The Los Angeles Dodgers clinched their second straight World Series championship with a dramatic come-from-behind win over the Toront

(THE CONVERSATION) 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.

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 ...

It is hard to escape Shohei Ohtani in Japan, even while the country was glued to its own World Series equivalent.

A new documentary on the shared love of baseball in the U.S. and Japan — created with the help of a Sonoma couple — is gaining acclaim.

Baseball has grown far from its home in Cooperstown, New York, becoming a beloved international game. The United States and Japan are hosts to the two most popular professional baseball leagues today, Major League Baseball and Nippon Professional Baseball.

The president and Sanae Takaichi, the Japanese prime minister, traded compliments in Tokyo, but signaled no major breakthrough in resolving ongoing trade issues.

"I was so proud to see you communicate through baseball." The 'Kim Tae-kyun Baseball Camp International Exchange Exhibition' hosted by Kim Tae-kyun, a Korean professional baseball legend and current KBSN baseball commentator,