For more than a century, only male umpires have officiated at Japan's prestigious Koshien high school baseball tournaments.

Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Roki Sasaki joining the Los Angeles Dodgers has sparked a wild advertising frenzy ...

The manager of the Yomiuri Giants, Japan’s most storied baseball team, resigned on Tuesday after he was arrested for allegedly assaulting his 18-year-old daughter. Shinnosuke Abe, 47, was arrested on ...

A women’s professional baseball league will open in the United States next year for the first time in 72 years, bringing hope ...

On the morning of the second and final game of Major League Baseball's Tokyo Series between the Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers on March 19, a dusting of snow fell on Japan's capital city — an ...

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 ...

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 ...

TOKYO — 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 ...

Shotaro Morii is gaining attention as a rising three-way prospect from Japan in the Athletics’ farm system — a hitter and ...

Relief pitcher Shuto Okumura achieved one dream of playing top-level college baseball in the United States, as he nears the ...

Baseball has long been the national pastime in the United States, but it’s Japan that has dominated the sport on a global level at the World Baseball Classic. When Shohei Ohtani struck out Mike Trout ...