Shohei Ohtani records first 50-50 season in MLB history

In this week’s news roundup, we report on Shohei Ohtani, who made history on Thursday by becoming the first member of the MLB 50-50 Club. General, It also made history, winning the 18th Emmy Award, a record high. This week, we also report on the latest situation of the LDP leadership election. Sad news from China: a 10-year-old Japanese student was stabbed to death. We pay tribute to former Jubilo Iwata striker Salvatore Schillaci, who died of colon cancer.

Shohei Ohtani becomes first member of MLB’s 50-50 club

Shohei Ohtani made history Thursday, becoming the first player in MLB history to have a 50-50 season (50 home runs and 50 stolen bases). He stole his 50th base of the season in the first inning against the Miami Marlins, and quickly followed it up with his 51st in the second. And that was just the beginning. In his fourth at-bat in the top of the sixth inning, he hit a 438-foot drive to right field at LoanDepot Park.

The Japanese superstar was now one home run away from making history. The seventh inning was monumental. Mike Bowman pitched and he blasted his second home run of the day and fifth hit. He broke Sean Greene’s single-season Dodgers record of 49 home runs. Ohtani wasn’t done yet, though. In the ninth inning, he hit his 51st home run of the season, 440 feet away. A third MVP award in four years seemed certain.

Bright prospects for LDP presidential election

With one week to go until the LDP presidential election, the race remains undecided. According to a recent survey by a Japanese polling agency, Asahi ShimbunShinjiro Koizumi is expected to receive the most support from LDP lawmakers. He is reported to have received support from at least 46 lawmakers, ahead of Kobayashi Takayuki (43), Hayashi Yoshimasa (37) and Toshimitsu Toshimitsu Motegi (34) Of the 367 eligible MPs, 289 have announced their voting intentions.

In the first round, candidates will competeBritain 734 votes: 367 from lawmakers and 367 from rank-and-file party members and party supporters. If no one gets a majority – which seems the most likely outcome – a runoff will take place between the top two candidates. Kyodo News pollLDP supporters were asked who would be best suited to be prime minister. Grade 1 Leading Shigeru with 27.7% of the votes Stone Quarry (23.7%) and Koizumi (19.1%).

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Japanese student stabbed to death in China

A 10-year-old Japanese boy On Wednesday, a 44-year-old man in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, stabbed someone. Unfortunately, He died the next morning. “Yesterday (18th), the boy was attacked by a man on his way to school and is currently receiving treatment in the hospital. He was a student at a Japanese school but died in the early hours of the 19th. This is extremely sad. I can’t express in words how I feel for his family.Yoshiko Kijima, Consul General of Japan in Guangzhou said.

The boy was walking to school with his mother, according to the Japanese Embassy in Beijing. The attack took place about 200 meters from the school. Police patrolling nearby quickly subdued the suspect. He was taken in for questioning, but his motive is unclear. The stabbing took place on the 93rd anniversary of Japan’s bombing of railway tracks near Shenyang. The incident, known as the “September 18th Incident,” led to Japan’s invasion of northeast China in 1931.

Anna Sawai and Hiroyuki Sanada win Emmy Awards for Best Actress and Actor in a Drama Series

On Sunday, Anna Savoie became the first actress of Asian descent to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. General The star, who plays Mariko, a noblewoman and devout Catholic in the hugely successful series, cried before her name was read out and, as well as thanking her mother and the cast and crew of the show, dedicated the award to “all the women who expect nothing and continue to set an example for everyone”.

Her co-star Hiroyuki Sanada became the first Japanese and second Asian to win the Outstanding Actor in a TV Drama Award. Sawai thanked Sanada for “continuing to open doors for people like me.” He played Yoshii-sama ToranosagaBased on the Tokugawa Shogunate, one of the three great unifiers of Japan Ieyasu“It can be said with respect that this is an East-meets-West project. General “This tells me that when people work together, we can do miracles,” he said after accepting the award.

Shogun wins record 18th Emmy Award

In addition to the performance awards, General It also won the Best Drama Series Award, becoming the first non-English series to win the award. About 70% of the dialogue in the show is in Japanese. Meanwhile, Frederick E. O. Toy won the Best Directing Award for a Drama Series. “I am honored to be asked to participate, and this team of wonderful actors and actresses led me. I owe them everything,” he said in his acceptance speech.

GeneralThe show received a record 25 nominations and won four more awards on Sunday, a week after winning 14 at the Creative Arts Emmys. The show won a total of 18 Emmys, setting a record for the most Emmys won by a single series in a season. Other big winners at the Emmys include Bear and Baby Reindeer in the Comedy and Limited or Anthology Series categories, respectively. However, the former surprisingly lost to hacker in the Outstanding Comedy Series category.

Goals from Furuhashi and Maeda helped Celtic win

The 2024/25 UEFA Champions League kicks off this week with several Japanese players taking part in the competition, including Kyogo Furuhashi and Daizen Maeda. Both scored in Celtic’s 5-1 win over Slavic Bratislava. Takuya Ogihara scored. Unfortunately, his Dinamo Zagreb team lost 9-2 to Bayern Munich. In England, Yuki Ohashi scored twice for Blackburn Rovers and Tomoki Iwata opened the scoring for Birmingham City. Keito Nakamura scored a last-minute winner for Reims in France, while Shunsuke Mito (Sparta Rotterdam), Keisuke Goto (RSCA Futures) and Yuto Suzuki (Brondby).

Sad news came from Palermo on Wednesday, as the club announced that Salvatore Schillaci had passed away from colon cancer. The player nicknamed “Toto” signed for Palermo and became the first Italian player to play in the J.League. I am very happy Iwata was outstanding in the 1994 tournament. He made 78 appearances for the Shizuoka Prefecture-based team and scored 56 goals. Of course, he is best remembered for the 1990 World Cup. He was the surprise star of the tournament, helping Italy to a third-place finish on home soil and scoring six goals to win the Golden Boot.

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