The catcher was a seventh-round draft pick out of high school in 2025.

South Korea’s baseball team achieved its fifth consecutive gold medal at the Asian Games, but the biggest topic among domestic fans was Japan’s “social baseball” players. South Korea defeated Japan ...

Baseball is now well behind football, which more than 40% of Americans said was their favorite sport to watch in 2023. Baseball is Japan’s pastime in a way it isn’t for America anymore. The key will ...

When Shohei Ohtani struck out Mike Trout for the final out in a 3-2 victory over the U.S. during the 2023 championship game, it gave Japan its third WBC title in five tournaments. To simply say that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dan has written 41 books and more than 25,000 articles about baseball. For more than a century, baseball has built a bridge ...

Team Japan is the reigning champion of the World Baseball Classic. They won the 2023 tournament, beating the United States 3-2 in the final. The ending to the game is one of the most memorable moments ...

TOKYO (AP) — Shohei Ohtani is widely regarded as the best player in Major League Baseball, and Ichiro Suzuki enters the Hall of Fame later this year, reminders that some of the top talent in American ...

Isao Harimoto, A-Bomb Survivor and Japan Baseball Great Known as 'Hit Machine,' Dies at 86 TOKYO (AP) — Isao Harimoto, the baseball great who survived the Hiroshima atomic bomb and still holds Japan's ...

In 1934, an American team featuring the best baseball players in the world – Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx and more – went on a barnstorming tour around Japan. More than half a million Japanese ...

TOKYO — The business of baseball looks a little different in Japan than it does in the U.S. One of the most popular sports souvenirs? Towels. Many varieties of towels, with printed images of top ...