Outfielder Mookie Betts and first baseman Freddie Freeman were missing from the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Opening Day lineup.

Japanese baseball has a rich history, but a series of structural factors stand in the way of it becoming a phenomenon in ...

Akron’s Sakura Festival is scheduled to take place at several locations downtown on April 5 from 1-7 p.m. The year’s event ...

It can be hard to find a good, authentic, rustic onsen hot spring complex that isn’t geared towards tourists in Tokyo, so ...

Nestled in the heart of Isahaya, central Nagasaki Prefecture, Shirakimine Plateau offers a beautiful setting to experience ...

Foreign ministers from Japan and its two neighboring Asian powers China and South Korea held a meeting Saturday to seek ...

Three winters from now, Japan’s snowy Myoko highlands will be home to a $1.4 billion mega-resort built by a Singaporean fund, ...

Wrapped up in warm coats and woolly hats, hundreds of people have braved Moscow's chilly spring weather to form an orderly queue. But they have not come to see a celebrity or an exclusive exhibition.

Springtime in Japan is synonymous with sakura. Since time immemorial, the cherryblossom has been immortalised in poems and paintings. In modern times, the Japanese celebrate its beauty by using cherry ...

This week was packed with fashion moments worth highlighting. First up, Lewis Hamilton rocked a Willy Chavarria tracksuit.

Jameson Taillon will get the Game  2 nod in the four-game opening series at Chase Field. Manager Craig Counsell hasn’t ...

A pink flower also known as sakura, cherry blossoms grow on trees that originally hailed in Asia and are considered the ...