When did baseball begin in Japan? Its date of birth seems to have been pushed back yet again. It was long thought that ...

In 1871, a farmer and Civil War veteran from Gorham, Maine, named Horace Wilson, was recruited to teach in Japan as part of ...

Nippon Professional Baseball on Friday notified its 12 clubs that players can use so-called torpedo bats in regular-season games. NPB's rules committee made the decision, effective the same day ...

Japan's antitrust watchdog is probing the country's professional baseball league over its temporary revocation of press ...

Rintaro Sasaki chose to play for Stanford over going pro in Japan, so what exactly brought him to college baseball?

Grey Flannel Auctions is auctioning off a pre-MLB jersey said to be worn by Ohtani during his time playing for the Nippon-Ham ...

Shoki Murakami threw a complete-game shutout as the Hanshin Tigers ended their losing streak at four games with a 4-0 vi ...

A Los Angeles Dodgers rotation filled with injuries has seen a new ace emerge in right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto.