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Writer Hannah Kirshner first moved to Yamanaka Onsen to better understand its craft culture. Almost 10 years later, she’s ...

It's roughly 3,000 square feet and about 150 years old. The Japanese would classify it as ... If you're not continuing to write new chapters in your book, then it gets kind of boring to read.

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26, 2024, in Oakland, Calif. (AP Photo/Benjamin Fanjoy, File) 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 ...

The 18-year-old is the most significant Japanese prospect ever to dive into MLB-affiliated play without first playing in NPB. One agent with experience in Japan, who was granted anonymity due to ...

Rintaro Sasaki, a Japanese high school phenom projected to go No. 1 overall in the 2024 NPB draft, skipped NPB entirely and instead committed to Stanford last June. The 19-year-old hit ...

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 ...

The Athletics made waves to kick off the 2025 international signing period, inking 18-year-old two-way player Shotaro Morii to a $1,510,500 million deal, the largest bonus ever for a Japanese amateur ...

There seemed to be some clear optimism within the New York Yankees' organization over the past few weeks as it pertained to their chances of signing 23-year-old Japanese superstar Roki Sasaki.