That will likely be the case again with Munetaka Murakami, who is expected to be posted after the 2025 season in the NPB. According to reports, the 25-year-old will be allowed to hit free agency ...

A parliamentary group of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, chaired by former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, is preparing to propose to the government the creation of the senior-focused Nippon ...

Japan's population continues to decline, with a record drop of 898,000 citizens in 2024, highlighting the nation's ongoing struggle with a low birth rate. This demographic shift presents ...

The government intends to continue birth rate measures of a "different dimension," as set forth by former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and to improve these measures, but it has not been able to ...

That’ll likely change this year, so long as he remains a highly productive slugger. Murakami’s three-year deal with Yakult reportedly stipulates that he be posted following the 2025 campaign.

HOUSTON--Takashi Murakami’s artwork has graced luxury goods from top fashion houses and album covers of superstar musicians. Now the famed contemporary Japanese artist has teamed with Major ...

The office of Fumio Kishida, when he was prime minister, gave gift certificates worth 100,000 yen ($670) to parliamentary secretaries in connection with a social gathering held at his official ...

Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, which developed the ChatGPT service, speaks with reporters in Tokyo on April 10, 2023, after his meeting with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida. (Koichi Ueda) ...

The Mito District Court found Fumio Miyazaki, 44, guilty of compulsion and causing bodily injury and gave him a prison sentence of two years and six months, suspended for four years on condition ...

The establishment of the JOC was clearly written in three new security-related documents approved by the Fumio Kishida administration at the end of 2022. “The JOC will enable us to more quickly ...

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Vietnamese President Vo Van Thuong held talks in Tokyo and agreed to broaden their security cooperation, work on defense equipment and technology ...

Louis Vuitton is pulling out all the stops for its latest collection, a re-edition of one of the brand’s most iconic collaborations of all time: LV x Murakami. The capsule—which builds on the ...