Chip Le Grand leads our state politics reporting team. He previously served as the paper’s chief reporter and is a journalist of 30 years’ experience. A police investigation into organised ...

When it comes to the 2025 Osaka Grand Sumo Tournament, one question overshadows all others. How will Hoshoryu — the 74th yokozuna — do in his debut at the sport’s highest rank? If recent ...

Rio Nakata joined Japanese figure skating greats like Daisuke Takahashi, Yuzuru Hanyu and Shoma Uno as a world men's junior world champion on Friday, becoming the country's seventh male skater to win ...

Image: Chris Christodoulou The last (and only) time that a sumo wrestling Grand Tournament took place outside of Japan, Hulk Hogan was still winning Royal Rumbles. "Usually in Japan we don't have ...

In Kyoto, the illuminated Higashiyama Hanatouro festival lights up the night, while Osaka hosts the thrilling March Sumo Tournament—an afternoon of live matches not to be missed. These events, paired ...

SAN DIEGO – Japan won the SheBelieves Cup on Wednesday with a 2-1 win over the U.S. women's national team, handing the hosts their first loss since Emma Hayes took over as head coach in June.

The top teams in the 2025 SheBelieves Cup will face off as the USWNT host Japan on Wednesday night. Japan sits first in the tournament bracket while the United States sits second, with both teams ...

St. Luke’s University Health Network’s pending acquisition of Bucks County’s Grand View Health will be a “heavy lift” financially, given the substantial losses at the nonprofit hospital in ...

In professional sumo, the release of every new banzuke — or ranking list — signals the imminent arrival of the next official tournament. For the March 2025 meet in Osaka, the two most striking ...

The Monster Hunter series exploded in popularity globally after years of success in Japan. How did they do it? The incident happened during a public event where the K-pop star hugged 1,000 fans.

who fled the war in Ukraine and came to Japan in April 2022, enters the top division after nine tournaments, equaling the fastest pace of promotion from the bottom tier since 1958, when sumo adopted ...

who fled the war in Ukraine and came to Japan in April 2022, enters the top division after nine tournaments, equaling the fastest pace of promotion from the bottom tier since 1958, when sumo adopted ...