Month: February 2024

[ad_1] LOS ANGELES – Japanese teenage slugger Rintaro Sasaki will enroll at Stanford University in April before joining its baseball team for the 2025 season, the school announced Tuesday. The 18-year-old, left-handed hitting first baseman will graduate in March from Iwate Prefecture's Hanamaki Higashi High School. Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani and Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Yusei Kikuchi were coached there by Sasaki's father, Hiroshi. The 184-centimeter, 113-kilogram […]

[ad_1] Former ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Mito Kakizawa on Wednesday pleaded guilty to charges of illegal campaign financing in relation to a Tokyo ward election last April."I have decided not to contest any of the charges," the 53-year-old former senior vice justice minister said at the first day of his trial at the Tokyo District Court, acknowledging the "heavy" responsibility he bore.Kakizawa has been indicted for violating the election […]

[ad_1] A broad swath of Japan was forecast to see unseasonably warm temperatures over parts of the next week, with the mercury hitting 18 degrees Celsius in Tokyo on Wednesday.Temperatures in the Kyushu region ranged from 18 C to 24 C on Wednesday, offering a taste of early summer, according to the Meteorological Agency, while the Chugoku and Shikoku regions also experienced unseasonably warm weather, with temperatures in the 18 […]

[ad_1] GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador – Since Ecuador’s president declared war on gangs last month, soldiers with assault rifles have flooded the streets of Guayaquil, a sprawling Pacific coast city that has been an epicenter of the nation’s yearslong descent into violence.They pull men from buses and cars looking for drugs, weapons and gang tattoos, and patrol roads enforcing a nighttime curfew. The city is on edge, its men and teenage boys […]