All are beloved fictional baseball characters found through the decades within Japanese comic books, the artform now known ...

TOKYO (AP) — For two days in Japan, it’s the Hanshin Tigers who have have looked like the class of the National League. In ...

The baseball-mad country of Japan greeted perhaps the brightest star it has ever produced with silence. When Shohei Ohtani ...

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

The three-time MVP recorded one hit in two at-bats — a two-run home run during a five-run Dodgers third inning off Giants ...

Here come the Los Angeles Dodgers, arriving in Tokyo on Wednesday morning, where the entire country of Japan is ready to go ...

The story of baseball runs through the United States and Japan. It’s a ribbon threaded ... was for him and two teammates to ...

Baseball was introduced to Japan in the mid- to late-1800s ... Led by Oh and Nagashima, the Yomiuri Giants – the team which grew out of the Japanese All-Stars who had played Ruth and co ...

The Major League Baseball season kicks off Tuesday night at the Tokyo Dome when Shohei Ohtani and the defending World Series ...

(AP Photo/Hiro Komae) Fans who won special access to the ground watch players of the Yomiuri Giants warm up as other fans watch from the stand during the Tokyo baseball team's spring training in Naha, ...

For all of the attention on the Dodgers' three Japanese stars returning home for the Tokyo Series, there's actually a fourth.