Nippon Professional Baseball's 12 clubs have decided to impose fines on players found gambling online, which is illegal in ...

Japanese baseball has a rich history, but a series of structural factors stand in the way of it becoming a phenomenon in ...

The crack of the bat is almost here with Opening Day for the 2025 Major League Baseball season set for March 27. But while ...

When the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs square off in Tokyo this week for MLB’s season-opening series, it will ...

The Tokyo Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs is a full circle moment for Japanese baseball.

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

The Cubs have had sporadic interactions with the Japanese talent pool over the years, notably pursuing players like Masahiro Tanaka and Shohei Ohtani. However, it was their aggressive pursuit of Seiya ...

Shohei Ohtani is arguably the most popular athlete on the planet, and that superstardom has helped rapidly accelerate MLB’s ...

The baseball-mad country of Japan greeted perhaps the brightest star it has ever produced with silence. When Shohei Ohtani ...

The Chicago Cubs left Japan in the early hours of Thursday after being swept by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the two-game, ...

Shohei Ohtani hit a solo homer in his return to the Tokyo Dome, Roki Sasaki threw three eventful innings in his big league ...

Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki are all Dodgers. And a Japanese fan base has coalesced around its interest ...