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

Former Nationals $3.5 million starter returns to NPB in Japan originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. The Washington Nationals lost ...

With two months of the MLB season in the books, it is a good time to check in on the three Japanese players who signed with MLB clubs this off-season.

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 ...

NPB+, a Japanese professional baseball live-updating app officially approved by the Nippon Professional Baseball Organization, was launched this season, offering fans access to advanced tracking data ...

International star Munetaka Murakami has been touted as a top MLB prospect ever since he was drafted by the Chicago White Sox ...

Earlier this season while waiting in the visiting Dodgers clubhouse in Cincinnati, I had a question for the Japanese ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers are reportedly trying to lure a teenage pitching star from Japan away from the Nippon Professional Baseball draft, as the club looks to sign 17-year-old right-hander Shoki Oda ...

I was very much under-equipped for the task, but in my seven years with the Marlins, I was the go-to analyst for East Asian baseball data. I had previously built decent major league equivalent (MLE) ...

Munetaka Murakami picked an ideal time to break out of his World Baseball Classic funk. The Japanese triple crown winner ...

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 ...