The Chicago Cubs will head to Tokyo next month to take on the Los Angeles Dodgers to open the regular season in the Japan ...

It’s been six years since the last MLB game in Tokyo, when Ichiro Suzuki bid a tear-jerking goodbye to baseball. It feels ...

Adam Jones shares his insights on the Baltimore Orioles' latest Japanese pitcher, Tomoyuki Sugano. Jones highlights Sugano's ...

Ichiro Suzuki, the dominant contact hitter whose 19 years in the major leagues, mostly with the Seattle Mariners, was lined with records and accolades, on Tuesday became the first Asian player elected ...

Ichiro Suzuki is the Japanese Zen master who was so dedicated to baseball that he carried his bats in a moisture-proof case and apologised to their creator when he broke one. His speed and ...

TOKYO (AP) — Ichiro Suzuki is all about baseball, but he's much more than that in Japan. Back home, he's a wellspring of national pride, much like Shohei Ohtani now. His triumphs across the ...

Ichiro will go into the Hall of Fame as professional baseball’s all-time leader in hits with 4,367 (3,089 in MLB and 1,278 in Japan) — more even than Pete Rose’s 4,256. He broke George ...

After plenty of intrigue, the star Japanese righthander announced on ... Sasaki will immediately become one of baseball’s top prospects upon signing. The 23-year-old is subject to international ...

Longtime Japanese baseball reporter Jim Allen, writing on jballallen.com, noted that Suzuki became the seventh player ever inducted to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame inducted on the first try.

Ichiro Suzuki speaks at the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in Tokyo after he was announced as one of 2025's new inductees on Jan. 16, 2025. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Ichiro Suzuki ...

Hoping to become a two-way player in Major League Baseball just like Shohei Ohtani, 18-year-old Shotaro Morii made the rare decision to bypass Japanese professional baseball entirely and agreed ...