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Japan training camp ahead of WBC

Japan's 2023 World Baseball Classic-winning manager Hideki Kuriyama (C, facing camera) visits Japan's training camp in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 19, 2026, ahead of the upcoming WBC. Facing him is San Diego Padres pitcher Yu Darvish, a member of the 2023 team who is playing an advisory role at the camp.

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[Breaking News]Baseball: Japan's WBC training

MIYAZAKI, Japan, Feb. 16 Kyodo - Former New York Yankees slugger Hideki Matsui and San Diego Padres pitcher Yu Darvish chat during the Japanese national baseball team's training camp in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 14, 2026, ahead of the World Baseball Classic in March. (Kyodo)

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Baseball: Japan's WBC training

Former New York Yankees slugger Hideki Matsui (L) chats with San Diego Padres pitcher Yu Darvish (R) and Japanese national baseball team manager Hirokazu Ibata (C) during the Japanese national baseball team's training camp in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan on Feb. 14, 2026, ahead of the World Baseball Classic in March. Darvish joins the Samurai Japan team as an adviser.

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Baseball: Japan's WBC training

Former New York Yankees slugger Hideki Matsui (C) and San Diego Padres pitcher Yu Darvish (L) chat during the Japanese national baseball team's training camp in Miyazaki, southwestern Japan, on Feb. 14, 2026, ahead of the World Baseball Classic in March.

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Golf: AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan hits out of a bunker during the final round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament on Feb. 15, 2026, at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California. Matsuyama tied for 8th at 18 under.

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Golf: AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan hits off the 14th tee during the final round of AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament on Feb. 15, 2026, at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California. Matsuyama tied for 8th at 18 under.

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Golf: AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan is pictured after finishing the final round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am golf tournament on Feb. 15, 2026, at Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California. Matsuyama tied for 8th at 18 under.

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Golf: Phoenix Open

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan hits out of a bunker during the final round of the Phoenix Open golf tournament at TPC Scottsdale in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Feb. 8, 2026. Matsuyama finished second after losing in a playoff.

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Golf: Phoenix Open

Hideki Matsuyama (L) of Japan congratulates Chris Gotterup on the 18th green after the American golfer won a playoff to take the Phoenix Open golf tournament at TPC Scottsdale in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Feb. 8, 2026.

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Golf: Farmers Insurance Open

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan hits off the second tee during the final round of the Farmers Insurance Open golf tournament on Feb. 1, 2026, at Torrey Pines Golf Course in La Jolla, California.

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Golf: Farmers Insurance Open

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan hits off the second tee during the final round of the Farmers Insurance Open golf tournament on Feb. 1, 2026, at Torrey Pines Golf Course in La Jolla, California.

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Baseball: Kuriyama inducted into Japanese Hall of Fame

TOKYO, Japan, Jan. 16 Kyodo - Japan's 2023 World Baseball Classic-winning manager Hideki Kuriyama speaks at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Tokyo on Jan. 15, 2026, after being inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. (Kyodo)

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Baseball: Mets vs. Dodgers

Composite time-lapse photo shows Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers hitting a two-run home run in a baseball game against the New York Mets at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles on April 21, 2024. The 176th home run of his major league career broke a tie with Hideki Matsui for the most by a Japanese-born player.

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Baseball: Kuriyama inducted into Japanese Hall of Fame

Japan's 2023 World Baseball Classic-winning manager Hideki Kuriyama poses for a photo at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Tokyo on Jan. 15, 2026, after being inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. (Pool photo)

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Baseball: Kuriyama inducted into Japanese Hall of Fame

Japan's 2023 World Baseball Classic-winning manager Hideki Kuriyama poses for a photo at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Tokyo on Jan. 15, 2026, after being inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. (Pool photo)

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Baseball: Kuriyama inducted into Japanese Hall of Fame

Japan's 2023 World Baseball Classic-winning manager Hideki Kuriyama poses for a photo at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Tokyo on Jan. 15, 2026, after being inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. (Pool photo)

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Baseball: Kuriyama inducted into Japanese Hall of Fame

Japan's 2023 World Baseball Classic-winning manager Hideki Kuriyama signs an autograph at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Tokyo on Jan. 15, 2026, after being inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. (Pool photo)

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Baseball: Kuriyama inducted into Japanese Hall of Fame

Japan's 2023 World Baseball Classic-winning manager Hideki Kuriyama signs an autograph at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Tokyo on Jan. 15, 2026, after being inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame. (Pool photo)

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Baseball: Kuriyama inducted into Japanese Hall of Fame

Japan's 2023 World Baseball Classic-winning manager Hideki Kuriyama speaks at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Tokyo on Jan. 15, 2026, after being inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame.

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China Daily raps Japan PM Takaichi for recent Taiwan comments

Photo taken in Beijing on Nov. 24, 2025, shows the Nov. 24 edition of China's state-owned English-language newspaper China Daily satirically portraying Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi standing in front of a mirror and projecting herself as wartime Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. The paper branded Takaichi's recent remarks on Taiwan as "the militarist's path to revival."

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Memorial ceremony for Japanese baseball legend Nagashima

Former New York Yankees slugger Hideki Matsui delivers a eulogy at a memorial ceremony held at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2025, for Japanese baseball legend Shigeo Nagashima, the former Yomiuri Giants star player and manager who died in June. (Pool photo)

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Memorial ceremony for Japanese baseball legend Nagashima

Former New York Yankees slugger Hideki Matsui delivers a eulogy at a memorial ceremony held at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2025, for Japanese baseball legend Shigeo Nagashima, the former Yomiuri Giants star player and manager who died in June. (Pool photo)

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Memorial ceremony for Japanese baseball legend Nagashima

Former New York Yankees slugger Hideki Matsui delivers a eulogy at a memorial ceremony held at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2025, for Japanese baseball legend Shigeo Nagashima, the former Yomiuri Giants star player and manager who died in June. (Pool photo)

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Memorial ceremony for Japanese baseball legend Nagashima

Former New York Yankees slugger Hideki Matsui bows after delivering a eulogy at a memorial ceremony held at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2025, for Japanese baseball legend Shigeo Nagashima, the former Yomiuri Giants star player and manager who died in June.

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Memorial ceremony for Japanese baseball legend Nagashima

Former Yomiuri Giants and New York Yankees slugger Hideki Matsui delivers a eulogy at a memorial ceremony held at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2025, for Japanese baseball legend Shigeo Nagashima, the former Yomiuri Giants star player and manager who died in June.

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Memorial ceremony for Japanese baseball legend Nagashima

Former Yomiuri Giants and New York Yankees slugger Hideki Matsui delivers a eulogy at a memorial ceremony held at Tokyo Dome in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2025, for Japanese baseball legend Shigeo Nagashima, the former Yomiuri Giants star player and manager who died in June.

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Baseball star Ohtani statue on sale

Former Samurai Japan manager Hideki Kuriyama poses by a life-size gold-leaf statue of Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, displayed for sale at a gold fair held at a Yokohama Takashimaya department store in Yokohama near Tokyo on Oct. 1, 2025, carrying a price tag of 55 million yen ($371,872).

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Baseball: Hideki Matsui

Former New York Yankees outfielder Hideki Matsui meets the press after holding a baseball clinic in New York on Sept. 27, 2025.

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Peace advocacy by descendants of wartime leaders

(from L) Tushar Gandhi, great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, third-generation Holocaust survivor Magali Brosh, Jennifer Teege, granddaughter of a Nazi concentration camp commander, and Hidetoshi Tojo, great-grandson of Japan's wartime Prime Minister Gen. Hideki Tojo, hold a press conference in Tokyo on Sept. 10, 2025, as the year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. They will visit Hiroshima and Nagasaki later in the month as part of the peace advocacy project "Hope 80."

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Japan Hall of Fame award ceremony for Ichiro Suzuki

Ichiro Suzuki (C), who had a total of 4,367 hits between Japan and the United States, poses for a photo with his plaque during an award ceremony for his 2025 enshrinement in the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame at Vantelin Dome Nagoya in the central Japan city on Aug. 31, 2025. Standing beside the former Seattle Mariners outfielder is former New York Yankees slugger Hideki Matsui.

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Golf: TOUR Championship

Japan's Hideki Matsuyama acknowledges the crowd after making a birdie putt on the 18th hole during the final round of the TOUR Championship golf tournament at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia, on Aug. 24, 2025.

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Golf: TOUR Championship

Japan's Hideki Matsuyama makes a birdie putt on the 18th hole during the final round of the TOUR Championship golf tournament at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia, on Aug. 24, 2025.

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Golf: TOUR Championship

Japan's Hideki Matsuyama hits off the 18th tee during the final round of the TOUR Championship golf tournament at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, Georgia, on Aug. 24, 2025.

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Golf: British Open

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan acknowledges the crowd after finishing the final round of the British Open golf tournament at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Portrush, Northern Ireland, on July 20, 2025.

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Golf: British Open

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan plays a shot on the 18th hole during the final round of the British Open golf tournament at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Portrush, Northern Ireland, on July 20, 2025.

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Golf: British Open

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan reacts after making a birdie putt on the ninth hole during the final round of the British Open golf tournament at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Portrush, Northern Ireland, on July 20, 2025.

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Golf: British Open

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan makes a birdie putt on the ninth hole during the final round of the British Open golf tournament at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Portrush, Northern Ireland, on July 20, 2025.

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Golf: British Open

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan hits off the second tee during the final round of the British Open golf tournament at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Portrush, Northern Ireland, on July 20, 2025.

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Golf: British Open

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan plays a shot on the 12th hole during the third round of the British Open golf tournament at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Portrush, Northern Ireland, on July 19, 2025.

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Golf: British Open

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan hits off the ninth tee during the third round of the British Open golf tournament at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Portrush, Northern Ireland, on July 19, 2025.

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Golf: British Open

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan hits off the first tee during the third round of the British Open golf tournament at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Portrush, Northern Ireland, on July 19, 2025.

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Golf: British Open

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan plays a shot on the second hold during the third round of the British Open golf tournament at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Portrush, Northern Ireland, on July 19, 2025.

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Golf: British Open

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan hits off the 13th tee during the third round of the British Open golf tournament at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Portrush, Northern Ireland, on July 19, 2025.

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Golf: British Open

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan hits off the 14th tee during the third round of the British Open golf tournament at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Portrush, Northern Ireland, on July 19, 2025.

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Golf: British Open

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan is interviewed after finishing the third round of the British Open golf tournament at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Portrush, Northern Ireland, on July 19, 2025.

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Golf: British Open

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan acknowledges the crowd after making a par putt on the first hole during the first round of the British Open golf tournament at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Portrush, Northern Ireland, on July 17, 2025.

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Golf: British Open

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan acknowledges the crowd after making a par putt on the first hole during the first round of the British Open golf tournament at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Portrush, Northern Ireland, on July 17, 2025.

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Golf: British Open

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan hits out of a bunker on the first hole during the first round of the British Open golf tournament at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Portrush, Northern Ireland, on July 17, 2025.

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Golf: British Open

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan plays a shot on the fourth hole during the first round of the British Open golf tournament at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Portrush, Northern Ireland, on July 17, 2025.

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Golf: British Open

Hideki Matsuyama of Japan hits off the first tee during the first round of the British Open golf tournament at Royal Portrush Golf Club in Portrush, Northern Ireland, on July 17, 2025.