On his first morning in a major-league clubhouse, on his first trip ever to the United States, Koyo Aoyagi held his phone ...

The Japanese baseball player's wife, Mamiko Tanaka, is pregnant with the couple's first child, and Ohtani's face could not hide the happiness that this represents for him and his partner.

The former interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani is expected to be sentenced for bank and tax fraud LOS ANGELES -- The former interpreter for Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani is expected ...

Japan has a record of 0-3, while Venezuela has not been much better, but they do have one win. Mexico and the Dominican Republic have already advanced, leaving two spots up for grabs between these ...

Japan will look to pull off the upset as they have failed to win either of their two games so far against Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.

The Ki-27 was a single-seater, highly maneuverable, fixed-gear airplane, but it was no match for the Flying Tigers. When one thinks of Imperial Japan’s World War II fighter planes, the legendary ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The former interpreter for Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani is expected to be sentenced Thursday for bank and tax fraud after he stole nearly $17 million from the Los ...

Masahiro Tanaka is one of the most recognizable faces in Japanese baseball, but sightings of the star pitcher were few and far between in 2024. He started only one top-team game for the Tohoku ...

Prosecutors said Mizuhara never bet on baseball, and Ohtani was an unknowing victim of the scheme. Mizuhara was born in Japan and moved to California with his parents when he was 6. He struggled to ...

and Venezuela and this year for the first time features a team representing Japan. The Venezuelan team in the tournament is 2024–25 Venezuelan Professional Baseball League winner Cardenales de ...

Former Hanshin Tigers manager Yoshio Yoshida died Monday of a stroke, the baseball club said Tuesday. He was 91. Yoshida steered the Tigers to their first Japan Series championship in 1985 during the ...

Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese professional baseball entirely and agreed ...