Well, it looks like the two teams are looking at the same player, who happens to be Japan’s newest superstar. According to ...

Japanese baseball could begin to heavily punish dangerous swinging of the bat after umpire Takuto Kawakami was left ...

Japanese baseball has adopted a rule to punish players for dangerous swings, as an umpire remains unconscious almost a month ...

Teruaki Sato is emerging as Japan’s next baseball sensation, with MLB scouts closely monitoring the powerful Hanshin Tigers ...

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 ...

Japan’s obsession with baseball runs deeper than packed stadiums, Shohei Ohtani, and World Baseball Classic victories. The sport was already huge before World War II, but Japan’s militarist government ...

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 ...

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 ...

TOKYO — Shohei Ohtani is widely regarded as the best player in Major League Baseball, and Ichiro Suzuki enters the Hall of Fame later this year, reminders that some of the top talent in American ...