Harimoto, whose record 3,085 career hits still stands, was inducted into the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in 1990.

Japanese baseball great Isao Harimoto, an atomic bomb survivor, died at a hospital in Tokyo on Wednesday, an informed source ...

Netflix will become the new home of the 2026 World Baseball Classic in Japan, as part of an exclusive media rights ...

Baseball became deeply embedded in Japanese culture long before World War II, but the country's militarist government later ...

Nippon Professional Baseball's oldest active player, 46-year-old Yakult Swallows pitcher Masanori Ishikawa, will retire at ...

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 ...

Translation from Japanese to English: Play ball! 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 ...

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 ...

Shohei Ohtani played an extra month of baseball in both 2024 and 2025 as his Los Angeles Dodgers made back-to-back championship runs, but he is all in for some more action in March. Ohtani committed ...

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 ...