How star pitcher Hideo Nomo, an agent and a lawyer changed the landscape of MLB forever
The multitude of Japanese stars in MLB today wouldn't be possible if Nomo hadn't first made the leap 30 years ago.
MLB is trying to expand in Japan. Can Japan’s NPB grow in America?
Japanese baseball has a rich history, but a series of structural factors stand in the way of it becoming a phenomenon in ...
From Oh to Ohtani: How Japan developed a generation of baseball superstars (again)
The Tokyo Series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs is a full circle moment for Japanese baseball.
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Pirates ace Paul Skenes primed for 2025 season after latest dominant spring training start
Last year's breakout MLB star pitched 3.1 shutout innings in his fifth 2025 spring training start. This March, Skenes allowed ...
From Nomo to Ichiro to Ohtani: Japan’s baseball rise in MLB hits high point in Dodgers-Cubs series
Nearly 25 years after Ichiro Suzuki embarked on a Hall of Fame career for the Seattle Mariners, the impact of Japanese ...
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Dodgers, Cubs have rich histories of Japanese players
The next stop on MLB’s World Tour is here, and it's awfully fitting. The Dodgers and Cubs open the 2025 season in the Tokyo ...
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Not Shohei Ohtani? MLB’s First Japanese Player Picks This Legend as Japan’s Greatest US Export
There have been many MLB players from Japan, and with the Tokyo Series taking place between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the ...
Pirates Have MLB's Most Important Extension
The Pittsburgh Pirates have one of the best players in baseball in pitcher Paul Skenes, but even early in his career, fans ...
De Nomo a Ichiro y Ohtani: auge del béisbol japonés en MLB alcanza tope con Dodgers-Cachorros
Ichiro Suzuki estaba teniendo un día típico en un campo de béisbol en 2000, mostrando su potencia durante la práctica de ...
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From Nomo to Ichiro to Ohtani: Japan's baseball rise in MLB hits high point in Dodgers-Cubs series
Nearly 25 years after Suzuki's MLB debut, the defending World Series ... But it was thirty years later when pitcher Hideo Nomo came to the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1995 that Japan's presence in ...