It is hard to escape Shohei Ohtani in Japan, even while the country was glued to its own World Series equivalent. To Japanese ...

"I know that I could go everywhere I wanted to in Japan and never see another scout," Ted Heid, the longtime Mariners Pacific ...

A lot of Japanese have been glued to their computers or TV sets recently, cheering for Shohei Ohtani in the World Series.

Perhaps more than ever before, MLB is making a determined effort to grow the popularity of the sport globally, and the Los ...

When Shohei Ohtani stepped onto the field at the Tokyo Dome in March 2025, he wasn’t just playing a game – he was carrying forward more than 100 years of baseball ties between the U.S. and Japan. It ...

The documentary "Diamond Diplomacy" traces Japanese and American history through the lens of baseball. Shohei Ohtani is among ...

More than half a million Japanese fans came out in Tokyo to greet them, before the team went from city to city, playing against a team of Japanese All-Stars. Eighteen games were played – the American ...

TOKYO — There was the crack of Shohei Ohtani's bat, the roars from the Tokyo Dome crowd and the beeps from the credit card machines at the massive merchandise center selling boatloads of Los Angeles ...

TOKYO (AP) — Welcome to the view from the stands in the middle of the jammed sellout at the Tokyo Dome on Tuesday as the Dodgers and Cubs opened MLB's regular season. Baseball in Japan — the game is ...

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 — an ...

A new documentary on the shared love of baseball in the U.S. and Japan — created with the help of a Sonoma couple — is ...

The president and Sanae Takaichi, the Japanese prime minister, traded compliments in Tokyo, but signaled no major ...