From Nomo to Ichiro to Ohtani: Japan’s baseball rise in MLB hits high point in Dodgers ...
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 ...
The spotlight will be on slugger Shohei Ohtani this week when the superstar returns to Japan and leads the defending World ...
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 ...
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NPB clubs show there's more to Japanese baseball than MLB stars
The four exhibition games between the MLB and NPB clubs showed that the well of talent in Japan runs deeper than the nation’s ...
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Japan's passion for baseball on full display at Tokyo Series special events
It is hard to find a block in the heart of Tokyo that does not feature a banner or advertisement featuring Dodgers superstar ...
America’s Pastime Is Being Completely Transformed—by Japan
When the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs square off in Tokyo this week for MLB’s season-opening series, it will underscore Japan’s pre-eminent role in baseball today.
Smoking areas in clubhouse, no pitch clock: MLB players get a taste of baseball in Japan
There are a lot of similarities between baseball in the U.S. and Japan, but there are also subtle differences that will be on ...
After meeting with NPB, Rob Manfred not expecting change to Japanese player acquisitions
Manfred met with his NPB counterpart Sadayuki Sakakibara on Sunday, the second of two days of games between MLB teams and NPB teams.
‘Paint Japan blue’: How the Dodgers’ vision of Japanese prominence became reality
Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki are all Dodgers. And a Japanese fan base has coalesced around its interest ...
How Japanese superstars are helping to revitalize baseball
Japanese players Shohei Ohtani and Shota Imanaga are transforming Major League Baseball and its fans — and the future of the ...
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150 years of baseball history has led to this historic Opening Day in Tokyo
The story of baseball runs through the United States and Japan. It’s a ribbon threaded through the history of the sport and ...
Baseball Tokyo awaits national hero Ohtani and countrymen in historic MLB opener
Masanori Murakami travelled to San Francisco 61 years ago this month on his way to becoming the first Japanese player in ...