Ichiro is a wellspring of national pride — like Shohei Ohtani now — and his fame across the Pacific was therapeutic as ...

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 ...

Japanese baseball stars have almost exclusively come to MLB after playing in NPB. Morii is breaking precedent by signing with ...

The Dodgers’ history of adding players from Japan dates back to 1995, when they signed Hideo Nomo to a Minor League contract that included a $2 million signing bonus.

Not a single Japanese player appeared in MLB between 1965 and 1994. Then, in the winter of 1995, everything changed. Hideo Nomo, a starlet pitcher for the Kintetsu Buffaloes, used a loophole in ...

Former A's infielder Jordan Díaz has indeed signed with the Orix Buffaloes in Japan's NPB ... made it to Major League Baseball, including Hideo Nomo, Ichiro Suzuki, Masataka Yoshida, and most ...