Ohtani came out of Japan’s regimented baseball system at Hanamaki Higashi High School in largely rural ... He’d get up in the middle of night and practice his swing," Whiting said.

The city of Ames needs roughly 14 families to host a delegation of Japanese middle school students in October. Ames Middle ...

Japan's fertility rate is ... the simple pleasure of playing team sports with classmates can no longer be taken for granted. And as one remote high school struggles with that issue, a tech firm ...

Six Marshalltown Middle School students are representing the community in Japan this summer through the Sister Cities of ...

“It says that they’re resilient,” he said, pointing out the baseball field, garden and school that Japanese Americans ... the teams met in the middle of the field to congratulate each ...

He was part of the Japanese team that defeated the U.S. in the final of the World Baseball Classic in 2023 and said he was looking forward to playing with reigning NL MVP Ohtani and Yamamoto ...

Last February, Japanese standout Rintaro Sasaki skipped the NPB draft and signed a letter of intent to play college baseball at Stanford. Sasaki attended the same high school as Ohtani — Sasaki ...

High school baseball players in Japan sporting shaved heads are no longer the norm in a clean break from past tradition, according to a new study. In fact, nearly three-quarters of high school ...

The Transpacific Exchange of the Game” will explore the longstanding exchange of teams and players in the more than 150 years ...

Seattle Mariners' Ichiro Suzuki, of Japan, hits a solo home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Angels, in Anaheim, Calif., on May 31, 2009, (AP Photo/Mark J.

There are ironies involved in both, given that fossil fuels ties Japan and the region together more than shared liberal values. Abe's personal relationships with the main players in the Middle ...

(Kyodo) NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- The hometown of Japanese baseball legend Ichiro Suzuki led celebrations Wednesday after he became the first Asian player to be elected to the U.S. National Baseball Hall ...