Main events scheduled in Japan for Tuesday, July 19: — No major events
Baseball: Uwasawa pitches Fighters to 7th straight win
Naoyuki Uwasawa pitched into the eighth inning to earn the victory as the Pacific League’s last-place Nippon Ham Fighters rolled off their seventh straight win 1-0 over the Seibu Lions on Saturday. At Sapporo Dome, Uwasawa (6-5) allowed five hits and t…
Baseball: Darvish strikes out 9, downs Diamondbacks for 8th win
Yu Darvish allowed three runs over seven innings, pitching the San Diego Padres to a 5-3 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday and collecting his eighth win of the season. Darvish (8-4) surrendered five hits and two walks while striking out nine …
Main events scheduled for Sunday, July 17
Main events scheduled in Japan for Sunday, July 17: — No major events.
G-20 finance chiefs unlikely to issue joint statement after talks
Finance chiefs from the Group of 20 major economies are unlikely to issue a joint statement as they wrap up a two-day meeting Saturday due to their rift over Russia’s war in Ukraine. Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati is expected to rele…
Main events scheduled for July 18-24
Main events scheduled in Japan for July 18-24: July 18 (Mon) — 3 years after deadly arson attack at Kyoto Animation studio. July 19 (Tues) — No major events. July 20 (Wed) — Bank of Japan to hold two-day monetary policy meeting. — Akutagawa, Naoki …
URGENT: State funeral to be held this fall for ex-PM Abe: gov’t source
Japan will hold a state funeral this fall for former leader Shinzo Abe who died last week after being shot on the campaign trail, a government source said Thursday. Earlier this week, a private funeral was held for Japan’s longest-serving Japanese prim…
FOCUS: Japanese firms more loath to invest in China amid “zero-COVID” policy
Japanese companies have become more reluctant to expand investment in China, criticizing the Communist-led government’s radical “zero-COVID” policy, including the frequent imposition of lockdowns in major cities, as a political risk. China’s tough rest…
Tokyo stocks open lower on Wall St. fall amid rate hike worries
Tokyo stocks opened lower Thursday, with sentiment dampened by an overnight fall on Wall Street after the strong U.S. consumer price index fueled concerns the Federal Reserve will aggressively raise interest rates. In the first 15 minutes of trading, t…
Baseball: Sunagawa hits 2 homers as Hawks end skid at 5 games
Richard Sunagawa homered in back-to-back at-bats for the first time in his career to help the Pacific League-leading SoftBank Hawks snap a five-game losing streak with a 4-2 victory over the Orix Buffaloes on Wednesday. Sunagawa, who was called up to t…