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Japanese pro baseball's MVP awards

Orix Buffaloes pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto (R) and Hanshin Tigers pitcher Shoki Murakami shake hands after winning Japanese pro baseball's MVP awards in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2023.

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Japanese pro baseball's MVP awards

Orix Buffaloes pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto (L) and Hanshin Tigers pitcher Shoki Murakami pose after winning Japanese pro baseball's MVP awards in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2023.

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Japanese pro baseball's MVP awards

Hanshin Tigers pitcher Shoki Murakami (L) receives Japanese pro baseball's Central League MVP award at a ceremony in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2023.

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Japanese pro baseball's MVP awards

Orix Buffaloes pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto (R) and Hanshin Tigers pitcher Shoki Murakami shake hands after winning Japanese pro baseball's MVP awards in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2023.

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Japanese pro baseball's MVP awards

Orix Buffaloes pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto (R) and Hanshin Tigers pitcher Shoki Murakami shake hands after winning Japanese pro baseball's MVP awards in Tokyo on Nov. 28, 2023.

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Baseball: Japan Series

Hanshin Tigers starting pitcher Shoki Murakami takes the mound against the Orix Buffaloes in Game 6 of the Japan Series baseball championship at Kyocera Dome Osaka in Osaka, western Japan, on Nov. 4, 2023.

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Gamba edge closer to ACL knockout stage

OSAKA, Japan - Gamba Osaka forward Shoki Hirai doubles the lead 10 minutes into the second period of an Asian Champions League match against Singapore's Armed Forces at Expo Stadium in Osaka on March 31, 2010. 2008 champions Gamba Osaka edged closer to qualifying for the knockout stage of the Asian tournament by beating the Singaporean team 3-0 at home.

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Gamba Osaka down Singapore Armed Forces in ACL

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Gamba Osaka striker Shoki Hirai heads the club's second goal in the 46th minute of an Asian Champions League first-round match against Singapore Armed Forces at Jalan Besar Stadium in Singapore on March 23, 2010.

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Gamba Osaka striker Hirai scores hat-trick in ACL

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Gamba Osaka striker Shoki Hirai scores his hat-trick and the club's fourth goal in the 81st minute of an Asian Champions League first-round match against Singapore Armed Forces at Jalan Besar Stadium in Singapore on March 23, 2010.

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Ex-Giant Kasahara, restaurant operator arrested in gambling probe

Covering his face with a cloth, former Yomiuri Giants pitcher Shoki Kasahara arrives at Haneda airport in Tokyo on April 29, 2016, after being arrested in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, earlier that day on suspicion of illegal gambling. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-Giant Kasahara, restaurant operator arrested in gambling probe

Photo shows former Yomiuri Giants pitcher Shoki Kasahara. Kasahara, who has admitted to betting on baseball, was arrested April 29, 2016, on suspicion of illegal gambling along with restaurant operator Satoshi Saito who organized a betting scheme and took a commission on bets between March 2014 and August 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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NPB commissioner hands down indefinite bans for 3 Giants

Hiroshi Kubo, president of Japan central league baseball club Yomiuri Giants, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Nov. 10, 2015, after Nippon Professional Baseball handed down indefinite disqualifications to three Yomiuri Giants pitchers for having bet on baseball games. The club fired pitchers Satoshi Fukuda, Shoki Kasahara and Ryuya Matsumoto. (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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2 more Giants pitchers involved in baseball gambling

File photo shows Japan's Yomiuri Giants pitcher Shoki Kasahara. It was reported on Oct. 21, 2015, that Kasahara, together with another pitcher, had bet on baseball games. Another Giants pitcher was also reported earlier to have engaged in the illegal gambling. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Nagoya Castle

Taira Castle is located in Nakaku, Nagoya city. It was the residence of the Owari Tokugawa family. The castle tower can be seen from the outside of the moat. The castle tower was built by the Sakuji Bugyo (construction prefect) Kobori Enshu in 1612, and was destroyed by fire during the war in 1945. The present castle was restored in 1959. It is a five-story building from the outside, with one stone storage story, 5 stories above the stone walls, and a tower in the shoki soto (layered tower) style.==Date:unknown, Place:Nagoya, Photo:Kusakabe Kinbei, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number3‐45‐0]

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Gamba edge closer to ACL knockout stage

OSAKA, Japan - Gamba Osaka forward Shoki Hirai doubles the lead 10 minutes into the second period of an Asian Champions League match against Singapore's Armed Forces at Expo Stadium in Osaka on March 31, 2010. 2008 champions Gamba Osaka edged closer to qualifying for the knockout stage of the Asian tournament by beating the Singaporean team 3-0 at home. (Kyodo)

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Gamba Osaka striker Hirai scores hat-trick in ACL

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Gamba Osaka striker Shoki Hirai scores his hat-trick and the club's fourth goal in the 81st minute of an Asian Champions League first-round match against Singapore Armed Forces at Jalan Besar Stadium in Singapore on March 23, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Gamba Osaka down Singapore Armed Forces in ACL

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Gamba Osaka striker Shoki Hirai heads the club's second goal in the 46th minute of an Asian Champions League first-round match against Singapore Armed Forces at Jalan Besar Stadium in Singapore on March 23, 2010. (Kyodo)

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Wedding ceremony on mock sumo ring

A mock wedding ceremony is held on Dec. 2, 2018, at a sumo museum in Katsuragi, a western Japan city considered the birthplace of sumo due to a reference in the Nihon Shoki, the second-oldest book of classical Japanese history, completed in the early 700s. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Wedding ceremony on mock sumo ring

A mock wedding ceremony is held on Dec. 2, 2018, at a sumo museum in Katsuragi, a western Japan city considered the birthplace of sumo due to a reference in the Nihon Shoki, the second-oldest book of classical Japanese history, completed in the early 700s. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo