The next stop on MLB’s World Tour is here, and it's awfully fitting. The Dodgers and Cubs open the 2025 season in the Tokyo Series, with a pair of games at the Tokyo Dome on March 18 and 19. Both clubs will showcase some of MLB’s best Japanese-born talent;

Players of Los Angeles Dodgers warm up during a training session in Tokyo, Friday, March 14, 2025, ahead of the Dodgers to play their MLB opening games against the Chicago

Dodgers trip to the Tokyo Dome. The trip includes exhibition games against Yomiuri and Hanshin, concluding with two regular season games against the Cubs.

The 5.46% preliminary reading from Rengo, a 7 million member-strong group, tops both last year's preliminary and final figures and is likely to mark the highest pay hike in 33 years.

By Makiko Yamazaki and Tom Bateman TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese firms agreed to raise wages by more than 5% on average this year, on course for their most substantial pay hike in over three decades - a relief for many workers though it's unclear if the increases will lead to a meaningful jump in consumer spending.