Hotly tipped Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki was on Saturday given the green light to follow in the footsteps of Shohei Ohtani ...

A win for the baseball superstar’s Los Angeles Dodgers “will be seen as a victory for Japanese baseball and the Japanese ...

Baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani has turned millions of Japanese residents into fans of the Los Angeles Dodgers, so much so ...

Shohei Ohtani's World Series triumph was given blanket media coverage in Japan on Friday, with many saying it was just the ...

Shohei Ohtani’s hometown in northern Japan is a rural place, famous for its high-quality Maesawa beef, its history of making ...

Baseball fans in Japan sought out special newspaper editions that rolled off the presses Thursday that paid tribute to Ohtani and Yamamoto.

As Dodgers fans continue to celebrate the team's World Series win, ratings soared in Japan as millions tuned in to watch ...

“Shohei! Shohei! Shohei ... “Ohtani is an honorable person in Japan. Everyone shouts Ohtani, Ohtani, and it makes me extremely happy. We never had any Japanese person like that before.

Game 2 of the World Series was watched by 15.9 million viewers in Japan, around 12 percent of the population, and ...

Shin Oebori coaches the Fukagawa Hawks youth baseball team in Tokyo, and he is very aware how Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei ... yet. Ohtani-mania ebbs and flows in Japan, though blue ...