Ichiro will go into the Hall of Fame as professional baseball’s all-time leader in hits with 4,367 (3,089 in MLB and 1,278 in Japan) — more even than Pete Rose's 4,256. He broke George Sisler’s single ...

High school baseball and rugby tournaments are also popular and soccer reporter Masashi Tsuchiya said it was because school sports strike a chord in Japan. "I'm from Gunma Prefecture and I always ...