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Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB, 日本野球機構, Nippon Yakyū Kikō) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of baseball in Japan.Locally, it is often called Puro Yakyū (プロ野球, Puroyagu), meaning simply Professional Baseball; outside of Japan, NPB is often referred to as "Japanese baseball".
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 ...
The 2024 Japan Series (日本シリーズ, Nippon Shiriizu) was the championship series of Nippon Professional Baseball's (NPB) 2024 season. The 75th edition of the Japan Series, it was a best-of-seven playoff between the Yokohama DeNA BayStars of the Central League (CL) and the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks of the Pacific League (PL).
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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 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 ...
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.
The 2025 Tokyo series will be the sixth time that MLB has staged regular-season games in Japan — a country with a rich baseball history, a growing number of stars playing stateside, and an ...