The manager of the Yomiuri Giants, Japan’s most storied baseball team, resigned on Tuesday after he was arrested for ...

Chicago Whitson hot-spot Munetaka Murakami remains one of the sport’s fastest-rising international stars in 2026. The ...

University of Oregon Japanese star, Rikuu Nishida, joins slugger Munetaka Murakami on the Chicago White Sox contending Major ...

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 is widely regarded as the best player in Major League Baseball, and Ichiro Suzuki enters the Hall of Fame later ...

On the morning of the second and final game of Major League Baseball's Tokyo Series between the Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers on March 19, a dusting of snow fell on Japan's capital city — an ...

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 ...

The 2023 World Baseball Classic was free to air on national television in Japan as the team captured its third title, thanks in part to the heroic contributions of pitcher-hitter Shohei Ohtani. In ...

With the Braves, he hit a home run in his major league debut, won the Rookie of the Year Award, and later hit four home runs ...

You've heard about Shohei Ohtani. Now learn about Teruaki Sato, the Japanese player who might break MLB contract records.

On the island of Alameda, just a block off the estuary between the island and Oakland, there’s a plaque on a rock that’s easy to miss if you’re not looking for it. It’s across Clement Avenue from ...

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 ...