A: Major League Baseball’s 2025 World Series took place last week. The games between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays were so exciting.
B: As the highest-paid baseball player in the world, Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers was an incandescant superstar.
A: The Dodgers signed a record-breaking 10-year, US$700 million contract with Ohtani in 2023. As former ESPN reporter Joon Lee analyzed, the team quickly made back all the investment in the player’s first season.
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B: Wow, how is that possible?
A: Firstly, tourism from Japan to Los Angeles has surged by 90 percent since Ohtani signed the deal, with the majority of Japanese tourists attending Dodgers’ games.
A: 美國職棒大聯盟2025年「世界大賽」上週精彩開打，洛杉磯道奇隊和多倫多藍鳥隊的比賽真刺激。
B: 道奇的大谷翔平仍是場上最耀眼的超級巨星，不愧是全球收入最高棒球選手。
A: 道奇在2023年以破紀錄的10年7億美元（約214億台幣）簽下大谷，根據ESPN前記者Joon Lee近日的分析，該隊在第一個球季結束時合約就已全部回本！
B: 天啊這是怎麼做到的？
A: 首先、自簽約後洛杉磯的日本遊客暴增90％，而絕大多數遊客都會去道奇看球。
（By Eddy Chang, Taipei Times／台北時報張迪）
If you’ve recently spotted adults parading around with cuddly toys dangling from their designer handbags, your eyes haven’t been deceiving you. The playful trend of adorning bags with cute charms has become popular among people of various ages. Plushies like Labubu and anime and manga characters such as Chiikawa have become must-have accessories that make personal statements. The practice of attaching charms to personal items has been common across cultures throughout history. In ancient civilizations, charms were often used as symbols of protection, good luck, or identity. Fast-forward to more modern times, and style icons like Jane Birkin, a
A: Apart from Jin Yong, the late martial arts novelists Liang Yusheng and Gu Long were also very popular. B: Wasn’t Liang a pioneer of the “new school” wuxia genre in the 20th century? A: Yup, I really like his Tianshan mountain series. All the characters — such as the “White Haired Demoness” — are so vivid. B: The roles in Gu’s books are lively, too — like the “Fragrant Commander” Chu Liuxiang. A: And the TV drama adapted from the Chu Liuxiang series swept across Taiwan in the 1980s, with ratings surging over 70 percent at that time.
Continued from yesterday（延續自昨日） https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/lang If plushie charms are cute little nods to people’s interests, ita bags are full-on declarations. The term “ita” comes from the Japanese word itai, which means “painful” and reflects the overwhelming visual intensity of these bags. An ita bag is essentially a handbag, backpack, or tote meticulously decorated with an extensive collection of merchandise dedicated to a specific character or idol. These bags usually feature a clear plastic window to display carefully arranged pins, badges, keychains, or fan art. Both the interior and exterior may be covered in fandom memorabilia, creating an aesthetic so intense that it’s almost “painful”
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