Kazuo Matsui arrived in New York with a lot of hype. He was the first Japanese infielder to sign with an MLB team, joining the Mets in 2004. Fans had high hopes, but Matsui didn’t live up to ...

Japanese pitcher Yusei Kikuchi played for the team during the 2024 season while Japanese players Norichika Aoki and Kazuo Matsui also played for the Astros in the past. Daikin built a air ...

Kazuo Matsui, SS/2B, 2004-10 Kaz Matsui (no relation to Hideki) hit .291 over nine seasons with the Seibu Lions, amassing more than 2,000 hits, 201 homers and 362 stolen bases before signing a ...

Ichiro Suzuki was one of the faces of baseball during the 2000s after making the jump from the Japanese League to join the ...

.203 — Matsui’s expected batting average in 2024, which ranked in the top-10 percent of the majors. Matsui held opposing hitters to a .204/.284/.381 batting line in his first year in the ...

It’s often said that an immortal monkey, sitting at a typewriter with no deadline and jabbing at random, will eventually produce the complete works of Shakespeare. For a human being who speaks English ...

TOKYO, Jan 15 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan will debate whether to raise interest rates next week, Governor Kazuo Ueda said on Wednesday, signalling its intention to take borrowing costs higher ...

Influential manga artist Kazuo Umezu, known as a pioneer in horror comics in a long career dating to the mid-1950s, died on Oct. 28. He was 88. His famed manga include “The Drifting Classroom ...

Kazuo Waki is a graduate student at the George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs. He previously worked as an intern at the Asahi Shimbun Washington, DC bureau and at the ...

The Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto owns one major canvas by the celebrated American abstractionist Mark Rothko.

Kaz Matsui (no relation to Hideki) hit .291 over nine seasons with the Seibu Lions, amassing more than 2,000 hits, 201 homers and 362 stolen bases before signing a three-year, $20.1 million contract ...