Nippon Ham Fighters to a 16-2 Japanese League victory over the Kintetsu Buffaloes.
First-round leader Huang Yuen-chyun of Taiwan fired a 3-under-par 69 Sunday and won the rain-shortened Bridgestone Ladies Golf Tournament by five strokes over compatriot Tai Yu-hsia.
it is starting to teach Japanese language and business methods to foreigners.
In a warning to Japan, Gov.
Toshio Kawauchi, founder and artistic director of the Japanese folk drum group Kodo, has died.
The reduction last year was the first since 1982, because of the effects of the strong yen on exports, the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Assn. said.
Mayor Ichikawa of Hanno, Japan will dedicate a Kasuga lantern which his city has presented to the City of Brea at 10 a.m.
After Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone was quoted as making demeaning remarks about
Japanese television stations agreed to pay $52 million to broadcast the 1988 Summer Olympics from South Korea, the organizing committee announced.
Japanese brokerage houses and one, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, said it had been aware of questionable practices "for some time."
Even the advertising world has now been hit by the yen's continued surge against the dollar.
When 166 Japanese tourists descended on the Queen Mary in Long Beach for lunch one day not long ago, they seemed like ordinary visitors.
A Japanese golf management company announced its purchase of Turnberry Golf Course in Scotland, one of eight courses used for the British Open.
Obon, a Japanese Buddhist holiday in remembrance of the dead, will be observed this weekend by the Orange County Buddhist Church, 909 S.
Fashion retailing is a risky business and a number of corporate lives depend on it.
Japanese fishermen have sued the U.S. government, seeking to lift regulations that they say prohibit night tuna fishing in American coastal waters.
"Japanese Art Today" is one of those well-intentioned exhibitions that range widely, as the cliche says, from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Japan's mining companies have been so badly hurt by the strengthening of the yen that they are thinking of sending robot miners underground to cut costs.
Leaders of the controversy-plagued Church Universal and Triumphant have sold the sect's Calabasas headquarters and announced plans to move to an isolated Montana ranch by the end of the year.
About 500 anti-nuclear activists in dozens of small boats protested the arrival today of the U.S. battleship New Jersey at this port, contending that the warship is carrying nuclear weapons.