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Ever wonder what it’s like to play baseball in Japan? 🤔 From the passionate fans to the intense training routines, it’s a whole different ballgame! Find out why I made the life-changing ...
Baseball is now well behind football, which more than 40% of Americans said was their favorite sport to watch in 2023. Baseball is Japan’s pastime in a way it isn’t for America anymore.
Baseball manga and anime have long been touchstones of Japanese culture, though there are signs that its influence is also spreading in the United States. Manga emerged as a major inspiration a ...
That’s all we can do. Baseball, after all, is a sport that manipulates time more than any other. Even with the pitch clock, a game can go on forever. In Eephus, it basically does.
Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani (17) bats against the Hanshin Tigers during the third inning in an MLB Japan Series exhibition baseball game, Sunday, March 16, 2025, in Tokyo.
Even Baseball Hall of Famer and 13-time All-Star Ken Griffey Jr. is impressed, saying there are only “certain people” he would compare Ohtani to, such as Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods.
When the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs square off in Tokyo this week for MLB’s season-opening series, it will underscore Japan’s pre-eminent role in baseball today.
Shotaro Morii, 18, and Rintaro Sasaki, 19, "moved directly to American baseball," bypassing Nippon restrictions and "unwritten societal norms of playing first in Japan," said The Associated Press.
TOKYO — The business of baseball looks a little different in Japan than it does in the U.S. One of the most popular sports souvenirs? Towels.