Kwong brought ballplayers from Japanese American amateur teams ... “That, to me, is the ultimate purpose of this. The people will be drawn in by the baseball angle, like: ‘Oh, a baseball ...

and it can act as “an entry point for people who might not know the story” of Japanese incarceration camps. For over six decades, Major League Baseball set unofficial rules that dictated who ...

For the devastated people of the region, news of a local baseball wunderkind making it in Japan’s big leagues was a balm. “It felt like Ohtani represented the hope of the region’s people ...

and the sport can act as “an entry point for people who might not know the story” of Japanese incarceration camps. For over six decades, Major League Baseball set unofficial rules that ...

Ohtani is being talked about as one of baseball’s greatest ever players, so Japan would love to have him on their roster when baseball ends ... “Baseball5 is the WBSC’s accessible, gender-balanced and ...

“Elderly people in Japan love Ohtani,” Shinke ... an American author in Tokyo who has written about Japanese baseball since the 1970s. When the Dodgers defeated the Padres in Game 5 of the ...

Bazzana, who made history in July when he became the first Australian to be selected first overall in the MLB Draft, ...

TOKYO, Oct 31 (Reuters) - Japanese baseball fans celebrated along with ... been down and depressed lately but seeing young Japanese people (like Ohtani) succeed in the world is also a dream ...

His performances have become a regular feature of morning TV news programmes in Japan, brightening up the start of the day for baseball fans ... reaching billions of people worldwide every day.