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Japan defeated Team USA in the 2023 World Baseball Classic to win its third championship title, but when did baseball become a popular sport in the country?

Japan won the 2023 World Baseball Classic, topping Team USA 3-2 in Miami. The tournament returns in 2026 but no host city has been announced.

It came down to Shohei Ohtani vs. Mike Trout as Japan triumphed over Team USA in a riveting finale to the 2023 World Baseball Classic.

A worker at a recycling facility in Japan found cash worth more than $74,000 mixed in with the other trash.

Here is what 10 million yen looks like stacked in trash bags.

Fans of the Tokyo Zoo’s giant panda Xiang Xiang said goodbye before her return to China.

Japanese panda fans bid teary farewells to their idols Xiang Xiang, “super papa” Eimei and his twin daughters who were sent to China to live in a protected facility in Sichuan province. Hundreds of people who waited outside Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo on Tuesday took photos, wiped tears with handkerchiefs and waved at a white truck carrying Xiang Xiang as it...

A wild boar appeared at the Ikenotaira Onsen ski area in Niigata prefecture and attacked snowboarders.

Assistive technologies were put to the test at a deaf karate competition in Tokyo in preparation for the 2025 Deaflympics.

North Korea has threatened the “toughest reaction” to the United States’ expanding joint military exercises with South Korea to counter the North’s growing nuclear weapons ambitions, accusing the allies of pushing tensions to an “extreme red line.”

A U.S. freestyle skier has died after being caught in an avalanche in Japan on Sunday, his family confirmed.

U.S. freestyle skier Kyle Smaine died in an avalanche in Japan on Sunday, his family confirmed.

The Whale Store, an unmanned outlet that recently opened near Tokyo, houses machines for whale sashimi, whale bacon, whale skin and whale steak, as well as canned whale meat at prices from 1,000 yen ($7.70) to 3,000 yen ($23).

A Chinese official says eight people died in the sinking of a cargo ship in waters between Japan and South Korea.

Ships searching in wind-whipped waters between South Korea and Japan have picked up at least 14 of the 22 crew members from a cargo ship that sank early Wednesday.

A Japanese court says prosecutors have formally charged the suspect in the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe with murder.

Japan has revised the timing of a planned release to the sea of treated radioactive wastewater at the Fukushima nuclear plant to “around spring or summer”

South Korean officials are considering creating a domestic fund to compensate Koreans who were enslaved by Japanese companies before the end of World War II

Similar to the American schoolyard staple ‘red light, green light,’ the kids played their record-making Daruma-san ga koronda game ahead of a big change for their campus.

2,039 school children in Japan set a world record for playing the game darumasan ga koronda, which is similar to ‘red light, green light’