One of Japan’s top sluggers is eyeing a move to Major League Baseball in 2026. According to a report from Yahoo Sports Japan, ...

The process of scouting players in Japan, Korea and Taiwan is streamlined, but the number of players coming to MLB remains ...

Tokyo Yakult Swallows infielder and Team Japan superstar Munetaka Murakami will be heading to the MLB in the 2025 offseason.

Yakult Swallows slugger Munetaka Murakami pledged Monday to do his best to lead his team to the championship next year before ...

Another big NPB name is scheduled to take his talents stateside, as Munetaka Murakami is scheduled to play his last season in ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers are beginning their regular season overseas for a second consecutive year when they take on the ...

The New York Yankees are reportedly setting their sights on Japanese baseball sensation Munetaka Murakami, aiming to bolster ...

Members of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows and the Yomiuri Giants of professional baseball’s Central League were stuck and stranded in a Shinkansen. An overseas basketball team coming to Japan for a B ...

The best-selling novelist and baseball nut holds a special affection for the neighborhood as he used to live there and often visited the Meiji Jingu Stadium, the home of the Tokyo Yakult Swallows.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japan Series champion ... The other March 28 CL matchups will be the Yomiuri Giants against the Yakult Swallows and the Hiroshima Carp against the Hanshin Tigers.

The Wizards are historically bad, Week 13 was awesome, Christian Pulisic's breakout season, "Hard Knocks" is back, Munetaka ...

In April 1978, the debt-laden young proprietor of a Tokyo jazz cafe went to a baseball game: Yakult Swallows against Hiroshima Carp. There, in Jingu Stadium, he decided he could write a novel.