About a dozen Japanese played in MLB last season, headlined by Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the World Series champion Los ...

The story of baseball runs through the United States and Japan. It’s a ribbon threaded through the history of the sport and ...

When the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs square off in Tokyo this week for MLB’s season-opening series, it will underscore Japan’s pre-eminent role in baseball today.

There are a lot of similarities between baseball in the U.S. and Japan, but there are also subtle differences that will be on ...

No player in professional baseball history has slugged more home runs than the 868 that Oh hit over 22 seasons with the ...

Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki are all Dodgers. And a Japanese fan base has coalesced around its interest ...

The Tokyo Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs is a full circle moment for Japanese baseball.

Around the time that Roki Sasaki made his long-awaited decision to sign with the Dodgers, the city of Los Angeles was reeling ...

Teruaki Sato hit a three-run homer off two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell, leading the Hanshin Tigers to a 3-0 ...

Spring training for Japanese baseball looks familiar; hitters in the batting cage, infielders taking ground balls, and fans ...

Before becoming a Major League Baseball sensation with his unprecedented talent as a pitcher and hitter, Shohei Ohtani had ...

Suzuki, now in his fourth season with Chicago, played nine seasons with the Central League's Hiroshima Toyo Carp from 2013 to ...