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Japan opened its professional regular season Friday without fans in attendance. (AP/Eugene Hoshiko) TOKYO -- Japanese baseball managed to do what American baseball has not -- play ball. After a three ... ( read original story ...)

Police in Yokohama have arrested a 26-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of attempted murder after he stabbed another man following an argument over a traffic matter. According to police, the ... ( read original story ...)

Eilish McColgan is "excited" to go for the distance double at the Tokyo Olympics - 30 years after mother Liz won 10,000m world gold in the same city. ( read original story ...)

Canada's wheelchair basketball program will go into Tokyo with a different team than it qualified with due to new eligibility policies put in place by the sport's organizing bodies. ( read original story ...)

Baby Shark” blared from the speakers at the Tokyo Dome when Gerardo Parra stepped to the plate in the second inning on Friday, as Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball leagued opened its shortened ... ( read original story ...)

CNBC's Jim Cramer said on "Squawk on the Street" that support from the U.S. central bank was supporting stocks that might otherwise plunge. ( read original story ...)

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan lifted a virus-related ban on domestic travel on Friday. He also said concerts and other events could be held with some restrictions. ( read original story ...)

A research group at Nagoya University has developed a new technology that can drastically conserve the energy used to capture carbon dioxide (CO2), one of the greenhouse gases, from facilities such as ... ( read original story ...)

All games in Japan will be played without fans until at least July. The league has also revised the schedule to limit travel. ( read original story ...)

After a three-month delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the world's second-most famous baseball league opened a season Friday that will be shortened from its regular 143 games to 120. That's ... ( read original story ...)

Major retailer Uniqlo’s new “cool and dry” mask, three for 990 yen ($9), sold out Friday shortly after it was put on the shelves The delicate “new normal” balancing act playing out around the world is ... ( read original story ...)

About 5,000 panels depicting baseball fans were arranged along infield seating at Yokohama Stadium, home field of the Yokohama DeNA Baysta ... ( read original story ...)

Blackstone, Bain Capital and Taisho Pharmaceutical are among the final bidders for Takeda Pharmaceutical's consumer drug business in Japan, a deal that could be worth up to 400 billion yen ... ( read original story ...)

As Nippon Professional Baseball begins its season after a 91-day delay, Zach Neal will be a rare foreign-born starter for the Saitama Seibu Lions. ( read original story ...)

Business sentiment among Japan's big manufacturers in the second quarter likely tanked to levels last seen during the 2009 global financial crisis as the coronavirus pandemic crushed global demand and ... ( read original story ...)

Japan began lifting its pandemic lockdown in May as coronavirus infections fell. The latest easing on Thursday comes after the end of an emergency declaration that allowed people to return to work and ... ( read original story ...)