Anthony Tam ate a cake he couldn’t forget. Baked by his brother in Malaysia with a special milk from Hokkaido, Japan, it had a creamy texture and fleeting flavor that blew him away. Years later, when Tam opened his own cake business in the Bay Area,

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prized Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki says in an Instagram post he intends to sign with the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers. A 23-year-old right-hander whose fastball tops 100 mph, Sasaki will join fellow Japanese stars Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto in a move that many baseball executives have long expected.

Japan’s Hokkaido is set to host the seafood fair at Japanese supermarkets in the US city of Torrance, California, showcasing scallops and chum salmon products

Excitement is building for a new food hall opening in the coming months in West Oakland, where community leaders have been working to revitalize the diverse and historically rich area.

From the Scottish Highland Gathering and Games to the Aloha Festival, here are eight Bay Area cultural festivals to add to your 2025 calendar.

Los Angeles took over as California's top city after San Francisco's 1906 earthquake and fires. What lessons can L.A. learn from this latest disaster?

All around the edges of San Francisco Bay you’ll find reminders of a once robust military presence. The Presidio, Alameda Naval Air Station, Mare Island and Hunters Point Naval Shipyards, Fort Baker and a slew of others.

Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese professional baseball entirely and agreed to a minor league contract with the Athletics that includes a signing bonus of $1,

Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese professional baseball entirely and agreed Wednesday to a minor league contract with the Athletics.

When Donald Tamaki got a call from the Governor’s Office asking him to interview for a position on California’s Reparations Task Force, at first he hesitated. Tamaki is not Black. He has never identified as Black.

As a Native American photographer, the late Dugan Aguilar loved nothing more than to show Native American faces. “I see beauty in people,” he once said. And for Aguilar, who devoted more than 40

Sasaki named them one of his three finalists, joined by the Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays. If nothing else, such recognition plants a larger Padres flag in Japan, where Sasaki commands national attention. Coming Japanese stars won’t say “who?” when Padres team-builder A.J. Preller and scouts come calling.