BBC1 年
Japan celebrates world baseball tournament victory over US
Japan's star pitcher Shohei Ohtani struck-out the US captain to win the game The World Baseball Classic (WBC) final between Japan and the US delivered on many fronts: sporting prowess, drama and ...
朝日新聞社1 年
BASEBALL/ Joy seen across nation as fans celebrate Japan’s WBC triumph
Cheers erupted across Japan as the Samurai Japan’s victory over Team USA in the World Baseball Classic final in Miami sent fans in homes, ballparks and public viewing locales into ecstasy.
朝日新聞社1 年
BASEBALL/ No longer in awe, Japan works together as No. 1 team in world
In the locker room at loanDepot Park in Miami, Samurai Japan members huddled together, ready to take on the defending champion United States in the final of the World Baseball Classic. Japan ...
Opinion
'Renaissance man' Ichiro Suzuki will make history as first Japanese Hall of Famer
The first time Ichiro Suzuki set foot into the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. was nearly a quarter-century ago, back on Nov. 12, 2001.
NBC Olympics3 年
USA walks off on Japan, earns advantage in gold medal softball game
The gold-medal game will be a rematch of the 2008 Beijing gold-medal game in which Japan was victorious, 3-1. The two softball powerhouses are the only two teams to have captured Olympic gold. The ...
Ichiro Suzuki is about to get his Hall of Fame moment. For Japan, he’s more than just a ...
Ichiro debuted in Major League Baseball in 2001 with the Seattle Mariners, the first Japanese position player to span the Pacific and an instant star. Left-handed pitcher Hideo Nomo preceded him, and ...