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Sterantis Japan Announces New EV “600e”

Sterantis Japan unveiled the new Fiat-branded 600e EV.=September 10,2024,Tokyo,Japan

Cano, Pujols, Jones, Puig to headline MLB tour in Japan

TOKYO, Japan - (from R to L) Hiroki Kokubo, manager of Japan's national baseball team called Samurai Japan, Katsuhiko Kumazaki, commissioner of Nippon Professional Baseball Organization, Jim Small, managing director of MLB Japan, and Yoshimitsu Ohashi, senior managing director of the Yomiuri Shimbun, pose for photos during a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on Aug. 20, 2014. Small said MLB's all-star outfielders Adam Jones and Yasiel Puig, and infielders Robinson Cano and Albert Pujols will take part in an MLB team to play the Japan national team in a five-game series in November.

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Japan to use top players in autumn games

TOKYO, Japan - Japan's national baseball team manager Hiroki Kokubo (R) shakes hands with Nippon Professional Baseball commissioner Katsuhiko Kumazaki in Tokyo on Jan. 22, 2014, after deciding to use top players in games slated for November.

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Kumazaki named next NPB commissioner

TOKYO, Japan - Former prosecutor Katsuhiko Kumazaki holds a press conference at a Tokyo hotel on Dec. 26, 2013, after he was confirmed as Nippon Professional Baseball's next commissioner earlier in the day at an extraordinary owners meeting.

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MOF Scandal

Katsuhiko KUMAZAKI, Prosecutor who has been attacking on Minisoty of Finance for its recent scandals. (At the interview with Kyodo News in January 1998)

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Baseball: Owners willing to shut down NPB for 2020 Olympics

Nippon Professional Baseball Commissioner Katsuhiko Kumazaki speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on July 11, 2016, after NPB owners signed off on a policy of interrupting the 2020 season while the Tokyo Olympics are taking place. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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MLB, NPB commissioners meet in New York

Nippon Professional Baseball commissioner Katsuhiko Kumazaki (2nd from L in front row) observes the Major League Baseball first-year player draft in New York on June 9, 2016. In his meeting with MLB commissioner Rob Manfred the same day, Kumazaki said that the Japanese pro and amateur baseball governing bodies are working together to bring back the sport to the Olympics when Tokyo hosts the Summer Games in 2020. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yomiuri's Takagi banned 1 year for baseball gambling

Nippon Professional Baseball Commissioner Katsuhiko Kumazaki speaks about a punitive measure against Yomiuri Giants pitcher Kyosuke Takagi during a press conference in Tokyo on March 22, 2016. Takagi has been banned for one year for his involvement in gambling on baseball. Later, the Central League baseball club terminated a contract with Takagi. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Commissioner orders full investigation into gambling scandal

Nippon Professional Baseball commissioner Katsuhiko Kumazaki meets with reporters in Tokyo on March 9, 2016, following reports that a fourth Yomiuri Giants player was found to have bet on baseball. Kumazaki said it is a matter of great regret and that he has ordered the Central League club to conduct a thorough investigation of the issue. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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3 Giants pitchers face indefinite disqualification

Nippon Professional Baseball commissioner Katsuhiko Kumazaki, at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 10, 2015, announces he has decided to indefinitely disqualify three Yomiuri Giants pitchers involved in gambling on baseball games and fine the club 10 million yen. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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3 Giants pitchers face indefinite disqualification

Nippon Professional Baseball commissioner Katsuhiko Kumazaki, at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 10, 2015, announces he has decided to indefinitely disqualify three Yomiuri Giants pitchers involved in gambling on baseball games and fine the club 10 million yen. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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3 Giants pitchers face indefinite disqualification

Nippon Professional Baseball commissioner Katsuhiko Kumazaki, at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 10, 2015, announces he has decided to indefinitely disqualify three Yomiuri Giants pitchers involved in gambling on baseball games and fine the club 10 million yen. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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2 more Giants pitchers involved in baseball gambling

Nippon Professional Baseball Commissioner Katsuhiko Kumazaki attends a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 21, 2015. Kumazaki said two more pitchers of the Central League baseball club Yomiuri Giants - Shoki Kasahara, 24, and Ryuya Matsumoto, 22 - had bet on baseball games following the Oct. 5 revelation that 32-year-old fellow pitcher Satoshi Fukuda had engaged in gambling. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Randy Johnson visits Japanese baseball office

Hall of Fame pitcher Randy Johnson (L), former Arizona Diamondbacks teammate Luis Gonzalez (R) and Derrick Hall (2nd from R), the club's president and CEO, pose for a photo with Nippon Professional Baseball commissioner Katsuhiko Kumazaki at NPB's office in Tokyo on Aug. 20, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Details of int'l baseball event unveiled in Tokyo

Hiroki Kokubo (C), skipper of Japan's national baseball team, is flanked by special team adviser Sadaharu Oh (L) and Nippon Professional Baseball Commissioner Katsuhiko Kumazaki at a press conference in Tokyo on June 22, 2015, after announcing the detailed schedule of the inaugural Premier 12 international baseball tournament that will open in Tokyo and Taiwan in November. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Yomiuri Giants apologizes at club owners' meeting over gambling scandal

Nippon Professional Baseball commissioner Katsuhiko Kumazaki (R) meets the press after a meeting among club owners, including Seibu Lion's Takashi Goto (L), at a Tokyo hotel on Nov. 18, 2015. At the meeting, Yomiuri Giants owner Kojiro Shiraishi apologized over the recent scandal in which three Giants pitchers have been indefinitely disqualified by the NPB for their involvement in gambling on baseball games. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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3 Giants pitchers face indefinite disqualification

Nippon Professional Baseball commissioner Katsuhiko Kumazaki, at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 10, 2015, announces he has decided to indefinitely disqualify three Yomiuri Giants pitchers involved in gambling on baseball games and fine the club 10 million yen. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Baseball: Japan kicks off WBC training in Miyazaki

Nippon Professional Baseball Commissioner Katsuhiko Kumazaki (C) gives pep talk to members of Japan's World Baseball Classic team at Sun Marine Stadium in Miyazaki on Feb. 23, 2017, as a training camp began for the tournament in March. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo