Japan has reported its exports to key destinations like China fell in September, leading it to rack up a trade deficit of about $2 billion for the month.

Japan's exports fell for the first time in 10 months in September, data showed on Thursday, a worry for policymakers as any prolonged weakness in global demand may complicate the central bank's path to exit years of ultra-easy monetary policy.

Japan’s trade balance shifted to a deficit of ¥294.24 billion in September, from a surplus of JPY 60.56 billion in the same month a year earlier. It was the third straight month of a trade gap, coming in worse than the market forecast of a shortfall of ¥237.

A win-or-go-home Game 5 of the National League Division Series that featured starting pitchers Yu Darvish and Yoshinobu Yamamoto — and, of course, slugger Shohei Ohtani — became Japan’s most-watched Major League Baseball playoff game ever, the league announced Thursday.

Approximately one-tenth of the country watched Yu Darvish, Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto on Saturday morning.

With Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Yu Darvish taking center stage in the NLDS, fans in Japan made sure to tune in for the Dodgers-Padres showdown.