The first thing Shohei Ohtani wanted to know upon his initial entrance into the home clubhouse at T-Mobile Park was where ...

Tadahito Iguchi, who previously managed the Lotte Marines, has been tapped as the next skipper of Japan's national baseball ...

TOKYO (AP) — Welcome to the view from the stands in the middle of the jammed sellout at the Tokyo Dome on Tuesday as the Dodgers and Cubs opened MLB's regular season. Baseball in Japan — the game is ...

When Shohei Ohtani stepped onto the field at the Tokyo Dome in March 2025, he wasn’t just playing a game – he was carrying forward more than 100 years of baseball ties between the U.S. and Japan. It ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dan has written 41 books and more than 25,000 articles about baseball. For more than a century, baseball has built a bridge ...

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 ...

Shohei Ohtani has been a superstar in Japan for more than a decade, but one day earlier this year, a Tokyo resident named Tatsuo Shinke noticed something different. Shinke, the CEO of Mint, a leading ...

Celebrating the Legacy of Japanese American Baseball," consists of historical panels and artifacts that chronicle the introduction of baseball to Japan in the early 1870s to the first Japanese ...

The 55,000-seat Tokyo Dome isn’t just a baseball stadium; it’s a full-fledged entertainment hub. Opened in 1988, it has hosted some of the biggest international baseball events, including the World ...

Ahead of MLB’s 2025 Tokyo Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs on March 18-19, Topps and parent company Fanatics have announced a merchandise collection and trading card sets ...

At the beginning of March, Topps released the Japan-Exclusive 2025 Topps Baseball Series 1 MLB World Tour: Tokyo Series, as buzz grows for the season-opening two-game series between the defending ...

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 ...