When the Giants returned to Japan, the Japanese Baseball League was formed, which was reorganized into Nippon Professional Baseball in 1950. The Giants have gone on to dominate the NPB, winning 22 ...

Major League Baseball fans in Japan did not miss history. A win-or-go-home Game 5 of the National League Division Series that featured starting pitchers Yu Darvish and Yoshinobu Yamamoto — and, of ...

A pitcher who spent last season playing in Japan has signed with a major-league club, but it isn't Roki Sasaki. The Milwaukee Brewers announced the signing of right-handed pitcher Elvin Rodriguez, who ...

The Japan Rugby Football Union said on Friday it will launch a three-tier professional league from January 2022 in a bid to raise the domestic game to a new level, though the changes fell short of the ...

TOKYO, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Volleyball regularly features in lists of the world's top five most popular sports and a rebranded Japanese league is launching its new season later on Friday with the aim of ...

The 2025 Little League Baseball World Series continues with Tokyo, Japan, facing off with Santa Cruz, Aruba, in this elimination game, with the winner heading to the quarterfinals. The first pitch is ...

TOKYO — For two days in Japan, it’s the Hanshin Tigers who have have looked like the class of the National League. In another sign that Japanese baseball has never been better, the Tigers capped a two ...