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

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Opening the 2025 season in Tokyo was supposed to be Major League Baseball's way of honoring the game's popularity and ...

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

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

It’s the first of a two-game series and features five Japanese players. Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and rookie Roki Sasaki ...

The Dodgers were a long way from Los Angeles on Tuesday but with Shohei Ohtani and two more Japanese stars they were the home ...

TOKYO — The entire week was a buildup to this ... “I think that’s why he’s changing the game in America,” Kershaw said. “I think the financials for the Dodgers, especially, are ...

Fans of the Athletics, San Francisco Giants and Philadelphia Phillies will be able to stream their games on a direct-to-consumer basis this season through MLB.tv. The agreement was reached by Major ...

Nearly 25 years after Ichiro Suzuki embarked on a Hall of Fame career for the Mariners, the impact of Japanese players is as ...

Professional baseball across the Pacific has a history that also involves Hawaiʻi. Before former Cubs outfielder Kosuke ...