Every four years, athletes across the world converge for the World Baseball Classic. While the United States’ legacy in baseball is storied, one of its fiercest rivals on the international stage is ...

When Shohei Ohtani struck out Mike Trout for the final out in a 3-2 victory over the U.S. during the 2023 championship game, it gave Japan its third WBC title in five tournaments. To simply say that ...

Teruaki Sato is emerging as Japan’s next baseball sensation, with MLB scouts closely monitoring the powerful Hanshin Tigers ...

Shigeo Nagashima, a true giant in Japanese baseball and one of the country’s most popular athletes, died of pneumonia at a ...

As baseball fever piques with the Oct. 24 start of the World Series, which features Japanese superstar Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers, a new documentary, created with the help of a Sonoma ...

Japanese baseball could begin to heavily punish dangerous swinging of the bat after umpire Takuto Kawakami was left ...

Professional baseball umpires across Japan wore the number 29 on their helmets in solidarity with a colleague who is still ...

The Tokyo Yakult Swallows employee whose humor and quick wit made Tsubakuro one of the most popular mascots in Japanese ...

Cuban pitcher Raidel Martínez claimed his first victory of the season in Japan's Professional Baseball League (NPB) this ...

Translation from Japanese to English: Play ball! Baseball has long been the national pastime in the United States, but it’s Japan that has dominated the sport on a global level at the World Baseball ...