The Nippon Ham Fighters on Sunday finished at the top of the 12-team Japanese baseball preseason standings for the first time ...

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

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

There are many paths to a career in professional sports, and Micah Yonamine has certainly carved his own journey.

When the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs square off in Tokyo this week for MLB’s season-opening series, it will ...

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

The crack of the bat is almost here with Opening Day for the 2025 Major League Baseball season set for March 27. But while ...

The legend of Rintaro Sasaki continued to grow on Saturday. After hitting his first collegiate home run for Stanford, Sasaki ...

While many thought he'd follow the typical trend and enter the Nippon Professional Baseball Draft after high school, he instead chose to come to the U.S. to play college ball. "When I was ...

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

That's a point of pride at home, but also a reason to worry. What happens to baseball in Japan, to the country's pro league, ...

TOKYO -- The expectations for Shohei Ohtani's first trip to Japan as a major league player were massive and unyielding. He is ...