Baseball stars come home as the MLB's season opener captivates Japan
Major League Baseball’s regular season kicked off on Tuesday with an opening pitch thrown from halfway around the world.
Shohei Ohtani, Japan's other baseball stars shook their nerves and delivered in MLB's Tokyo opener
Yoshinobu Yamamoto had a little extra zip on his fastball. Shohei Ohtani even admitted to some nerves. There was little doubt ...
What’s the future of baseball in Japan as the best players leave for MLB?
About a dozen Japanese played in MLB last season, headlined by Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the World Series champion Los ...
From Nomo to Ichiro to Ohtani: Japan’s baseball rise in MLB hits high point in Dodgers-Cubs series
Nearly 25 years after Ichiro Suzuki embarked on a Hall of Fame career for the Seattle Mariners, the impact of Japanese ...
Not just Ohtani: Tokyo Series will showcase the depth of Japanese talent in Major League Baseball
The spotlight will be on slugger Shohei Ohtani this week when the superstar returns to Japan and leads the defending World ...
MLB is bringing home top talent from Japan's most popular sport
The crack of the bat is almost here with Opening Day for the 2025 Major League Baseball season set for March 27. But while ...
Tokyo Series will showcase the depth of Japanese talent in Major League Baseball
TOKYO — The spotlight will be on slugger Shohei Ohtani when the superstar returns to Japan and leads the defending World ...
How two art forms, baseball and manga, became intertwined in Japan
All are beloved fictional baseball characters found through the decades within Japanese comic books, the artform now known worldwide as manga. And all stand on equal ground with the likes of Shohei ...
In baseball-mad Japan, Shohei Ohtani and Dodgers triumph on Opening Day
The baseball-mad country of Japan greeted perhaps the brightest star it has ever produced with silence. When Shohei Ohtani stepped into the batter’s box to open Major League Baseball’s season against ...
Japan’s baseball stars shook their nerves and delivered in MLB’s Tokyo opener
The Japanese players who were playing in front of their home country at the Tokyo Dome on Tuesday night handled any jitters they had quite well, delivering in clutch moments as the Los Angeles Dodgers ...