A year ago, when the news first broke that Munetaka Murakami was likely headed to the Major Leagues in 2026, the Japanese ...

Hideo Nomo. Ichiro Suzuki. Hideki Matsui. Daisuke Matsuzaka. Yu Darvish. Shohei Ohtani. Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Roki Sasaki.

The Los Angeles Dodgers win the World Series with three Asian stars: Ohtani, the best player in the world, Yamamoto, and ...

It began around 3:30 a.m. Sunday when a group of young men was captured on surveillance video driving up beside the station ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers would not have won the 2025 World Series without the help of their three Japanese-born superstars.

Japan revelled Monday in a "golden age" for the nation's baseball led by Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto after they ...

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It is hard to escape Shohei Ohtani in Japan, even while the country was glued to its own World Series equivalent. To Japanese fans, Ohtani is just about perfect: He hits home runs, pitches great, ...

A lot of Japanese have been glued to their computers or TV sets recently, cheering for Shohei Ohtani in the World Series.

Here's your chance to have a job that actually puts smiles on people's faces. The El Paso Chihuahuas are hiring a mascot coordinator that will serve as the primary performer for the adorable and ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Susan H. Kamei, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences (THE CONVERSATION) ...

Adjunct Professor of History and Affiliated Faculty, USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Cultures, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences Susan H. Kamei is a researcher with ...