TOKYO (AP) — A team with ties to the ethnic Korean community for the first time has won Japan's famous high school baseball ...

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 Chiba Lotte Marines announced Saturday that they will begin the process of posting Roki Sasaki, the Japanese right-hander ...

The rules and regulations of school sports should be continuously reviewed and reformed from the perspective of players to improve the system and the environment. The Japan High School Baseball ...

The games honored Japanese Americans who formed baseball teams at prison camps after they were forced to relocate during WWII ...

Japan's fertility rate is shrinking and so ... On a cloudy day in March, the Oki High School baseball team has been scheduled to practice. Unfortunately the team has only eight members instead ...

In a scenario more usually associated with its cousin, cricket, a baseball game in Japan dragged on for four days with two high school teams slogging it out over a record 50 innings. Chukyo and ...

The head of the Japan High School Baseball Federation, Hatta Eiji, says they wanted to make good on their word and let the players have their chance in the famous stadium. High school athletes ...

Sasaki, 23, is the No. 3 ranked player on The Athletic's top 40 MLB free agent big board, behind only Juan Soto and Corbin ...

The latest pitching sensation out of Japan appears bound for Major League Baseball in ... The flamethrower has been on the international radar dating back to his high school days and gained further ...

OSHU CITY, Japan (AP) — Shohei Ohtani’s hometown in northern Japan is a rural place, famous for its high-quality Maesawa beef ...

Some in Shohei Ohtani’s hometown remember a time when he was just the skinny freshman who joined the high school baseball ...