After winning their first World Series in 1955, the Brooklyn Dodgers traveled to Japan for a series of exhibition games. Two ...

The multitude of Japanese stars in MLB today wouldn't be possible if Nomo hadn't first made the leap 30 years ago.

The Los Angeles Dodgers will compete against the Chicago Cubs on Opening Day at the Tokyo Dome to kick off the season.

All are beloved fictional baseball characters found through the decades within Japanese comic books, the artform now known ...

Nearly 25 years after Ichiro Suzuki embarked on a Hall of Fame career for the Seattle Mariners, the impact of Japanese ...

(CNN) — In 1934, an American team featuring the best baseball players ... That would all change in 1995. Hideo Nomo was not the first Japanese player to play in MLB. That honor belongs to ...

No player in professional baseball history has slugged more home runs than the 868 that Oh hit over 22 seasons with the ...

But it was thirty years later when pitcher Hideo Nomo came to the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1995 that Japan’s presence in ... the Year and made the All-Star team after finishing with a 13-6 record ...

Honolulu sits approximately halfway between Japan and the United States ... a wonderfully gifted pitcher named Hideo Nomo and an indomitably fierce lawyer named Jean Afterman collaborated to ...