Japanese baseball superstars are lighting up Major League Baseball. Star players like Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto ...

Major League Baseball will celebrate the league’s 12 active Japanese players through custom manholes that will feature one player in each design, to be installed at locations associated with that ...

Last year’s World Series between the New York Yankees and the eventual champions, a Los Angeles Dodgers team led by Japanese phenom Shohei Ohtani, earned the best ratings in seven years.

TOKYO — The business of baseball looks a little different in Japan than it does in the ... with printed images of top players or team logos. For Major League Baseball itself, there’s an ...

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 ...

By then, the nation had its own professional league, the Japanese Baseball League. In 1950, that would become Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), and by the early 1960s, the Japanese game would ...

TOKYO — The spotlight will be on slugger Shohei Ohtani this week when the superstar returns to Japan and leads the ... first two games of the Major League Baseball season at the Tokyo Dome.