Tag: sapporo

Swiss Belinda Bencic advanced to the last 16 of the Australian Open after two-time champion Naomi Osaka retired during Friday's third-round match with an abdominal strain that has affected her since the start of the season. ( read original story ...)

Canadian ski jumping sensation Alexandria Loutitt claimed her second career World Cup victory on Saturday with a gold medal in the women's large hill event in Zao, Japan, near Sapporo. ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka ’s return to Grand Slam competition ended prematurely on Friday, as the two-time Australian Open champion was forced to retire from her third-round match against Belinda Bencic due to a strained abdominal muscle. Osaka had dropped the opening set in a tiebreaker, 7-6 (3), before informing the chair umpire she could no longer ...

Manchester City have signed Japan Under-20 international midfielder Aemu Oyama on a two-and-a-half-year deal. The 20-year-old, who played in last summer's U20 Women's World Cup, joins from Waseda ... ( read original story ...)

Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully icy cold water in a pool at a Tokyo shrine, adhering to Japanese tradition to purify the soul and pray for good health in the new year. ( read original story ...)

The Tokyo Series is exactly two months away -- and there are already plenty of reasons to be excited about the 2025 season-opening showdown between the reigning World Series champion Dodgers and Cubs. ( read original story ...)

Philippine low cost carrier Cebu Pacific has launched its inaugural A320neo flight from Manila to Sapporo, Japan ... ( read original story ...)

Cebu Pacific solidified its position as the largest airline connecting the Philippines and Japan with the launch of direct flights between Manila and ... ( read original story ...)

Square Enix has announced it will close the Square Enix Cafe location in Tokyo, Akhibara on March 31, 2025. The Square Enix ARTINA and Square Enix GARDEN locations will remain open. The Akhibara ... ( read original story ...)

Two-time Australian Open champion Naomi Osaka stopped playing because of a strained abdominal muscle after dropping the opening set of her third-round match against Belinda Bencic. “I kind of have a history of it, ( read original story ...)

HIRATSUKA, Japan — Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. (YRC) is planning to close its Prague, Czech Republic, off-highway tire factory by June and move production of cross-ply OHT to other plants. ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka's run at the 2025 Australian Open came to an end in the third round due to an injury. The two-time Aussie Open champ suffered a strained ( read original story ...)

The oldest human fossils on Japan's mainland were found in a limestone quarry near Hamakita, 40 km east of Ushikawa. ( read original story ...)

Tokyo police arrested a couple for the fifth time Friday on charges of defrauding an insurance company of ¥26 million ($167,416) in death benefits, part of a broader case in which the pair allegedly ... ( read original story ...)

The Bank of Japan is expected to hike interest rates twice in 2025 and twice more in 2026, International Monetary Fund chief economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas said on Friday. In its latest World ... ( read original story ...)

Scavenging crows rummaged through trash and a tourist's rucksack it found lying on a bench in Japan. Footage shows the black bird perched on the chair's backrest before poking its beak inside the bag ... ( read original story ...)