Filipina golfer Yuka Saso. (File Photo) Yuka Saso turned in a respectable two-under 70 and advanced to the LPGA of Japan Tour’s second major championship in Miyakawa City in Fukuoka Prefecture on Friday. Though she’s still eight shots off new leader Japanese Sakura Koiwai, her explosive finish...
John Riel Casimero wears a pair of shades and mask while his arm was raised by referee Steve Willis following his third round TKO win over Duke Micah. (Photo from Showtime Boxing) John Riel Casimero called out Naoya Inoue shortly after taking down Ghanaian challenger Duke Micah in a successful...
While we were all cooped up in our homes in quarantine, the Japanese have been building a moving Gundam Who says 2020 isn’t a time for building great things? Certainly not a team of engineers, designers, and hobbyists, a team of dreamers and movers who have been working on a not-so-secret secret...
Japan is "determined" to host the postponed Olympic Games in 2021 despite the coronavirus pandemic, the country's newly elected prime minister Yoshihide Suga told the United Nations General Assembly on September 25, 2020. (Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU / AFP) Japan is "determined" to host the...
World champion gymnast Carlos Yulo (MB File Photo) Olympic-bound Carlos Yulo clinched a bronze medal in vault in the recent 2020 All-Japan Senior Gymnastics Championships in Takasaki, Japan. The 20-year-old world champion shared identical 14.733 points for third place with Kenzo Shirai to settle...
Sonder Evennys Agustin talks about his room’s Japanese-inspired extreme makeover and the importance of bringing art into our lives Spending his days and nights indoors due to the health crisis is not the experience 22-year-old Sonder Evennys Agustin thought he was going to have after graduating...
The local unit of international cigarette giant Japan Tobacco International (JTI) is urging the government to address the growing illicit trading activities in the country amid the coronavirus crisis. In a statement, John Freda, JTI Philippines general manager, said over the weekend...
Yuka Saso (File Photo) Filipino-Japanese Yuka Saso failed on her ‘comeback’ bid as she carded a four-over par 76 to finish tied for 13th in the JLPGA Championship Konica Minolta Cup Sunday in Okayama, Japan. Saso, who was in joint fourth place to start the final round, managed a...
Filipina golfer Yuka Saso birdied the final hole to stay two shots behind going into the final round of the Japan LPGA Championship. (File Photo) Yuka Saso finally birdied the par-5 18th hole on Saturday and produced a 69 to stay on track for a first major triumph in the rich Japan LPGA...
Yuka Saso (File Photo) Rookie Yuka Saso turned in a two-under 70 despite a final-hole mishap to stay two shots off new leader halfway through the Japan LPGA Championship at the JFE Setonaikai Golf Club in Okayama on Friday. Korean Hee Kyung Bae grabbed the lead after firing a 67, her 136 total...
Filipina golfer Yuka Saso bags her first win in the JLPGA tournament. (File Photo) If it were basketball, Filipino-Japanese Yuka Saso would have surely taken the last shot, or delivered during penalty situation in football, or scored a home run with two strikes on her in the ninth inning of a tied...
Saso takes 2nd win in JLPGA Tour, gets P16.5M cash reward Yuka Saso bags the Japan LPGA Nitori Ladies title, her second win in the JLPGA Tour. Filipino-Japanese Yuka Saso won by two strokes with a one-under par 71 which gave her the Japan LPGA Nitori Ladies golf tournament title Sunday at the Otaru...