Japanese baseball organisation NPB has found that four players and a staffer from the Saitama Seibu Lions have been illegally ...

News about Nippon Professional Baseball. Commentary and archival information about Nippon Professional Baseball from The New York Times.

The last time we checked in on disgraced former MLB Cy Young Award winner Trevor Bauer, things weren't going  so well in Japan's Nippon Professional ...

Kohei Arihara hurled a six-hit shutout striking out 11 as the SoftBank Hawks held off the Pacific League-leading Nippon Ham ...

Japan's Rintaro Sasaki is a baseball star in his home country. He's gracing Cape Cod Baseball League fields this summer with ...

Cardinals infielder/outfielder Jose Barrero elected free agency and is considering an opportunity in Japan. Read more at MLB ...

For his seven-year career in Nippon Professional Baseball, Murakami is slashing .272/.395/.534 with 241 home runs in 3,983 plate appearances, with a 25 K% and a 16.1 BB%.

DETROIT -- Former Detroit Tigers utility man Tyler Nevin is extending his career in Japan. Nevin, 28 has agreed to a two-year ...

Shigeo Nagashima, considered Japan's "Mr. Baseball," died at the age of 89, and the Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani and others are mourning his death.

S higeo Nagashima, who was known in Japan as "Mr. Pro Baseball" and was one of the most famous people in the country during his playing days in Nippon Professional Baseball, has died. He was 89.

A Résumé Must-Have for Japanese Managers: Mets Experience. Five of the 12 managers in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball have M.L.B. experience.