Why Japan is baseball’s answer to its longtime prayer
Major League Baseball season is fully underway. Such an event might be the time when I’d point out that baseball is ...
From Oh to Ohtani and beyond: How Japanese baseball reached new heights
No player in professional baseball history has slugged more home runs than the 868 that Oh hit over 22 seasons with the ...
From Oh to Ohtani: How Japan developed a generation of baseball superstars (again)
The Tokyo Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs is a full circle moment for Japanese baseball.
Baseball in Japan looks about the same, but the food and the vibe are different
The jammed sellout at the Tokyo Dome as the Dodgers and Cubs opened their regular season had a different vibe than the usual ...
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What’s the future of baseball in Japan as the best players leave for MLB?
About a dozen Japanese played in MLB last season, headlined by Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the World Series champion Los ...
In baseball-mad Japan, Shohei Ohtani and Dodgers triumph on Opening Day
The baseball-mad country of Japan greeted perhaps the brightest star it has ever produced with silence. When Shohei Ohtani ...
Japanese baseball fans are crazy for Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers. MLB has a plan to get them to root for every team
Shohei Ohtani is arguably the most popular athlete on the planet, and that superstardom has helped rapidly accelerate MLB’s ...
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From Oh to Ohtani: How Japan developed a generation of baseball superstars (again)
In 1934, an American team featuring the best baseball players in the world – Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx and more – went on a barnstorming tour around Japan. More than half a million ...
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Shohei Ohtani, Japan’s other baseball stars shook their nerves and delivered in MLB’s Tokyo opener
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani waits on a pitch in the sixth ...
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For Lee & Fukudome, Tokyo school visit all about Japan's baseball future
Derrek Lee can still recite some of the chants that fans created to cheer on his dad during his days playing baseball in ...
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From Nomo to Ichiro to Ohtani: Japan's baseball rise in MLB hits high point in Dodgers-Cubs series
Nearly 25 years after Ichiro Suzuki embarked on a Hall of Fame career for the Seattle Mariners, the impact of Japanese ...
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MLB is bringing home top talent from Japan's most popular sport
But while MLB has become known for its melting pot of backgrounds among players, this diversity may be putting a strain on the Japanese baseball industry. Baseball has long been the most popular ...