About a dozen Japanese played in MLB last season, headlined by Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the World Series champion Los ...

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

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

Ahead of the Tokyo Series between the teams, Topps launched an interactive trading-card experience to celebrate Japan’s baseball icons ... on stars such as Ichiro Suzuki and Hideki Matsui ...

Recently, we told you about a great story involving Chicago White Sox prospect Rikuu Nishida and his meeting of Ichiro Suzuki ... was a professional for 28 seasons between his time in Japan ...

Baseball in Japan is known as “yakyu,” literally ... Nomo was must-see television whenever he pitched. Then came Ichiro Suzuki, a certain first-ballot Hall of Famer for the Class of 2025.

Next week, the Major League Baseball season kicks off with the ... to the United States and have success during the 2000s. Ichiro Suzuki, Kaz Sasaki, Hideki Matsui and Shohei Ohtani are just ...

outfielder Seiya Suzuki and starting pitcher Shota Imanaga were two of Nippon Professional Baseball's brightest stars. The two were also teammates on Japan's squad at the 2023 World Baseball Classic.

Widely expected to be the No. 1 overall pick in the Nippon Professional Baseball Draft, Sasaki instead opted to head to Stanford. Rather than come to the Majors via the NPB -- much like Ohtani, Ichiro ...