National Basketball Association player Yuta Watanabe announced April 20 he will return to Japan next year to play in the professional B. League. Watanabe, 29, played for the Memphis Grizzlies ...

Chiba Jets forward Yuta Watanabe, left, attacks on the dribble during a B-League basketball game against Levanga Hokkaido at LaLa arena Tokyo-Bay in Funabashi, Japan ...

Tsuneo Watanabe, the chief of Yomiuri Shimbun Holdings who wielded enormous influence in politics and Japanese professional baseball, died of pneumonia on Dec. 19. He was 98. Watanabe, who was ...

Following a rocky start to his B-League career with the Chiba Jets, national team star Yuta Watanabe is determined to get on track in the second half of Japan's domestic basketball season. The ...