ASHLAND, Ore.– The Ashland High School football team is heading to Japan this weekend for the first Pacific Rim Bowl since 2019. Head Coach Beau Lehnerz said they raised around $130,000 in total for the trip. Ashland High School has ...
Author: Casey McCabe SEOUL, South Korea — Governor Kate Brown recently returned to Oregon from a 12-day stint in Asia. During her trade mission, Brown visited Japan and South Korea, aiming to bolster trade ties. During the pandemic, many states ...
SALEM, Ore. – Governor Kate Brown is heading to Asia for Oregon’s first trade mission to the continent since 2019. The governor announced Wednesday she’ll travel to South Korea and Japan for a diplomatic journey that will last about 12 ...
SALEM, Ore. – The Oregon Department of Forestry is celebrating planting “peace trees” from Hiroshima in 35 communities around the state. The four-year-long campaign ended with a celebration at ODF’s headquarters in Salem this week. The seeds used to plant ...
NARA, Japan (NBC) – Former Japanese leader Shinzo Abe died Friday after being shot at a campaign event in an attack that shocked a country where gun violence is virtually nonexistent. Public television NHK aired a dramatic video of Abe ...
FUKUSHIMA, Japan (CNN) – A major earthquake struck Japan Wednesday. The preliminary 7.3 magnitude tremor was reported off the cost of Fukushima prefecture. According to Japan’s meteorological agency, the preliminary epicenter depth is 60 kilometers. The quake knocked out power ...
Kristen Santos races a short track event – Credit: Getty Images Athletes compete for spots on the U.S. short track team at Olympic Trials, Shaun White and Chloe Kim return to the halfpipe for Olympic qualifying events, Mikaela Shiffrin enters ...
AOMORI PREFECTURE, Japan (NBC) – A Panamanian-registered ship ran aground in a northern Japan harbor, then split in two and was leaking oil. There were no injuries among the 21 crew and the oil leak was being controlled with no ...
A clean slate awaits the U.S. women’s artistic gymnastics team after an unusually shaky performance in qualifications resulted in the gold medal favorites qualifying in second behind the Russian Olympic Committee. Led by Simone Biles, the four gymnasts will get a ...
For the first time since 2004, a country other than China has won an Olympic table tennis event. Japan’s Mizutani Jun and Ito Mima rallied after losing the first two sets to China’s Xu Xin and Liu Shiwen, taking the next three sets by close margins ...