The Seattle Mariners and Oakland Athletics will play the first two games of the season that actually count in the Tokyo Dome in Japan starting tomorrow morning (tonight?)
Given the history of the Mariners as one of the first teams to tap into the talents of players from Japan, it's only fitting they will be opening the 2019 season across the ocean. The Mariners also did this in 2012.
The Mariners will be facing the Oakland A's in a two-game series called The 2019 Japan Opening series March 20-21st...
There's a hotel inside a theme park in Nagasaki, Japan, that hopes to eventually be 100-percent staffed with robots. Phase 1 is the check-in desk. A handful of animatronic androids fashioned to look like attractive Japanese women will greet you and check you in whether you speak Japanese, Chinese, Korean or English.
Washington and Oregon wildlife officials are looking over the latest arrival of tsunami visitors from Japan. The massive earthquake that triggered the tidal wave and wiped out the Fukushima nuclear plant in 2011 continues to bring a variety of items to the Washington and Oregon shorelines...
They may be small, but two small pieces of the famous Japanese tsunami dock that washed up ashore near Newport OR have been sent to the Oregon Historical Society.
TOKYO -- A powerful tsunami spawned by the largest earthquake in Japan's recorded history slammed the eastern coast Friday, sweeping away boats, cars, homes and people as widespread fires burned out of control. Japan's Fire and Disaster Management Agency says at least 29 people have died in the quake and tsunami that hit the north.