Rintaro Sasaki stepped off a plane onto U.S. soil for the first time in September 2023. The then-18-year-old -- Japan’s ...

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 ...

Shigeo Nagashima, a true giant in Japanese baseball and one of the country’s most popular athletes, died of pneumonia at a ...

Every four years, athletes across the world converge for the World Baseball Classic. While the United States' legacy in baseball is storied, one of its fiercest rivals on the international stage is ...

In the opening moments of a new film called “Diamond Diplomacy,” Shohei Ohtani holds the ball and Mike Trout holds a bat. These are the dramatic final moments of the 2023 World Baseball Classic. The ...

TOKYO, JAPAN - MARCH 16: Kazuma Okamoto #25 of the Yomiuri Giants hits a two-run double in the fifth inning during the game between the Chicago Cubs and the Yomiuri Giants at Tokyo Dome on Sunday, ...

As baseball fever piques with the Oct. 24 start of the World Series, which features Japanese superstar Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers, a new documentary, created with the help of a Sonoma ...

Japan's finest.

Baseball-crazy Japan on Tuesday welcomed the start of a new season, more than two weeks behind schedule, after the country's biggest post-war natural disaster threw the sport into disarray. There was ...

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 ...