The Major League Baseball season kicks off Tuesday night at the Tokyo Dome when Shohei Ohtani and the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers face the Chicago Cubs.

About a dozen Japanese played in MLB last season, headlined by Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the World Series champion Los ...

After weighing his options, Roki Sasaki ultimately signed with the Dodgers, but the way it happened rubbed some teams the ...

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Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani was compared to a sports legend by teammate Anthony Banda ahead of the MLB Tokyo ...

All-Star shortstop will miss the MLB's season-opening Tokyo Series because of a lingering illness, Los Angeles Dodgers ...

On the Cubs' side, players like Shota Imanaga and Seiya Suzuki will get a chance to play in their homeland.

Over the weekend, both MLB teams played exhibition games against Japanese teams. In the stadium where Ohtani once sent a ball ...

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

Rather than distance himself from his painful memories in Rikuzentakata, Roki Sasaki has taken a proactive approach to preserve his more pleasant recollections of his upbringing.

In February 2023, in the lead-up to the most anticipated World Baseball Classic to date, the Dodgers president of baseball operations accompanied team scouts and executives on a trip to Japan to get ...