The Rakuten Japan Open, a men's ATP Tour event, was canceled in June, and the Hana-Cupid Japan Women's Open was called off as well....
Third in a series In decades past, the 162-game Major League Baseball season was a demanding workload for a team's publicity department under normal circumstances. Local,...
The delayed Major League Baseball season began with much fanfare on July 23, but the COVID-19 pandemic has already raised questions about whether all 30...
Throughout his adult life, the golf course has been Daisuke Shindo’s home away from home. A professional caddie since making his debut with Yusaku...
(Feature Photo: Baseball: the 2020 Nippon pro baseball season has started.) The clock is ticking. MLB owners and the Major League Baseball...
As 2019 comes to a close, we at JAPAN Forward are reflecting on the stories that moved Japan this year, and the stories our readers...
Interest in basketball has reached new, unimagined heights in Japan ever since Japanese basketball phenomenon Rui Hachimura was drafted by the Washington Wizards as the 9th...
“Satisfying, fun, a great season on the whole.” This, so far, is the only definite thing you could get from baseball wunderkind Shohei...
Shohei Ohtani, the 24-year-old Los Angeles Angels wonderkind baseball player, became the first Japanese player in 17 years to be voted American Major...
Why is high school baseball so popular in Japan? Why does the nation stop to watch, transfixed, from morning till evening, on...
By Robert Whiting Japan’s Shohei Ohtani will not pitch in the 2019 season. The two-way star for the Los Angeles Angels — the...
The ruins of “Isawa Castle” are in the city of Oshu, Iwate prefecture, in the region of Michinoku, better known as Tohoku on the...