For Japan's sporting success to happen despite the birth rate dropping is particularly befuddling.  Read more at straitstimes ...

Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto have been friends going back to their days playing in Japan’s top baseball league. “The ...

Japan manager Hirokazu Ibata named Yomiuri Giants slugger Kazuma Okamoto and Chunichi Dragons pitcher Hiroto Takahashi to his ...

This year’s World Baseball Classic left lasting memories, 47 games over two weeks that restored Japan’s supremacy and reinforced Ohtani’s unmatched ability while expanding the sport’s ...

It was the semifinal round of the World Baseball Classic at loanDepot park, a thriller between Japan and Mexico that ended with the Samurai Japan squad victorious en route to the country's third title ...

That's because Sato just may be the most dominant female pitcher in baseball history. She's represented Samurai Japan for the last five World Cups -- Japan, the No. 1 women's baseball team in the ...

Roki Sasaki’s dazzling debut in the World Baseball Classic came on a day that he doesn ... killed in the tsunami spawned by the Great East Japan Earthquake. At the time, he was an elementary ...

The New York Mets starting rotation could look very different in 2025 with the contracts of Luis Severino and Jose Quintana ...

The 42-year-old, who has 2,723 major league hits in a career split between Japan and the United States as well as back-to-back World Baseball Classic titles with Japan in 2006 and 2009, is the oldest ...