of ocean – roughly the distance between Taipei and the US military base in Okinawa. The feat, detailed in a May study published in Acta Acustica, China’s premier acoustic journal, marks ...

Don’t miss Mike Puma’s text messages from Queens and beyond — he’s giving Sports+ subscribers the inside buzz on the Mets. During spring training, Clay Holmes said he would reassess where ...

Okinawa prefectural assembly has unanimously adopted a resolution and a statement in response to a series of sexual assault cases involving US military personnel stationed in the southern Japanese ...

With the 2025 French Open kicking off Sunday, it was only right to honor the "King of Clay." Rafael Nadal, a 14-time French Open winner, was honored at a ceremony at Roland-Garros on Sunday.

Which means the field will be deprived of the most successful clay court player in the sport’s history, a man who won the title an extraordinary 14 times. To ease the absence—and take the ...

PHOENIX — Clay Holmes was initially stunned, then numb and eventually, well, rather intrigued. Here he was, a two-time All-Star closer with 307 career appearances in the bullpen, never pitching ...

Osaka beat Kaja Juvan 6-1, 7-5 Sunday to win L’Open 35 de Saint-Malo — a WTA 125 tournament — and secure her first ever trophy on clay. It was also the Japanese player’s first WTA title since she ...

Mashiko is a well-known pottery destination ... the coast of Kyushu has exquisite white-sand beaches with none of the Okinawan crowds, plus picturesque fishing villages and hikes with panoramic ...

NAHA--Okinawa Prefecture posted more deaths than births from Oct. 1, 2021, to Sept. 30, 2022, its first annual natural population decline since such counts became available in 1975. A prefectural ...

Clay has never felt like a natural happy hunting ground for British players. The grass-court season on home turf, with its attendant pressures and hype, and the hard-court season that makes up the ...

Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker Shoji Nishida on May 9 retracted and apologized for remarks denigrating a war memorial in Okinawa Prefecture but stood by his assertion that the prefecture is ...