Ichiro, who arrived in Seattle in 2001 as an established superstar with seven Pacific League batting titles, became the 10th member of the special fraternity.
He was an MLB trailblazer, and the San Francisco Giants held a unique event three decades later in 1995 to honor the modest giant. Here’s the...
Tsuyoshi Shinjo made a grand entrance at the Fighters spring camp, and since then, he’s raised a few eyebrows with his unorthodox training methods, but that’s...
What Tokyo critics who stay silent on the Beijing Olympics fail to recognize is that, unlike in Japan, no one in the PRC has the freedom...
Whiting has known baseball stars, wrestlers, politicians, media moguls, mafiosi, con artists, journalists, and countless average Japanese people. He writes about them all with the immediacy...
In 1964, not only did Japan’s women’s volleyball team beat the Soviets under the gaze of then-Crown Princess Michiko, they also set off a multi-decade boom...
"It was baseball, a quintessentially American sport, that gave me my first true connection to Japan and its people," Robert Whiting reveals.
Japan’s squad for the upcoming Olympics is hoping to put in a performance that will inspire a nation as the women’s team did 57 years ago.
"The Girl Who Defies Gravity” by author Elena Zotova delivers a fascinating profile of the current world bronze medalist, who became the first female skater to...
The retired manager and second baseman had a memorable two-year stint with the Yomiuri Giants in the mid-1970s.
All-time great Hanyu, a Sendai native, represents the Japanese values of honor, dignity and respect, and in addition to his talent, that is what people love...
