Major League Baseball season is fully underway. Such an event might be the time when I’d point out that baseball is ...

Baltimore Orioles pitcher Tomoyuki Sugano earned the first win of his major league career after taking a shutout into ...

About a dozen Japanese played in MLB last season, headlined by Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers. They came up through Nippon Professional Baseball and ...

Japanese baseball has a rich history, but a series of structural factors stand in the way of it becoming a phenomenon in ...

The former VP of Brand Management at Nintendo of America was part of bringing Pokémon to America, which was nearly a baseball ...

When I was a kid, it would basically have been unthinkable that Japan would have more viewers for the World Series than where baseball originated. But I’m not sure we should be so surprised.

They went to the Japanese town of Miyazaki, which was the center of the country’s baseball universe in hosting Samurai Japan’s national team for the World Baseball Classic. It did not take ...

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 point TOKYO -- Ichiro Suzuki was ...

Shohei Ohtani is arguably the most popular athlete on the planet, and that superstardom has helped rapidly accelerate MLB’s business in Japan.

Baseball in Japan — the game is called “yakyu” (field ball) in Japanese — carries more of a rock-concert vibe than its American cousin. And with Shohei Ohtani teasing fans for a week in Tokyo as the ...

Before the 2024 season, the Chicago Cubs struck out on their top options and were left with a consolation prize. That player has surpassed every expectation. No ...