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The Yomiuri Giants are a Japanese professional baseball team, based out of Tokyo. As Japan's first professional team, they are considered one of the most famous teams in the country. [ 1 ] The following is a list of individuals and companies involved in the broadcasting of Yomiuri Giants games.
A team with ties to the ethnic Korean community for the first time has won Japan's famous high school baseball tournament, known as the "Koshien." Kyoto International High School on Friday won the ...
Major League Baseball announced Thursday that it will begin the 2025 season in Japan for the first time since 2019 and sixth time in league history. That opening matchup will feature four of the ...
Baseball was introduced to Japan in 1872 and is Japan's most popular participatory and spectator sport. [1] [2] The first professional competitions emerged in the 1920s.The highest level of baseball in Japan is Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), which consists of two leagues, the Central League and the Pacific League, with six teams in each league. [3]
The Dodgers and Cubs will open the 2025 season with a two-game series at the Tokyo Dome. The Dodgers are the first team to open with overseas games in consecutive seasons.
The Tokyo Yakult Swallows (Japanese: 東京ヤクルトスワローズ) are a Japanese professional baseball team competing in Nippon Professional Baseball's Central League. Based in Shinjuku, Tokyo, they are one of two professional baseball teams in Tokyo, the other being the Yomiuri Giants. They have won nine Central League championships and ...
Update: This story has been updated with reporting that the baseball to be used in the 2021 Tokyo Olympics is not pre-tacked. In a week-and-a-half of semi-regular on-field pitcher inspections, the ...
The 2021 Japan Series (known as the SMBC Nippon Series 2021 for sponsorship reasons) was the championship series of Nippon Professional Baseball's 2021 season.The 72nd edition of the Japan Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the Orix Buffaloes and Tokyo Yakult Swallows, the winners of the Pacific and Central League's Climax Series, respectively.