over 400 hours to complete using around 50,000 Lego pieces.

North Korea said Friday it fired an intercontinental ballistic missile to “strike fear into the enemies” as South Korea and Japan agreed at a summit to work closely on regional security with the United States and staged military exercises around the region. (Mar. 17)

The Equipment Room, now open in the basement of the Hotel Magdalena, is a Japanese-style listening bar designed for serious audiophiles.

Shohei Ohtani pitched shutout ball into the fifth inning and sparked a four-run third with a bunt single, leading Japan over Italy 9-3 and into its fifth straight World Baseball Classic semifinal.

Lars Nootbaar's pepper-grinder gesture is catching on all across Japan, not just at the Tokyo Dome. You see people doing it on the trains, across the counter ordering a coffee and of course among the 40,000 fans who have packed the Tokyo Dome to watch Japan play in the World Baseball Classic. “I heard the pepper grinders around the country, their sales have gone up quite a bit this past week.”

The ICBM marks Pyongyang's fourth round of launches in a week as South Korea and Japan leaders meet.

Scientists have created baby mice with two fathers for the first time by turning male mouse stem cells into female cells in a lab.

American shot put medalist Raven Saunders has been suspended for 18 months for failing to show up for doping tests.

Yoshikazu Higashitani hasn’t been in Japan, or its legislature, since his election. Experts say supporters don’t expect him to behave like a normal politician.

Helicopters are valuable weapons, but they have vulnerabilities, and their role may shrink as cheaper aerial weapons become more common.

Japanese pitching prospect Roki Sasaki threw a 100 mph fastball and hit Czech Republic batter William Escala over the weekend. As an apology, Sasaki gifted Escala with candy.

Japan has dropped its three-year-long masking request in one of its last steps in easing COVID rules in public places. However, nothing has changed as residents continue to wear them.

Kunwoo Park and Ha-Seong Kim hit grand slams in consecutive innings, and South Korea set a World Baseball Classic scoring record with a 22-2 rout over China in a game between already eliminated teams.

Oe's works, including The Catch and A Personal Matter, were built from his childhood memories during Japan's postwar occupation and from being the parent of a disabled son.

There a common thread running through the World Baseball Classic when opponents face Los Angeles Angels star Shohei Ohtani and his Japanese teammates.

Japan on Monday dropped its request for people to wear masks after three years, but hardly anything changed in the country that has had an extremely high regard for their effectiveness at anti-virus protection. During a televised budget committee meeting at parliament, some lawmakers still wore masks, though Prime Minister Fumio Kishida wasn't wearing one when he arrived at his office Monday. Dropping the mask-wearing request is one of the last steps Japan's government is taking in easing COVID-19 rules in public places as it tries to expand business and other activity.

Shohei Ohtani hit a three-run homer that landed just below his image on a video advertising board, sending Japan to a 7-1 victory over Australia in the World Baseball Classic.

Japan has marked the 12th anniversary of the massive earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster with a minute of silence as concerns grew ahead of the planned release of the treated radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant.

General Douglas MacArthur was forced to flee the Philippines on this day in history, March 11, 1942. MacArthur was trying to avoid capture by the Japanese.

Twelve years after the triple reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japan is preparing to release a massive amount of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea.

Viral videos showed 21-year-old Yoshino Ryoga putting his saliva on utensils and sushi and licking the spout of soy sauce bottles at a conveyor-belt sushi restaurant in Nagoya City.

SpaceX's Crew-5 astronaut mission for NASA is scheduled to depart the International Space Station on Thursday (March 9), and you can watch the action live.

Women’s rights activists in Japan are renewing their demand for the government to allow married couples the option to keep both of their surnames, saying the current practice in which most women face social pressure to adopt their husbands’ surnames — a prewar tradition based on paternalistic family values — widens gender inequality

The 20-team World Baseball Classic got underway after a six-year absence with the Netherlands defeating Cuba 4-2 in a Group A game in Taiwan to open the tournament.

Japan's space agency was forced to destroy its flagship H3 rocket minutes after blastoff due to an ignition failure, in a blow to the country's space endeavors.

South Korea announced on Monday a plan to compensate victims of forced labor under Japan's colonization through a government foundation with funds from South Korean companies.

Going to the bathhouse is a big part of life in Japan and South Korea. But businesses are struggling after covid and fuel price spikes caused by the war in Ukraine.

Growing up stressed out about my body, I hopped from diet to diet struggling to lose weight. That was until I followed these four Japanese principles.

Japan aims to launch its new H3 rocket on Sunday evening (March 5). It will be the second try for the H3, after an aborted attempt on Feb. 16.

British chip designer Arm and building materials group CRH are planning to pursue a listing in the U.S., dealing a blow to London.

Asian stock markets are mixed after signs of enduring upward pressure on American prices added to expectations of higher interest rates for longer.

Asian stock markets have followed Wall Street higher after a Federal Reserve official raised hopes the U.S. central bank might not step up its anti-inflation fight as much as feared.

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah's, said he is "seeking answers" after his personal Twitter account was suspended Wednesday.

Asian stock markets are mixed after signs of enduring upward pressure on American prices added to expectations of higher interest rates for longer.

Japan’s lower house of parliament has approved a 114 trillion yen ($836 billion) budget for the next fiscal year.

Ranching has its own language, and specialty beef is no exception. Learn the difference between Kobe and Wagyu, and the grades, with this handy guide.

Japan is easing its coronavirus border measures for tourists from China beginning Wednesday by testing only random passengers

Japan's space agency says it has identified the issue that caused the first launch of the H3 rocket to be aborted last week.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez advised that Japan shape up on "LGBT protections" in a nearly 40-minute-long Instagram video and accused the government of being "very discriminatory."

Round1’s arcade offers exclusive games that its website touts as being 'imported straight from Japan.'

Over the last week, Abu Dhabi's biennial international defense exhibition, known as IDEX, showcased a bustling sector.

Better building standards mean earthquakes need not turn into the devastation seen in Turkey and Syria. The US should pay attention.

The Canadian military has discovered Chinese spy buoys in the Arctic which are monitoring US submarines and melting ice sheets.

Alex Morgan and Mallory Swanson scored and the United States defeated Brazil 2-1 to win the SheBelieves Cup for the fourth straight year.

A mysterious metal sphere was found on a beach in Hamamatsu City, Japan, this week. Its origins are unknown, but authorities are investigating.

A giant metal sphere that was found washed up on a beach in Hamamatsu, Japan, was to be removed Wednesday as speculation swirls over what the object is and where it came from.

While the ball that appeared on the beach in Japan is not a floating balloon, it comes at a time of heightened concern over unidentified objects because of various spy balloon sightings.

The five-foot rusted iron sphere found on a beach in Japan could be a buoy, authorities said, though the internet prefers to think it's Godzilla's egg.

The world's biggest coffee chain entered the Italian market in 2018 and has around 20 stores in the country.

One day after the U.S. held joint military drills with Asian allies, North Korea fired multiple ballistic missiles from its east coast, according to South Korea and Japan.

Japan, the poster child for aging society, promises radical spending to boost its birthrate. That’s unlikely to fix the issue.

The wreckage of the USS Albacore, credited with sinking at least 10 enemy vessels during the war, was identified, the Navy said — almost 80 years after it was presumed lost.

The Naval History and Heritage Command confirmed the identity of a wreck site off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan, as the USS Albacore (SS-218), which sunk in 1944.

Visitors enter Super Nintendo World through a big green pipe, similar to the one Mario uses in the video game.

A sunken craft located off the coast of Hokkaido, Japan has been confirmed to be wreckage of a long-lost WWII-era US submarine, according to the Naval History and Heritage Command.

Frigid winter weather has gripped East Asia for the second straight day, causing several deaths and multiple injuries in Japan and a scramble for flights out of South Korea’s resort island of Jeju following delays by snowstorms.

Asian stock markets are mixed amid hopes Western economies can avoid a recession despite higher interest rates to cool inflation.

The first Native American woman in space has ventured out on her first spacewalk.

Official statistics show that China’s population shrank for the first time in decades last year as its birthrate plunged.

Naomi Osaka is pregnant and plans to return to competition in 2024.

Stock markets are mixed ahead of a U.S. inflation update that traders hope will encourage the Federal Reserve to ease off plans for more interest rate hikes.

Asian stock markets have followed Wall Street higher following encouraging U.S. employment data but are headed for double-digit losses for the year.

Stocks are mostly lower Tuesday afternoon after the long holiday weekend, adding to the market’s recent losses as Wall Street counts down its final days of a painful year for investors.

Asian stock markets have fallen for another day as investors wrestle with fears the U.S. Federal Reserve and European central banks might be willing to cause a recession to crush inflation.

The Center for Conservation and Research at San Antonio Zoo has been researching ways to reconnect populations of Japanese giant salamanders that have been separated by dams that have been built along Japan’s mountain streams and rivers.

An international conservation organization says populations of a vulnerable species of marine mammal, numerous species of abalone and a type of Caribbean coral are now threatened with extinction.

Shares are mostly lower in Asia after Wall Street sagged under weakness in tech stocks.

The next World Cup will be the biggest ever after world soccer body FIFA took the leap from a 32-team field to 48 teams in 2026.

Croatia is going deep at another World Cup and the team is taking the long route once again.

The most controversial goal of the World Cup so far was scored by Japan and it eliminated Germany.

From most angles, it looked like the ball went out of play just before Japan scored its winning goal in the 2-1 victory against Spain in the World Cup.

Germany was eliminated from the group stage of the World Cup for the second tournament in a row.

Japan’s top government spokesperson said Monday that the number of babies born this year is below last year's record low.

Germany forward Niclas Füllkrug salvaged a 1-1 draw against Spain at the World Cup.

Japanese fans and players get attention at every World Cup because they clean up after themselves after the matches.

Substitutes Ritsu Doan and Takuma Asano scored late goals to give Japan a come-from-behind 2-1 victory over Germany at the World Cup.

Germany’s players covered their mouths for their team photo before their opening World Cup match in an apparent rebuke of FIFA’s clampdown on plans to wear armbands to protest discrimination in host nation Qatar.

Asian stock markets are mixed after Wall Street sank and Chinese anti-virus controls fueled concern about an economic slowdown.

Japan is lifting a more than 2 1/2-year ban on international cruise ships that was imposed following a deadly coronavirus outbreak on the cruise ship Diamond Princess at the beginning of the pandemic.

Ecuador kept its place at the World Cup but will be deducted three points in qualifying for the 2026 tournament because of a false document being used to get a passport for a Colombia-born player, sport’s highest court ruled Tuesday.

Asian stocks are mixed ahead of the U.S. midterm elections with trading likely to stay bumpy in a week that brings new inflation data and other events that could shake markets.

Daiki Hashimoto of Japan has won his first world gymnastics all-around title.

South Korea has scrambled about 80 military aircraft, including advanced F-35 fighter jets, after tracking about 180 flights by North Korean warplanes inside North Korean territory in what appeared to be a defiant show of strength.

Shares are mostly lower in Asia after a mixed session on Wall Street, where tech sector losses offset gains in other parts of the market.

Greater:SATX is a local program with a mission aimed to bring in more businesses to San Antonio and to help current companies grow.

Asian stock markets are mixed after Wall Street rose on strong corporate profit reports.

It was worth the trip to Japan for Keegan Bradley, who won the Zozo Championship with a final-round 2-under 68, one ahead Rickie Fowler and Andrew Putnam for his first PGA Tour win in just over four years.

Asian stock markets have surged after Wall Street rebounded from a slump caused by worse-than-forecast inflation numbers.