The Tokyo Yakult Swallows of the Nippon Professional Baseball League officially posted their 25-year-old superstar corner ...

Hitters, however, are by nature reactive and much more defined by their environment from a scouting perspective, especially ...

Munetaka Murakami, a 25-year-old slugger who plays both first and third base, is expected to headline a deep class of Asian ...

Once again, there are several intriguing Japanese free agents looking to make the leap to MLB. This time, though, they won't ...

Murakami’s 45-day window to ink a deal will start on Saturday. Many suitors, including the Dodgers, are expected to pursue ...

This article was originally published on www.si.com/mlb/giants/onsi as The Giants Can’t Afford to Miss on This Japanese Ace.

The countdown for Munetaka Murakami's move to the Majors is officially underway. All 30 Major League clubs will be informed ...

The Athletic's four-year, $78.5 million prediction for NPB star Kazuma Okamoto makes him a plausible Tigers candidate.

There is no Yoshinobu Yamamoto or Roki Sasaki in this year's crop of players from Korea or Japan. But there are powerful bats and live arms.

Japan’s new government says it wants to take a stricter approach to crime and other misbehaviour by foreigners, not begin ...

When Japanese soldiers arrived in the northern prefecture of Akita on Thursday, they prepared to face a new kind of threat – one with fuzzy ears and up to 220 pounds of mass.

Who is Munetaka Murakami? The lefty powerhouse turning MLB heads as an $80M bidding war looms for baseball’s next big swing.