There is no Yoshinobu Yamamoto or Roki Sasaki in this year's crop of players from Korea or Japan. But there are powerful bats and live arms.

In the NPB’s Central League, Murakami had a .270 batting average over 892 game with the Swallows, hitting 246 homers with 647 ...

Hitters, however, are by nature reactive and much more defined by their environment from a scouting perspective, especially ...

"I know that I could go everywhere I wanted to in Japan and never see another scout," Ted Heid, the longtime Mariners Pacific ...

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

Hawaii is doubling down on sports tourism as a strategic driver of economic growth and international visibility, with the ...

A Chinese research vessel docked in the Cook Islands Saturday as it probed the Pacific nation's deep-sea mining potential, a fledgling industry of mounting interest to both Beijing and Washington. The ...

Emmy-winning producer Miyagawa Eriko signals openness to filming future 'Shogun' seasons in Japan as MPA panel identifies key ...

The Tokyo Yakult Swallows of the Nippon Professional Baseball League officially posted their 25-year-old superstar corner ...

One day during his first season in Japan, Foster Griffin was approached by Yomiuri Giants coach Zelous Wheeler and relayed a ...

Murakami’s 45-day window to ink a deal will start on Saturday. Many suitors, including the Dodgers, are expected to pursue ...

While Munetaka Murakami brings elite power, there are real questions about how his game will translate to Major League ...