The poignancy of five Japanese ballplayers returning to their home country as Major League stars resonated with the baseball world last March. One year later, a new documentary goes deeper into the people and places that shaped them.

When Shohei Ohtani stepped onto the field at the Tokyo Dome in March 2025, he wasn’t just playing a game – he was carrying forward more than 100 years of baseball ties between the U.S. and Japan. It was a massive financial success. Marking MLB’s ...

The MLB winter market always brings surprises, and this year will be no exception. From Japan, two names are making waves: Kazuma Okamoto and Tatsuya Imai, according to MLB Trade Rumors. Both players are on the radar of renowned teams like the New York ...

Translation from Japanese to English: Play ball! Baseball has long been the national pastime in the United States, but it’s Japan that has dominated the sport on a global level at the World Baseball Classic. When Shohei Ohtani struck out Mike Trout for ...

Okamoto signed with the Blue Jays this offseason.

Major League Baseball has done a great job of marketing the game in Japan by sending numerous teams to that Asian nation, and now MLB affiliates in the US will get the same opportunity with Japanese baseball.