Shigeo Nagashima, considered Japan's "Mr. Baseball," died at the age of 89, and the Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani and others are ...

Shigeo Nagashima, who was known in Japan as “Mr. Pro Baseball" and had both a lengthy playing and managerial career in NPB, ...

Japan has a new sumo grand champion — or yokozuna — and the big news is he’s Japanese. Onosato, the new grand champion, weighs 191 kilograms (421 pounds) and he is the first ...

But would you say the mascot is, dare we say it, sexy? A new ranking from sports betting company BetUS ranked the MLB mascots by hottness. In an unexpected turn of events, the Diamondbacks' very ...

MLB.com's Anthony Castrovince has been responding to a few interesting ones, one of which involved the Cubs. A reader posited that Chicago ace Shota Imanaga "is the best Japanese pitcher in the ...

When I was a kid, it would basically have been unthinkable that Japan would have more viewers for the World Series than where baseball originated. But I’m not sure we should be so surprised.

TOKYO — Major League Baseball’s regular ... their performances. Mascots from both teams came out to interact with fans, and even cardboard figures of the Japanese players drew long lines ...

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. From our morning news briefing to a ...

As the head of Fanatics’ East Asia operation, Kawana leads MLB’s merchandising in Japan, and the day had already set his company’s sales record in Asia. He was willing to bet no other sports ...

Baseball in Japan — the game is called "yakyu" (field ball) in Japanese — carries more of a rock-concert vibe than its American cousin. And with Shohei Ohtani teasing fans for a week in Tokyo ...

That's a point of pride at home, but also a reason to worry. What happens to baseball in Japan, to the country's pro league, if the stars all leave for the United States? About a dozen Japanese ...