The multitude of Japanese stars in MLB today wouldn't be possible if Nomo hadn't first made the leap 30 years ago.

Nearly 25 years after Ichiro Suzuki embarked on a Hall of Fame career for the Seattle Mariners, the impact of Japanese ...

From Daisuke Matsuzaka and Hideki Okajima to Koji Uehara and Masataka Yoshida, the Boston Red Sox have had their fair share ...

That all changed, forever and for the better, in 1994, when the agent Nomura, a wonderfully gifted pitcher named Hideo Nomo and an indomitably fierce lawyer named Jean Afterman collaborated to ...

The Tokyo Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs is a full circle moment for Japanese baseball.

Last year's breakout MLB star pitched 3.1 shutout innings in his fifth 2025 spring training start. This March, Skenes allowed ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers will compete against the Chicago Cubs on Opening Day at the Tokyo Dome to kick off the season.

No player in professional baseball history has slugged more home runs than the 868 that Oh hit over 22 seasons with the ...

Professional baseball across the Pacific has a history that also involves Hawaiʻi. Before former Cubs outfielder Kosuke ...

In the history of the Major League, Japanese power has never been as strong as it is these days. Since Hideo Nomo joined the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1995 and won the Rookie of the Year award with his ...

Japanese baseball has a rich history, but a series of structural factors stand in the way of it becoming a phenomenon in ...