Don't place Roki Sasaki on any Hollywood billboards just yet.

The agent for Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki has taken exception with club executives who insinuate he previously negotiated a handshake deal with the Dodgers.

Disney+ unveiled its expansion into Japanese unscripted content with Traveling with Snow Man (working title), alongside its launch of new Japanese originals including BULLET/BULLET and CATS EYE. Additionally, Disney+ confirmed that the second season of Japanese live action original Gannibal will premiere on March 19, 2025. Disney+ said that it will expand into Japanese unscripted […]

NEW YORK Roki Sasaki’s posting will likely extend into the 2025 international signing period, baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Wednesday, allowing teams as much as $7,555,500 to sign the prized Japanese pitcher. It kind of looks like the way its going to shake out, that the signing there, just because the timing, will happen […]

Star Wars: Visions, a Lucasfilm anthology series of animated shorts from around the world celebrating the mythology of Star Wars through different cultural perspectives, will return for a third season, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige said on Wednesday. Feige was a surprise guest at the annual Walt Disney Company Asia Pacific Showcase held in Singapore.Star […]

NEW YORK (AP) Roki Sasakis posting will likely extend into the 2025 international signing period, according to baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred, allowing teams as much as $7,555,500 to sign the prized Japanese pitcher. Manfred says it kind of looks like the way its going to shake out that the signing there, just because the timing, will happen in the new pool period.” The Ch...

Mexican chefs travel to Japan to cook traditional barbecue and tamales from Oaxaca. In the country of the rising sun, Mim and Carlos prepared the barbecue in a hole in the ground for 12 hours. Mexican food is on everyone’s lips and increasingly in the most literal sense of the expression, because every day there […]The post

Kura Oncology has signed a global partnership with Japanese drugmaker Kyowa Kirin to develop and sell an experimental leukemia treatment

Sumitomo Corp, the Tokyo-based conglomerate, closed down the Dunlop plant located in Tonawanda earlier this month.

For a small but vocal group of mostly older activists, reclaiming Okinawa's history as the Ryukyu Kingdom and pushing for independence from Japan is a deeply personal mission. It's being supported by an unlikely ally: Beijing.The post In Okinawa, an independence movement finds an...

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