The Chicago Cubs will head to Tokyo next month to take on the Los Angeles Dodgers to open the regular season in the Japan ...

Ichiro Suzuki is the Japanese Zen master who was so dedicated to baseball that he carried his bats in a moisture-proof case and apologised to their creator when he broke one. His speed and ...

TOKYO (AP) — Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he's much more than that in Japan. Back home, he's a wellspring of national pride, much like Shohei Ohtani now. His triumphs across the ...

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 ...

Munetaka Murakami picked an ideal time to break out of his World Baseball Classic funk. The Japanese triple crown winner delivered a walk-off double in a 6-5 thriller against Mexico on March 20 ...

After plenty of intrigue, the star Japanese righthander announced on ... Sasaki will immediately become one of baseball’s top prospects upon signing. The 23-year-old is subject to international ...

On April 10, 2022, he threw the sixteenth perfect game in Nippon Professional Baseball history ... we’re going to see a Marine head out to take on an even higher challenge—that Marine is ...

The ancient Japanese were fortunate ... Even to the ancients it was sad, of course — the shaved heads, the drab monkish or nunnish garb — but life itself was sad; what foolishness to clothe ...

The head of Japan's MUFG Bank has promised to review the financial institution's safe deposit box operations following a series of alleged thefts by a former employee. President and CEO Hanzawa ...

Longtime Japanese baseball reporter Jim Allen, writing on jballallen.com, noted that Suzuki became the seventh player ever inducted to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame inducted on the first try.

Ichiro Suzuki speaks at the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in Tokyo after he was announced as one of 2025's new inductees on Jan. 16, 2025. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Ichiro Suzuki ...