How two art forms, baseball and manga, became intertwined in Japan
All are beloved fictional baseball characters found through the decades within Japanese comic books, the artform now known worldwide as manga. And all stand on equal ground with the likes of Shohei ...
What’s the future of baseball in Japan as the best players leave for MLB?
Shohei Ohtani is widely regarded as the best player in Major League Baseball. He's among many Japanese stars who have left to ...
MLB star Shohei Ohtani on return to Japan, 2025 season and his impact on kids: "I feel a strong responsibility"
L.A. Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani spoke in a rare interview about playing in front of a home crowd in Japan and what he's ...
From Oh to Ohtani and beyond: How Japanese baseball reached new heights
No player in professional baseball history has slugged more home runs than the 868 that Oh hit over 22 seasons with the ...
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'Paint Japan blue': How the Dodgers' vision of Japanese prominence became reality
In February 2023, in the lead-up to the most anticipated World Baseball Classic to date, the Dodgers president of baseball operations accompanied team scouts and executives on a trip to Japan to get ...
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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Critic's Picks: Jeremie Albino; Vinyl Record Show; David Lynch event
Why: Toronto singer-songwriter Jeremie Albino is on the road promoting Our Time in the Sun, which arrived in November with a vintage roots sound and boatload of big names attached (it was produced ...
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As a kid, he left Japan to jump-start his career. As an adult, he landed with D.C. United.
It was 2013, and Japanese tennis star Kei Nishikori was rising on the global circuit. A year earlier, he had advanced to a Grand Slam quarterfinal for the first time, and within another year ...