The Los Angeles Dodgers control the Japanese market in terms of baseball. They’re popular there because of the presence of Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki Sasaki. They’re also popular because they’re good and they’ll play games in Asia once in a while.

Baseball might be America’s pastime, but it is also an omnipresent part of everyday life in Japan. Never was that more clear than during Major League Baseball’s Tokyo Series between the Cubs and Dodgers that opened the 2025 regular season this past March.

The feature documentary captures Major League Baseball's 2025 World Tour and will get a cinema release early next year

Former Houston Astros first-round pick Forrest Whitley will be taking his talents overseas.

In impact of talent from top leagues in Japan and Korea, the 2023-2024 offseason was one for the ages in Major League Baseball. Ten months before he dominated the Yankees in the World Series, Yoshinobu Yamamoto signed a 12-year,

Akio Toyoda, the automotive magnate, Shohei Ohtani, the baseball prodigy, Monkey D Luffy, the rubber-limbed manga pirate. Three titans who have indisputably conquered America, but with three hats — one red, one blue and one straw — that define the current fragility of Japanese triumph.