Japanese baseball is considering punishing players for dangerous swings, reports said Friday, as an umpire remains ...

A Japanese professional baseball umpire who was struck on the head by a bat during a game two weeks ago is still unconscious, ...

A Japanese umpire remains unconscious more than two weeks after being struck in the head by a flying bat, according to the ...

April 15 marked the first professional game in Japanese baseball history. Thirty years before the formation of a professional ...

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 ...

When Shohei Ohtani struck out Mike Trout for the final out in a 3-2 victory over the U.S. during the 2023 championship game, it gave Japan its third WBC title in five tournaments. To simply say that ...

A serious accident has Japanese professional baseball on tenterhooks. Two weeks after being struck on the head by a flying ...

As baseball fever piques with the Oct. 24 start of the World Series, which features Japanese superstar Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers, a new documentary, created with the help of a Sonoma ...

TOKYO, JAPAN - MARCH 16: Kazuma Okamoto #25 of the Yomiuri Giants hits a two-run double in the fifth inning during the game between the Chicago Cubs and the Yomiuri Giants at Tokyo Dome on Sunday, ...

The 2023 World Baseball Classic was free to air on national television in Japan as the team captured its third title, thanks in part to the heroic contributions of pitcher-hitter Shohei Ohtani. In ...