When I was a kid, I was fascinated by a traditional katana my grandfather had brought home from Japan in 1945. Years later, I ...

The former interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani is expected to be sentenced for bank and tax fraud LOS ANGELES -- The former interpreter for Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani is expected ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The former interpreter for Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani is expected to be sentenced Thursday for bank and tax fraud after he stole nearly $17 million from the ...

Prosecutors said Mizuhara never bet on baseball, and Ohtani was an unknowing victim of the scheme. Mizuhara was born in Japan and moved to California with his parents when he was 6. He struggled to ...

Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese professional baseball entirely and agreed ...

Most Japanese couldn't recognize Lars Nootbaar a few weeks ago, before the World Baseball Classic opened. Few could even pronounce his name or spell it in English or Japanese. He's becoming a ...

Every game matters at the ICC Men’s Champions Trophy and there have been some crackers down the years. The fact that seven teams have won the tournament and it is only eight editions old tells you all ...

England will play Afghanistan in the Champions Trophy later this month despite calls from British politicians to boycott the match over the Taliban regime's curtailment of women's rights. The England ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. — The former interpreter for Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani is expected to be sentenced Thursday for bank and tax fraud after he stole nearly $17 million from the Los ...