When did baseball begin in Japan? Its date of birth seems to have been pushed back yet again. It was long thought that ...

In 1871, a farmer and Civil War veteran from Gorham, Maine, named Horace Wilson, was recruited to teach in Japan as part of ...

May 5th, 2025 by Matthew Brown Baseball historians often point to specific moments that changed the game forever. Babe Ruth’s ...

Topps has announced an ultra rare parallel that will be inserted into this year’s Bowman Baseball 2025, which releases May 7th. Four Japanese players will receive these rare “Kanji” cards ...

When the Los Angeles Dodgers signed Yoshinobu Yamamoto prior to the 2024 season, they made him the highest-paid pitcher in ...

The maneuvering needed to reach that moment had already made Nomo a groundbreaker, pitting the player and his agent, Don Nomura, against Japan’s baseball establishment. To get to America ...

(Kyodo) FUKUOKA (Kyodo) -- Taiwan's 2024 MVP pitcher Gu Lin Ruei-yang earned his first win in Nippon Professional Baseball on Thursday ... in his second outing in Japan as his teammates turned ...

Because, as you well know, as Ichiro goes into the Hall of Fame this summer, he left Japanese baseball with over 1,200 hits, yet when he was coming over to play in the major leagues, what did the ...

A vehicle crashed into an entrance at Manila's airport on Sunday morning, leaving two people dead including a young girl, officials said. The Philippine Red Cross said the girl was 4 years old, but ...

I’m headed to the Osaka Expo 2025, a six-month world fair that wants to “design future society for our lives,” and though I expect a whisper-quiet entrance to match the train ride ...

MANILA, May 4 (Reuters) - Two people, including a five-year-old girl, were killed and several others injured when a car crashed into the entrance of Manila's international airport on Sunday ...

Imanaga was asked in a recent interview what he misses most about his home country of Japan. His answer, as it turns out, is bathtubs, but he has come up with an unorthodox solution to the problem.