What's the future of baseball in Japan as the best players leave for MLB?
Shohei Ohtani is widely regarded as the best player in Major League Baseball, and Ichiro Suzuki enters the Hall of Fame later ...
From Oh to Ohtani: How Japan developed a generation of baseball superstars (again)
The Tokyo Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs is a full circle moment for Japanese baseball.
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150 years of baseball history has led to this historic Opening Day in Tokyo
The story of baseball runs through the United States and Japan. It’s a ribbon threaded through the history of the sport and ...
From Oh to Ohtani and beyond: How Japanese baseball reached new heights
No player in professional baseball history has slugged more home runs than the 868 that Oh hit over 22 seasons with the ...
After meeting with NPB, Rob Manfred not expecting change to Japanese player acquisitions
Manfred met with his NPB counterpart Sadayuki Sakakibara on Sunday, the second of two days of games between MLB teams and NPB teams.
America’s Pastime Is Being Completely Transformed—by Japan
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.
From Nomo to Ichiro to Ohtani: Japan's baseball rise in MLB hits high point in Dodgers-Cubs series
Nearly 25 years after Ichiro Suzuki embarked on a Hall of Fame career for the Seattle Mariners, the impact of Japanese players in Major League Baseball is at a high ...
'Paint Japan blue': How the Dodgers' vision of Japanese prominence became reality
In February 2023, in the lead-up to the most anticipated World Baseball Classic to date, the Dodgers president of baseball operations accompanied team scouts and executives on a trip to Japan to get ...
When is 2025 MLB Opening Day? Japan Series, matchups, start times, probable starting pitchers
The 2025 MLB season begins on Tuesday, March 18 and Wednesday, March 19 with the Dodgers and Cubs playing in Tokyo, Japan as part of “2025 MLB World Tour: Tokyo Series,” presented by Guggenheim. Both ...