Catcher Takuya Kai launched his first home run in a Yomiuri Giants uniform Saturday during a 12-0 demolition of local Central ...

and Gakuto Wakabayashi hit a sayonara single in the 10th to lift the Kyojin to a 6-5 win over the Tokyo Yakult Swallows in the season opener at Tokyo Dome on Friday night. Wakabayashi’s fourth ...

The Nippon Ham Fighters on Sunday finished at the top of the 12-team Japanese baseball preseason standings for the first time ...

The Tokyo Yakult Swallows employee whose humor and quick wit made Tsubakuro one of the most popular mascots in Japanese professional baseball has ... was born in Japan, is of unknown age, and ...

Next spring, after graduating from Kyoto University, Mizuno will work as an analyst for the Tokyo Yakult Swallows of Nippon Professional Baseball. He will collect and apply data gathered on ...

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

Watch the Cubs take on a couple of local squads The team will play exhibitions against Tokyo’s Yomiuri Giants and the Hanshin Tigers. Nippon Professional ... the Yakult Swallows, and the single ...

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

TOKYO — Ichiro Suzuki was having his typical day on a baseball field in 2000 ... who was in the other dugout playing the ...