The Yankees are planning on going with Jasson Dominguez in left field and hoping more experience will lead to more comfort at ...

The Sapporo Snow Festival is an annual weeklong event that dates to 1950 in Hokkaido, the northernmost of Japan's main ...

Former New York Yankees slugger Hideki Matsui was featured in 2004, fresh off his rookie MLB season in New York.br/] ...

Yankees legend Hideki Matsui played seven seasons for the Yankees. It wasn’t until his final one, in 2009, with the addition of lefty ace CC Sabathia, that he managed to get that elusive World ...

281 and appearing in 131 games due to injuries to Hideki Matsui and Gary Sheffield after starting his final season in a part-time role. At this point, the Yankees are hoping LeMahieu can approach ...

Hideki Irabu, Hideki Matsui, Masahiro Tanaka and others chose the Yankees immediately out of Japan, however, no player of significance coming across the Pacific Ocean has chosen the pinstripes ...

In ’04, he was named AL Championship Series MVP in Boston’s historic comeback from a 3-0 series deficit to the archrival Yankees. He was also the MVP ... after paving the way for future stars like ...

Murakami is probably the best left-handed Japanese power-hitting prospect since Hideki Matsui. And it sounds like the Yankees are planning to make a serious pursuit of him as soon as he becomes ...

On Tuesday, he’s expected to be the first Japanese player elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame, and possibly only the second player chosen unanimously after New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera.

This photo taken in September 2012 shows the New York Yankees' Ichiro Suzuki ... (Kyodo) NEW YORK (Kyodo) -- Derek Jeter, Sadaharu Oh and Hideki Matsui were among many to offer their praises ...

Sabathia joined the Yankees in the winter prior to their ... Congratulating his fellow countryman via statement, Hideki Matsui called Ichiro's Hall of Fame election an "historic day for baseball ...

from Hideki Irabu and Hideki Matsui to Kei Igawa, Hiroki Kuroda and Masahiro Tanaka. But since Tanaka came to the Bronx in 2014, the Yankees haven't been able to land a Japanese player of any ...