After Samurai Japan lost in dramatic fashion to NPB team Orix Buffaloes, Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani displayed an odd reaction.

The country has dominated the World Baseball Classic in the 2000s, but its baseball history started long before.

Baseball has grown far from its home in Cooperstown, New York, becoming a beloved international game. The United States and Japan are hosts to the two most popular professional baseball leagues today, ...

More than half a million Japanese fans came out in Tokyo to greet them, before the team went from city to city, playing against a team of Japanese All-Stars. Eighteen games were played – the American ...

Every four years, athletes across the world converge for the World Baseball Classic. While the United States’ legacy in baseball is storied, one of its fiercest rivals on the international stage is ...

The Waseda University Baseball Club, celebrating its 125th anniversary, embarked on its first US tour in three years (since 2023) from ...

When Shohei Ohtani stepped onto the field at the Tokyo Dome in March 2025, he wasn’t just playing a game – he was carrying forward more than 100 years of baseball ties between the U.S. and Japan. It ...

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 baseball is ...

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 ...