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.

Boyd grew up roughly 30 minutes outside Seattle and became a big Mariners fan when the organization featured two Japanese stars, the legendary Ichiro Suzuki ... Japan’s Nippon Professional 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.

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 ...