WASHINGTON (AP) — Left-hander Shinnosuke Ogasawara and the Washington Nationals agreed Friday to a $3.5 million, two-year contract. Ogasawara gets a $1.5 million salary this season and $2 ...

WASHINGTON -- Left-hander Shinnosuke Ogasawara and the Washington Nationals agreed Friday to a $3.5 million, two-year contract. Ogasawara gets a $1.5 million salary this season and $2 million in 2026.

The Washington Nationals agreed to terms with left-handed pitcher Shinnosuke Ogasawara on a two-year contract and designated left-handed pitcher Joe La Sorsa for assignment on Friday.

The Nationals announced that they have signed left-hander Shinnosuke Ogasawara to a two-year deal. Financial details of the pact for the WME Baseball client have not been publicly reported yet.

The Washington Nationals broke some news on Friday afternoon with the announcement they signed Japanese southpaw Shinnosuke Ogasawara to a two-year deal. Mark Zuckerman of MASN pointed out this as ...

A Japanese government committee on earthquake research has changed its estimate of the chance of a Nankai Trough megaquake in the next 30 years to around 80 percent, from the previous 70 to 80 ...

A magnitude 6.9 quake struck off Miyazaki Prefecture, southern Japan, on Monday evening local time. Tsunami have already reached parts of Miyazaki and Kochi prefectures. The magnitude 6.9 quake ...

Starting in January and broadcast weekly for an entire year, taiga period dramas (“taiga” literally meaning “big river”) are the crown jewels of public broadcaster NHK’s programming ...

An eruption of a submarine volcano called Funka Asane in the Ogasawara island chain was detected on March 27, prompting a warning for ash and rocks as well as floating pumice to be issued.

An endangered bird listed as a subspecies of the Oriental greenfinch is actually a distinct species found only on the Ogasawara island chain south of Tokyo, researchers said. The Ogasawara ...